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How to prevent Borderlands 3 save file loss
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Borderlands 3 is the 4th Borderlands title to be launched, and it manages to keep the franchise as successful as ever.
However, no game series iswithout flaws, and Borderlands 3 has its own fair share.
Fortunately, history shows us that any issue that arises can behandled in one way or another.
Severalplayershave reported on theofficial Gearbox forumsthat their save files have disappeared entirely without a trace.
I was trying to launch thegamebut it say my save was corrupted and lost my progress and was reset back from lvl 43 to 34 and reset back to story even though me and my friends finished the story.
This is an overarching problem, as you lose story progress, golden keys, your character levels and so forth.
It would seem thatplayersget notified that their save file became corrupted.
What causes the Borderlands 3 save file corruption?
PlayersonTwitterhave reported problems after activatingcloudsaves that then either wiped progress completely or rolled back to an earlier save point.
If you are playing Borderlands 3 with Cloud Saves on more than one device through the Epic Games Launcher, you may experienceCloud Save conflicts.
What is a Cloud Save conflict?
Cloud Save conflicts are mainly the result of you playing thegameon one machine while inoffline mode.
After much research, it was discovered that the source of the problem is actually a whole different issue.
It seems that abugis keeping the Cloud Save conflicts pop-up screen from showing up.
This makes it so that thecloudsaves end up being chosen by default, leading to progress rollback or even a complete wipe.
What to do in case of a Borderlands 3 Cloud Save conflict
OnceaCloudSave conflictappears, you would normally be prompted with a window that looks something like this:
You need to pay attention to the timestamps and choosethe most recentone.
You could also just simply look for the one with theNewerlabel in front of the time stamp.
In the end, it seemed that this entire issue boils down toplayersexperiencing one of two things:
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