[WD] Changed choices.

[franapbsilva]

Hey TTG!!!
I started playing the Episode 2 today, and my choices were changed!!!!! Wath the Hell??? I saved Doug in the hand, but in the second episode Carley it's still alive!!! :mad:

[aDeadManWonderland]

Did you make sure to start Episode 2 on the same save file that you had completed Episode 1 with Doug alive?

[stevetheblack]

I've got the same problem except the other way around. Starting it off the only save file I have, but still it reverses the choice.

[Greenpaw]

Steam just finished updating TWD and I eagerly got on to play. I'm not sure what to do though, I recently made a save where I SAVED CARLEY. When I booted this game up I clicked that save, scrolled over to episode 2 and hit play. Previously on told me Doug lived, and the guy said Doug was dreaming about pies in the first two minutes of the game. I saved Carley though and I'm concerned none of my choices were even moved over. I tested this on my save game file 1 and same thing happen. I even hit continue and went through all the end game conversations of episode 1. Nothing happen still.

[puzzlebox]

Seems like a couple of people are having the same issue. I'm merging them all into one thread in the support forum.

[franapbsilva]

Now I'm pissed!!! WTF is going on??? I'm replaying episode again, to see if that problem gets solved... Fuck that shit!!!

[Greenpaw]

I highly suggest you don't do that :P. I'm just pretty disappointed by this D:.

[franapbsilva]

I don't know if because of this, or if this will impact the game:
But when I end episode 1, it still appear "Continue". If I click there, It will restart since the Motel part "Everithyng is going to be Okay". I tried to go untill the end of the credits, but the same shit happend!!!

[jangjangchang]

I don't know if because of this, or if this will impact the game:
But when I end episode 1, it still appear "Continue". If I click there, It will restart since the Motel part "Everithyng is going to be Okay". I tried to go untill the end of the credits, but the same shit happend!!!

Well then you found your problem...I have no clue how to fix that though.

[danalot]

Per the other people above, I started a game on the same file that I finished Episode 1 with. I chose to save Carley, but there's a conversation about "Doug" and naming off pies. I have the Steam version.

[Nuvas]

So I saved Carley in EP1 and Doug just keeps showing up in EP2 instead. Is anyone else having this problem?

I already tried going back in EP1 to save Carley but the same thing still happens.

[Mike]

Did you continue from your previous save or start a new game?

[Nuvas]

I continued from a previous game.

[Mike]

Did you completely finish Episode 1? Did you see the stats screen at the very end?

[bryan42688]

i dont even have the option to pick up where i left off wtf

[Nuvas]

Yes, I completely finished EP1 and the stats state that I chose to save Carley. Apparently Doug's will to survive is just that strong.

[danalot]

Did you completely finish Episode 1? Did you see the stats screen at the very end?

Hi Mike,

I did see the stats screen at the very end, and can pull it up from the menu by clicking the "Stats" option on the episode 1 section. It confirms that I (like 75% of other people, poor Doug!) chose to save Carley.

[Benito]

Same problem here... I can upload the save folder if needed.

[Jonlissla]

Same thing here.

After choosing to continue my previous save, I'm right there at the end with the dialogue. After that, I'm taken to the preview for the next episode, then the stats, then finally the credits. After that, I'm right back at the main menu.

Another thing that is kind of related, if I try to start playing Episode 2 nonetheless, apparently none of my previous settings in the Options are enabled, such as subtitles. I cannot change anything in the menu, and the game doesn't react to clicking with the mouse or using the keyboard. The game hasn't freezed or anything, it doesn't react with any player input. I am therefore forced to alt+tab the game and then quit it that way instead.

[Keivash]

keeps crashing on my PS3. Continue crashed, and even trying to start directly from ep.2 does not work.

[franapbsilva]

Did you continue from your previous save or start a new game?
I continued from the same game. I sided with Larry and saved Doug, but in the game, it shows the opposite.... I will not play the episode without my choices....:confused:

[talon345]

Same issue for me,

I even attempted to replay the carly doug decision and other things having the same problem.

The continue option does not progress to the next episode just restarts the last section of the episode. If i attempt to start episode two no decisions transfer over.

[Benito]

Okay, I've tested it a bit, and the issue is that the saves don't carry over choices, they're created at random. No matter what.

[franapbsilva]

I tried to play it in another game, where I haven't finish the first episode yet. It's just shows a black screen, the mouse stick and a axe at the item list...

[franapbsilva]

Well turns out there are a lot of issues in this game.... exept on Xbox...

[Khorino]

With me, Kenny said that I didn't help him at the drugstore. I did that one time, but finished afterwards saying that Doug wasn't bitten.

[Merc]

Hey. I hate cluttering up the front page, especially with all the threads being launched out right now, but I've been having a problem. My choices from episode 1 aren't moving over. I picked Doug, and every time I've booted up, it thinks Carley was the one I saved. Anyone have a workaround I could try?

