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Can I bring my old game save files to the upgraded version?
In previous upgrades, I would back up the save directory, overwrite the original game directory with the new version files, and then copy the save directory back to the game directory. However, after launching the game, the new version does not seem to recognize the previous saves. The "Continue" button remains grayed out, and the save selection page cannot be accessed. Could this be an intentional change, a bug, or is it possible that I am upgrading incorrectly?
Hijacking this issue to request save format conversions. Surely it'd be possible to convert a save made in 1.2 to 1.3 somehow.
Saves in DK and KeeperFX are just 'everything' dumped into a file as is, the entire memory/data structure. There has been talk of reworking that at some point, but that is not today. And since we are changing the game, that automatically changes save formats along with it. At this point using cheats to get back to where you were is easiest. Or updating only in between campaigns.
We are aware that people would rather not have their saves break.
I guess the continue button part used to work between versions, been broken for a while now, that part we can look into,
making them compatible would require quite a big chunk of code changed so not gonna look into that part any time soon
