PS5/Xbox save data size issue.

Elektr0ns

Elektr0ns

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I only have a single save for the base game and it filled 2/3 of my allowance of save space. I can only have a single game to play now. Kinda sucks to be honest.

 
Yes I agree, why can you only have 2 savegames? 
My girlfriend has now started Navezgane and I can only start a 4k map and then the memory is full? I have a 2TB disk in there, what's the problem?

According to the data management, only 429MB are used for the Navezgane map.

On the PC, I can also have several savegames...
So why not on the PS5?

On the other accounts in the Playstation, I can't play either, because a new PSN account is needed. What's going on there?
Am I not even allowed to play offline anymore?

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Curious.  How much free storage space do you guys have?

One save could quite easily start with 1GB of space used, and they could grow to 5-15GB on a long session.

 
Hello All,  I think there is a limitation on game save size for consoles.  There is an archive save function you can use to "store" away saves you are not actively playing right now to make room for others.  See attached screenshot (PS5).  You can swap saves like this using the Archive / Restore button when clicking on the desired save game.

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Yes, I already thought of that, but the game file is many times larger than the one in your picture. Also, this is an active savegame, so archiving it every time someone else wants to play is certainly possible, but not the point...

I just created a savegame on the PC and it's only 16-17MB.
Once with chunk persistence: unlimited and once with very long, (like on the ps5).

Even our older savegames from the experimental version are only 40-50Mb in size. Where we have already spent several ingame days. 
Why is there this limitation on the consoles at all?

Somehow I think this is a bug

 
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Cokie said:
Yes, I already thought of that, but the game file is many times larger than the one in your picture. Also, this is an active savegame, so archiving it every time someone else wants to play is certainly possible, but not the point...

I just created a savegame on the PC and it's only 16-17MB.
Once with chunk persistence: unlimited and once with very long, (like on the ps5).

Even our older savegames from the experimental version are only 40-50Mb in size. Where we have already spent several ingame days. 
Why is there this limitation on the consoles at all?

Somehow I think this is a bug
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I don't know the exact technical explanation but I think for consoles they have to "reserve" space in advance thus the larger save game size upfront.  The good news, archive/restoring save games literally takes one button click.

 
I feel this limitation is really not needed for ps5 players, i mean after making a basic map we dont even have space for a second one, or if we join mabey 3 to 4 other friends in there map we cant even make out own, i love the game but this could have been done using the ps5 storage not a small amount limited from an in game data cap.

 
So I have approximately 120 gigs of space on my hard drive and yet I get only 1gb worth of save files for 7 days.   I have myself, my wife, two boys, my sister in law and her husband,  and two brothers.   Two save files just doesn't cut it.   I have supported the fun pimps for a long time and I have never regretted it for a moment.  But this is a deal breaking issue.   I understand the limits of the series x only being able to support 4 players at a time, but that is not the issue here.   The issue is being forced into having to choose which two friends I have enough "space" to play with.  This is not an xbox problem.  In games like diablo 4, minecraft, state of decay, and no man's sky I can have anywhere from 3 to 10 or more save files.  Why limit me here?

 
I wholeheartedly agree. It’s ridiculous. This is a huge turn-off for me with the console version. I prefer to play this on console with my husband & our friends because not everyone can afford a gaming PC that can somewhat smoothly run this game, especially while on a tier 6 quest in a tower. Console version is really letting us all down with the save data cap.

 
This is by far the biggest disappoint for me. Only being able to have 2 saves on my console for both my wife and myself just isn’t enough. Hopefully this gets updated ASAP

 
I have a 6k single player, friend hosts one for the two of us, wife hosts one for the two us and wife hosts all three of us. So I have one full and three as non host and I have enough room I could be the guest in one more. For creative I just log into a friend's gamer tag (He only games at my place like once a month so he does not mind) having archive is a nice if I want two worlds, but would have perfered to have 4 worlds and I host all.

Any talk of expanding save room in a future update?

 
I can't play more then 2 games.  This includes my own and other players servers.  When I try it says 'Not Enough Space'. I have over 500 GB available on my PS5 and 1.75 TB on a USB extended storage drive.  Does anybody know what's happening and is there a fix coming soon?

 
It’s a limitation of the consoles so don’t think there will be a fix but you can archive saves pretty easily. It was talked about in another thread. There is a Manage Saves feature and if you archive a save it will open up space for a new save. Then if you want to go back archive a save then restore the save you want to play.

However they are going to be trying to optimize as much as they can for consoles so maybe that will change.

GyphonGames said:
I can't play more then 2 games.  This includes my own and other players servers.  When I try it says 'Not Enough Space'. I have over 500 GB available on my PS5 and 1.75 TB on a USB extended storage drive.  Does anybody know what's happening and is there a fix coming soon?
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I hope they fix this soon.  Its really inconvenient and tiresome to have to archive and restore every time I want to play a new server or new personal game.    It be awesome if they added the option to save the games to the USB extended drive like I have installed on my PS5!

 
Today i went onto my friend and my dads worlds, and found my storage bar at the bottom of the screen is full.

i have my own world currently on day 47, and now i am worried i am going to lose all my data and game, the saved game in my opinion should be on consoles not the game itself.

if i have misread this feature  please include a tutorial on how to extend or improve current world saved games.

please change the save game locations to improve gameplay for less stress.

 thank you

 
I agree with this, I haven't filled the bar or joined other worlds because I'm worried it won't expand to allow for more space.

 
This might help




FYI, it is not a save game location issue, it is because of the size of the saved games.  Since this is a voxel based game, there is a lot of data that needs to be saved for worlds (and larger worlds require more space for saved games).  PC doesn't have that issue because our storage space is only limited by our drive size.  Consoles have a hardware limit imposed by the console makers that limits games to only so much storage space - regardless if it is the only game you have installed and how much space you have on your drives.

 
This is more directed at the fun pimps but, one of my pet peeves with the game Is the lack of storage, why not have it where the worlds use console storage instead of in game storage because you literally can’t even have 2 worlds which is so dumb because I like playing solo and with friends

 
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