PC version, by the way.

[Mike]

Have any of you tried right-clicking the game's executable and then clicking Run As Administrator? If so, are you still experiencing this issue?

[Nuvas]

Have any of you tried right-clicking the game's executable and then clicking Run As Administrator? If so, are you still experiencing this issue?

No luck when running as administrator.

[Mike]

Few more questions as we attempt to narrow this down.

What type of user accounts are you using? Are they admin accounts?

What OS are you using?

Have you uninstalled the game previously, or have you reinstalled the game recently?

[Greenpaw]

Never reinstalled it, Windows 7, Admin account. I don't think it's anything on my part. I just got the update and this is what happen.

[Nuvas]

Few more questions as we attempt to narrow this down.

What type of user accounts are you using? Are they admin accounts?

What OS are you using?

Have you uninstalled the game previously, or have you reinstalled the game recently?

1) Admin account, yes

2) Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

3) Game has remained untouched since original installation

[Benito]

Have any of you tried right-clicking the game's executable and then clicking Run As Administrator? If so, are you still experiencing this issue?

Just making sure but are we supposed to click 'continue' in the menu under episode 1, or 'play' under episode 2?

Tried twice so far running as admin and it saves the right person. I'll try a few more times and see if it's consistent.

[Merc]

Using admin account, I'm using Windows XP, and I've never uninstalled the game previously.

[Diduz]

Had the same problem, I saved Doug but Episode 2 started with Carley. Replaying the two last sections of Episode 1 fixed the problem for me, though.

[franapbsilva]

From bad to worse!!!! Now not even with the wrong choices!! Now it just shows me a black screen, a music and a axe at the item list!!!!! :(

[Benito]

Okay, running as admin saved the right person 6 times out of 6, so I do believe that fixed it for me. I'll play through the game now to see if the other choices are correctly reflected as well.

[Greenpaw]

Running on admin did not fix it for me.

[Coldyron]

I'm having the same problem, I saved Carley but the game thinks I saved Doug. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit on an administrator account. Running the game executable as an administrator didn't fix it. I'm playing the game on Steam and haven't messed with any of the files since I installed the first episode.

[Sealawyer]

Just a idiot check, was having the same problem and realized i wasn't clicking the right option.

I found you have to click Play, then your saved game, then the arrow at the top which will change it to episode 2 then hit play and it worked fine. Kept all my choices.

I was doing what some people here were i bet and thought it was broken. I orginally thought i just finish episode 1 and it automatically starts 2 which is not the case.

[brawl.kc]

Same issue as everybody else mentioned.

Saved Doug, now have Carley.

Playing on PC/Steam
Win XP Pro SP3

Also played game new, all the way through, same effect. Saved Doug, Carley is in intro. This is pretty awesome!!!!

[Mike]

Can you guys give me a rundown on exactly how you're starting Episode 2, please? Are you seeing your save games after you first click Play on the main menu? If you select your save and then scroll to Episode 2, is it asking if you want to generate random story decisions, or is it going right into the episode?

[Khorino]

1) Admin account, yes

2) Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

3) Game has remained untouched since original installation

Same here! (But my problem is with the bitten/not bitten discussion.)

To start the new episode, I select my save, went to Episode 2 and it started the episode right away. TellTale's client PC version.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Just started playing episode two and I'm already disappointed.

At the end of the first episode you have a choice of keeping Carley or Doug alive. I picked Carley, the stats say I picked Carley, and yet when I load my save and begin episode two I'm shown a "previously on" montage that shows her being killed rather than Doug. Now I begin the game and Doug is happily alive rather than being zombie food.

For a game where your choices are supposed to have major implications across all five episodes, it's pretty damning that only the second episode has altered one of the biggest choices from episode one. How do I know some of my other choices haven't been changed as well? The only thing I could do now is start over episode one from the start and hope it doesn't happen again. But I don't have the motivation to do that nor do I have a desire to play episode two because of this gaffe. Severely frustrating.

Anyone else had this issue? I'm playing on the PC as well.

[Gman5852]

I have had no issues over here, even the minor choices that I made showed up fine.

Did you replay the game and save Doug?

[ElectricBoogaloo]

I have had no issues over here, even the minor choices that I made showed up fine.

Did you replay the game and save Doug?

I started a brand new save but never even reached that part.

I loaded my original save and the stats clearly displayed each choice I made along with the percentage of other players who did the same. It said I saved Carley and yet episode two alters this.


Can you guys give me a rundown on exactly how you're starting Episode 2, please? Are you seeing your save games after you first click Play on the main menu? If you select your save and then scroll to Episode 2, is it asking if you want to generate random story decisions, or is it going right into the episode?

I clicked play and it came up with my save games, I chose my save, looked at my stats on episode one to see my choices then when I clicked play on episode two it started the game straight away.

