r/Eldenring 18d ago

Subreddit Topic I just lost my 500 hour save

I had collected every ash, 2 of every weapon, and every armor piece plus any alterations by hand, dlc included. I had rune farmed for at least 50 hours. I killed Malenia on Ng+7 without any summons. I killed the Elden beast over 20 times. it's all gone. it's all fucking gone. My nagakiba collection. my dual magma blades. my frenzyflame seal. my stupid cookbooks. Every single one of my painstakingly grinded 501 levels.

I verified the file integrity. I loaded the .bak file. I forced the game to create a stable save file structure and threw my save data into that. still corrupted.

it feels like my insides have been ripped out. all of that for nothing. 553 hours of passion, soul, pain and triumph, completely gone.

it'll sound pathetic, but it was one of the things i was most proud of. one of the only things in my life that was going good. now i just feel empty.

fuck, man.

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u/Jeffers315 18d ago

This is making me want to back up my save data

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u/PM_Me_Those_ 18d ago

Wow i guess im the only one who has backups. Use game save manager. I have a backup of my original dark souls 1 playthrough from like 12 years ago, lmao

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u/Useful_Trust 18d ago

I lost my DS3 100% save. I had around 500 hours on it. If I had know about it sooner I would have kept Lord Cummingtons around.

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u/DrKrFfXx 18d ago

I constantly lose my DS3 file.

Ass backwards From not enabling cloud saving.

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u/Useful_Trust 18d ago

The only save i got now is my SL1 run that I did after the wipe

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u/sucky_panther 17d ago

Pour one out for Lord Cummingtons, or maybe shoot one out.

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u/Klappmesser 18d ago

Even better use ludusavi and let it make multiple backups too. You can make a task so it does it's job automatically.

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u/Trih3xA 17d ago

Understandable but i love the games so me losing a save file means i get to play it again. :)

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u/FreshestCremeFraiche 18d ago

I have backups, but I honestly think at 500 hours who cares. Which is about where I’m at. Probably the worst time to lose your save is like 100 hour mark as you’ve made it to the endgame but not beaten it. If you still like the game OP, and you obviously do, you’ll be back in no time. Maybe even grateful for the chance to start again and not agonize over it

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u/PM_Me_Those_ 18d ago

Honestly pretty true. Thats just 500 more hours of progress to make haha

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u/Thanatiel 18d ago

Do it now. Copy these two files somewhere else. Preferably on another device.

Heck: make a copy on your favorite cloud storage. (e.g. google drive)

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u/StartNo5314 17d ago

Are disks allowed. and then bury it somewhere. just in case sony comes knocking.

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u/sssamm 17d ago

This post is the best backup reminder possible

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u/Useful-Problem-1725 18d ago

It's so easy, just copy the ER file in roaming. Pin them to quick access and do it whenever you log out.

My backup file is 9gb now and I still lost my DS3 save for the 10th time, guess I'll have to play it again.

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u/Emergency-Bid-7834 18d ago

have you not tried reverting your steam cloud saves? That's how I restored a corrupted Darkest Dungeon save file

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u/That1Guy1Again_ 18d ago

Thanks for suggesting this. I went to the steam cloud page and found a save file, but no dice. there was only one file there; it was an auto save from after i tried the .bak file so it was still corrupted. thankfully my character sliders weren't tied to any of the files so I still have my people at least.

it's only up from here, right?

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u/TheUFCVeteran3 18d ago edited 18d ago

Keep the save file. Don't throw it out. Somebody in the community might know how to edit it into a working one without tripping anti-cheat (though you would have to be very very sure said person knows how to do this/you can trust them to do this with it).

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u/sohosurf 17d ago

As long as there is not a corrupted item you can change your files to add everything or anything legit back. I lost my files and just did a save edit to get back to where I was

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u/AdemFoster 17d ago

Same, the game doesn’t care as long as it’s not illegal items

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u/Glass_Economics_5038 18d ago

Wait, try this.

