Save file says Normal Difficulty despite being on Hard difficulty

[pallid agate]

I first tried the normal difficulty, but found it too relaxing, so I deleted my save file since I wanted a park of the same name, and started one on Hard difficulty yesterday. Now that I'm loading in again I see that the save file says its on Normal difficulty. I played a day in game and based on high salaries and maintenance costs I still think it's on Hard difficulty though. Is there a way to know for sure? I'm wondering if its still really on Hard mode or if its a visual bug...

It's the current build of the game.
Thx

[polar wren]

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[proven valley]

Thank you for the report, when you load into your save what is the color of your UI? If it is red that means the game should still be loading into hard mode. I sent this over to the devs so they can investigate!

[gritty escarp]

Hey! Please send your log file (but make sure to do it before launching the game, because we need information from the previous game session). Also could you send the save file where this issue occurred?

📌 The save file will be the es3 file in here

C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\LocalLow\CayPlay\WaterparkSimulator\slots
Where \XXXXX\ is your PC's username

An easy way to get to it is by pressing Win(the key with the windows logo) + R to open the Run window.

Paste this command:
%userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\CayPlay\WaterparkSimulator|slots

📌 You should find Player log file + Player-prev file in the following location on your computer:
C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\LocalLow\CayPlay\WaterparkSimulator

@pallid agate

[pallid agate]

Should I DM them or post them here?

[gritty escarp]

Post it here, please

[pallid agate]

Hi, these are the requested files I think:

To put it simply, I started a normal difficulty game with the name MoonJelly Cove, and played for a few hours. On the same session without closing the game, I deleted the save file with that name as I wanted the same park name on a hard difficulty file instead.

That worked fine and I played on hard difficulty, until I closed the game and loaded it up the next day and noticed that it said it was on Normal difficulty, and it seemed to be back to normal difficulty as well UI-wise blue and such.

Hope this helps 🌸 👍

[gritty escarp]

Thank you!