Good news everyone! Your Homeworld 3 War Games demo save game files are compatible with the Homeworld 3 game at launch. Let’s unpack what that means:
- The experience you gained playing the War Games demo is preserved.
- If you reached level 6 during the demo, you’ll be level 6 when you launch the full game on or after May 10.
- The challenges you’ve accomplished when playing the War Games demo are preserved
- A few challenges were available during the demo, if you accomplished them, they will still be accomplished when launching the full game on or after May 10.
- Accomplishing challenges also came with rewards (new artifacts), they are likewise preserved.
- Game settings and preferences will be reset
- Many options have changed since the demo, so all your settings will be reset to their defaults. Make sure you adjust those to your preferences before diving in.
- You will be run through the ‘First Time Setup’ again. This is normal.
Awesome, but how does importing that save game data work?
Simple version: If you played the War Games Demo on the same computer and platform (Steam or EGS) you intend to play the full game on and have not manually deleted your save game folder or reformatted your PC, then there should be no problem, simply start the game and everything previously unlocked will be there.
If you have HAVE deleted your save game folder or reformatted your PC, never fear! There are other solutions as well.
STEAM
If you have Cloud Saves active (active on Steam by default setting, if it wasn’t manually deactivated), your War Games save data will already be saved in the cloud. When you install and launch the full game, your demo cloud saves will be synced and used and there should be no problem.
Very Important Reminder - When you start the game for the first time, if Steam warns you about a Steam Cloud conflict, make sure to choose the version (Cloud or Local) that corresponds to when you played the demo last. The demo ran from February 5 to February 12
If you have deactivated Cloud Saves on Steam, but still have the local save files on a different PC you will be able to transfer your War Games progress. You can import them to the PC you will be playing on by following the below steps:
- Finding the HW3 save game folder:
- Shortcut: Win+R and type %LocalAppData%
- OR go to this folder : C:\Users\%UserProfile%\AppData\Local
- You will find a folder named “Homeworld3”
- Copy this whole folder
- Paste it at the same location on the new computer
Unfortunately, if you have deleted/lost the save game folder, it is not recoverable.
*Play on May 10 with advance access granted to players at the Fleet Command level, including those with Collectors Editions, and Fig backers.
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