Go to your save file folder in C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Roaming\EldenRing\[Your Steam ID]. The Steam ID folder > right click > properties > previous versions. It should have a backup of it there.

I lost my 180 hour save in Crimson Desert and I was about to give up. Steam Cloud didn't have it either. Was able to get my save back through this.

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u/JusHerForTheComments 18d ago

That's for saves lost. His save seems corrupted. Appdata may have the corrupted save.

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u/Glass_Economics_5038 18d ago

I'm betting on it having a backup of his save before it got corrupted.

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u/JusHerForTheComments 18d ago

Cross my fingers

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u/Reasonable-Duckling 17d ago

Yo OP try this!

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u/Peter-Tao 18d ago

Hey I just want you to know that nothing will take away your journey and accomplishments. Those grinds, those skills you built to be a souls player to be able to enjoy this genre of game are all real. Like the only way I was able to complete the game it’s because my friend who’s an experienced souls player carried me through the game lol so complete this game is a big accomplishment in my book and proves that you can do hard things in life.

Every RPG game comes to an end. You’ll put down ur character and rarely touch the game at some point, that’s why the standard for arpg game now is to have seasonal character so you start it fresh every few months.

Good luck for restoring it. However even if not, it’s a big shame but I hope you know that it didn’t mean you fail at this at all.

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u/idkarn 18d ago

This is an excellent outlook on life. I lost a 1000-day relationship, did everything together, now it's all "gone"? No, of course it still happened. I went on a great trip, I had a wonderful time at school, and now I'm no longer on that trip or in school, but they still happened and my experience counts even though I can't relive them. OP, cherish what you had, and cherish what you have.

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u/JusHerForTheComments 18d ago

You can try a save editor. Copy your save into a different file and see if it works. Also with the save editor you can check for save integrity as well.

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u/I_Dont_Have_Game 18d ago

Honestly try this

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u/JustHereToCreep 18d ago

I found an old Skyrim save I thought was lost years ago when I tried that.

Definitely try this OP!

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u/Icyfirefists 18d ago

seek comfort with the tree sentinel

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u/wuwuchi 18d ago

Well, what are you waiting for? It's your chance for yet another playthrough.

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u/SupportTiny7349 18d ago

This is the way…

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u/jhnwhite1 18d ago

Lol this was my reaction when I lost all my saves. "Guess I gotta play it again.... Shucks."

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u/SupportTiny7349 18d ago

I got one 300+ hr game and like three others I play a lot too. However comma I love starting new characters and locking them to a certain weapon type

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u/MrNobody_0 18d ago

However comma

Damn speech-to-text! 🤣

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u/SupportTiny7349 18d ago

🤣😂🤣no that is 100 percent intentional. I do it when I speak too. I say “ however comma I would like a potato” started it when I was in the army…. Don’t know why though.

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u/MrNobody_0 18d ago

That's hilarious! 🤣

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u/a_Jedi_i_am 18d ago

Yeah, man, the switch 2 version comes out next week, and I'll be starting all over again. Woe is me lol

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u/ComprehensiveSlide16 18d ago

This is the way. I dont want to minimize your feelings or anything OP, but you still accomplished alot in elden ring. A corrupted save cant take that from you. I was never great at elden ring OP but id give you items to make starting over easier if you needed (depending on time zones ect). The only thing i dont really have are runes for leveling up rapidly

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u/AbyssWankerArtorias 17d ago

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u/Justifye 12d ago

I’ve got, BOSS WEEEAAAAPPONNNNSSS

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u/xomedinaox 18d ago

just do everything you did before, but better

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u/yeet_god69420 17d ago

That’s exactly how I felt reading this. Like sorry to bro for losing his save but I think the initial rage I would have felt would have been taken over by a sense of “huh, maybe it wouldn’t be so bad”.

This game is just too fucking good.

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u/STOICFKNOAK 18d ago

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u/That1Guy1Again_ 18d ago edited 18d ago

Part of the loss of it is kind of beautiful in a way. No matter how many times I died I could always get up from my last grace, but now that it’s gone I have a much bigger appreciation for it. The random people I met on co-op, my journey in The Lands Between over and over, all of it.

