hey so like, what happend here???

[tight axle]

so like injust logged today in the game try to finish gourmand campaign but THIS happens when i enter story mode and im confused, my game is updated too its just a black dot in a wide white 😭

[zenith marlin]

It happend to me to

Idk how to fix it

[tight axle]

yea im confused

guess imma go play grace to pass the time

[serene rampart]

do you have the watcher dlc?

[zenith marlin]

Ye

[tight axle]

no

[serene rampart]

it's probably the reason then

[zenith marlin]

I hope the devs fix the game sone

[delicate sun]

Switch?

[tight axle]

i gotta buy watcher???

[zenith marlin]

Im on ps5

[tight axle]

yes its on the tags

[serene rampart]

no, you don't

did you try forcing an update?

[delicate sun]

Anyways you cant shelter in the watcher it breaks the game

[tight axle]

yes

[serene rampart]

very weird

what version are you on?

[tight axle]

of rain world?

lemme check

[serene rampart]

yeah

[tight axle]

1.11.0

[zenith marlin]

You guys know when the new update comes out?

[tight axle]

grrr i just wanna finish gourmand gameplay 😠

[serene rampart]

on switch 1 or 2? sorry for so many questions

[tight axle]

2

nah dw

i just want this fixed

[serene rampart]

yeah, so from what I know this kind of thing happens with watcher DLC, but you don't have it

for me RW is fine on switch 1 though (I don't have the watcher as well)

[tight axle]

i do have downpour tho

[serene rampart]

maybe try disabling it?

[tight axle]

and turning it back on?

im kinda finishing gourmand

and i also dont think uncan disable it i didnt find a way

[serene rampart]

Does this happen with gourmand only or with non-dlc slugcats too?

[tight axle]

no

its like

i open game

i am on the opening screen

but only when i enter story

this happens

i can go on expeditions and all

[serene rampart]

ahh I get it

go to the remix options and disable the dlcs

[tight axle]

then enable again?

[serene rampart]

first disable them and try selecting any campaign

[tight axle]

kk

uhh

tryna disable it

i gotta disable remix yea?

[serene rampart]

I'd try disabling all of them just to be sure

you know how?

[tight axle]

im trying to

cant find a way

sorry if me dum dum

[serene rampart]

select the check mark

[tight axle]

[serene rampart]

not the text

[serene rampart]

dw

I wanna help

[tight axle]

OOOOO

did it

ok all of em diactivated

imma enter story

NOPE

the thing is still here

[serene rampart]

ohh, that's bad

did you have any other problems recently?

[tight axle]

no

wait

lemme try again

[serene rampart]

because it's been a mess over the last week

[tight axle]

ok so like

i diactivated all my mods and it worked

[serene rampart]

you can have mods on switch?

switch 2

[tight axle]

i mean

yea

i diactivated the

uhhh

remix

and all

coop

like u said

[serene rampart]

because you said that you deactivated them and it did not work

[tight axle]

i forgot to do the apply thing

[serene rampart]

ohh ok

[tight axle]

so my mods are like

rotted?

[serene rampart]

There was a problem with downpour dlc, but it should be fixed now

[tight axle]

o

so like

the problem IS remix and the extra slugcsts

slugcats*

[serene rampart]

well, idk

the problem was different. the slugcats were invisible and the game was crashing

but after an update it works now

[tight axle]

that was my problem which i solved

[serene rampart]

and you could play after that?

[tight axle]

yea

but now this appeard outta nowhere

[serene rampart]

hopefully it will be ok after you turn the dlc on back again?

[tight axle]

nope

alr tested

[serene rampart]

if not, you can try reinstalling the game

[tight axle]

do yk how?

[serene rampart]

it shouldn't affect your save data, although it is kinda risky

[tight axle]

im scared i might lose all my progress

im so close to finishing gourmsnd

gourmand*

[serene rampart]

if it cheers you up, I'm right at the end of Arti's campaign and the game keeps crashing

so you're not the only one

waiting for a fix

[tight axle]

i love this frikin game but like WHYYY

[serene rampart]

it's strange that it just broke without an update?

unless there was one that broke everything

[tight axle]

cries in need to finish gourmand

[serene rampart]

this is your decision to make if you want to try reinstalling the game, but maybe look through the other reports here first?

I will look on the akupara website for you

[tight axle]

thanks

imma look around a bit

found nothing

[serene rampart]

well, as I said, other people are also having this problem

but with watcher

maybe it's something nintendo switch 2 specific, and there are not many players there to report this thing

[tight axle]

how did they solve it?

did they fix it or nah

[serene rampart]

there's no way to fix it from what I know

[tight axle]

💔

[remote swan]

its only industrial complex, and maybe others, but outskirt works

[serene rampart]

I found one person that might have fixed it

but I don't know how

[tight axle]

OOO

ouh

[serene rampart]

this was with the watcher on ps4 though, but it's the same problem

[tight axle]

can you like

talk to em?

also thank you so much for helping me out

[serene rampart]

yeah, I asked them

it's in the "invisible???" report

[tight axle]

o

[serene rampart]

np

they mentioned some sound options before, but I can't find what exactly that means

[tight axle]

hm

I THINK I FIXED IT

so like

i think i found something which MIGHT help

so

i activated the mods

and

i went to options and started save slot 2

and when i went history it was normal but no progress

so i think my save is corrupted or sum

[serene rampart]

if you go to save slot 1 it's still the same?

[tight axle]

no

i like

activate all my mods

[serene rampart]

i meant 1

[tight axle]

yea

yea

[tight axle]

ya

[serene rampart]

but I guess it doesn't really solve the problem

[tight axle]

sigh im gonna tweak if i lost everything

[serene rampart]

to be honest I don't think your data is corrupted

[tight axle]

[serene rampart]

maybe try something with these music options?

or maybe try to do something with the watcher dlc on the list? I know you don't have it, but maybe it somehow activated or changed some options. I really don't know

https://bugs.akuparagames.com/rain-world/bugs

also you can report this bug here, just mention that you don't have the Watcher DLC

[pine root]

hello, i had exactly same problem on xbox/pc and have written a tool to fix save games. there's reddit post about it https://www.reddit.com/r/rainworld/comments/1nqep6g/cannot_load_progress_from_story_mode_white_screen/

i think the white screen error is directly connected to large playtime values people are experiencing on slugcat menu. it is probably unhandled int.Parse() overflow that isnt handled in the code.

