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vicious-gold
Death Stranding Suddenly not syncing saves
So I am playing death stranding from the epic store on my steamdeck and on my pc, syncing saves from one another. It was working fine until yesterday when I tried to findout why the steam shortcut for the game wasn't working, and chaged some settings on my steam deck (didn't touch the PC).
Now I play on the steam deck, normally (steam shortcut working now, previously was launching heroic inside steam), exit and check syncing and it says the saves are synced to the cloud. When I go to my pc it detects the new save, says it has downloaded it but when I go ingame the save is not updated. The same happens when I play on the PC, I exist, it syncs but when I go to the deck it doesn't update the saves. It seems like both systems are uploading to a diffent place? or downloading to a different place? The thing is, I search my system for another download location for the synced saves and none show up. On the desktop saves goes to /var/mnt/ssd-nvme/Heroic/Prefixes/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/LocalLow/KojimaProductions/DeathStranding/81000cae7a02407c8426531435a66561 and on the steam deck it goes to /home/deck/Heroic/Prefixes/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/LocalLow/KojimaProductions/DeathStranding/81000cae7a02407c8426531435a66561 . On both folders there is this pfx synlink that links back to drive_c that I think is used by proton. I do not understand what is going on becacuse everything seems to be properly setup.
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vicious-goldOP•2w ago
Here is an example, I just played for a bit on the steam deck and uploaded the saves to the cloud, now I downloaded on my pc (bazzite):
[Core] INFO: Trying to re-use existing login session...
[cli] INFO: Got 1 remote save game(s)
[cli] INFO: Checking "Death Stranding" (Boga)
[cli] INFO: Overriding save path with "/var/mnt/ssd-nvme/Heroic/Prefixes/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/LocalLow/KojimaProductions/DeathStranding/81000cae7a02407c8426531435a66561"...
[cli] INFO: Cloud save for "Death Stranding" is newer:
[cli] INFO: - Cloud save date: 2025-08-31 14:27:26
[cli] INFO: - Local save date: 2025-08-31 13:17:38
[cli] INFO: Downloading remote savegame...
[Core] INFO: Successfully completed savegame download.
O the Deck it says the saves are up to date on the cloud
but it doesn't updates the save on the PC
IT doesn't seem to download the files when syncing, it's too quick, the saves are 50mb, should take a few seconds to download, but the log says it was sucessful instantly
I just tested installing epic store and death stranding on a windows pc, and it pulled the savefiles the deck synced to the cloud. I honestly, don't know what is going on
Could you send in a game log? Sounds like your save location is no longer accurate
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