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visual night Mar 25, 2025, 1:55 AM

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Bug Description: I can boot the game fine from Steam and make it to the title screen. However, when I select 'Continue' or 'Load' game it remains on the black screen (with the PridefulSloth logo). I've tried resetting computer with no resolution. I've tried 'Continue' and 'Load' game both from the latest save file & autosave.

What caused the bug to appear?: I selected 'Continue' first after booting up the game today. Haven't played the game since early Saturday morning ~4:30 PST.

Can you reproduce the bug? Yes, each time I try and 'continue' or 'load game'

📎 Player.log

thorn nymph Mar 25, 2025, 2:03 AM

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and this is every single game you try to load? like auto saves and manual?

visual night Mar 25, 2025, 2:04 AM

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Hi Emily, thanks for replying.
That is correct. I am slowly making my way down through all the oldest save files to try and find one which will work

thorn nymph Mar 25, 2025, 2:05 AM

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Can you verify your files on Steam just to check? And also can you drop your save file in here? (if you can pull up the main menu, hitting Feedback will do it automatically when you submit)

light yarrowBOT Mar 25, 2025, 2:05 AM

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How to find saves & logs 📋

You can find your saves by opening your file browser (or My Documents), then pasting the following in the address bar (see highlighted below on where to paste):
%LOCALAPPDATA%/../LocalLow/Prideful Sloth/Go-Go Town!and hit enter

bold wolf Mar 25, 2025, 2:07 AM

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Are you in the preview branch ?

visual night Mar 25, 2025, 2:08 AM

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📎 DWC_Autosave_3.sav 📎 DWC_Save_0.sav

bold wolf Mar 25, 2025, 2:10 AM

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if you are, try switching to main and see if that resolves the issue.

visual night Mar 25, 2025, 2:10 AM

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bold wolf if you are, try switching to main and see if that resolves the issue.

Hi Anthony, could you please explain a bit further? I'm not sure what this entails/requires

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bold wolf Mar 25, 2025, 2:11 AM

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Check under 'betas'

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Though likely if you dont know what Im talking about, you aren't in the preview branch!

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I only ask because we just pushed a new build to preview.

visual night Mar 25, 2025, 2:15 AM

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gotchya, yes confirming not in the beta

bold wolf Mar 25, 2025, 2:16 AM

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And this was working on saturday? how bizarre...

visual night Mar 25, 2025, 2:38 AM

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confirmed that selecting a 'New Game' does start the game as intended. The issue only appears to be with 'Continue' or 'Load'

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If I uninstall and reinstall will my save files still be there?

bold wolf Mar 25, 2025, 3:00 AM

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Dont do that, I can reproduce the issue on my end

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so its not your game data - so uninstalling/reinstalling wotn fix it.

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Im investigating the cause now

visual night Mar 25, 2025, 3:05 AM

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bold wolf Dont do that, I can reproduce the issue on my end

I am forever in your debt!!

bold wolf Mar 25, 2025, 3:11 AM

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Were you playing coop at all? Or single player only ?

visual night Mar 25, 2025, 3:11 AM

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split screen coop

bold wolf Mar 25, 2025, 3:12 AM

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out of curiosity, was someone changing colours or wallpapers on an object, and someone else deleted it?

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(if you can remembeR)

visual night Mar 25, 2025, 3:13 AM

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that sounds HIGHLY plausible lol. My partner was decorating the home while I was building a massive import/export station area

bold wolf Mar 25, 2025, 3:17 AM

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hah okay! So yeah that's my current theory.

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I can fix the save for you

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And then I'll put in some fixes in the next build to stop it from happening again in the future 🙂

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Give me 5 minuts.

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Do you want me to fix DWC_Autosave_3.sav or DWC_Save_0.sav

visual night Mar 25, 2025, 3:20 AM

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DWC_Save_0.sav
please!
I believe the manual save was intended. the autosave was created shortly after the manual before shutting down. So ultimately irrelevant but probably manual, in case I login, autosave happens and does something funky.

bold wolf Mar 25, 2025, 3:26 AM

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Ok - try this.

Rename it to something that doesn't match an existing save file (ie, DWC_Save_10.sav) just to make sure you dont overwrite any existing saves.

hopefully this solves the problem for you and you can continue on.

Player 2's customisation will be different, but it should hopefully reset to what they were wearing before if they use the same controller to play.

📎 DWC_Save_1.sav

visual night Mar 25, 2025, 3:37 AM

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Anthony,
Are you suggesting I download this file ^ which you've included, add it to my save logs but rename it?

Or rename my original DWC_Save_0.sav file.

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I've tried both but can't seem to get it to load still

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nvm

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It seems we're in

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@bold wolf you were so incredibly helpful. Thank for you this unparalleled level of support

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If my partner wants to keep working on the house, what can we do to avoid this in the future until the next build?

bold wolf Mar 25, 2025, 4:03 AM

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You're welcome!
Try to make sure you're not working on the exact same objects at the same time. Especially deleting an object that another player might have selected.

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