[panscapes]

1) Admin
2) Windows 7 64
3) No

From "Play," I see my saved games, but when I select and scroll to Episode 2, it goes right into the episode without asking about story decisions.

I've replayed the last two chapters of Episode 1 three times, each time saving Carley, but when I start up Episode 2, it's Doug who's lived.

[lordofultima]

Can you guys give me a rundown on exactly how you're starting Episode 2, please? Are you seeing your save games after you first click Play on the main menu? If you select your save and then scroll to Episode 2, is it asking if you want to generate random story decisions, or is it going right into the episode?

1. Click Play
2. Select Save Game (I have all three with the same choices)
3. Press RB to go to Episode 2
4. Press A to play. That's the only option there besides quit. It doesn't ask to transfer story decisions over, not sure if it's supposed to do that or something. Just WAM episode 2, doug eating pie blahblah.

I'm running the executable with admin privilege checked. Win 7 64-bit.

When I return to main menu, all the game settings revert, and my saves magically disappear, until I quit the game and reboot it.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Used the rewind feature and saved Carley again and Doug still appears in episode two.

http://i47.tinypic.com/j7cmzl.jpg

Should be like this!

[brawl.kc]

Can you guys give me a rundown on exactly how you're starting Episode 2, please? Are you seeing your save games after you first click Play on the main menu? If you select your save and then scroll to Episode 2, is it asking if you want to generate random story decisions, or is it going right into the episode?

I've done a few ways, all with the same result.

#1
[Start Game]
[Choose Game]
[Load Game - Ep. 1]
Scenario: Cuts to last scene Ep. 1 -- At the Motel.
Talk with everybody, end scene, roll credits.
[Back to Main]

This, I admit was foolish. But I thought that for some reason if I loaded from the last auto-save that I'd refresh myself on the gameplay before starting the next episode. However, the episodes were not linked at all and had to choose the second episode from the load screen, using my original saved game.

#2
[Start Game]
[Choose Game]
[Load Game - Ep. 2]
Scenario: Starts off with the cut-scene. During the previews, it shows alternate choice of Carley being alive instead of my man Doug. Said "wtf?" and ended up leaving game.
[Back to Main]

#3
[Delete Save File]
[Start New Game]
[Play Ep. 1, make same decisions -- Choose Doug over Carley]
[Choose Ep. 2]
Scneario: Same as #2, only this time I replayed all of the Episode 1 without any other save files available. Carley was STILL in the previews for the Ep. 2.
[ragequit]
[join forums]
[complain]

Edit: At no time did my game need to auto-create choices for me. I saw that option to start Ep. 2 without any of my previous saves. So I can authoritatively say that I did not personally allow the game to choose anything for me.

[IMBAsuna]

did exactly the same as brawl.kc

right now after countless tries it even "erased" my savegames! (so it seemed) all my 3 saves were gone and instead there was an "episode 2" save in the middle, which "obviously" had the wrong ep1 decisions in it... (save files returned after restarting the game, ep2 save was gone)

i know you are working hard on fixing this, but after weeks of waiting to continue "my tailored story" i'm a bit butthurt and nerdragy atm...

[Yobo1987]

PC Version (Steam)

It seems to be a bug if you completed or started EP 1 before EP 2 was released. No matter how i start EP 2 it shows the opposite of some chooises i made in EP 1.

Anyone know what i mean?
Does anyone have the same problem whit faulty chooises.
Dont seem to transfer between EPs. Is there a fix?
Only fix i know is to replay EP 1...

[Liquid Gardens]

Same problem on the PC with reversing my choices. Also I do see something wacky happening with the saves that I think someone mentioned above. I used the copy button and made a copy of my end of Episode 1 save into the second slot. I started episode 2, except choices reversed. When I went back to the main menu, my copied save was not listed anymore in the second slot and only my 'current' Episode 2 game was listed. Then I rewound my Episode 2 back to Episode 1, went back to the main menu, and the game I had copied earlier had shown up again in the second slot.

[Astro Boy]

my save didnt even show up and the download keep on stopping for eps 2. i'm on pc.

[brawl.kc]

PC Version (Steam)

It seems to be a bug if you completed or started EP 1 before EP 2 was released. No matter how i start EP 2 it shows the opposite of some chooises i made in EP 1.

Anyone know what i mean?
Does anyone have the same problem whit faulty chooises.
Dont seem to transfer between EPs. Is there a fix?
Only fix i know is to replay EP 1...

I did that and it STILL gave me the incorrect choices.

[MrMackie]

Same issue here. Choices made in Ep 1 are not transferring to Ep 2. Doug is alive when Carley should be, etc.

Continued from Ep 1 saved game. PC version/Steam, Win7 32-bit, run as admin, etc.