[tight axle]

OHHHH

wait

actually i dont think it might work

cause

im on switch

and i dont think u cant access such

in switch 2

but yea

i did notice the game had randomly put a LOT of play time (which i did not play that much)

[serene rampart]

did you contact the developers about what you found?

I think it's best to let them know if they didn't figured it out yet

[pine root]

unfortunately my fix works only if you can access save files (steam, pc, xbox via pc anywhere)

[serene rampart]

I know but at least you know what's wrong

[pine root]

i have contacted the publisher - akupara, twice. once about the bug, 2nd time with the solution. but haven't heard anything from them. i think we should raise more tickets in their support so they will look into this matter.

[serene rampart]

you can try submitting a bug report together with your findings

[tight axle]

im panicking

all my 3 save slots are like this now

and i cant play

[midnight relic]

Guys you have to go and make a ticket

https://bugs.akuparagames.com/rain-world/bugs

It’s been 4 days
Spam them

We payed 15euro for a thing we can’t play

Im furious rn

4 days guys

[leaden nest]

You have found the black dot

[serene rampart]

the bug was already reported, there's no point in submitting multiple tickets. They know about this and are trying to fix it

I am kinda mad at the people responsible for this too. But it will only give them more unnecessary work to do which can delay the update

[midnight relic]

They didn’t communicate any information to say they know

I conclude that the problem is they need to be aware that it’s not a little bug everyone in console cannot play the dlc, this need to be addressed like so

[serene rampart]

the fact that there is still not one official statement is not ok from their side, but they are aware

[midnight relic]

Yeah fr

[serene rampart]

look at the bugs on akupara's website

[midnight relic]

I did and post too

[serene rampart]

yeah, they will probably close it, because it's already been reported

many times

[midnight relic]

It’s not the case

Everyone are talking about small bug

And individual bug

I really hope they are aware that the dlc cannot be played at all

Like it’s 4 days

[serene rampart]

it's under investigation

[serene rampart]

I get that, but there's not much we can do

I just stopped playing rw for now, I can't finish Arti's campaign since the 19th because of what they did to the game

we are all upset right now, but submitting mamy reports about the same thing won't help

I think it would be better to press them for an official statement and approximate date of the next patch

[tight axle]

i did alr make one

[winged cargo]

nice i have the same problem on switch and switch 2. whitescreen with small black square when trying to play the story mode

it’s driving me nuts that i just love the game but everytime there is an update it gets unplayable

[serene rampart]

you can try contacting riv otter, it worked the last time, we got some official info about the problem

[strong coyote]

Urrghh I have the same problem, I don't have Watcher and my game is fully updated....

I thought we were done with the game-breaking glitches

[strong coyote]

I swear if I have to delete all my saves....

[primal hamlet]

I have this problem too in my xbox after I buy the watcher dlc

[serene rampart]

I don't think it's that severe, we just have to wait

But we need an official statement, it's not funny anymore...

I understand that watcher has problems, but base game and old dlc? This should have never happened

[strong lantern]

Hey so im in the same boat as you guys and it seems like they should be fixing it soon, as they have began closing reports on bug report regarding this same issue so that the site doesnt overflow with the same complaint

this is in a ps4 comment but its still the same thing so it shouldnt matter

[tight axle]

YAYY

IM PRAYING THEY FIX IT SOON

I WANNA FINISH MY GOURMAND RUN

[strong lantern]

Its geting fixed soon for sure

i just wanna play watcher man, ive been spoiler free for too long

[primal hamlet]

If you go to "remix" and desable the watcher dlc, the game work normally

[tight axle]

its making downpour not work too

[primal hamlet]

I enable everything except the watcher dlc and it works for me

[tight axle]

its because this bug for me is because of the game making it that the playtime goes crazily big which causes that screen im pretty sure

[primal hamlet]

Maybe is

This dlc failed in everything

[serene rampart]

I might have been wrong

this report is closed, so it seems like they don't consider it as their (the update's) fault

[strong coyote]

[serene rampart]

I guess restarting the watcher campaign is not that big of a deal, but what if it happens with downpour? They seriously should say something

[strong coyote]

we can't have save backups on switch , I'd have made one if I could!

[serene rampart]

maybe they aren't aware of that this problem is not watcher exclusive?

[serene rampart]

I think you can have a backup on cloud if you have nintendo online

but I'm not sure, I don't have it

[strong coyote]

but wait though.... we can't even access the save files in order to delete the ones that are corrupted

[serene rampart]

yes, that's the problem

I am still not sure what he meant by restarting watcher's campaign

[strong coyote]

it saves automatically, so rn the backup is corrupted too

[serene rampart]

ohh, I didn't know

[strong coyote]

I think he means just restating the save, the bug report says the glitch happens AFTER selecting the story

oh wait nvm I misread

either way the menu is unavailable to view

I haven't tried playing with another save from the options to see if it works

[serene rampart]

I think it will work, but you'll end up corrupting it too

after some time

[strong coyote]

if we can't access the individual saves, we just don't have the option to delete only one slugcat's save, it's all or nothing on switch

I'm not sure about that, the corrupted files were caused by the previous updates

[serene rampart]

The author of this report said that another save file worked

and he ended up corrupting all 3

This is another one that I found, it seriously looks like they don't care

and I think this report is about MSE from the description

[strong coyote]

if all my saves will end up corrupted what's even the point of playing

[serene rampart]

I'm sorry

But one person was able to fix this on xbox!

so there has to be a way for the devs to make a general fix

if there is still no info about this in 2 days when the watcher comes out on switch

then I don't know

[strong coyote]

I for sure am not touching the game until there are no more reports of spontaneously corrupted save files, I thought I'd at LEAST be able to play Downpour but hey I guess that was too much to ask

Rain World is a game where you have to be patient to enjoy it but my patience is not strong enough to be okay with having to delete all my saves and start over

[serene rampart]

I agree. And I sincerely hope your saves will get fixed!

