Baldurs Gate 3 Xbox Save File Bug And How To Fix It

Picture this, after investing over 50 hours into a game, you finally reach its final act. You made a long the way, many life and death decisions. You completed your companion quests, you collected rare artifacts, now you are on the verge of witnessing how it all unfolds at the end. As always, you save the game and take a break, however, when you try to load it up later, you realize that all your saves are lost. If this has happened to you, I'm sorry to hear that. Most likely there is nothing you

can do other than starting a new game or submitting a request on xbox store for a full game refund. However, if you've been playing like usual and it haven't happened to you, you should also be concerned. This issue has happened to many people and mostly it happens closer to the third act. The good news is, there is actually a way to prevent this from happening. Baldur's Gate 3 save file bug on xbox is alive and well. I just lost all my saves for a 60 hour playtrough. That's a really bad bug. I

love the game, but I don't know if I'll ever go back to it after that. For almost a month this has been a known issue without a proper fix. I'd be quite disappointed if I lost a 60 plus hour save file. And this is not just a singular case, if you try to search it on google, you'll see quite a few posts from players that got the same issue. Many of them have it actually in a very sizable amount of playtime and many of them just quit the game because it's not fun to start all over again. It's a l

ong game and these type of games really focus on player progression and losing it all is just not fun. However, there are some good news. Larian is aware of this issue and they're providing a workaround till comes out a patch to fix it. With We're aware that there is a safe issue on xbox and continues to linger throughout the holidays. It occurs when exiting the game after saving. The game thinks the save was successful but due to a firmware issue, the save file is not fully committed to this ye

t. Microsoft is aware of the issue and is working on it but obviously during the holidays everyone is working at lower capacity so it may take a while before a proper fix becomes available. For a time being we can offer a workaround with the Larian Cross-Safe system. Create a Larian account at larian.com slash account. Go to the option menu from the main menu under gameplay activate cross saves linking your Larian and xbox accounts. From now on your last 5 saves will automatically be uploaded to

the Larian servers. It is important that you do not exit the game before the upload is finished. The upload is finished when the message syncing cloud save is no longer visible. If the firmware bug occurs you will need to activate the cross save functionality in the option screen. This will give you access to save games that were successfully uploaded. This is not the first workaround offered to avoid save loss. Microsoft is also aware of the issue and they did publish some precautions that you

can follow. Here is what they post. There is a link in the description where you can actually read the full statement. Xbox is aware of known issues that users have reported on several platforms that may cause loss of save progress. Here are some steps to avoid this issue from happening to you. Ensure your console remains powered even when turned off. Make sure your xbox is up to date. Close your game completely when you are done playing. Clear some of your local save game data. Larian workarou

nd does look more promising. Unfortunately even that the Microsoft came out with this solution people even following all their steps still get that bug and still other save data. The positive from the Larian side that they actually are providing a place where they are storing your save data so even if it gets lost on xbox you are supposed to be able to recover it from Larian servers. So that's pretty much it. If you enable the cross saving option on Larian website you connect your xbox to it. Yo

u should have always a backup on the Laryn page. If one day you try to load the game and you don't see any save data you will be able to use the backup that is on the Larian server. If you are not sure if it's actually safe and it works then the safest bet probably will be to hold off from Baldur's gate on xbox till the issue is permanently fixed. Let's hope that the workaround works and a patch fixing the issues will come sooner rather than later. Hopefully, it will be a matter of days and not

weeks. Even considering all the game issues this is still a very special game that is definitely worth playing.