[Web Head]

The "downloadable content" button doesn't appear plus it keeps saying "Episode 2 coming soon"..I wanna play episode 2 badly :/

[Nuvas]

So, seeing as there is no update to this issue, is there anyone out there who is willing to share their save files with these stats?

http://i.imgur.com/309J9.jpg (http://imgur.com/309J9)

No idea if this will work for me, but I'm willing to try.

[PuhChewyChomp]

All my saves were deleted between playing through episodes 1 and 2.

[talon345]

What type of user accounts are you using? Are they admin accounts?
Admin Account

What OS are you using?
Windows 7 Pro

Have you uninstalled the game previously, or have you reinstalled the game recently?
I have recently uninstalled the game after troubleshooting this issue last night. Before the uninstall I attempted to run steam and the application in admin mode which did not resolve the issue.

[franapbsilva]

What type of user accounts are you using? Are they admin accounts?
Yes.

What OS are you using?
Windows 7 Ultimate 32bits.

Have you uninstalled the game previously, or have you reinstalled the game recently?
I reinstalled the game, when it gave a error message. "WalkingDead101.exe is not working".

[mcmikeymike11]

Can you guys give me a rundown on exactly how you're starting Episode 2, please? Are you seeing your save games after you first click Play on the main menu? If you select your save and then scroll to Episode 2, is it asking if you want to generate random story decisions, or is it going right into the episode?

I could see my save game, I selected it, went to play, scrolled accross to episode 2 and pressed play. It started playing with a montage of the previous episode, with wrong clips as to what happened (ie. I chose carley, but it showed her getting killed). I then only played upto where the bloke i was walking with told me he heard doug talking the previous night about pies. I tried replaying from the doug and carley decision all the way through to the end credits finished and same thing happened again.

It only asks me if I want to generate random stories if I dont choose the save file.

[Jkoiy]

I'd like to be added to the growing list of people suffering from this issue.

Playing on: PC/Steam
OS: Win 7 Home 64
Profile: Admin

I killed Doug, but he seemed to survive into Episode 2. Patch this @#$% quick son!

[Sek0n]

Getting the same thing as well.

PC/Steam Version
Win7 Home Premium x64 on Admin account

Completed the game all the way though to the stats window, and let the credits roll.
When Ep2 came out, I Clicked 'Play > Ep1 Save Game > Play > Right Arrow to Ep2 > Play' and it shows the wrong choices every time. I checked the stats on Ep1 before clicking play in ep 2 as well, and they showed all correct.

Tried multiple times without any success.

[warxsnake]

Hi

Anyone have the game working as usual but with the game/steam installed on a different drive than the OS?

Something tells me this problem has to do with where the game is installed.

[Meathands]

I am in the same boat as everyone else. Chose Carley, get Doug in Episode 2 no matter what I do. I have opened as Admin, reinstalled, even played through a new save with no luck.

Steam version
Windows 7 Home 64

Really hope a fix comes quick, I really enjoy the game otherwise.

[gregularity]

Sigh. Same problem. I'm running an Admin account, Windows 7 64 bit, Steam version. Saved Doug in Ep 1, Carley's alive and well in Ep 2.

My stats appear correctly on the Ep 1 screen, and on the Ep 2 screen there's just an option to "Play". Don't know if that's right or not but it's how I've been accessing Ep 2. Also: on the Ep 1 screen, I still have the option to "Continue", which takes me to the end motel scene if I click it. Should that even be there if I've finished the episode?

Minor other things: the first two times I tried, I still got the "Previously On" (though with the wrong choices). I don't even get that anymore: it just keeps launching straight into the game. Also, subtitles are turned off in Ep 2, even though I have them on in Ep 1.

Clearly the game isn't registering the save as having completed Ep 1 yet, and no settings are being transferred.

I've tried everything. Copied it into a different slot, run as administrator, used compatibility mode, and rewound to the Doug/Carley choice and played through to the end again. Nothing works.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Sigh. Same problem. I'm running an Admin account, Windows 7 64 bit, Steam version. Saved Doug in Ep 1, Carley's alive and well in Ep 2.

My stats appear correctly on the Ep 1 screen, and on the Ep 2 screen there's just an option to "Play". Don't know if that's right or not but it's how I've been accessing Ep 2. Also: on the Ep 1 screen, I still have the option to "Continue", which takes me to the end motel scene if I click it. Should that even be there if I've finished the episode?

Minor other things: the first two times I tried, I still got the "Previously On" (though with the wrong choices). I don't even get that anymore: it just keeps launching straight into the game. Also, subtitles are turned off in Ep 2, even though I have them on in Ep 1.

Clearly the game isn't registering the save as having completed Ep 1 yet, and no settings are being transferred.

I've tried everything. Copied it into a different slot, run as administrator, used compatibility mode, and rewound to the Doug/Carley choice and played through to the end again. Nothing works.

Mine is exactly the same.

Hopefully it can be fixed soon. After being excited to play it after the two month wait it's extremely disappointing that a bug is causing us to wait even longer.