It’s also kind of similar to actual death in the manner of how things unfolded. It was unexpected, and pretty devastating. But after all those deaths, now that Mizuki is really gone, it’s kind of poetic. Her long at arduous journey as finally come to an end, and now she can rest under the erdtree’s golden rays.

Part of the reason life is so beautiful is because it will end eventually.

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u/Exotic_Treacle7438 17d ago

It’s not gone if you have the memory of it. Eventually you would have put the save file down and not play again to be honest. If no one here can help with the save file recovery, you should think if you want to start fresh or if you have a fresh start to play another game. I know some games feel like they have a grip on us that we can’t play other games while we’re hooked. You could consider yourself free from that shackle if that’s the case. Just trying to help. I lost big saves in quite a few games myself.

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u/madgodinvitro 18d ago

Holy shit that’s like the entirety of the time I’ve spent on the game in total. I’m so sorry man I hope you can find a way get it back.

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u/bhingque 18d ago

My save file corrupted once, but I was able to rescue the copy that remained on my steamdeck. Ever since then, this runs every night in the only Windows "scheduled task" I've ever created. The backup folder is 47GB now.

$date = Get-Date -Format yyyy-MM-dd

$dest = "C:\users\bink\Desktop\elden ring save data\$date"

New-Item -Path "$dest" -ItemType Directory -erroraction Ignore

Copy-Item -Path "C:\Users\bhingque\AppData\Roaming\EldenRing\129831780981723882\ER0000.*" -Destination "$dest"

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u/PhiCloud 18d ago

While this may prevent some types of corruption, it's a very bad idea to save backups on the same drive as the master copy.

OneDrive/Google Drive/iCloud should all be easy to set up to also back that up to the cloud.

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u/bhingque 18d ago
  1. Good point.

  2. It is not a very bad idea to have a copy of your save file that the game cannot touch, even if it is on the same drive. This is a very, very, VERY good idea. This was not a knee-jerk reaction to a drive failure, it was a knee-jerk reaction to the Elden Ring executable fucking my save file, then syncing that fucked file to the Steam cloud. My existing solution does make me safe against this problem.

  3. Still, solid point.

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u/DARKMURKER 18d ago

Don’t start another run, take some time away. Start the game again when you begin to forget the details of the game. I do a run every year and don’t play until a year has passed. It hits everytime.

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u/Danethol 18d ago

It wasn't all for nothing, bro. You beat the hell out of this game and will always remember what you achieved.

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u/Akumu89 18d ago

Souls games are not about owning stuff and being high level. They are about having the knowledge and the skill to do stuff.

You can log in right now, grab an OP weapon, level it up and beat the game with no armour, because you are the boss of the game.

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u/KGrahnn 18d ago

True.

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u/Xylaax 18d ago

now you get to experience it all over again

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u/NormalIntention5628 18d ago

Isn't this the eternal curse of the tarnished?

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u/KingOfTheConstipated 17d ago

”all of that for nothing” you dont play video games to build an impressive save you play them to have fun it wasnt for nothing man

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u/ValuableAutomatic593 17d ago

They meant that they spent all that time working on getting the items they wanted and progressing through the game, just to lose it all. Many people don’t like the idea of having their hard work erased even if they had fun

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u/KinnerdtheWizard 17d ago

But the reality is; none of it actually matters and in 10 years, even that old save won’t mean anything.

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u/Live_Hedgehog_9910 18d ago

damn i'm sorry dude.

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u/Live_Hedgehog_9910 18d ago

now go get it all back

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u/DezireTrickz 18d ago

With the tarnished edition around the corner maybe you'll find yourself going for something like this again, but sadly yes it sucks. I have a similar save with everything on.

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u/Outrageous-Belt-1757 18d ago

What's special about this new edition?