Let's just wait for now and maybe ask riv otter again if they remain silent

[drowsy jacinth]

Same for my im on ps5

[primal hamlet]

Yes, i think that theys won't fix this problem soon

[drowsy jacinth]

I litterally just spent 13 euros to pay for their dlc and the game is quite literally unplayable … thats unacceptable.

[primal hamlet]

It's shameful for an indie company to do this

and I can't even ask for a refund on Xbox

[tight axle]

uhh so like, it did happen to me whit the downpour

[strong coyote]

Same, I bought it very recently and barely even got to play it...

[strong coyote]

oh yeah! I misread Daniel's message, it's happening to me with Downpour too, I don't have Watcher

[tight axle]

im gonna tweak all my 3 saves like this

and on my main save i was finishing gourmsnd

like

just beside the end

rain world devs do something

[strong coyote]

I really really wanted to be excited to the Watcher dlc but now?? What are we even supposed to do ? I can't trust that the dlc would even launch

Thank goodness the devs had the foresight to add cheats to the console versions, or else imagine having to re-do everything every time a single file corrupts.... pc players have it easy, when something goes wrong they often have ways to fix it themselves at least, meanwhile we sit here with nothing

[serene rampart]

I know, that's why I mentioned that

[serene rampart]

You read it right! I was just saying that the devs may not be aware that it's happening with downpour too

That's why I'm not playing even though I don't have the watcher

I'm scared of it happening to me as well

[strong coyote]

I wonder what causes it then

when one of mine got corrupted it was from that first update, when Downpour was not updated but the base game was

[serene rampart]

as I mentioned before, one person managed to fix it on xbox

it has something to do with large playtime values

[strong coyote]

I assume on xbox there must be some way to access the files and modify them, on Switch I'm pretty sure we couldn't do that :/

[serene rampart]

you had this problem when 1.11 got released on switch??

[serene rampart]

yes, exactly. I think it's kinda connected to a pc

[strong coyote]

an update that checks playtime values and reduces them shouldn't be a stretch to make honestly

[serene rampart]

yeah, it does not seem complicated, but these comments under bug reports worry me...

[strong coyote]

My Gourmand save had billions of hours of playtime, but when I forced the update that fixed Downpour it worked fine, at least until now. I'm pretty sure this must be the corrupted one causing this, weird that it's causing problems now but not before...

yeahh same

[strong lantern]

someone must have been able to fix it in ps5 too since there is a report about a late game watcher area bug from a ps5 user

[serene rampart]

OHHHH

This makes so much sense to be honest

But I wonder if these large playtime values stem from the update itself or the incompatibility between the base game and dlc

[strong coyote]

To my knowledge, only the Switch versions had issues of incompatible versions for a little while, it makes sense that this could cause corrupted saves, but PS4/5 and Xbox players got the updates correctly I think, so something else in the update is corrupting the saves

[serene rampart]

watcher works for some people, what I meant is that someone actually fixed a corrupted savefile

[serene rampart]

that's true, but the dlc doesn't update automatically

and a lot of people on different consoles didn't force it, they probably wanted to play the watcher when it came out

you know what, I have a feeling that this problem might be downpour's fault, not watcher's

[serene rampart]

in every case

[strong coyote]

I mean that the other consoles got both halves of the update, while the switch version had a moment where it got only one, which is what causes the first issues

[serene rampart]

I know

but automatically you only get the base game updated

[strong coyote]

on switch yes, but on other consoles too?

[serene rampart]

for downpour you still had to force the update

I can't be sure, but I saw a lot of bug reports on invisible slugcats regarding other consoles

like ps4 and xbox

[strong coyote]

well then this is a pretty bad situation

[serene rampart]

look

ps4

[strong coyote]

weird, it seemed like only switch players got this issue

[serene rampart]

well, we had to wait for the update

they got replies to update downpour right away

so it wasn't as noticable

[strong coyote]

mh true

[serene rampart]

so I have two theories:

1. downpour is still severely broken and may cause data corruption

2. version incompatibility caused the bug of large playtime values and even after downpour update these values cause problems

[strong coyote]

yeah I'm thinking 2 personally

[serene rampart]

and people think it has to do something with the watcher because it came out at the same time and many people went back to the game just to try it

[serene rampart]

but if we're right then the devs have no clue as seen in the comments of the bug reports I sent before

[strong coyote]

Would they even fix it if they knew? A corrupted save is a corrupted save, their response seems to be the same no matter what

[serene rampart]

I have no idea, honestly

This is happening to a lot of people rn

and it's because of their poor planning and communication

so I think they should at least acknowledge that

[strong coyote]

what I'm mostly wondering about is, if we do delete our saves and start over, are we sure the saves won't get corrupted again?

[serene rampart]

I think that if the large values are deleted then it won't happen

but I am not sure

[strong coyote]

like, what did you mean by that here? Did their saves get corrupted even after their game was updated?

[serene rampart]

I forgot about this

from what I understand, this happened to one savefile

and when going to the 2nd and 3rd ones (without deleting the 1st) they got corrupted too

[strong coyote]

corrupted files shouldn't spread like that logically

[serene rampart]

yeah but that would mean that downpour is still broken, right?

[strong coyote]

I'd say that's more likely but we only have one example of this happening after the patch

[serene rampart]

could you explain how did this happen exactly?

and did you notice any weird playtime values before it happened to the original savefile?

[strong coyote]

Gonna experiment with the game a little bit, don't have much to lose at this point anyway

[serene rampart]

good luck, I don't want to touch it while it still works (though if I can't play it safely it might as well be broken)

[strong coyote]

• Slot 1 in my saves is my main save file, has the corrupted campaign, story doesn't open.
• Slot 2 has some started games, I can get to the story menu, it seems to be working fine. The few individual campaigns are as we they were, though I hadn't played any Downpour stuff on it.
  and slot 3 is empty, hadn't used it yet.

so the game works when there are no corrupted saves on it

[serene rampart]

do you have large playtime values on slot 2 or were they only on slot 1?

