PS4 corrupted saves?

Hi All,

Really and truly frustrated. I had logged about 10 hours worth of progress after installing the day 1 patch. After multiple saves via the schnapps, the game ran into an unknown error. When I restarted the game I was prompted with a system error message saying that my save data was corrupted and would be erased. Multiple restarts returned me to the same error. After accepting the system error, the game shows that I have 0 saves and has me starting back at the beginning.

Any idea what this is all about? While I like the game a lot, I’m rather trade it in (already) rather than spend another 10+ hours only to have it all erased.

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Mine got corrupted in a different way. After a crash (which I can only assume happened during a save) none of my saves will load. They hang at either 25% or 30% then I get “Save failed to load”. I’m now attempting a second playthrough with regular cloud backups for my saves. It’s such a great game. If only it wasn’t so broken…

Same problem, none of savings can be loaded. I spent about 28h until know.

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Happened to me to had at least 30 to 40 hours on and lost it all. On my second playthrough better not happen again or I’m going for the refund. People are telling me to back up save files externally but one shouldn’t have to do this for a triple A game. I’ve reported it to them, still no reply.

Hope they’ll find solution soon. The very best game for a long time.

With other games, I’ve run into save space issues. With KCD, the game actually creates a lot of autosave files (sleep, bathhouse, milestones). Last week, I lost audio. I deleted the unnecessary save files and then restarted. It worked. Yesterday, I got my first CE fatal crash. Checked save file list. It was getting long again. Deleted files until less than 10 remaining. Game worked again. Rule of thumb: don’t keep more than 10 save files at a time.

I did the same, now everything works fine again

Nice! I’ll try that for this playthrough. The game is amazing, I don’t mind the save system at all pickpocketing is pretty difficult but I’ve found lockpicking not too bad with practice. I understand they are fixing these for console though.

I encountered an unknown error on my ps4 and all my saves were corrupted and deleted omfg. I put 20 plus hours into it. This is bullshit!!! I dont know what to do at this point. Im gonna stop playing and wait for 3 or so more patches

I haven’t run into the save corruption bug, thank God; however, I think I was very close. I have been a gamer for most of my life and I started to see things happening that made me think the end was near (save corruption). It all started two days ago, I decided to really dig into the combat system and leave the main quest behind for a while. I went on a bandit/cumen murdering spree that lasted almost 15 hours (I have some time off from adult stuff- school/work and murdering seemed like a good use of that time).

At any rate, I am happy that I did that and now I am about to tackle The House Of God quest. I began seeing things disappear in front of my character. I would open a container with the steal option and after backing out, baskets, bags, and entire walls would vanish. I went to the Talmberg inn to store items and the ceiling and top floor vanished completely. That’s when I noticed something odd in my inventory. I had a halberd in my personal storage. It weighed 11 pounds (I think that is the measurement) and had a value of 1k. Now, what’s interesting is, halberds cannot be stored in this game and once picked up it automatically gets equipped. I could not sell it nor could I store it at any of the chests found throughout the game. I dropped it and erased a majority of my back saves. Once I did that my game began to run properly again. Hopefully, this averts the save corruption bug for my game and helps anyone experiencing issues like this.

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the saving corruptions have been known for 2 years… here is a link on youtube where a guy plays the beta version of the game PC with corrupt saves problems… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zKshpRphD0
i have it on PS4 it happened to me… i have send them an email they reply that it will be fixed with the 1.3 patch coming next week… so i hope the game will recognize my corrupt saves because loosing 30h plus of gameplay and do it all over again with the fear that it will happen again is a no… and just disrespectful towards the gamers who just want to have fun playing a game they bought 60€…