September 25th, 2019 Patch Notes

Snut Talk: Save Files & Cloud Saves

https://youtube.com/embed/t1LfyNfuMVQ?autoplay=1&start=100&end=187

Topics

• Features > Save System > Cloud Sync
• Features > Save System

Transcript

it alright so let's talk about safe files and make sure to take notes because this is all gonna be on the test so in the next patch we're introducing cloud safe so satisfactory on the epics game store big bro team Sweeney got us hooked up but in order for us to support cloud safe so we've had to make a few adjustments to our current safe structure of the game so let me first point out that as a whole the safe system will work pretty much the same way as before you can still like grab your safe files and save directory and like share them with your friends so throw them out the window what are you going to do with them the only difference now that save files will be placed in sub directories instead and those sub directors will be synced via the epic games launcher so essentially when you're playing the game and you're saving that save file will be placed in a directory that's associated with your epic account so immediately not all your safe files will be converted into this new safe structure and cloud synced and that's because up until this point we haven't compressed our save files and what that means is that the save files can get quite large and that's not optimal if you want to cloud sync them and in order to do that you need to load up your safe file and then we save it for it to be able to like be converted moved into the epic account folder and then it can be cloud sinks and all the files that haven't been associated with an epic account ID yet will be placed in a fuller called common in the same directory and they'll be placed there until you load them up in game and then we save them again are the new safe