[Cruisix]

/signed

The save does not get taken over correctly to ep2. Tried two replays of episode one, copied saves, replaced them.. all without luck. And to top it off.. ep2 does not save either. There is some dang bad issue going here TTG.

EDIT:

And as another user said: "This is why you don't release games on a friday" and i'd like to add "and go on a weekend". We're stuck on our weekend with a broken game.

EDIT 2:
Admin user on Win7 Ultimate 64bit

But that is'nt the issue here. The save system and carry over of stats is. It's bogged down. Just tried it again and it's no dice.

Wether Dough or Carley are saved nor any choices made in ep1 it won't carry over. But any new save won't get saved see the other thread of bogged saves during a pause moment for example.

EDIT 3:

When you patch this TTG. please put a bottle of bourbon next to the tea set for Lee if we need to replay EP1 again for the ...nth time. Thanks

[invadernny]

Same issue here, I saved Doug and Carly is alive. I tried replaying the end of episode 1 but episode 2 still loads from it's own auto-save, it doesn't restart.

What type of user accounts are you using? Are they admin accounts?
I'm using the admin account.

What OS are you using?
Vista Home 64bit

Have you uninstalled the game previously, or have you reinstalled the game recently?
The game hasn't been reinstalled or modified at all since I finished episode 1. However my girlfriend and I played episode 1 on different saves.

[Lafazar]

Same Problem, I saved Carley, and at the beginning of Episode 2 Doug is alive.

What type of user accounts are you using? Are they admin accounts?
Yes, and UAC is disabled.

What OS are you using?
Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit

Have you uninstalled the game previously, or have you reinstalled the game recently?
Donloaded over Steam. Played game through before Update for Episode 2. Played it again after Update to Episode 2 in second save slot, but with exactly the same choices.

Starting Episode 2 from both savegames yields Doug alive when I saved Carley in both. Also, when I go back to the main menu, only one savegame is visible anymore, saying "Episode 2". Quitting and restarting the game shows me the two savegames in "Episode 1" state.

EDIT: This post from the Steam Forums seems to contain a workaround. It looks like Epiode 2 selects the wrong savefile somehow.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=31423648&postcount=15

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Same Problem, I saved Carley, and at the beginning of Episode 2 Doug is alive.

What type of user accounts are you using? Are they admin accounts?
Yes, and UAC is disabled.

What OS are you using?
Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit

Have you uninstalled the game previously, or have you reinstalled the game recently?
Donloaded over Steam. Played game through before Update for Episode 2. Played it again after Update to Episode 2 in second save slot, but with exactly the same choices.

Starting Episode 2 from both savegames yields Doug alive when I saved Carley in both. Also, when I go back to the main menu, only one savegame is visible anymore, saying "Episode 2". Quitting and restarting the game shows me the two savegames in "Episode 1" state.

EDIT: This post from the Steam Forums seems to contain a workaround. It looks like Epiode 2 selects the wrong savefile somehow.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=31423648&postcount=15

Since I used the rewind feature to try and fix it that way, that workaround doesn't work for me.

I did, however, load a save from half way through episode one - the save I used for my second playthrough. It just took me about an hour to finish it, so I started episode two with that save and I didn't even get the previously on stuff, and the first scene in the forest is missing... and Doug is alive instead of Carley again. It's fucked.

[Sucrizzle]

Windows 7 64 bit
Steam

I was experiencing the same wrong choices issue.

I took a look in the save game folder and notice the most recent save was only 10KB, the second most recent save was 108KB. So I renamed the the larger file to replace the smaller file (i.e. save_9.save to save_12.save). I ended up back at the Carly or Doug decision which was fine as there's only 5 to 10 mins left in the episode. Once I finished the episode the save game file was up to 117KB. I thought I was in the clear....

Fired up Episode 2 based on the save and....black screen, arrow cursor and an axe in the inventory. Not a good experience so far for my first foray into a Telltale game.

[IMBAsuna]

Hey guys!
I know many of you have tried to start a new game, play Ep1 and it still didn't work out, right? Well, I have done that too and it didn't work. But then I messed around with my save files and tried different things to get it done... It didn't work the way I wanted it to, but I got it right now! My decisions have been taken over into Ep2 now.

Here's what I did, though I guess you won't like it...
I noticed that there is a "prefs.prop" file in the save directory (documents\telltale games\ the walking dead) which seems to contain your decisions. But since it's not readable for humans (jibberish in it) I tried to delete it, play Ep1 ending and see if it works... well I got a black screen out of that. Seems like the save files only work together with the prefs.prop (and the other way around, tried both ways)
Now here's the thing... even if you start another game in another save file... the prefs.prop doesn't seem to change at all. Starting a new game and trying to play Ep2 afterwards doesn't work because of that...

