Possible Cause of SAVE/LOAD error (Need input from others)
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Join Date: 2017-03-03 Member: 228520Members
I've been playing subnautica for a while now and have experienced a total of 9 corrupt games with times ranging between 3 and 18 hours. Looking back last night I lost a 9 hour save. The only thing I did last night before saving "and the file corrupting" was find and pick up both pieces of lab equipment. As well as scan and build a regular trash can and throw some rotten kelp vine away. Thinking back to previous games, I think picking up those items was among the final things I did before failure. I could be way wrong on this so please let me know if anybody else experienced the same. BTW I'm playing on Xbox One and the manner in which I saved my game was exactly the same every time in my last world so I think you can rule out moving and location when you save as being the issue.
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Purplehaze brings up a point, though: for all those encountering the bug, did it start at/shortly after visiting the Mountain Island (the one with the gun platform)?
I don't think it has anything to do with the gun island. I've had a few saves crash before I ever went anywhere near there. The more I play, I'm in agreement with you. It doesn't have anything to do with the length of time it takes to save, or the location you save, or whether or not your doing anything or moving around during the save. And I don't think it has anything to do with your progress in the game because I've got failed saves at many different points in the game. I kind of wish the developers would update us on any progress they've made. Because if they can't even reproduce the fail even once after all this time then there doing something wrong. I fully understand the game is in beta and bug will be rampant, but this is a HUGE problem. And is completely gamebreaking outside of creative mode. Just wish the devs would keep us updated more even if they haven't made much progress. I would really hate to think they haven't made any progress at all but we wouldn't know.
I forget where, but I remember someone saying that the double update to xbox also included saving terrain data. This indicated to me that the may start getting problems from saving a bad cell.
It may be worth testing, seeing if this bug is related to that region, especially near the large wreck. It may relate to other large wrecks as well, especially if they duplicate.
I would test this myself, but I only have PC.
Edit: by the way, when I headed to the infamous 14 18 15 in my old PC save, to explore my theory, the game crashed. Something in that area is messed up.