It Takes Two, the award-winning and fairly dang good co-op recreation, obtained an replace at the moment making it verified on Steam Deck and eradicating the necessity to use the EA App launcher. However that replace additionally killed outdated cloud saves. EA’s answer for followers who may need misplaced progress: Obtain this different save file of the finished recreation as an alternative.
Launched in March 2021, It Takes Two was revealed by EA and developed by Hazelight aka the studio run by Josef Fares aka the “Fuck the Oscars” speech dude from The Recreation Awards in 2017. Anyway, It Takes Two tells the story of a pair who’re drifting aside. Their little one makes a want and they’re changed into toys who should work collectively to beat obstacles and in addition, in a weirdly darkish second, brutally homicide a screaming stuffed elephant. And when you’ve been enjoying that recreation lately on PC utilizing the EA App’s cloud saving options, you may run right into a slight snag…
What to do when you misplaced progress in It Takes Two
On Could 29, EA posted an replace on Steam asserting that It Takes Two now not requires the EA App launcher to play. The sport can also be now verified on Steam Deck, too.
In an included FAQ, EA makes it clear that in case you are enjoying It Takes Two via Steam, the sport now makes use of Steam Cloud for backing up saves. However what when you had been utilizing the EA App’s cloud saves? Nicely, these are gone now. And when you didn’t have your saves backed up in your PC, you’ve misplaced all of your progress in It Takes Two.
Now, I assume the variety of individuals affected by this transformation can be fairly small. Most individuals weren’t probably relying solely on EA’s cloud saves for It Takes Two. Nevertheless, when you had been, then EA’s “answer” is fairly wild. Within the FAQ, EA features a hyperlink to obtain a accomplished save recreation for It Takes Two on PC. Obtain that, drop it in a selected folder—as listed by EA—after which boot up the sport, choose the chapter you and your buddy had been enjoying, and there you go.
So far as I can inform EA didn’t give any actual superior heads-up for this transformation. I contacted EA about this and requested in the event that they despatched gamers any sort of warning that the EA App’s cloud saves for It Takes Two would all of a sudden cease working however didn’t hear again earlier than publication.
Whereas I’m completely satisfied to see a Steam recreation ditch a third-party launcher, it’s a bit odd to see an enormous online game writer sharing a save recreation as an answer for gamers shedding progress. Higher than nothing, I suppose?
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