Dying Light 2: how to manually save the game and load the save? [Instruction]

The developers of Dying Light 2 made an extremely unusual decision regarding saves and loads in the game: since the plot significantly depends on the player’s choices, manual saves cannot be made in order not to change the choice, but to go through the game “in one go”.

This means that you will have to go all the way on just one save, not being able to roll back and select another option in the dialog. On the one hand, this provides an excellent immersion in history, where every choice must be considered.. On the other hand, such a system also means that if some answer was said by accident, then it can only be changed by a complete replay of the game.

How to save in Dying Light 2

From the very beginning, the game kindly announces that saving is one of the few things that the player should not worry about. The game has an automatic save that works at certain points in the journey.

• One of the easiest actions to save is dream. When Aiden goes to rest until the morning, progress is automatically saved at the moment the character gets to his feet.
• Whenever a survivor reaches an objective during a quest, or completes a quest, the game is immediately saved.

You can understand that the game has saved the save by the icon in the corner of the screen.

Save location in Dying Light 2

The first step for rollbacks of saves will be to find these same saves. This is only for the Steam version of the game.

First you need to find the Steam folder where the game was installed. The default path is:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\data".

Another easy way to find a save:

1. Open the Steam icon with the right mouse button.
2. Click "Properties".
3. Open "File Locations".

After the Steam folder is found, you will need to find the folder with Dying Light 2. If only one Steam is used on the computer, then you can read on, if there are several, then you first need to find out SteamID3 (this is described in the next paragraph). If there are no problems with s, then you need to find a folder called "534380" (without quotes) at the address "Steam\data\..". This is the folder with the game files. Now you can copy the save folder to any convenient location.

How to find out your SteamID3?

When using multiple Steam s, it is first important to find out which one has Dying Light 2 installed on. There are many free and secure services on the Internet that can help you find your ID, but there are also manual ways to get these numbers.

There are two methods that work directly in the Steam client.

The first method

You will need to go to your Steam profile and open the page edit.

In "main” you need to find the third line with the name “personal link».

If earlier this parameter was changed, then there are symbols after id. To get the id, you just need to clear this column, exit editing and copy the link to the page.

second method

The following method also works in the Steam app. Just click on your name in the upper right corner (on the same button where the balance is located). Now you need to go to the section "about ».

Now, knowing the SteamID, you can find the Dying Light 2 save folder. You will need to go to the address "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\data\Your SteamID3\534380\", and then open the save and move them to another location, as is the case with one .

How to go to previous Dying Light 2 save?

That's the reason why a copy of the main save was made. To return to an early save, you must have a copy of it, which you can later . First you need to exit the game and open a copy of the folder 534380. Now you just need to replace the original Dying Light 2 files with the old version copied earlier, agree to replace the files and start the game.

At startup, Steam will report that the local and cloud versions do not match, but this is completely normal. If constantly reverting to saves will be a frequent practice, then you can disable the cloud save function in advance.

How to disable Dying Light 2 cloud saves?

You can do this using the following steps:

1. Find a game in the library
2. Select the section "properties»
3. In the tab "Common» uncheck the item «Enable save sync with Steam Cloud for Dying Light 2»

You can make a copy of the 534380 folder every time some important event happens in the game. The difficulty is that all folders will be named the same, because this is what the game and Steam require, but this can be solved by distributing into different folders with different names that will talk about the event in this save cell.