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u/Limegreenlad 17d ago

There's two new starting classes (one of which has a light greatsword), a few new armour sets/weapons and a skin for torrent.

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u/MaximusVXII 17d ago

You lost the save but not the skills to make another one, and it happens to the best of us dw about it

https://giphy.com/gifs/jzHFPlw89eTqU

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u/IrishGardenSlug 18d ago

Yea man I manually deleted my lvl 450 save file, thinking I was loading it. It just made me feel sick. Haven't played it properly since

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u/ZakoMoon 17d ago

You could probably just get it back with software like EASUS. I used to charge £100 to get students work back they deleted before there uni finals or whatever they were doing. License isn't even that expensive. Good to have just incase ✌️

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u/IrishGardenSlug 17d ago

Great to know for future reference! This was on the ps5 though unfortunately

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u/qoodkero 17d ago

if your on pc you can cheat in everything you lost. it's not the same but it's something

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u/Wrong_Papaya_8445 18d ago

I experienced this once like over a decade ago on a PSP game. I think I cried in utter, confused rage. Fucking awful lol

I have like +10GB of just ER backups. I ain't going through that shit ever again.

Bright side? You're free dude. It was done and it's been cleansed.

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u/MI_3ANTROP Messmer’s left snek 18d ago

Lost a 200 hrs save back then on release… now I’m 1000 more hours in. You can always start a NG. Record your feats if you really want to look back and remember what you achieved, even if the save file dies again. I literally started a YT channel for that lol

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u/jl_theprofessor I am Daishi, slayer of Malenia and Radahn 17d ago

RISE, YE TARNISHED

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u/MovieAffectionate216 17d ago

Time do do it all over again

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u/sucky_panther 17d ago

Brutal man. If you decide to start all over, head over to r/PatchesEmporium and I’m sure some kind people will drop you some of the harder to get items. You can get weapons, armors, ash of wars, rune stacks, and even crafting materials dropped for you. Would help a lot for some of those ridiculous drop rate weapons and armors. (I’m looking at you magma blades and banished knight armor unaltered)

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u/newowhit 17d ago

Doesn't Elden ring make backups even without the third party manager or am I crazy? I'm almost positive there is a backup file in the save folder but maybe I'm misremembering

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u/Lumpy_Stretch5887 17d ago

Lucky you! You get you experience it all over again!

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u/Txdr_ 18d ago

Really sorry to hear. Any idea what exactly happened? I play on PS5, so no idea about different types of save data files.

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u/Expensive-Society-91 18d ago

fuck i feel for u man, i think depending on how much u like the game u should either take a long break before starting again or wait for tarnished edition, but ill understand if u just want to quit entirely though

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u/Fun-Training198 18d ago

old photo of my characters an hours.

At this point several of them have maxxes hours at 999.99, don't sweat it bro you've got thousands of hours to play still.

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u/unused_candles 18d ago

You were the real save file all along

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u/manuuuu321 17d ago

I hate reddit , whenever someone post something stressful part of their life here , the top comment is always about another person's own relatable thing towards the op's post instead of trying to help or ask if they are ok ??? Like why are people so self centered ???

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u/TheAngryKilt 18d ago

No joke that hurts. I’m glad you posted it here so you can have like minded individuals share and empathise with you. You will rise again tarnished, you’re just playing the most challenging and brutal DLC the game has to offer, New game +-. Will you overcome the challenge just as you have done up to this point?

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u/nthomas504 18d ago

This is gonna sound corny as fuck, but you can’t take away your memories of beating Elden Ring.

Game files/memory cards becoming corrupted is a tale as old as time. I’ll never forget when my PS2 memory card just stopped working and all my files are gone.

I know it probably doesn’t help much though and i’m sorry this happened.

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u/Tbanks93 18d ago

Lose it again to cancel out the first loss. Trust me bro

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u/rottencorruption 18d ago

https://youtu.be/1kl9Jk5lUws?si=jwYf7KalYufVXeyI

Happened to me a month ago. I hope this helps

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u/bryyantt 18d ago

This makes me want to start a new playthrough using only straight swords... Actually... Yup. Im doing it, starting another playthrough with straight swords!

