Incompatible save games?

Tried to load saves from last night 0.76 version now on 0.78

Trying to load any save games created on the last beta release 0.76 on the current Beta 2a (0.78) release makes the game crash, are they incompatible or it's just a bug/issue that was overlooked?

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Reply #1 Top

Read the changelog.  Its a sticky at the top of this forum, and it clearly says in bright red letters that save games and replays are not compatible.

Reply #2 Top

Oops! I read pretty much all the post except the red letters on the top, my bad. O:)

Reply #3 Top

In addition to what SpardaSon21 mentioned, just assume that because it is BETA <-(this is the important part) they are less concerned about porting saved games and more concerned about bug fixes. :thumbsup:

Reply #4 Top

I think the devs should look at making games compatible with the latest release from the last release. All modern games have it, why can't sins.

Reply #5 Top

Unfortunately that's not possible because game data changes from build to build. The entire gamedata directory would need to be incorporated into each save game, which would be rather large.

We are implementing a hotfix that will indicate if a save is incompatible with a new version in-game, however.

Reply #6 Top

Quoting Yarlen, reply 5
We are implementing a hotfix that will indicate if a save is incompatible with a new version in-game, however.
End of Yarlen's quote

^ That's pretty cool! :beer: