I lost days of play time to a stream cloud sync error
I've been playing a lot of Fallout 4 over the holidays. I started and finished the Nuka World DLC (killed all the baddies), made it to level 90, etc.
Today I was playing on my Deck as the battery got a little low (11%) so I saved my game, exited the game, and went to shut down.
As it was shutting down, the Deck displayed a message, something like "Syncing to Steam Cloud" as the logo was spinning.
A few hours later, on a full charge, I booted it back up, started Fallout 4 again and... some of my old saves are there, but only about 30% of them, and critically not the most recent ones.
Has this ever happened to anyone else? Is this a known issue? Can I fix it, or report it? I've basically lost interest in finishing the game now.
This won't help with this game, but there's a decky extension called steamback that keeps backup saves of your games.
It automatically makes a backup of your save data everytime you start a game, and keeps a few copies so you can revert if something happens.
Ludusavi is also a great option for save backups. It’s not quite as integrated so you have to run it manually, but it does work on other platforms too (like Windows) and is very customizable.
I was thinking of something like this actually. A shell script that rsync's the save files to my home server on startup or something. I've not heard of "Decky", so I'll look that up before I start trying to roll my own, thanks.
Decky loader is a plugin store/manager for Steam Deck. Let's you retheme steam deck ui, change startup animations, gives advanced performance controls, and a ton of other stuff. I'd definitely consider it mandatory for getting the best steam deck experience.
I had something similar happen with playing Brotato on my Deck and PC, at some point there was a Steam Cloud error and my entire save got wiped. It's frustrating since you can't do anything after it has synced with all your devices. Steam Cloud is synced with your current saves and you can't go back in time to change it unless you still have access to the files.
So if you have a pc that has the game installed I'd boot the pc up without starting Steam and see if your save games are still there and copy them some place safe. Then let steam sync and move back the savegames and launch the game.
Yeah that would have been my go-to, but I've been playing on my Deck almost exclusively for about a month now so... no games on the desktop :-(
In the end, I decided to just open up the console in Fallout 4, input a few cheat codes and get (most of) the stuff I lost. I guess I'm mostly wondering if I should report this as a bug or something.
I had cloud sync errors on every game I tried on both Linux desktop and steam deck. I was pulling my hair out trying to fix it. In my case it turned out to be my Adguard Home instance blocking some or all of the required links that steam uses for the sync. I manually whitelisted all of them and it's all gravy now.
I feel your pain. I didn't have this exact scenario, but I lost a tooooon of progress in Yakuza 0. Manually saving and then putting the device to sleep. At some point the game crashed and since I hadn't been exiting/entering, the last cloud save was about 2-3 acts behind where I was.
Very rough.