Some days ago, due to reasons, I was messing with cloud and local saves. So, since i had all the saves in local, I decided to use GD stash to unlock all the illusions and then return to cloud saves.
Well. Now the big, REALLY BIG, fail. I deleted all my cloud saves without making sure of having the files in local.
Now I’m starting from scratch.
I’ve made a full reset other times and, once the mini panic attack has passed, I’ve to admit that I like the process of “unlocking” end-game stuff. Except farming cronley rep. That’s ass.
I had a similar problem. The cloud saves stopped working but my computer saves didn’t. When the cloud saves started working again, I lost all of my progression and many items on my mules. It didn’t matter that I had everything saved on my computer, once it swapped back to the cloud saves, I had to deal with the loss. My mistake was deleting my computer saves, followed by disabling the cloud saves. OOPS! Oh well, a lesson learned.
I ended up deleting the character and starting from scratch, doing things a little differently. Once I disabled the cloud saves, I haven’t looked back. Plus, I have an external drive I can place my saved files if I ever pony up the cash and buy a better computer.
both “cloud” saves and non cloud saves are on the system, the difference is in which folder they’re in /where you need to copy them to, (whether steam will be able to sync or not if using steam, GoG is irrelevant/saves to same location regardless afaik)
“local” saves just mean the game saves to your documents folder, (gog does this regardless)
“cloud” means the game saves to your steam folder, where if sync is enabled in the client steam will then backup to its server (it will still save to this folder if you have cloud off in client it just wont sync)
big caveat is the game, for whatever reason, wont read “unregistered” files it didn’t create if you don’t import them via the ingame function, so you can’t really just copy paste from doc folder into cloud folder (without some extra shenanigans atleast), but you can copy paste from steam save folder into documents at any time
save folder location gets dicated by the ingame setting,
cloud off = documents folder
cloud on ingame options, = steam folder (regardless of your steam settings)
you can as such also backup both the doc and “cloud”/steam folder saves manually, just gotta remember the part about importing them, if you wish to place them in the steam save folder location when using the backups
Did a couple hard resets in the past already. 2 or 3 IIRC. Though the only really interesting part is re-getting all the Blueprints. Sets can be gotten pretty easily through the FG inventor.
Probably won’t do any more resets. The thought of having to refarm the Rogue Dungeon Boss specific Legendaries is enough of a deterrent to be honest.
Meanwhile, I find tedious searching “non-specific” legendaries and greens. More than once I even set characters aside because the legendary/green was being elusive.
Alkamos and Shar’Zul are criminally long for how low their drop rates are. The Mages also get a special mention. Only 2 out of 7 spawn per run and it’s a 10% drop rate. I’m missing 1 Ring (Orissia) and it’s pure pain. Especially since you generally need 2 of each
