Man, this shit annoyed me in Risk of Rain. No cloud saving and my savegame got corrupted once. Say goodbye to ALL the progress I've made in 30 hours.
I witnessed the beauty of cloud saves today when i was away from home at my girlfriends house and when i installed Planet Coaster on my laptop i could just resume where i left off earlier the same morning. Such a uncommon thing that it actually blew me away that a game had it.
[QUOTE=darth-veger;51388220]I witnessed the beauty of cloud saves today when i was away from home at my girlfriends house and when i installed Planet Coaster on my laptop i could just resume where i left off earlier the same morning. Such a uncommon thing that it actually blew me away that a game had it.[/QUOTE]
Is it all that rare though? I did a quick sample of my games and virtually every one supported cloud saves - the only ones I found that didn't were games where the save files mean basically nothing or were originally from 3rd party platforms like GFWL. I still wish it was universal, though
Every game CAN have cloud save, with a little help.
[url]http://www.gamesave-manager.com/[/url]
This is a nifty program with a huge database of games and their save locations on the disc. From there you can make manual backups, or, through the magic of Symlinks, make every game's save folder exist on a Dropbox or Google Drive folder. This means that all saves are automatically pushed up to the cloud.
They mention this in the article but gloss over the Symlink feature which is the star of the show here.
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[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;51388254]Every game CAN have cloud save, with a little help.
[url]http://www.gamesave-manager.com/[/url]
This is a nifty program with a huge database of games and their save locations on the disc. From there you can make manual backups, or, through the magic of Symlinks, make every game's save folder exist on a Dropbox or Google Drive folder. This means that all saves are automatically pushed up to the cloud.
They mention this in the article but gloss over the Symlink feature which is the star of the show here.[/QUOTE]
You can also just use a cloud service like Dropbox. IIRC if you make a shortcut to your save games folder(s) and put it in your Dropbox folder it'll sync them
[QUOTE=gk99;51389810]You can also just use a cloud service like Dropbox. IIRC if you make a shortcut to your save games folder(s) and put it in your Dropbox folder it'll sync them[/QUOTE]
Shortcuts won't work, it needs to be a Symlink. GSM just makes it easier to create and manage those.
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;51388135]Man, this shit annoyed me in Risk of Rain. No cloud saving and my savegame got corrupted once. Say goodbye to ALL the progress I've made in 30 hours.[/QUOTE]
This is why I use [url]http://beanland.net.au/AutoVer/[/url]
automatically backs up every version of a file
[t]http://i.imgur.com/eFivv7Z.png[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/ve0BgIx.png[/t]
this has saved me hundreds of hours I could have lost
[editline]18th November 2016[/editline]
The only thing you need to not do is create file paradoxes like backing up the folder you're syncing to and you're fine
Doesn't Windows have a feature like that built in?
Well cloud saving isnt something i care about at all, does not help that my only experience is with cloud saving games is with XCom2, which kept randomly deleting my saves from b oth the cloud and the harddrive till I turned it off.
I don't care for it to turn it back on and potentially lose 20 hours of campaign progress all for the sake of playing it on my laptop occasionally.
[QUOTE=Fr3ddi3;51392467]Well cloud saving isnt something i care about at all, does not help that my only experience is with cloud saving games is with XCom2, which kept randomly deleting my saves from b oth the cloud and the harddrive till I turned it off.
I don't care for it to turn it back on and potentially lose 20 hours of campaign progress all for the sake of playing it on my laptop occasionally.[/QUOTE]
That was your only experience? You never played a game like Half-Life 2 or Skyrim or Just Cause 2 or practically any game released on Steam in the last 7 years? Most games these days use cloud saving, it's just so streamlined that you never actually notice it's there.
[editline]18th November 2016[/editline]
By the way, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 have a previous versions feature.
[url]http://www.howtogeek.com/209080/how-to-restore-previous-versions-of-a-file-on-any-operating-system/[/url]
Cloud saves can fuck you up if you have multiple people who use the same computer. I've losy multiple saves when my brother played games on the same computer as I did even though we used different steam accounts.
Proper steam cloud saves store on an account specific folder
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;51393145]That was your only experience? You never played a game like Half-Life 2 or Skyrim or Just Cause 2 or practically any game released on Steam in the last 7 years? Most games these days use cloud saving, it's just so streamlined that you never actually notice it's there.
[editline]18th November 2016[/editline]
By the way, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 have a previous versions feature.
[URL]http://www.howtogeek.com/209080/how-to-restore-previous-versions-of-a-file-on-any-operating-system/[/URL][/QUOTE]
You're right it's likely saving most if not all my games to the cloud, iv'e never been in a situation where i've required it's use which was more my point.
The only time i have actively used it is with xcom2, and it does not work. It's a known issue without a fix. Saves are gone for good.
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