[strong coyote]

only slot 1

[serene rampart]

kk

[strong coyote]

slot 2 just had a monk and Survivor playthrough started, both are normal

Gonna try playing a bit of Downpour on slot 2 and see if anything corrupts

[serene rampart]

let me know if you find something

[strong coyote]

ohhh no that's badddd

[strong coyote]

okay so I started a Spearmaster save, slept in the first shelter I found, exited out, the save looked fine, closed and reopened the game, and now the save has 150074075 hours of play time (the base game saves look okay still)

I could open the story menu this time, but I assume there's a point where whatever's causing this will make the number go up and break the menu entirely, like it did before

Tried to see if sleeping a in a shelter was what was causing the playtime to go abnormally high, annnd the game froze, had to manually quit.

and now it's back to white screen with little black square.

[serene rampart]

yeah, I think you're right

how long were you able to playing after downpour "fix"?

because it would be weird if there were no problems for a few days then and now the files got corrupted almost immediately

[strong coyote]

after the fix I played for maybe 2 hours or so, didn't progress much

[serene rampart]

but still much longer than with spearmaster today

[strong coyote]

yupp

Here the game froze after a few minutes

[serene rampart]

I managed to go through farm arrays and subterranean to the depths

and it took me a long time increasing arti's karma at the end

and nothing abnormal shows up, no huge playtime values

[strong coyote]

I think the artificer ending glitch might be something else, it's pretty different

[serene rampart]

ik ik

but what I'm saying is that I was playing for a long time

and nothing happened

so maybe this happens only if the large values are present in the first place?

[strong coyote]

the save corrupted only after I closed and opened the game though, have you checked your saves since then?

[serene rampart]

due to the conflict that happened before

yes, after I managed to go through farm arrays I closed the game and went back to it after a while

then my game crashed twice

so i quit

and tried next day

it crashed again

[strong coyote]

would be very weird if the saves basically corrupted each other, I doubt they're linked like that, but maybe I'm wrong about that

[serene rampart]

Yeah, I completely agree

but why doesn't it happen to me too then?

very weird

[strong coyote]

a specific setting is causing it maybe?

[serene rampart]

or the crashes saved me

[strong coyote]

I did have jollycoop enabled in both cases, despite playing in single player

[serene rampart]

but after they happened I continued the game to see if everything is fine and exited normally

[serene rampart]

You mean just the dlc enabled or something else? sorry, I haven't tried it yet so I don't know how it works exactly

because I had every dlc enabled

[strong coyote]

I doubt the crashes saved you, the save corrputed before any crashes could happen for me

[serene rampart]

and still have

[strong coyote]

When you're about to play a campaign you can enable it on the top right of the screen, it doesn't do much in single player aside from allowing your slugcat to point at stuff (which I find fun so I kept it enabled)

[serene rampart]

Ohh, then no, I didn't play with it enabled

we can wait for the op's response and confirm if this might be the problem

I will file a bug report tomorrow with these findings, because they can't just ignore it

it's not ok

[tight axle]

the thing that would make this so fixable is just adding a "remove total playtime" button on the remix options....

its simple

because the thing happens from another bug that makes ur total time real big

and it does tht

its so easy

but i may have found a way to bypass this bug,

im trying it out this second

imma try explain it

so

if it bugs the playtime

what if we activate visible playtime mid game in remix?

then we can see if it bugs

and it will be counting normally

until now everything is fine

[strong coyote]

that's more of a temporary fix though, it wouldn't fix the root of the problem. And with how nintendo needs time to approve every update (I think it's also the case on other consoles too, although the wait time might be shorter), they might as well fix the issue fully before they release an update

[tight axle]

i mean

i can play

i alr messed alr a bit and its find

[strong coyote]

is that an option??

[tight axle]

yea it is

[strong coyote]

I've never seen that

[tight axle]

when you get downpour you get rain world remix

so you go to remix on the main thing

and go to thr rain world remix

there u access many stuff such as cheats

[strong coyote]

yeah I have it I just never noticed that option before!

[tight axle]

yea some times i kinda try solving problems diggin in the options

[strong coyote]

wouldn't it still keep count of the time even if it's not visible in the menu though?

[tight axle]

but

i think the problem happens when u leave the game

lemme check

[strong coyote]

that checks out with what I've experienced

[tight axle]

yep

it counts normally when you are in game but when u leave it tweaks

[strong coyote]

yup

[tight axle]

i tried finding an option to diactivate timer but no luck

[strong coyote]

I thought you said there was an option??

[tight axle]

its an option that shows the timer mid game

[strong coyote]

OH you mean the timer from each cycle?

[tight axle]

noo

the total timer that shows mid game

speedrun timer

[strong coyote]

oooooh I see

[tight axle]

cause it lets u keep track on the timer

but nop

[strong coyote]

but we currently can't fully deactivate the playtime counter

[tight axle]

yea

so if u wanna complete a campaign now u gotta one sit it

[strong coyote]

it'd be better to fix the actual problem either way, i'm sure the devs would find it more easily than us with the dev tools

[strong coyote]

lmao I'm not quite skilled enough to do that without it taking me the whole day

wait, that means no save point also

[tight axle]

same

[strong coyote]

nevermind, i'd never be able to do it lmao

[tight axle]

im really excited for next month

not cuz hallowen

its cuz

my mom gonna gimme all rain world stuff on my pc 😄

[strong coyote]

ayy nice!!

[tight axle]

im gonna stuff it whit mods idc

(obvs the first one is gonna be dress your scug)

[strong coyote]

hah I've seen so many great mods, I wish I could also play on pc

[tight axle]

yuh

tho i dont really care abt watcher

i just want my fluff and spear master

[strong coyote]

I barely got to try spearmaster and it was so funnn

[tight axle]

and tbh its a bit pricy for a single campaign

[strong coyote]

the watcher? yeahh a little

I'd wait until most bugs get patched before even considering getting it

And anyway you'll get a ton of mods to try out before you make up your mind

[tight axle]

sadly i dont see a way to get only rain world and downpour

in steam

[strong coyote]

wdym?

is only the bundle of all 3 available?