BUT

If you delete everything except the SyncFs folder (good bye precious savegames...) and start a new game, it's like you never ran it before. Playing through Ep1 and then starting Ep2 immediately afterwards worked fine then. I can now play Ep2 with all my choices from the first.

Well.. there's still a bug to be fixed... but for all those (like me) who don't want to wait any longer and don't mind playing Ep1 again... it seems to work just fine like this.

I hope this helped anyone :)

[Cruisix]

While being a zombie myself by now due to the time and effort i've put into this problem there are still no ties on how to solve this ourselves. Saves don't get.. well.. saved and choices made do not carry over and when pausing the game it reverts back to ep1 and so forth and so on.

I went on doing a little investigation of the directory structure (the TTG store version mind you) and there's a thing that boggles my mind a bit:

- Installed it to my game drive wich is D:\Games\The Walking Dead
- upon starting it creates a folder or adds to the folder (i've got more games of TTG) on the C:\ drive in your documents folder called \Telltale Games\The Walking Dead (or any other TTG game of late)

BUT...

Both the documents folder as well as the game folder on the D:\ drive contain a prefs.prop file of wich the one on the install drive gets updated last. When i chose to "GET" episode 2 from within the launcher it downloads them to the C:\ documents folder and keeps em there.. (Ehrm.. i did tell the game to install on D: not keep a gigabyte of data on my C:\ )

Lastly.. I had 12 savegames in the documents folder upon ending EP1 succesfully earlier. Still EP2 does not carry any choices correctly and when pausing or exiting no save is done. Also i noticed a save_9.save being lonely in the install dir on D:\ at one time..

So.

Why does EP2 remain on the documents dir wich is just plain stupid and why do you use 2 (two) prefs.prop files in different locations? I think this is where it may go wrong TTG. And in conclusion: Your website and forums are more offline then on of late and downloading that EP2 through the ingame screen takes forever.. So quick troubleshooting is no further option as well....

[Cruisix]

I've been doing some more gravedigging around again and tried the following so far wich needs testing:


I kept ONE save from episode one that finished past the credits and backed it up.
Fresh install with EP2 downloaded before playing so no previous saves.
Placed the backuped save. Not showing. hmmm. So the save is not that important. (read on)
Started a new EP1 game and alt-tabbed in and out during the freeway scene till a autosave was made.
I checked the timestamp on prefs.prop both in the install dir and the \Documents dir. The install dir one changed along with the first save.
Exited the game and deleted the save. Placed my backuped save in and renamed to the one just deleted (ie. save_2.save deleted and renamed save_12.save to save_2)
Booted game and clicked play. Rewind shows just the freeway scene wich would be correct as props.pref has'nt changed yet.
Clicked continue and bam i am at the motel doing the final conversations. Let the credits roll and back at the main menu i exited.

Heres the funny thing. The game made a new save called save_1.save with exact same size as the backuped one with a timestamp of when i LOADED the game. Now prefs.prop was saved 12 minutes later meaning this is where the final choices and stats are located.

Here's what i think goes wrong but i need to test further. Prefs.prop that came with EP2 in the \Documents dir remained unchanged since it was placed there during download. Now i have a feeling the prefs.prop that keeps getting updated up till the end of EP1 does NOT get taken into the new prefs.prop. and the last save does not do much either.

Going to replace the EP1 prefs.prop now with the EP2 one to see if it will move forward.

toughts?

[Pianoman]

I tried what IMBAsuna did (three posts before this), that finally worked for me. Thanks for that. All choices from Ep1 are now in Ep2.
I made it through Ep1 three times the last 24 hours to try everything I read in this forum. Hope TTG fix it real soon...

[mrprice33]

I've been doing some more gravedigging around again and tried the following so far wich needs testing:


I kept ONE save from episode one that finished past the credits and backed it up.
Fresh install with EP2 downloaded before playing so no previous saves.
Placed the backuped save. Not showing. hmmm. So the save is not that important. (read on)
Started a new EP1 game and alt-tabbed in and out during the freeway scene till a autosave was made.
I checked the timestamp on prefs.prop both in the install dir and the \Documents dir. The install dir one changed along with the first save.
Exited the game and deleted the save. Placed my backuped save in and renamed to the one just deleted (ie. save_2.save deleted and renamed save_12.save to save_2)
Booted game and clicked play. Rewind shows just the freeway scene wich would be correct as props.pref has'nt changed yet.
Clicked continue and bam i am at the motel doing the final conversations. Let the credits roll and back at the main menu i exited.

Heres the funny thing. The game made a new save called save_1.save with exact same size as the backuped one with a timestamp of when i LOADED the game. Now prefs.prop was saved 12 minutes later meaning this is where the final choices and stats are located.

Here's what i think goes wrong but i need to test further. Prefs.prop that came with EP2 in the \Documents dir remained unchanged since it was placed there during download. Now i have a feeling the prefs.prop that keeps getting updated up till the end of EP1 does NOT get taken into the new prefs.prop. and the last save does not do much either.

