Emergency patch coming 11/25

"DeKay;c-17327101" wrote:
For example, you have Save A and you do a save as and call it Save B. But then the patch corrupts both Save A and Save B. You won't be able to use them anymore.

The game cannot corrupt Save A since you only used it to load and immediately created Save B.

Loading a save doesn't change it. Saving over top of it does.

So while I get the common "backup your saves" you might hear from a game company, it really means I'd think twice before saving over top of your pre-patch saves and thereby losing the save you had pre-patch. One way to avoid saving over top of them is just create a new save immediately and only use this new one.

Now if someone is playing multiple different versions of stories through multiple unique save files, it's probably easier to just back up your save folder rather than risk forgetting to make a new "save as" for each unique story line save you have, until you're sure the patch hasn't messed up the game (and hence messed up any new saves files created / overwritten after the patch).

Whenever there's a patch, I tend to do a "save-as" immediately to start a new save file in case the patch ends up having issues then later delete previous one when it's clear I no longer need it.

Thanks for the response.