Recover game

[sdre]

I was playing on my PC and the power went out. Is there a way to recover the game? It appears in the history, but it doesn't appear in saved games.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

unfortunately for now, there is no autosave feature.

[sdre]

Thanks for the reply.

[Seleucids]

The saved games exist as .dat files and replays exist as .txt full of commands. The question is if we can construct a .dat file from the partial replay

[Player of 0AD]

13 hours ago, sdre said:

I was playing on my PC and the power went out. Is there a way to recover the game? It appears in the history, but it doesn't appear in saved games.

For multiplayer it would work, if the replay is still there. You can let the replay run until the end it create a savegame there. The savegame can be loaded then in the multiplayer lobby.

However, in that situation it's impossible to assign AIs to the slots, just players. This little but useful feature is still missing.

[sdre]

Thanks for the suggestions, I was able to solve the problem with them. I simply saved the game from the replay menu, then unzipped "savegame-0002.0adsave" and edited "metadata.json" to change "playerID" to 1, then rezipped (from Linux).

Thanks to everyone, and thanks to the illustrious developers for the game.

Edited March 25, 2025 by sdre