It Takes Two, the award-winning and fairly dang good co-op recreation, obtained an replace right this moment making it verified on Steam Deck and eradicating the necessity to use the EA App launcher. However that replace additionally killed previous cloud saves. EA’s resolution for followers who might need misplaced progress: Obtain this different save file of the finished recreation as an alternative.
Launched in March 2021, It Takes Two was printed by EA and developed by Hazelight aka the studio run by Josef Fares aka the “Fuck the Oscars” speech dude from The Sport Awards in 2017. Anyway, It Takes Two tells the story of a pair who’re drifting aside. Their little one makes a want and they’re become toys who should work collectively to beat obstacles and in addition, in a weirdly darkish second, brutally homicide a screaming stuffed elephant. And should you’ve been taking part in that recreation just lately on PC utilizing the EA App’s cloud saving options, you would possibly run right into a slight snag…
What to do should you misplaced progress in It Takes Two
On Could 29, EA posted an replace on Steam asserting that It Takes Two now not requires the EA App launcher to play. The sport can be now verified on Steam Deck, too.
In an included FAQ, EA makes it clear that if you’re taking part in It Takes Two via Steam, the sport now makes use of Steam Cloud for backing up saves. However what should you had been utilizing the EA App’s cloud saves? Effectively, these are gone now. And should you didn’t have your saves backed up in your PC, you’ve misplaced all of your progress in It Takes Two.
Now, I assume the variety of individuals affected by this transformation might be fairly small. Most individuals weren’t doubtless relying solely on EA’s cloud saves for It Takes Two. Nevertheless, should you had been, then EA’s “resolution” is fairly wild. Within the FAQ, EA features a hyperlink to obtain a accomplished save recreation for It Takes Two on PC. Obtain that, drop it in a selected folder—as listed by EA—after which boot up the sport, choose the chapter you and your pal had been taking part in, and there you go.
So far as I can inform EA didn’t give any actual superior heads-up for this transformation. I contacted EA about this and requested in the event that they despatched gamers any kind of warning that the EA App’s cloud saves for It Takes Two would all of the sudden cease working however didn’t hear again earlier than publication.
Whereas I’m comfortable to see a Steam recreation ditch a third-party launcher, it’s a bit odd to see an enormous online game writer sharing a save recreation as an answer for gamers dropping progress. Higher than nothing, I suppose?
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