@SpliffSix - I’m sorry to hear this issue occurred for your save. Thank you for letting me know what occured before this issue was triggered for you. I shall pass it onto the team. During your fight with the hammerhead, did you lose any weapons in the ocean? Spears that missed etc? In case you have not seen it, I have a known issues post for this here: [Known Issue][PS4/XB1] Stuck in "Cleaning Up" phase on load where I am posting updates on the issue.
@Steve1 - Thank you for confirming what island you saved on and for following up on the licensing issue to let me know that it was resolved on your end.
Thank you also for following up with further info on your new save. I’m glad to hear you were able to save on the second island. I know the team is still investigating this possible trigger so I will make a note of this for them. Please do keep me updated if anything changes. There was a hotfix released yesterday that should prevent anything lost through the ground or dumped in the ocean from triggering this issue. (Please see the link I posted above for further details)
@Grapefox - welcome to the forums. I’m sorry to hear you had multiple saves affected by this issue. The team are looking into multiple triggers for this issue including moving the controller when saving, saving when there is a notification on screen, and saving on a new island. Any updates on these issues will be posted in my link above, thank you for letting me know what happened in your save, I’ll note this for the team.