Going to replace the EP1 prefs.prop now with the EP2 one to see if it will move forward.

toughts?

I tried this and got Episode 2 to say continue instead of play, but my choices were still not correct.

[mrprice33]

Hey guys!
I know many of you have tried to start a new game, play Ep1 and it still didn't work out, right? Well, I have done that too and it didn't work. But then I messed around with my save files and tried different things to get it done... It didn't work the way I wanted it to, but I got it right now! My decisions have been taken over into Ep2 now.

Here's what I did, though I guess you won't like it...
I noticed that there is a "prefs.prop" file in the save directory (documents\telltale games\ the walking dead) which seems to contain your decisions. But since it's not readable for humans (jibberish in it) I tried to delete it, play Ep1 ending and see if it works... well I got a black screen out of that. Seems like the save files only work together with the prefs.prop (and the other way around, tried both ways)
Now here's the thing... even if you start another game in another save file... the prefs.prop doesn't seem to change at all. Starting a new game and trying to play Ep2 afterwards doesn't work because of that...

BUT

If you delete everything except the SyncFs folder (good bye precious savegames...) and start a new game, it's like you never ran it before. Playing through Ep1 and then starting Ep2 immediately afterwards worked fine then. I can now play Ep2 with all my choices from the first.

Well.. there's still a bug to be fixed... but for all those (like me) who don't want to wait any longer and don't mind playing Ep1 again... it seems to work just fine like this.

I hope this helped anyone :)

Will try this when I have a little more time.

[lordofultima]

BUT

If you delete everything except the SyncFs folder (good bye precious savegames...) and start a new game, it's like you never ran it before. Playing through Ep1 and then starting Ep2 immediately afterwards worked fine then. I can now play Ep2 with all my choices from the first.

Well.. there's still a bug to be fixed... but for all those (like me) who don't want to wait any longer and don't mind playing Ep1 again... it seems to work just fine like this.

I hope this helped anyone :)

At first glance this fixed it, but it turned out to only be the Carly choice. The little choices like whether I told Clementine if her family would find us, was still different. Completely ruins it for me. I need every choice to carry over, otherwise it makes all the choices I made pointless. I don't know how they're going to affect the story later. UGH. I refuse to play through Episode 1 again. Been 5 times now, I'm becoming sick of this game.

[warxsnake]

-Possible Fix-

The game stores a "prefs.prop" in two places. One in:

C:\Users\___\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead

And the other in:

D:\STEAM\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default

Or if you don't have the Steam version, its somewhere in your game DIR.
Do backups before overwriting anything.

Copy the prefs.prop file from your game's DIR folders, and overwrite it in your Documents\TTG\TWD folder

Go in game and load the save game with your finished EP1. Switch to EP2 in the chapter select and run it.

This worked for me when any other solution did not. My decisions carried over.

[Meathands]

This worked for me when any other solution did not. My decisions carried over.

You are a goddamn hero. Worked for me.

[DjNDB]

And the other in:
D:\STEAM\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default

Or if you don't have the Steam version, its somewhere in your game DIR.
Do backups before overwriting anything.



That's interesting. I don't have the issue, and i also don't have prefs.props in the game directories at all. I wonder how they got there in your case.

My only TWD prefs.prop is in
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
where i would expect it to be, based on previous TTG games.

If you run the game in compatibility mode for win95 or win98/me it saves to
%PUBLIC%\Documents\Telltale Games\GameData
instead.

[Nuvas]

-Possible Fix-

The game stores a "prefs.prop" in two places. One in:

C:\Users\___\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead

And the other in:

D:\STEAM\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default

Or if you don't have the Steam version, its somewhere in your game DIR.
Do backups before overwriting anything.

Copy the prefs.prop file from your game's DIR folders, and overwrite it in your Documents\TTG\TWD folder

Go in game and load the save game with your finished EP1. Switch to EP2 in the chapter select and run it.

This worked for me when any other solution did not. My decisions carried over.

This worked for me. You just saved my weekend.

[panscapes]

What Cruisix and Warxsnake suggested seems to have worked for me; moving the prefs.prop file into the Documents folder: A) brought back the "Previously on the Walking Dead" intro, which had only played the very first time I'd started the game and not on subsequent start-ups; B) preserved my Episode 1 choices (two of them, at least - Carley is alive now, and the "Previously on" intro reflects a different interaction with Kenny in ep1 than it initially did, though I haven't played further than the opening minute to verify if ep2 honors all ep1 decisions).

If it matters, my game is installed to a different drive (E) than is my OS (C), though I'm not using Steam.

[Liquid Gardens]

Yes Warxsnake! You saved Carley! Thanks man, god knows what I've screwed up if/when the patch comes out by doing this, but at least I can continue now. Pretty key to the entire game that your choices carry over...

