Overview
Correcting the corrupted saves (or “decisions not carrying over to the next episode”) issue that plagues so many players of this game.
Fix Details
I’ve posted this a half dozen times, but folks don’t seem to be able to find it on the forums, and this issue remains the number one bug complaint that shows up. Hopefully adding it as a guide will help people find the answer so that they can continue to enjoy this wonderful game.
TWD and Steam Cloud do not play nice together. Corrupted saves (your decisions not carrying over to the next episode) seem to happen because you had steam cloud active, it went and synced at the wrong moment and now a prefs.prop file is glitched. Try these steps:
1. Turn off Steam Cloud for this game.
2. Locate every occurence of the file “prefs.prop”
Most people will find two, but their locations vary. Here are the locations I’ve found it or heard of other folks finding it:
With the Save Files in your Documents folder:
DocumentsTelltale GamesThe Walking Dead
In your steam folder (mine wasn’t in the dafault folder – my issue, when I had it, was with season 4, and I found it in the season 4 folder)
C:Program Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonThe Walking DeadPackdefault
C:Program Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonThe Walking DeadPackWalkingDead104
One of those prefs.prop files is messed up.
3. Backup every instance of that file in the folder where you found it.
4. Start copying.
– Copy the original file from the season folder into every other location where you found the file, then try the game. (Mine was fixed when I copied from the Season 4 folder over the file in saves)
– If that didn’t work, remove those copies;
– Now copy the original file from saves into every other location you found a copy of that file – try the game. (Lots of peeople seem to have luck with this, copying from saves over the file in the default folder)
– If that didn’t work, remove those copies;
– Now copy the original file from default into every other location where you found the file.
– Rinse, repeat anywhere else that you’ve found a copy of that file.
One of those prefs.prop is likely messed up, and copying the correct one over the others should fix your problem – provided you keep proper backups of all the original prefs.prop files and don’t gaff and delete your healthy copy of the prefs.prop file somewhere along the way.