I accidentally deleted my only save file with over a hundred hours on it. So much work all gone. It was such a uniquely crafted character, my ONLY character. My name is UBERxL33T, and this is my baw thread. I am sure there is absolutely no way to undo/correct/fix this. I am on PC but have no autosave backups.

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K so, if nothing can be done then I don't see the... point... in the... thread?

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There you go. You're on PC. You can rebuild it.

-Gunny out.

If you have a backup of your hard drive, you could restore it from that. If not, you're probably out of luck.

I guess I'll never understand why people don't bother to keep multiple active save files going. :shrug:

True, but I would still have to redo all the quests, challenges, etc.

Nope. Use the set stage command to auto complete all the quests. The only thing you'll have to do is go use the "kill" command on a bunch of folks that should be dead.

-gunny out.

But how would it know which path I chose?

All those things are managed by which quests you complete. It's been a while since I've used the set stage command to move a quest along, but basically you are just telling the save file with a console command to tick off the little mark that a certain point in a particular quest have been done. The game then removes or adds whoever it needs to, changes things around that should be and basically acts just like you really did those quests, with the exception of not killing people/removing things that aren't removed by quest script.

Maybe someone who has used the command more recently than I have can give you a better example. I do know that you can completely rebuild your character *exactly* as they were, as far as skills, stats, gear, very easily. It just takes the form id#s from the geck (you can find them all on the wiki also) and a little bit of typing. I'll walk you through it if you want.

-gunny out.

No I understand, but last time I checked it only "completes it" but there is no way of setting what you did during the quest (for example, You'll Know It When It Happens)

Hmm. Interesting point. You may have to go through each stage of quests like those and set all the parameters. We need someone that uses that command more to help out here.

OR

You could just RP another character. On saturday I'm probably gonna start my Brain Dead Fred/Kill 'Em All challange. You could try building a character for that.

-Gunny out.

If you're running windows 7 and didn't deliberately turn the feature off, chances are there are previous versions of your save folder available for restoration.

Sometimes there are more than one stage that counts as complete. One for each outcome.

Haha svcker. Jk that svcks man. But it's fun playing the game over again

Oh my god yes I just restored it. Thank you everyone, I am now changing my Steam name to DERPxL33T for a week.

Assuming that the save file is not in the recycle bin... There are applications that will scan the hard drive for deleted files and recover them ~effortlessly if nothing has over-written the data; and (in this case) no chance if something has.

Just search "undelete" on http://download.cnet.com/

And there's that too. :laugh:

Gutted, dude.

Back when I has doing my FO3 Joe blog my house was broken into and some begger stole my 360.
I hate that someone took my stuff, but I hated losing all my saves for all my games way more. No amount of money could replace those.

Begger as in homeless? Why would they steal a video game console?

EDIT: Read your blog, I see

Not seeing that name change on your Steam profile yet.

Around these parts we use begger as a politer version of a different word. Replace the first 'e' with a 'u'. :biggrin: