A quick heads-up to those of you out there playing today’s big release The Last of Us – reports on NeoGAF suggest that there may be a bug with the game’s autosave system that could lose you progress.
It’s unclear whether the issue comes from the core game or the day-one patch, but what seems to be happening is that the game’s save system simply stops responding after a particular amount of time. The game gets stuck trying to autosave, and will fail to manually save, with your only real option being to come back out of the game and reload it back up again and hope your last successful save wasn’t too long ago – unfortunately the game seems to fail going to the main menu too, leaving you with just rebooting the console. The bug was originally reported by GAF’s Dragon1893, with other members corroborating the issue.
Our advice is to check the pause menu regularly – if the game shows that the last autosave was less than a few minutes ago, you’re fine, but if it simply stays for a while on “autosaving, please wait” without changing, you may have hit the bug. Hopefully a fix isn’t too far away.
Source: NeoGAF
gaffers101
Well lucky for me my copy hasn’t arrived yet :(
Hopefully there’ll be a fix by the time it arrives. First time I’ve been glad that a game hasn’t arrived on time.
Kennykazey
Good thing my copy won’t arrive until next week then I guess. Hopefully it’ll be fixed by then.
nouveller
Sorry if it’s been mentioned before. But it looks like if you go offline (disconnect from PSN etc..) and start the game from the XMB, the bug doesn’t occur. A lot of people on gaf reporting it’s a good temporary fix.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=589746&page=20
Mickey2010
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Just did 3/4 hours was loving the game and quit for a few hours thinking it had save and then when i loaded up i had to start again! C’mon Naughty Dog sort it out £60 bloody quid this game cost me
doug
Been playing since 11am can’t say we’re I got to incase I spoil it for anyone but just turned it of and loaded it back up and I’m at the prologue fuck this game it’s not that impressive any way looks like its getting sold or traded in
simplebob
Have you tried selecting load rather than continue at the menu? Some people are saying thats working for them to get there progress back, certainly if theyve made manual saves.
doug
I tried Manuel saving before I quit the first time it wouldn’t even highlight it or let me return to the main menu only the top 3 options would work
leeroye
This does not work, the only save i had was 30 mins into the game and i had played over 3 hours. Shocking how this can happen.
seanobi
WTF these day one bugs really do my tits in. Whats the point of pre-ordering games when we’ve got to put up with this shit. No more pre-ordering i’m f***ing sick of it. Surely to hell at least one person in QA must have noticed, nope they didn’t tossers
Winkle
try signing out of the network. this is the work around for now to stop the bug.
Sillyseason
Server issue now fixed no patch needed.
Reasons not to get an Xbox One.
pantherjag
Played about 4 hours, patched installed whilst logged in. Only manually saved once at end of playthrough and had no issues reloading game
Mr_Egregious
Ah, bugger. Big, big chunk of playthrough lost… Never mind