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 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 reformmated your PC, never fear! There are other solutions as well. Lets go over all those options and the process for accessing your demo data.
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
- Finding the HW3 save game folder:
Unfortunately, if you have deleted/lost the save game folder, it is not recoverable.
EPIC GAMES STORE
- If you have Epic Games Store cloud saves activated, when launching the game for the first time, you will see a ‘Cloud Saves Conflict’ message, asking you to choose between two options. Choose to ‘copy your local files to the cloud’.
- If you have Epic Games Store cloud saves deactivated, you will be able to launch with your demo save game data loaded automatically, as long as you haven’t manually deleted your local save game files from the demo. You will not see the above message and you will be able to launch with your demo save game data
- If you had played the Demo on another computer, you can transfer the files from the previous computer to the new one.
- 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
- Finding the HW3 save game folder :
- If you have Epic Games Store cloud saves activated, and are playing on a new PC, when launching the game for the first time you will see a Cloud Saves conflict message on the Epic Games Store, asking you to choose 2 options. Choose to ‘copy your local files to the cloud.’
Again, unfortunately If you have deleted/lost the save game folder, it is not recoverable.
