We reported earlier this week that some players were having issues in Assassin's Creed Valhalla with loss of save data and corruption, and another of Ubisoft's titles in Watch Dogs: Legion has a similar problem on its hands.
The issue? The game isn't saving progress correctly on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and Xbox One (we've seen reports from PC players as well), and disappointingly, the issue isn't set to be fixed until early December.
According to fans, the issue with Watch Dogs: Legion seems to be that the game's auto-save system simply stops working at some point in time, and after that point you can't manually force the game to make a save either.
There's no official word on how to get around this issue for the time being, but here's some advice courtesy of one user on the official Watch Dogs Reddit - it involves quitting out of the game regularly to avoid losing too much progress.
"After every mission or anything else I don't want to lose, press start and quit to the main menu. If it quits straight away it means that the game has saved. So load back in and keep playing. If it freezes on the menu screen it means the save system has failed. You'll have to force quit the game and lose any progress since the last successful save."
Have you been affected by this issue in Watch Dogs: Legion? Let us know in the comments below.
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This game is a mess on most platforms, I was watching a stream of the PC version and it crashed at least once an hour, its pretty mediocre as well so just not worth the effort
I am glad i only rented this game and managed to finish it when I did.. Because the crashes onit started to get really bad.. Would be annoyed if I payed £50 for it
This is how the company views you. They released it and deemed the product worthy of your money. If you keep giving them your money, well you know what they say about a fool and money.
I had that problem once on Xbox One X and reported it. I had to re-recruit a couple characters.
Auto-saving is fine, but there should be a manual save option. I don't think the game even notifies you when it's saving. I just assume it happens when I exit to the main menu before exiting.
Man this launch has been riddled with bugs.
Delayed the game so many times, yet still launches riddled with game breaking features.
Well this game was not on my radar but it being discounted for Black Friday on the Xbox store made me think about it. Now? Nah mate.
A bad game with bad support.
Early December means a week and a half from now, possibly, though. Not so bad.
Fortunately i haven't hit this problem yet.... But I'm relying on quick resume... Now I'm afraid that if i lose the qr snapshot I'll find none of the game is saved underneath...
Hmmm. I guess I'll keep it on my backlog. Wanted to do a Trilogy binge play anyways, so maybe later on.
Got Yakuza to play once I'm done with Vallhala anyways
Yep, I've had this issue. Lost around 6 hours of progress. I'm not going to play anymore until a patch is confirmed by which point I've chance to have lost interest completely with so many games releasing atm. May well be a waste of 60 quid as I tried for a refund but got this reply....
'I understand you're requesting a refund. Here's what I found out after looking into your request:
We can’t provide a refund to this request. Your purchase is not eligible for under the Microsoft Stores Terms of Sale.'
So yeah, a product not being fit for use does not provide eligibility under the Microsoft terms (I bought it digitally)...
Just don't buy the game.
Fair enough if a game has visual bugs on launch, can be forgiven in this climate, but when a bug is game breaking and losing hours of progress, it isn't fit for sale.
and just like that ive now decided to wait like i did for watch dogs 1&2 to hit the 20$ mark before i buy, now to head to the store to get Valhalla instead.
Bah, so i restarted the game, removing the quick resume, and sure enough I'm back in the tutorial tunnel under Parliament. So long, progress!
$179.95 for the game here in Australia, so many problems. Apart from the save problem which has stopped me playing it. Even the characters faces don’t match. What a waste of money.
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