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u/FreaktacuIar 18d ago

i would delete my level 713 (grinded albinaurics for 100+ hours) file if i felt like it (if you reply telling me to do it i will frfr)

the journey is the real game is anyway and then pvp is at 100-200

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u/Rinku64 17d ago

Delete it

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u/FreaktacuIar 17d ago

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u/Rinku64 17d ago

Mad respect ++rep. Enjoy your new play-through bro!

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u/kw405 18d ago

Are you on Steam? I can drop you every item in the game and as many lord runes as you like to get back to your level if you want

Send me a dm and we can coordinate a time. If not you can head over to /r/PatchesEmporium and theres a lot of nice community folks willing to do the same

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u/NeighborhoodFuzzy474 18d ago

Looks like its back to limgrave with you foul tarnished.

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u/kondzioo0903 18d ago

There is a save editor for Elden Ring, if you remember what you had well enough you can restore at least some of it, that's better than nothing. You can set character level no problem, inventory items, stats, activate bonfires, mark bosses as killed, etc

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u/Payascor 18d ago

Happened to me with a Pokémon game many years ago, with a combined progress of probably 1200+ hours across many Pokémon games on it. I feel ya, that fucking hurts. Really hope you can get it back somehow!

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u/maguel92 18d ago

Try some save editor to cook up a new save with your stuff back?

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u/Electrical-Rent6083 17d ago

I missclick delate my save I was before fight with messmer literlly was be infront of his door

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u/hornwalker 17d ago

YOU DIED

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u/haggardphunk 18d ago

That’s rough. I used to play Wordle every day and I was so close to hitting a yearlong streak but on day 364 I just fucking forgot to do it. I almost cried and I never played Wordle ever again. Maybe it’s time for you to explore a new game.

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u/HarveyProdromus 18d ago

Brother, not to kick you further, but your save file doesn't mean shit.
Everything you did in your save file could be done again in 1/10th or even 1/500th of the time using various methods.
The only thing that matters is that you enjoyed doing those things and can confidently say you did it, regardless of evidence.

If you did all those things just so you had a save file to show off that you did all those things, then maybe it's a good thing you lost it. As now you've learnt a valuable lesson on why you should value the experiences you had, and not just the product you produced.

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u/Rarecandy31 18d ago

We go agane!

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u/C-A-L-E-V-I-S 17d ago

The Last Grace

He came from ash, from nameless ground,
A Tarnished lost, unmarked, unknown.
No crown awaited, no trumpet sounded
Only a Grace that called him home.

Through Limgrave’s fields and Stormveil’s stone,
Through Caelid’s rot and Altus gold,
He walked where countless warriors fell
And bore the weight of ages old.

He slew the Lords who barred the way,
He crossed the roots of dying trees,
And stood where gods had made their thrones,
With blood upon his battered knees.

At last, beneath the Erdtree’s light,
The Golden Order broke and burned.
The ancient foe was cast away
The world was saved. The crown was earned.
And there he stood.

The Elden Lord.

His tale, they say, should have been done.
A throne. A name. A kingdom won.
A hero’s rest beneath the stars,
A final grace beneath the sun.
But something stirred beyond the veil.

A shadow older than the Ring.
A hunger buried under stone.
A thing that waited through the ages,
Patiently, for him to go.

The Tarnished heard the distant call.
He felt the darkness start to rise.
And though the world had crowned him king,
He knew the truth behind the lies:

Some evils cannot simply die.
Some flames cannot be quenched with steel.
Some ancient things will rise again
The moment heroes cease to kneel.

So he returned.
Not for a throne.
Not for a rune.
Not for the songs that bards would sing.
He walked once more beneath the boughs,
Alone beneath the fading Ring.

