Hi Clare, responses to your questions can be found below, along with any pertinent information at the bottom that I could think of. It’s a pretty serious problem, given the constant loss of progress.
Hi EDenney,
I’m sorry to hear you’re experiencing issues with crashing in your save. The update to 1.09 was a small technical update required by Sony and should not be affecting your game. I will not rule it out, but I want to ask a few questions to make sure it’s not being caused by something else first…
Please let me know:
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Is this a multiplayer or single player game?
-Single player, I haven’t touched multiplayer.
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Was this save created before the update to version 2071? or is it a save that was created recently?
-I didn’t even install and start playing the game until the day after the 2071 update was released (unfortunate timing for me). These are all 2071 games/saves.
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Do you experience any FPS drops / lag in your save?
-Only when saving the game (things like water almost completely freeze), and briefly when sailing when a new quadrant loads (more of a glitchy fps drop than an almost freeze like when saving).
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Do you have a significant amount of loose items in piles around your island? If so, are any of them near or around your shelter?
-I have many items/crates piled up and staged on my main island (who doesn’t?), but this crash can occur on an island I’ve just discovered and built and tent on. I do of course travel with a moderate amount of supplies for settling new islands, but I may save successfully 5 or 10 times with those same items with me, then have it randomly crash on a save. I do not having anything near my shelter on my main island. All of my looted items are on the opposite side of the island.
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Have you tried saving using a sleeping bag or on a different island? If so, are the issues the same?
-Different islands definitely still crashes, the crashing seems to be completely random when saving. Also crashes with sleeping bag.
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Have you changed any of your options in the game?
-Only the animal settings, as suggested in the “workaround” (with no success). I haven’t noticed any direct correlation between that setting and the crashing during save bug. It will occur randomly without changing ANY settings, but I can’t say for sure whether it only occurs randomly with a particular setting on.
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Have you changed any console settings or does your profile on your console have any restrictions in place?
-Nope/nope
Any extra information you can provide about your gameplay and setup would be greatly appreciated as it can help me to determine if this is an issue the team are aware of or if it is one that would need separate investigation.
-I was at approximately day 80 (played entirely with the interaction bug) when I reported the problem. I had looted pretty much the entire map and brought most everything of value back to a central island. However I did not need to be in that quadrant for the crashes to occur, or have much with me or in my current quadrant. The crashing did NOT start occurring until at least 60-70 days into the game (coincidentally shortly after the newest update dropped in the U.S., although it might not be related).
-I started a new game after posting this initial report, with animals set to OFF right from the start to see if it would prevent the interaction glitch (it didn’t), and shortly after the interaction glitch started I set animals to passive so I could obtain rawhide and kill giant crabs for food. I’m now at day 47 in the newest game, and the save crashing started happening about 5 or 10 days ago, randomly, no matter where I am on the map. At this point in the newest game I’ve scavenged most of the map.
It’s now terrifying to save the game, knowing that I’m rolling the dice every time as to whether I’m going to lose all my progress since the last save.
-Might also be useful to know that just saving the game repeatedly over and over will result in the save crash, at least at my current point in the game (about day 50 on this save). I just saved three times in a row over a span of about 20 seconds and it crashed the third time. So it doesn’t require a period of time to elapse in the game or for anything at all to change. Just seems to be completely random, but always around every 5 to 10 times that I save (typically closer to 10).
Edit Just FYI I haven’t built any structures or furniture at all, except for a mid-size raft with 4 shelves on it, and a loom and tanning track (and tents/water stills around the map of course). I have no farms, haven’t done anything with vehicle or gyrocopter parts, and haven’t touched the airplane since that’s impossible with the interaction bug. Basically all I’ve been doing is looting and bringing items back to my home island.
. I know those types of problems are difficult to diagnose for the developers since they’re difficult to recreate, and take precious time. But if they just run around doing the usual mundane stuff, and saving often, it should crash within 20 minutes to an hour from the saves I sent you.