Basic Info:
Platform: PlayStation 5
Issue Type: Other
Game Mode: Co-op
Server Type: PvE
Map: Exiled Lands
Server Name: N/A
Bug Description:
Progress invariably gets lost when playing this game on the PS4 or PS5 in either single player or co-op mode. This has happened to me a total of five restarts out of five.
Bug Reproduction:
Play the game for some length of time, do some base building (not even that much). What will eventually happen is one of the following two things, which may or may not be related - I have no way of knowing: 1) The game hangs when disconnecting from the server. It just sits indefinitely at the loading screen and the progress bar does not move. I have tried leaving it there for 60 minutes, but that did nothing. This forces me to perform a hard exit from the game using the PS5 menu. Note: There is no crash, so there is no crash report to send. 2) Progress stops being recorded while actually playing. When this happens, the server log doesn’t update with anything no matter what you do. Exiting the game at this point can result in option 1 mentioned above, but it may also seemingly exit correctly. However, the save is still broken. When either of these two things have happened, restarting the game always results in the following: Loss of random gear (sometimes all of it, sometimes just some), thralls, pets, and building pieces you have built are either no longer there - or, the game no longer recognises you as the owner. In fact, it’s like the game doesn’t even recognise the building pieces are there as resources like trees grow through foundations and such. The only way around this is to actually tear down the entire base and start from scratch, which inevitably leads to the problem occurring again. Meaning, this is not a viable workaround at all. The last time this happened was about 20 minutes ago (2 am here), when I noticed the last event in the server log was from before 9 pm. Problems unique to situation 1 above are also: Complete loss of journey progress, and sometimes (but not every time) you spawn back in the desert and not at your bed/bedroll - presumably because you no longer own said bed/bedroll). This obviously needs to be addressed promptly, until then the game simply isn’t playable on the PS4/PS5 in single player or co-op mode. It’s worth noting that I have pretty much zero issues with other games and definitely zero issues with save files getting ruined, so the problem is not my console.