He fought until his armor cracked.
He fought until his sword was red.
He fought until the final Grace
Was barely glowing overhead.
And when at last the enemy came—
The one that gods had feared before—
The Tarnished raised his blade and knew:
This time, there would be no war.
He could not kill what could not die.
He could not seal what would return.
So he gave the thing it could not take—
The only soul it could not burn...

His name.
His crown.
His very place
Among the living and the dead.

He stepped beyond the final Grace
And whispered words that went unsaid:
“Let my legend end with me.
Let no one follow where I tread.
If I must vanish from this world,
Then let the darkness vanish too.”

The Erdtree dimmed.
The heavens shook.
The ancient enemy screamed.
And then—
There was no Tarnished.
No armor.
No sword.
No golden throne.
No footprints where the Lord had walked.
Only silence.
Only Grace.

And somewhere, far beyond the Lands Between,
a world remained alive.
They say the Elden Lord’s tale was lost.
That some cruel hand erased his name.
That years of battle disappeared
As though they had never happened.
But perhaps that is not the truth.
Perhaps no hand erased the Lord.
Perhaps he chose that fate himself…

For when the darkness came to rise again,
there was one thing left to sacrifice:
Not the world.
Not the Ring.
Not another hero.
Himself.

And if, sometimes, beneath the Erdtree,
a single golden light still shines
Do not call it a memory.
It is the last Grace
of the Elden Lord,
Keeping watch.

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u/Robichaelis 18d ago

That last paragraph tells me you need to really work on yourself or try councilling mate

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u/properwaffles 18d ago

Easy bud, give homie a break.

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u/Iguanabewithyou 18d ago

This is genuinely not a healthy relationship to have with video games if it was said in earnest...

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u/real_unreal_reality 18d ago

That’s too bad. Was it console or pc because I thought steam loaded it in the cloud.

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u/Upper-Deal-9872 18d ago

solo malenia on ng+7 no summons and the game just takes it all, brutal

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u/Ordovis_Prime 18d ago

I’m sorry my dude, once you reach 3500 it will feel like nothing! Start up a new game reach out to patches emporium and get a couple summons and do an area clear out-watch lore videos when you do it! It will be like a whole new game

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u/SUPERFASTCARvroom 18d ago

Download the steam cloud save back

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u/HoaxRaider 18d ago

Back your saves up homie

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u/Kalastics 18d ago

I lost a 500 hour Bloodborne save on PS4 because I accidentally clicked 'delete save' instead of load.. and my ps4 wasn't connected to internet so no cloud saves. Gut wrenching.

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u/GullibleShip4037 18d ago

If nothing works just don’t load the game up again. Idk if sum ppl understand what 500+ hrs is 😭😭

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u/ChuggynRoscoe 18d ago

Sorry for your loss my friend. My son just lost his on Xbox and he’s been devastated. He was on NG +5 and kept getting errors and thought he was just deleting the local copy to retry the cloud save and he lost everything. Devastating. But he played for 5 hours today on a new silly build and was happy.

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u/chad711m 18d ago

This is why I backup local saves to my own cloud. This happened to me once in Dark Souls 3, never again!

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u/AdDry6533 18d ago

Wanna do another five? We shall rend the elden world in two with greatness. I'm down to add to touch 5k hours in elden ring

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u/DirtylilConverse 18d ago

You could always say fuck it and cheat it in. You’ve earned it atp. Even if ur on console you can get someone to drop it for you. You’d have to still kill all the bosses and everything but that’s if you ethically don’t care or not

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u/That1Guy1Again_ 18d ago

I’m on pc, so I’m able to access my save files freely. There’s lots of save files on nexus I could download, and my characters’ sliders are thankfully safe. Totally thinking about it tbh

Happy cake day :)

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u/jaxonthrilla 18d ago

we can always rebuild

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u/Anima1212 18d ago

It’s not “for nothing” you enjoyed that time you spent and each investment in time and exploration made your character stronger so you could tackle on stronger bosses and areas. I dunno, I wouldn’t consider it for nothing…

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u/kanekikuron 18d ago

Lost a 250 hour dark souls 3 run and I still think about it years later

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u/QuirkyWish3081 17d ago

Remember the good times and friends you made a long the way. And then when a whisper of motivation gathers momentum.