[tight axle]

yea

[strong coyote]

ahh makes sense tbh, dlc just came out so of course they'll bundle all of them

you can still get the base game and then downpour individually

[tight axle]

oh how?

by like

getting base alone

then downpour?

[strong coyote]

yeah, like not as a bundle

[tight axle]

oo

ok

im playing saint rn

[strong coyote]

you'd miss out on the slightly lower price, but if you don't want Watcher, that probably works better for you

niice, I haven't played it yet

[tight axle]

whit cheats cause i cant whit this bug

[strong coyote]

I got Downpour super recently, watched a full playthrough before tho

that's fair fbdf

I also enabled some cheats when everything started glitching

[tight axle]

i luv fluff boy

[strong coyote]

the fluffy pacifist

[tight axle]

[strong coyote]

shhh no spoilers, I've seen how this campaign goes but others might not have !

[tight axle]

there

srry

[serene rampart]

on pc? or did something change on switch

[serene rampart]

I thought we finally got some news but it seems selling rot figurines is a priority now

[delicate sun]

On switch I tried the watcher but when you shelter it breaks

[midnight relic]

Guys they need someone to help them with the save files

If you have a usb go to the akupara bugs report website and follow the steps to gives them your save files

[midnight relic]

Go report in the website http://bugs.akuparagames.com/rain-world/bugs

[serene rampart]

I posted a report and asked if they will try to fix the savefiles

hopefully we will get an update soon

I think I described everything that we talked about

[strong coyote]

Thanks! I hope they'll be able to fix it soon ...

[strong coyote]

You should try to send this in a bug report of someone using a Playstation since everyone in this one has the game on switch, it'll probably help get more people helping!

[strong coyote]

I just saw! I was reading your bug report, glad they're working on it!

[serene rampart]

Yeah, I'm kinda disapppinted that we still don't know if they are willing to recover corrupted savefiles, but at least we have something

[strong coyote]

I think they can't know for sure yet if they haven't found the root of the problem

so they can't promise anything right now

[serene rampart]

I meant something like

"if only it's possible we will try to fix the data that has been corrupted by this bug"

it would be enough for me

[tight axle]

guys which campaign do i do while i wait

[serene rampart]

@strong coyote @tight axle @midnight relic

[tight axle]

huh

[serene rampart]

sorry for pinging you, but we've got another reply

[tight axle]

my console is on portuguese

since im from brazil

[serene rampart]

yeah I am not sure who is this question for, but thank you

I'll include this in the reply

[tight axle]

idk i thought it would help

yay

[serene rampart]

yeah, I actually wanted to ask y'all

[tight axle]

im crying

i was finishing gourmand on another slot

again

[serene rampart]

mine is in english and I guess Cal's is French

[tight axle]

and it glitched

[serene rampart]

don't worry, from this reply it seems they are close to fixing this

[tight axle]

thank god

cause i am suffering

i hop they fix it before this weekend

cause imma see my lil sis

and i love playing whit her on my console and stuff

so we gonna play rain world together

[paper skiff]

Mine's in german, if that information helps in any way

[serene rampart]

do you have this problem too?

[tight axle]

im pretty sure 95% the peopleare having this issue

[serene rampart]

corrupted savefiles causing story mode to be inaccessible?

[paper skiff]

I didn't try, as I don't really want to Lose my saves

[serene rampart]

I don't actually

[tight axle]

LUCKYYYYY

[serene rampart]

but it's only because I stopped playing

[tight axle]

oh

[serene rampart]

from what we know it should be fine if you don't enter any campaign

[paper skiff]

I only downloaded the newest update, opened the game like two times trying to get watcher before I knew it will release days later for us and then left it there

[serene rampart]

can you just enter story mode and scroll through campaigns?

[tight axle]

also forsaken pfp

[tight axle]

i dont think so

[serene rampart]

and see if there are any unreasonably high playtimes

[paper skiff]

Shhh, you don't see anything..

[tight axle]

because the bug made that if u left the game and you have time on any campaign its gonna bug out and make story mode not accessible

[paper skiff]

My message got blocked bc I wrote it tiny, crazy

[serene rampart]

ik ik

I asked @paper skiff

[paper skiff]

I could look rq

[tight axle]

i dont really play forsaken anymore, because every time i try, its stuffed whit toxic people

i have migrated to outcome memories

[paper skiff]

Yeah sadly, that's why I only play with friends mostly

Ok, I looked and every campaign looks normal

[tight axle]

also dandys world fan

dont think i did not see u in blushcrunch server

[paper skiff]

Im being stalked fr..

[tight axle]

or flavor frenzy

[tight axle]

next thing imma discover is ur address

[paper skiff]

Idk about that tbf

[paper skiff]

Pffff

[tight axle]

at this point i just accepted and im now waiting for the fix

[paper skiff]

@serene rampart

They have my normal playtime

[tight axle]

ok good

so DO NOT play

if u do and leave the game it will bug

most prob

[serene rampart]

yeah, your save data is probably safe

[tight axle]

[serene rampart]

but I wouldn't recommend playing

let's wait for a confirmed fix

[paper skiff]

Yeah, didn't touched them, just closed the game after

[strong coyote]

yup, but I sometimes set my Switch's language to english!

[tight axle]

also daniel love ur pfp

[serene rampart]

thank you!

[tight axle]

i saw it and just

"i want to have that animal"

"gimme"

[serene rampart]

Ohh tysm

[midnight relic]

France

[midnight relic]

I saw your report it’s pretty good and clear thanks

[steady pike]

Has anyone discovered how to fix this issue?

[paper skiff]

No, sadly not

[steady pike]

Well, sad

[strong coyote]

in case it was for me, I answered it too

[serene rampart]

np, I tried to be thorough

ohh, I've included all your replies

in my comment

[strong coyote]

they'll probably appreciate a complete list either way!

[serene rampart]

I wonder what do they need that info for

like how is this relevant

[strong coyote]

maybe they've found a potential lead as to what causes the glitch?

[paper skiff]

Maybe people in different countries have more Problems with those Bugs??? Idk

[serene rampart]

or they want to give you a way to fix this outside of an update

maybe?

[strong coyote]

they did say they were just looking for more info

[paper skiff]

A patch?

