HELP, restoring character to "vanilla"

Grim Dawn General Discussion
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Hey all \o/

I’ve been playing a while with friends, got an occultist al lvl 39, we are four, two of us have all the expansions the other two have just the basic game, we use the launch codes on steam to disable the expansions and it work properly ecc.

Today I was playing alone with another character, I found out the item database and I wanted to check the old multyplayer character which skill I used to look for a proper rifle to use, for mistake I logged in with the “vanilla” character while the game had the expansions enabled and now I can’t use it anymore if disable the expansions so I’m no longer able to play with my friends unless I roll another character.

I did not even move, just logged in to see the skills I use to check on the item database…so, is there a way to “restore” that single character back to vanilla and be able to play again with my team?

Cheers^^

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A backup of that char should have been created when you loaded it into FG for the first time. That backup should have two _ in front instead of one

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Thanks for the reply, in wich folder?

The usual …/219990 there is only one with all my characters and none with __

Even running windows search in the steam folder does not work

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It’s in the same folder - e.g. Narses:

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If you do not have the backup, then I don’t know how to get back your base game save file.

Level 39 is not that far in. Maybe consider to level a replacement char in a solo game up to that point.

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In the document folder My Games I don’t have any file, just one called playmenu.cpn and no folders, I got the folders in the main steam folder, the one with the number 219990, is that a gog or other version?

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219990 is Steam’s ID for GD. If you are using cloud saving then your chars are stored in ..\Steam\userdata\your Steam ID\219990\remote\save\main

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Ok so I don’t have it, as I previously said I even run a search in windows with the name __Xandos and no luck, if I search _Xandos I find the folder in the steam path, seems I’m doomed :frowning:

Thanks!

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Probably Steam :cloud: dissolved it.
You are not doomed… Cannot you just recreate your toon with GDStash and GDDefiler?
Items can probably be moved / copied somehow (with GDStash / Item Assistant, maybe even easier).

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Go in game to the Network tab and press the download button…

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… it will download your saves to:
C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Grim Dawn\save\main

Check there after to see if the double underscore version was hiding in the cloud.

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Thanks, I tryed but now I have all the files even in the MyDocuments folder, but no double _

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Well, it was worth a shot. If you intend on remaining on using cloud saves you can delete those saves from that folder if you wish. Or not. It’s up to you.

Just remember that cloud and local are two separate save locations. It only reads the characters from one or the other depending on your settings. What you do in one will not be reflected in the other unless you manually choose to attempt to keep them both updated simultaneously.

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Thanks all!

I managed to recover it with the GD save file editor, just had to modify the expansion-character? value from 3 to 0 and now it shows!

Thanks all again for the replies^^