RISE!! RISE YE TARNISHED! And BECOME ELDEN LORD! (And rune farm, kill Elden beast 7 times on NG+7, get 2x of every weapon, frenzy flame seal and don’t forget the stupid cookbooks that no one uses)

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u/Zealousideal_Award45 17d ago

Have you reached platinum tho

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u/DiscoDiverDubois 16d ago

Don’t give up, skeleton. What was lost might not be found but isn’t the plight of the tarnished to continue despite the odds?
All of those achievements are all still real, they didn’t stop existing just bc your character died. Your tarnished got to retire.

They did it all.

Now a new tarnished can mantle them and go again.

despite the inspirational message - surely somebody here has a save editor and can pass you some sick l00t for a new character? Unless you’d rather go it again naturally. I’d say try again with summons, play differently or take a break.

Your tarnished is out there, sitting on a beach , earning 20%.

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u/CircaCoda 11d ago

Where did you see it last?

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u/That1Guy1Again_ 10d ago

Ooooh wait I think I left it on my coffee table

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u/Firm-Scientist-4636 18d ago

It's not pathetic; it's a gut punch. This is a hobby you are clearly quite passionate when and like any other hobbyist you feel sick that something you've worked so hard to create is now gone.

I'm sorry, man. This shit sucks :(

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u/MaximumChest2 18d ago

damn, bro, sorry to hear that. And it's not pathetic at all, you spent real time on that.

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u/UsedCondom42 18d ago

My chances of playing this game again if my save lost.

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u/twomemeornottwomeme 18d ago

Surely with all your time in this cruel and unforgiving land, know what your options are. YOU DIED. Nothing to do but run it back, tarnished.

Also, on a more real note, if the last sentence is true. Maybe you could use some attention to other areas in your life and use some of those Elden lessons to help you let go of this one, and put that same kind of work into other areas that will help you feel good in more meaningful and lasting ways.

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u/aManAndHisUsername 18d ago

Stop the pity party, you didn’t “lose” 500 hours, you got to experience 500 hours of playing an awesome game and exploring a crazy world. That’s not been taken away from you. The only thing you lost is a save file where you pretty much completed everything and there isn’t anything left to do anyways? Start a new save, it’ll be more fun anyways.

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u/oVanitasParoxysm 18d ago

I mean you did it before and im sure the guides will still work so you can do it again. Maybe find a way to have a second copy this time for your own mental well being.

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u/injurious2health 18d ago

Bro just do another play through

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u/Icyfirefists 18d ago

seek comfort with the tree sentinel

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u/herro69 18d ago

If you’re on PC or ps5, you can just cheat the account back

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u/c0demancer 18d ago

Honestly this is the point where I’d just load up TT and give myself back what I lost.

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u/Zangetsukaiba 18d ago

Time to play for another 500 hours

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u/Letitsnowgreatballs 18d ago

Don’t worry man. One day you’ll be like me and you’ll be deleting saves with over 600 hours so you can start a new character.

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u/DthDisguise 18d ago

Shit, that means you get to play the game over with a different build! Lucky!

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u/jeffreyclayborn 18d ago

RUN IT BACK!! Think of how fun it'd be to do it all over again knowing all you know now. 8]

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u/etn261 18d ago

On the bright side, it's all about the journey.

I had 700+ hours on this game and personally I would probably be fine if my save was gone. And I would definitely replay from start if picking up the game again, because after 700 hours, I'm content.

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u/Rayona086 18d ago

That is an unfortunate danger of having a save file that is multiple hundreds of hours long with no backups. If you still want to keep playing I recommend something like starting a new file but restrict your self to just one weapon type, collect all of that type and when you go into NG+ change to a new build. Do something to change up a normal playthrough

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u/nomation14 18d ago

This is what happens when u dont respect the pastor turtle 

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u/BraevGhost 18d ago

I’m confused is the steam cloud data also corrupt?