[strong coyote]

also they said to "confirm a potiential fix" so they do have an idea!

[serene rampart]

I meant that maybe they'll send us personalised instructions to try

[serene rampart]

that gives me hope! finally

[paper skiff]

Ohhh

[strong coyote]

I doubt there's much we can do on switch without an update, hopefully the info we give will help at least 🙏

[serene rampart]

I know.. but maybe there is a way, it was just a vague idea

let's just keep on waiting

maybe there will be another reply soon

[paper skiff]

Im annoyed, that's for sure

[serene rampart]

also, the watcher is finally there for us, I enabled it and nothing changed

but I won't start the campaign

still to scary

[paper skiff]

Should I buy and download it too?

Or is it better to wait..

[misty kite]

If u are in consoles, is better to wait for now

[serene rampart]

I guess there's no point if you won't play

I'm just impatient haha

[misty kite]

Me too, I want to play it so bad

[serene rampart]

But I enabled it and the story menu is still accessible, no weird playtime values

And I can select the watcher

[misty kite]

I can play it without de downpour remix, but if I go to a shelter, the game doesn't load

[serene rampart]

this is entirely the watcher's fault

I'll let you know if it happens to me too if I decide to try it after all

may I ask if you disabled both remix and more slugcats?

[misty kite]

Let me check

[paper skiff]

I mean, I want to play too. Tried to stay mostly spoiler-free for a long time and I can't take it any longer D:

[misty kite]

Yes, u can't play with more slugcats expansions if u don't have the rain world remix

[paper skiff]

Yeah, they are connected

[serene rampart]

thank you!

[serene rampart]

well, even if your save data won't get corrupted there is still high chance that the crashes won't allow you to play

[paper skiff]

The only thing which is not connected with downpour is Co-op

[serene rampart]

watcher is seriously unstable rn

[paper skiff]

Yes, ik 😔

I wonder if there are people out there without those Bugs and glitches

[misty kite]

Maybe pc players

[paper skiff]

Some experience the crashes, shelter bug etc too

But I meant like console players. If some are free from those

[misty kite]

They have to fix a lot of bugs

[paper skiff]

Jup

[misty kite]

I don't think so

[paper skiff]

There are a lot out there and couldn't speak with all of them, so who knows

[misty kite]

Maybe 1 or 2

Or 6 or 7

[paper skiff]

Imagine only 200 have this problem and the rest is free

[misty kite]

Cyber World 2077

[misty kite]

That would be crazy

[strong coyote]

new answer!

[paper skiff]

Yessss

[tender bobcat]

i got the same… do you guys found a solution?

[paper skiff]

I don't think so? Maybe on playstation reinstalling the game but otherwise idk

[tender bobcat]

but if i reinstall the game what do i have to do so it dont happen again?

[paper skiff]

I think for that you need to wait for a fix...

[tender bobcat]

noooo

if i dont play watcher i should work?

[paper skiff]

Im not sure

Some say downpour is breaking the game too

This is the only thing I know

[primal hamlet]

They will fix the bug of the black square?

[paper skiff]

They try to fix multiple bugs

[serene rampart]

I have no idea, they said they have a potential fix though

[paper skiff]

Any news?

[serene rampart]

I don't think so

but I decided to risk it and tried the watcher for a bit

[paper skiff]

And?

[serene rampart]

I disabled every other DLC and it seems fine tbh

I only encountered one visual glitch when entering a certain room

also, I wanted to check the playtime values and they were gone, are they added by Downpour? I didn't know this

if that's the case I am even more certain that this is the actual problem

Downpour I mean

[paper skiff]

Yeah, seems so. And just few small Bugs in watcher. I guess, I buy it then and just disable the mods

[serene rampart]

yeah but keep in mind that my switch is in english, and it seems like it is relevant to the problem somehow

[paper skiff]

Well, mine's in german. I only saw one bug report of a person with a switch in german, so idk...

[serene rampart]

I was able to save the game in two shelters, but it was the first time playing and as I said, I had every other DLC disabled

[serene rampart]

I mean, if you really want to try, you can change it for the time being?

just to be a little bit safer

idk, it would make sense if the language causes it, because the devs didn't notice it at all

and they probably work with english interface

[paper skiff]

Hm, idk

It just sounds weird to me that the language of the console causes this

[strong coyote]

I've played with my switch in both french and english and it seemed like there was no change

[serene rampart]

but the corruption already occured

[strong coyote]

on different save slots, the saves shouldn't be linked at all

[serene rampart]

so you had one save slot corrupted, changed language to english and on a new save slot it happened again?

[strong coyote]

no but I think when the first one happened (slot 1) I had the language set to english and when the second (slot 2) happened I had it set to french

[serene rampart]

hmm

and what language did you have during the period of versions mismatch?

because if it was french, even if the game worked at first, it might have been corrupted already

[misty kite]

The language affects the game?

[paper skiff]

A theory

[serene rampart]

we don't know and even if it does it doesn't matter after this bug occurs

[misty kite]

Because I had the language in Spanish and it bugged too

[serene rampart]

also, I' sorry if this is obvious, are we talking about the console language or RW language?

[paper skiff]

I could understand if maybe the game language does something but not the console language, bc normally, it doesn't affect the game

[serene rampart]

ik but the devs asked for the console language specifically

[paper skiff]

Yeah, I saw

[serene rampart]

And it is weird that every person who joins this discussion because they have this problem has a non-english language set at some point

[paper skiff]

You don't know, we only asked like 5 people, there are more out there

[serene rampart]

I know, what I'm saying is that it could be true

because we don't have an example of someone getting this thing with english language

[strong coyote]

console language, that's what the devs asked about. My Rain World game itself is always in english though

[serene rampart]

ok, I wanted to make sure, sorry

[strong coyote]

no worries!

[quick lance]

I too have encountered this bug after fixong another one about the insta crashes and freezes, i am tired, just finished arti ans tried to do spearmaster, explored a bit, then game randonly crashed, happens sometimes but this time it triggered the bug

[serene rampart]

what language is your console set to?

