Quest For Infamy Steam Beta Saves Question

[Borracho]

Dear Infamous Lads,

I currently started playing a copy of Quest for Infamy on Steam and it's in Beta v. 7.0. I'm still giggling to myself with the Prologue, but I wanted to ask you if the full release will wipe out my saves? In that case, I'd rather hold out and directly play the review version. Also, does progress from the Prologue directly carry over into the main game, or is it a separate module?

Thank you for your time and I'm really looking forward to wreaking some proper medieval havoc

[Klytos]

When the game is released it will make your saves unworkable, unfortunately that's an issue with the engine we use when it's patched. The beta / review copy on steam at the moment (7.0) works fully and has been used by other publications to complete their reviews, the only thing really missing is some of the voices (the text is there, just no voice) but by and large it's complete. We use that build for our internal testers who are just fine tuning the game over the last week or so. And yes, the prologue directly carries over to the main game, it's all one game!

Hope you enjoy it and I look forward to reading / watching your review.

~ Shawn

[Borracho]

Excellent, I'll start it fearlessly then

[Stabberson]

Also playing the beta here--I just launched after a few days of not playing and noticed an update available.  Since our saves won't work with the official launch, I've turned off Steam's auto-updating for QfI.  Is this and/or all updates prior to July 10th safe and compatible with the beta saves?

Edit: Well, apparently the update was mandatory (selecting "Play" forces you to update) and it is indeed incompatible with past saves.  So I lost all my data...is there any way to get the previous saves to work again or revert to version 7.0?  I was about 6 hours in. 

[Blackthorne]

Yeah, Stabberson - I think I can set it back for you, or get you a copy of 7.0

Yeah, unfortunately, one of the quirks of the engine we use is that updates will often render old saves useless.

Bt

[Stabberson]

Yeah, Stabberson - I think I can set it back for you, or get you a copy of 7.0

Yeah, unfortunately, one of the quirks of the engine we use is that updates will often render old saves useless.

Bt

That would be fantastic!  I could probably restart and get where I was a bit quicker, but I'm worried about future updates doing the same thing and having to restart each time.  Just being able to stick with 7.0 would be great. 

[Blackthorne]

Yeah, after release, before we do an update, we'll send out a warning to everyone - so people can either make a copy of the local files for the version of their game, or start from scratch.

Gimme a bit, though, to figure out how I can restore the BETA version to 7.0 for you, though.  Some have just started with 8.0, etc... I'm going to try and figure out how to make 7.0 available too.

Bt

[Lambonius]

Is this supposed to be in the Public Forums?  I almost posted an insider testing question here because I assumed this was in the Beta area.

[Stabberson]

Is this supposed to be in the Public Forums?  I almost posted an insider testing question here because I assumed this was in the Beta area.

Sorry, I don't have access to the Beta forums.  My copy was provided for review, as was the TC's, I believe.

[Lambonius]

No worries, I was just confused for a moment. 

[Blackthorne]

Yep.  They're journalists; it's fine.


Bt

[Stabberson]

Thanks so much for the quick help, Blackthorne!  Old saves appear to be working again.