November 5th, 2019 Q&A

Jace Talk: Workaround for broken save games

https://youtube.com/embed/Fsod_UF5eus?autoplay=1&start=156&end=287

Topics

• Features > Save System

Transcript

mentioned before another like workaround or a solution to the broken save games thing and again this isn't completely ideal but it is something the thing is satisfactory is supposed to be DRM free it's not exactly but it kind of is and so what you can do is you can create a copy of the current version of the game or whatever version of the game and play that offline separate to the current version so you can potentially create a copy of the version before update number three and then that will continue to work with your old saves if you make sure you backup all saves so that is something and in order to do that I'm going to explain that to you now so take it away me okay the first thing you need to do is go to your install directory alright and then you're gonna call wait you're gonna make a copy of the game to some folder that you want I'm just gonna make a folder on the desktop and just call that backup alright so then now I'm just gonna grab the the whole all the files and move the backup folder just a little bit and then I'm gonna copy and I'm gonna paste it in there so we're gonna let this run

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okay so now we just need to create a shortcut so just right-click go create shortcut of the exe file the factory game one so then right click be shortcut and go down to properties you'll see that there's a target field right here at the end just put - epic portal in there and then click apply or okay whatever and then you can just launch the game from there thanks me now that's not that great of a solution again it's really convoluted but it is something we are looking into a potential solution which could be that we add the like pre update 3 version of the game to the epic launcher as well so you'll have another satisfactory version in your library but maybe that's not good either because then it's gonna get all like messy because you're getting all these versions of satisfactory in there but it's gonna be simpler than making copies of your versions and things like that so I don't know what do you guys want we don't really know what we should do there so I would love your opinions if you could leave that down in the comments and it'll help us make a decision so a lot of folks have been