[quick lance]

Italian,

I got a friend that has this issue

[serene rampart]

it seems to only be happening of you have a set language other than english

the devs are working on it and it seems there will be a fix soon

so you'll have to be patient

[serene rampart]

you can also try to disable all dlcs

[quick lance]

I did, it works but im doing a dlcs character as soon as i activate it doesnt work anymore

[serene rampart]

yeah, because their save data got corrupted

so if you wanna play them, you have to wait

starting again on a new save doesn't solve the issue

[quick lance]

What can i do? Tried uninstallig and reinstalling, didnt work, tried dping it but removing mods and applying back then, and didnt still, whatever i do doesnr seem to work, do i need to wait for a patch or something? Are there news about it? Or i can wait for a patch only to fix it? Idk how is the dev sotuation or all so idk (sorry about long message)

[serene rampart]

As I said, there's nothing you can do

Either disable DLCs and play without them for the time being or just wait for a fix

[quick lance]

Oh:( so is it like lost or i need to wait apatch? Whats your opinion? And i dont know, cos my friend simply by uninstalling and reinstalling worked, but hen i did, nothing

Oh:( so is it like lost or i need to wait apatch? Whats your opinion? And i dont know, cos my friend simply by uninstalling and reinstalling worked, but hen i did, nothing

[serene rampart]

Nobody knows for sure and I don't want to lie to you, but it will probably get fixed in the next update, so don't worry

I don't know why it worked for your friend. What is their console language? Also, did they delete their save data or started a new save file? Their fix might have been only temporary, the data is likely to get corrupted again

[quick lance]

Eh is ok, and is not abt lies just ur opinion, cos i got in tjis game not even this year so i kostly dont know whats going on

[tight axle]

any1 has any news about the fix?

[paper skiff]

Didn't hear anything about it

[serene rampart]

you use commas as decimal separators in brazil, right?

[tight axle]

what

huh

commas?

[serene rampart]

like 3.14 or 3,14

how do you write

numbers

[serene rampart]

you can try changing your console's language to english and play on another save slot

it is not confirmed, but it might let you play

[quick lance]

On another slot i tried just base game, but i will try what u said, thanks man

[serene rampart]

@strong coyote good news

[tight axle]

YEAAAAA

[tight axle]

whit ,

[serene rampart]

ok so

is it possible for you to reset a savefile?

for example slot 3

[serene rampart]

because if you do that and change console language to english you'll probably be able to play

[tight axle]

yea

i have been doing that to play spear master

wnd arti

and*

wait so

what abt my main save slot

[serene rampart]

with english language set?

and it was fine?

[tight axle]

no like

if i delete a save and change my console tp english

all my slots fix???

[serene rampart]

no, you have to wait for a patch

[tight axle]

oh right lemme explain it ra

[serene rampart]

but if you want to play without getting your save corrupted, you can change the language

[tight axle]

rq*

so

yk in nintendo u can just let thr game there

even if u turn off the console

so i did that

because if i dont leave it doesnt bug out

[serene rampart]

ok I get you

[tight axle]

just a lil escape while they dont fix

[serene rampart]

so changing the language to english would let you to close the game normally

probably..

[tight axle]

IM DOING THAT RN

runs out

[serene rampart]

but if you started the campaign already then I don't know what happens

[tight axle]

can i just delete the save?

i didnt do much progress yet

im on monk

[serene rampart]

if you don't care about this save then yeah

[tight axle]

oki

so

i uh

idk how to change the lenguage ;-;

[serene rampart]

go to settings

[tight axle]

here

[serene rampart]

and system?

I think

[tight axle]

found it

no its on conole

which english???

[serene rampart]

ohh ok

[tight axle]

whats even the different to eng UK and US

[serene rampart]

I think it doesn't matter

[tight axle]

US cuz...🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

ok now idk what hours is it

[serene rampart]

what?

[tight axle]

the timer in my console is now in US timer like

its on my time

but its on PM

idc

[serene rampart]

it's only temporary

dw

[tight axle]

as long as i play rain world

lemme test it out now

[serene rampart]

you can test it with the current save, maybe it will work

and you won't have to start again

[tight axle]

i tried the save i did before the uhhh

lenguage change and

nope

didnt work

so im trying a new one

[serene rampart]

I hope now it will

then

[tight axle]

praying

in the den

ok now imma test it

[serene rampart]

ok ok

[tight axle]

prayin

also WTH IS THIS?

FORTNITE???

[serene rampart]

what

[tight axle]

[serene rampart]

idk, I don't play it

[tight axle]

YO IT WORKS

IT WORKS

IT WORKS

LETS GO

[serene rampart]

yay!

[tight axle]

lemme just... diactivates cheats

[serene rampart]

all of that because of commas

it's so silly

[tight axle]

fr

sigh

fuck you ,

lemme check my main save...

nope

sigh

yo blue

should i

restart?

i dont even have much progress oncmy main

on my*

[tight axle]

silly lil ,

daniel

o

nvm

[serene rampart]

?

[strong coyote]

WOOO LET'S GOOO!!

[serene rampart]

Have you tried playing on a new save slot with english language?

because you can do that in the meantime I think

I've been playing the watcher for a few hours and it's actually pretty fun. Nothing bad happens apart from visual glitches

[strong coyote]

nah I'll just wait for the fix, I only have one slot left that isn't corrupted, I'd rather keep my playthroughs in one or two

[serene rampart]

Oh, ok, but if the save slot gets corrupted you can erase it's data in the settings and it works again

at least it worked like this for Star

[quick lance]

Well, yeah but if i do that wont i lose my progress? Or i can save it somewhere else?(im on console) also it works when i deactivate downpour so i dont get whats going on

[serene rampart]

you will lose your progres

[serene rampart]

but do you have progress on all 3 save slots?

[quick lance]

Yes, but on 2 and 3 are only with the base game atuff even if dlcs are enabled, but those work just fine

[serene rampart]

if they work fine then you can just use them now

the first slot will get fixed in 1 or 2 weeks probably

when the patch comes out

[median wind]

I waited since the first announcement of this DLC to play it without any spoilers, then I waited months since it came out on PC avoiding social networks and being able to play it on my console, then I waited several days for it to be available in the European store... and now with all my corrupted saves I have to wait for them to fix the bug. I'm tired, I don't want a refund, I WANT TO PLAY THE DLC

[primal hamlet]

Who??