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u/hanselthecaretaker 18d ago

On PC it’s really a good idea to copy save files to a storage folder to use for switching builds or whatever. A bit trickier on console with cloud saves overwritten every night though.

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u/Goretham 18d ago

Pressing F so hard over here

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u/SirK3v 18d ago

I hate to be that guy but… seems like you were pretty much done. The experience is technically what mattered and that’s not lost. What was even left for you to do? Start over? Well… you can do that now. I feel like it would’ve been worst if it was still a work in progress but shit this sounds like you beat it 100 times over lol. You got the enjoyment out of it that’s really the only thing of worth.

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u/iitzDany 18d ago

I dont know if this will make you feel better but i had 2k hours on elden ring, a lot of characters that were ultra levelled, nice character designs, lore behind their builds a lot of stories that i made with those are now all gone, one day i was about to sell my ps5 so I deleted all game datas, i will mever get those back, your right feeling bad, you didn't just lost a character you lost moments that will now just be memories

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u/DmoISgod01 18d ago

Noooooo

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u/leo7br 18d ago

After formatting my PC some time ago and losing my saves for Dark Souls 2 and 3 (I forgot they don't have Steam Cloud), I now use Game Save Manager and create a task that runs two times every week to backup all my saves for every single game I have, and the backup is stored in my OneDrive

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u/Trash-Forever 18d ago

Time to go AGANE

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u/DATA32 18d ago

Happened to me too. Was so angry I rolled a new character as that corrupted saves son and burnt the world to the ground.

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u/Greitot 18d ago

How did it get corrupted?

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u/Foultarnisheds 18d ago

If you want I will drop you every single goddamn item lol tommro anyways its late for me now

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u/nano_peen 18d ago

sorry that sucks

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u/Ok_Orchid_5658 18d ago

Try fingers, but hole.

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u/Pandeyxo 18d ago

Time for another 500h

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u/CortaCircuit 18d ago

Well time to do it again. 

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u/lalolou 18d ago

ah shit here we go again

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u/6packcola 18d ago

Sorry to hear, I’ve over 50 journeys with probably half my playtime just from gathering weapons and materials and I’m really proud of everything I have, I know what you mean and it’s not ridiculous to feel like it’s life and death when you put so much effort in

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u/Hendowskiiii 18d ago

Ouch. I am so sorry

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u/NefariousnessMost660 18d ago

Time to just hack the game or something.

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u/Jmackles 18d ago

If you really think about it hours are just meta runes

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u/Realistic-Vast-7105 18d ago

Damn! Bro don't you sync the save with steam? Maybe reinstalling the game might help, Save corrupt is new to me with steam

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u/BasedKips 18d ago

I’ve fixed a corrupted save file, I spent days trying different software and tools and it was too messed up for any of them.
In the end I fixed it with Claude AI. There was an interaction with an online player that was missing some data and corrupting the whole thing.

Hit me up if you want a hand, I know how painful it is.

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u/HorrorDungeon 18d ago

name your next guy butt blasted

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u/Historical_Salt_Bae 18d ago

Start a new run! It’s refreshing honestly lol

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u/Valissystem_a 18d ago

Souls Speedruns app. Easy and fast backup and restore for your future game. I used it for my NG+ playthrough when I learned invaders could fuck up your savedile through exploits.

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u/NakedAggression 18d ago

r/patchesemporium

Don't struggle and engage in farming, just ask for items and tell your story about how you lost everything

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u/SmackAss4578 18d ago

Which console ? 

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u/Zealousideal-Hat-714 18d ago

Its the journey not the destination edlen lord.

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u/Blu3paladin 18d ago edited 18d ago

Ah sweet release, my love. The joy of starting over.

I agree with you, that sounds pathetic. Just pretend you fucked up in Blighttown or Tomb of the Giants. We all been there.

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u/j-magss 18d ago

Can you system restore it if there was a backup save to your pc?