Game crashes when I save

Every so often when I save I’ll get the game saved notification and then my game freezes when I try to reload my save it only loads to the cleaning up phase and then won’t load any further have had to restart my game from ground zero 3 times in the last week because of this For the topic title above, please use the format:
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Hi Dr.Michael1202, welcome to the forums.

I’m sorry to hear this issue is affecting your save too. The team are aware of this issue are are currently investigating.

Please let me know:

  • Are you playing on PlayStation or Xbox?
  • When this issue occured had you travelled and saved or were you on an island where you normally save?
  • Before this issue occured did you lose or dump any items in the ocean?
  • Please let me know if you recall what other actions you may have taken between saves or before saving and experiencing the freeze.

Any extra information you can provide about your experience is greatly appreciated. In case you have not seen it, there is a topic on this issue here: [Known Issue][PS4/XB1] Stuck in "Cleaning Up" phase on load please note this topic covered the first time this issue was reported, a hotfix issued by the team and the issue occuring for players after the update to 2078. Any updates from the team will be added to the top of the top post as I recieve them.

2 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Known Issue][PS4/XB1] Stuck in “Cleaning Up” phase on load