Thank you for reporting this issue, I’m sorry to hear it has affected your save and thank you for letting me know you tried saving a multiplayer game in the same slot like another player had done…
From your description I believe there could be two different issues with similar results occurring here. One that occurs from the beginning where players cannot save, and one that occurs mid-game, which may be related to saving in the ocean and it has been mentioned by more than one user as you’ve seen.
You mentioned loading save data from the cloud, if you check the save data on the console, does it show data is there for that slot that the game cannot access?
It may be a long shot, but you could try backing up the save data and then removing the game and save data from the console. Then, clear the cache of the console by shutting it down and unplugging for 2 minutes before rebooting. After rebooting, reinstall the game and restore the save backup and see if it will prompt the game to recognise the data.
Please let me know if it does or doesn’t work, and in the meantime I’ll pass the details you’ve shared above onto the team members investigating this issue.
@Loeckiey, welcome to the forums, while I understand you’ve started a new save, in the save this occurred did it occur from the beginning, did you save in the ocean like Adeis described above or was your gameplay prior to this issue occuring different? Any information you can give about your experience would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for confirming that information for me @Adeis and @Loeckiey
From what I can see of the devs updates on this issue, they know what caused it and are now working on a fix for the issue. Unfortunately no workarounds have been found for this issue so far.
Same here away from islands near map border 63 days about to start bosses. The main menu says play but goes straight to new game tried everything mentioned on the web