[serene rampart]

?

[primal hamlet]

whenever i try to enter the dlc the screen goes white

[quick lance]

I hope so man, cos i really like this game

If i remove downpour i can plat normally on file one to do watcher, think i should?

[serene rampart]

no idea

[serene rampart]

because your console's language is not english and your save got corrupted

[sterile vessel]

Does opening a new save slot fix anything for playing the campaign ?

[sterile vessel]

I tried setting it to English and it didn’t change anything

[serene rampart]

setting to english won't undo the corruption

[sterile vessel]

But if I set it to English then play the campaign on a new save slot ?

[serene rampart]

that should work

the corrupted save slot will get fixed in the next patch

you have to wait for that, unfortunately

[serene rampart]

but you can do this to enjoy the game in the meantime

[sterile vessel]

By game you mean even the watcher ?

Sorry for bothering btw

[serene rampart]

I mean Rain World in general

Watcher too

[serene rampart]

no problem

[sterile vessel]

Hell yeah

[primal hamlet]

So I have to put the game in English and delete my save from the watcher campaign?

[serene rampart]

not the game, the console language

do you have any valuable progress on slot 1?

[primal hamlet]

Yes

[serene rampart]

then leave it as it is, it will be fixed soon

[primal hamlet]

Is only the watcher campaing not work in my console

[serene rampart]

try on save slot 2

but first change the language

[primal hamlet]

Oki

[primal hamlet]

didn't work

[serene rampart]

could you be more specific? I don't know how to help you

[primal hamlet]

Whenever I hibernate in the observer campaign, the screen turns red and I exit the game, and when I try to enter the campaign again the screen turns white with a black square in the middle

and this happens in my slot 2 too

[serene rampart]

what console are you on?

and did you change console's language to US english?

[primal hamlet]

Xbox

[primal hamlet]

Yes

[serene rampart]

do you see the white screen with black square after you click "story" in the menu? or after selecting the campaign?

[primal hamlet]

When a try play the campaing

[desert nebula]

I see It when i play story, in on ps5, Yesterday It worked perfectly...

[serene rampart]

then it might be something else, idk how to help, sorry

[serene rampart]

read my previous messages, you might be able to play on a different save slot. It worked perfectly because this bug happens after the game is saved

[desert nebula]

Oh ok get It. Thanks a lot!

[serene rampart]

no problem!

[primal hamlet]

okay, I'll wait for their shitty update

[serene rampart]

you can report this on akupara's website. But state clearly that it happens after selecting a campaign, not after going into story mode!

[primal hamlet]

there are many complaints, I think they have already noticed the problems, I hope

[strong coyote]

yeahh true but I don't want to play just to lose progress next time I quit the game (and I can't leave it open because I have a sibling who plays on my switch often)

[strong coyote]

Commenting on already existing bug reports with new information can help them solve issues too! Or at least it can let them know more people are experiencing the same bug

[serene rampart]

ohh, but you won't lose progress! changing the language really solves the issue

that's what I wanted to tell you

[strong coyote]

I'd still rather continue playing on the save slots I started, I don't want to enable cheats again or start all the way over in a new slot, so I'll just wait anyway

good to know tho!

[midnight relic]

How can I do that brother ?

You can simplify it to me ?

[serene rampart]

change the console's language to US english, go into rainworld settings and change save slot to an empty one

that's it

[quick lance]

Happened to me too when i played watcher before the crash on file 2 basically no, is another form of corruption, i domt know much of coding but as i have heard it seem it was rushed(porting adds coxe lines and lota of work) and what happened is that the watcher code interacted weirdly with all the preexisting coxe, revealing also older bugs most likely and causing the corruptions, i do hope it gets fixed soon cos i like this game, but setting language wont change, ill try to use watcher without downpour and see how it goes but i doubt it will make a difference as long as files are this way

[quick lance]

Wait how does it work?

[serene rampart]

what?

[quick lance]

The language change i mean like, why it makes irlt less buggy?

[serene rampart]

it doesn't make the game less buggy, it makes the game interpret playtime correctly and prevent data corruption

because some languages use , as a decimal separator not .

[quick lance]

Yeah, so it eill work normally? And specifically us? And will worl normally or should? Also sorry for the many questions

[serene rampart]

you told me before that you can play just fine, so I don't know what problem do you have with the game right now

so I don't know how to answer

[quick lance]

I can play fine if i disable all dlcs but some bugs or crashes are still frequent, with downpour tjought i could after i fixed a bug but then it came back

[serene rampart]

this is about data corruption specifically, if your saves work, language has nothing to do with it

if you encounter a specific bug or crash, create your own bug report

[austere gull]

This is also happening to me on PC, just without the black dot in the middle

I hope the bug gets figured out soon

[serene rampart]

did you try changing the language?

this problem is resolved

[austere gull]

Like on the entire pc I was reading something about that

Can it be any other language than english

[serene rampart]

it has to be a language that uses dots as decimal separators

do you already use a language like that?

like US english for example

[austere gull]

I use US English

I'll just try a different one

[serene rampart]

then it's something else

sorry

[austere gull]

I mean I'm okay with waiting for a patch too lmao😭

[serene rampart]

but this is a different problem, are you sure it will be solved in the next patch?

Maybe make your own report here or on akupara's website

[tight axle]

any1 got news

?

[paper skiff]

Nope, not as I know

[serene rampart]

why? I thought you can play now

the patch will be there in 1 or 2 weeks, it's best to forget about it for now

[tight axle]

yea but in my main file which is the first and its still corrupted, i was almost finishing gourmand

[paper skiff]

Its kinda funny how changing language actually works. How did they break the game so bad, that the game doesn't accept ,

Well, time to download watcher and break my game more hehe

Also, since when can you play co-op in downpour campaigns... Is that new???

[strong coyote]

I think that's been there for a long time?? I'm not entirely sure

[paper skiff]

I never had that before, only for the base game campaigns

Also, its funny how I couldn't download Watcher in the language english, so my switch switched it to my native language for a moment lol