Overview
Step by step tutorial how to backup Far Cry 4 saves and create your own multiple save slots.
Intro
It’s a common knowledge that in Far Cry 4 the developers left us with only ONE save slot. So the only way to have more than one slot is to backup your saves manually along the game. That way you could replay the game from any point – it’s like a home-made multiple save slots. It also creates a sort of a safety net to avoid losing ALL progress if the save becomes corrupt or affected by some game-breaking bug.
How to locate your saves and back them up?
- The saves are located here:
C:Program Files (x86)UbisoftUbisoft Game Launchersavegames58bbd877-836e-4d00-afd6-ff9705fc4e2c856
(The letters and numbers of the names of two last folders can differ, but I hope you get the idea.)
- If you have more then one Ubi game, you will have several 2/3/4-digit folders inside Ubisoft saves folder (one with the long name with letters and numbers). You can locate FC4 folder according to the date and time at which the files inside it were created.
- Copy the 3-digit folder and paste it in a different place. For example, I created one general backup folder (on a different drive, so I can drag and drop instead of copy and paste) and inside it a set of numbered sub-folders, you can also put a short description in a sub-folder name after the number, like “A16-before_L1”. It looks like
[i.imgur.com].
- When you want to replay some save, just copy backup-ed 3-digit folder from one of the numbered sub-folders and paste it back to Ubisoft saves folder, overwriting existing 3-digit saves folder.
- To make things easier, you can also create 2 shortcuts on your desktop – one to your general backup folder and one to the actual Ubisoft savegames folder.
- Just remember that with cloud sync turned on (the option “Enable Cloud Save Synchronization..” in Uplay general settings), at the start of the game it will overwrite manually restored saves with later ones stored on the cloud.
So if you wanna replay some manually stored saves, you should turn cloud sync off before entering the game. I would turn it off permanently (just uncheck the box near that option in Uplay settings).
Here’s AndyJackson2012’s VIDEO[forums.ubi.com] that will help you find the location of FC4 saves folder.
Script for automation batch file
Also, I wrote a simple script to make the saves backup routine even easier:
- Open Notepad, then copy and paste the script into it.
- Then change ONLY the paths to your backup saves folder (underlined italic) and actual FC4 saves folder (underlined bold).
Just remember not to touch anything else! If you accidentally delete some space or quote, it will not work!
It is also a good idea to avoid spaces in your own folder names.
- Finally save the document as a batch file (the extension must be *.bat instead of *.txt)
- Now, when you click on the batch file, it will open your backup saves folder and black command prompt window.
You will only have to type a new sub-folder name for your new backup-ed save (into that window) and press enter.
That’s it. The batch file will create the new sub-folder and will copy and paste the last saves folder into it.
Here’s the VIDEO that can help you understand better about batch files:
Update:
If you would like to create a backup and then load your older save right away, here’s modified script[pastebin.com] that opens actual Ubisoft saves folder in addition to your backup saves folder.
So after you entered a name for your new backup subfolder and hit enter, you
a) go to actual Ubisoft saves folder, drag&drop “856” folder to your Recycle Bin,
b) then choose and open a subfolder in your backup saves folder
c) and drag&drop “856” folder from there to actual Ubisoft saves folder.
If you want to just load your older save in separate action here’s the simple script[pastebin.com] that you can use instead of two shortcuts to actual Ubisoft saves folder and your backup saves folder.
Of course, you will have to edit the scripts the same way as the first script.
Last word
Thank you all for reading my guide, I’d really appreciate your comments and any constructive criticism (and of course, likes and subscriptions :)).
