Hello all, I have recently encountered a problem with Fallout 4, and it is a whopper! I will try to be as specific and to the point as I can in order to rectify the situation quickly, helping others should they encounter this issue as well.

So, I received Fallout 4 for Xbox One around December time and have been enjoying it immensely. In order to get right into the action, I set my Xbox One to Offline mode, bypassing any mandatory updates to the game.

After sinking in a fair amount of time into the game, I decided to connect my Xbox One to the internet to download the latest updates. After successfully installing around 500MB of patches to the game, it booted up to the main menu.

It was at the main menu where I discovered that I could no longer continue with any saved games. The "Continue" option on the main menu was non-existent, the "Load" option was grayed out and not a clickable option, leaving me the only option of "New Game".

So...Where and what happened to my saved games and progression? I was just over 24 hours of gameplay in total, all seemingly disappeared!

I have checked my Xbox One system, and I do indeed have a game save in Fallout 4 (albeit 0.4kb total size which is...curiously tiny in size).

I have searched the web, tried out a hard system reset, I have signed out of my profile, signed back in, I have uninstalled the game, and reinstalled it, disconnected from the internet to try and load locally and re-synced to the cloud, all to no avail!

So...what the hell is going on? Has anyone else had issues with this? or even experienced what I have? If so, I am all ears (whether or not you have solved the situation).

Additional information: None of my game saves were corrupted, i had experienced a grand total of zero glitches and anomalies with the game in its version:1.00 state, and I take good care of my save games too, meaning I have (or had), several game saves all slightly different times apart.

Summary: Game worked perfectly + Connected online to download first updates= Game saves Vanished.

Have you tried going back offline after getting the updates to see if the saves are there?

if you've played offline, the saves won't have synced to the cloud so should only be on the harddrive. When you're going to play it online though, it might be looking for saves from the cloud and finding none there.

That save file size doesn't sound good though, it's far too small to be a game save..

Thanks for the speedy reply Unable2Connect, yes I have tried to play online and offline, numerous times, all with no effect, but many thanks

It sounds like it's something to do with going from offline to syncing with Cloud.

The thing I really don't like about the Cloud system is you have no control over when it does it, you can't view or manage the saves that are synced to it.

Did you change any settings at all, like changing the HUD colour? Did that stay the same or get reset to default? Just wondering if that small file that's there is perhaps your settings save.

Hi Unable2Connect,

I understand your skepticism about me changing something somewhere and not admitting it, after all this is now a process of elimination, but I assure you I have changed nothing!

What I tried to do, was the sensible thing by taking care of my Fallout 4 by updating it. I knew I was going to update it sooner or later, as I am a huge fan of Bethesda, and know just how glitchy some of their games can be sometimes.

The order in which I handled this Updating fiasco was as follows:

1. Played some Fallout 4 with no patches installed yet. (I think I had just completed the 'Old Guns' quest for the minutemen).

2. Saved my game as i have done a hundred times before (waited for the autosave to complete before doing so).

3. Exited to the Fallout 4 main menu.

4. Closed the game down from the xbox one dashboard.

5. Switched xbox one off.

6. The next day, Switched xbox one on, connected to internet, booted up Fallout 4 which then asked to download an update.

7. After downloading the update, I booted up Fallout 4, and could no longer continue with my saved game because according to the game and xbox one cloud servers...there is no saved game and never has been! There is no saved game...anywhere!?

If this happened to somebody who regularly hacks their xbox one, or who takes advantage of some of the glitches in this game, I could understand a bit better when things go pear-shaped, but I have not done anything like that. Just someone playing the game as intended.

I really hope Bethesda see this post, as I have seemed to have stumble upon a glitch that deletes your saved game data, and to access this glitch, all you need to do is update your game!!!