[warxsnake]

Yes Warxsnake! You saved Carley! Thanks man, god knows what I've screwed up if/when the patch comes out by doing this, but at least I can continue now. Pretty key to the entire game that your choices carry over...

I'm pretty sure it'll be fine, the file you copied is supposed to be there anyway.
If there is an issue after patch, just recopy your backup.

[herodirector]

wtf !!!!

Same problem for me...

I saved the girl, and I can't stop to hear about the doug pie...

I restarted already, redo the last chapter from episode one...
It's just boring...

Is it a real tell games or what ?

SHIT.

Somebody can fix this bug ?

It's not working because I am on a mac...

I play on mac, and play with steam.

Did someone from telltalegames can help the mac users ?

thank you....

[ElectricBoogaloo]

-Possible Fix-

The game stores a "prefs.prop" in two places. One in:

C:\Users\___\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead

And the other in:

D:\STEAM\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default

Or if you don't have the Steam version, its somewhere in your game DIR.
Do backups before overwriting anything.

Copy the prefs.prop file from your game's DIR folders, and overwrite it in your Documents\TTG\TWD folder

Go in game and load the save game with your finished EP1. Switch to EP2 in the chapter select and run it.

This worked for me when any other solution did not. My decisions carried over.

This worked. You are a saviour!

[herodirector]

Thank you ElectricBoogaloo

but this is working for pc.
not for mac...

Os architecture on mac is not the same as pc.

[herodirector]

But no one from the programer team have any solution ?
Is that to the users to correct the failure ?

[brawl.kc]

Sigh.

Re-installed game. Deleted Save files. Played all the freaking way through again, made same choices. Still, Carley instead of Doug.

I give up. I even randomized choices in a FOURTH unreleated game. Still, Carley. You win Telltale, you win.

[Sucrizzle]

-Possible Fix-

The game stores a "prefs.prop" in two places. One in:

C:\Users\___\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead

And the other in:

D:\STEAM\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default

Or if you don't have the Steam version, its somewhere in your game DIR.
Do backups before overwriting anything.

Copy the prefs.prop file from your game's DIR folders, and overwrite it in your Documents\TTG\TWD folder

Go in game and load the save game with your finished EP1. Switch to EP2 in the chapter select and run it.

This worked for me when any other solution did not. My decisions carried over.

This man is a genius!

[mrprice33]

-Possible Fix-

The game stores a "prefs.prop" in two places. One in:

C:\Users\___\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead

And the other in:

D:\STEAM\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default

Or if you don't have the Steam version, its somewhere in your game DIR.
Do backups before overwriting anything.

Copy the prefs.prop file from your game's DIR folders, and overwrite it in your Documents\TTG\TWD folder

Go in game and load the save game with your finished EP1. Switch to EP2 in the chapter select and run it.

This worked for me when any other solution did not. My decisions carried over.

So you copied the prefs.prop from your game DIR to the documents DIR, right?

Didn't work for me. And I just realized my larry/kenny decision is somehow messed up, too. I sided with Kenny, they even say so in the preview for episode 2, yet it says I sided with Larry in the stats.

[IMBAsuna]

like some pointed out (and i had to realize) my "workaround" seems to be none ^^

the way i did it just created me new random decisions for Ep2 which luckily represented my actual choices made in Ep1

warxsnake "fix" seems to work pretty fine, though! some of my friends (and ppl in this thread here obviously) said that it actually worked! so thank you, good sir :)

[mcmikeymike11]

-Possible Fix-

The game stores a "prefs.prop" in two places. One in:

C:\Users\___\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead

And the other in:

D:\STEAM\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default

Or if you don't have the Steam version, its somewhere in your game DIR.
Do backups before overwriting anything.

Copy the prefs.prop file from your game's DIR folders, and overwrite it in your Documents\TTG\TWD folder

Go in game and load the save game with your finished EP1. Switch to EP2 in the chapter select and run it.

This worked for me when any other solution did not. My decisions carried over.

Champion!, worked for me. Thanks mate.

[Sek0n]

-Possible Fix-

The game stores a "prefs.prop" in two places. One in:

C:\Users\___\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead

And the other in:

D:\STEAM\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default

Or if you don't have the Steam version, its somewhere in your game DIR.
Do backups before overwriting anything.

Copy the prefs.prop file from your game's DIR folders, and overwrite it in your Documents\TTG\TWD folder

Go in game and load the save game with your finished EP1. Switch to EP2 in the chapter select and run it.

This worked for me when any other solution did not. My decisions carried over.

Thank you! Seems to be working. :D

[Fenchurch]

Worked for me too

Just another question (I'm new to this forum):
Is there any chance a Dev or CM will post here?

I mean, this is a little(?) bug that almost destroyed the game for a lot of people, but there's no official help or even response.

I have to say, I'm pretty pissed of by TellTale

[Sek0n]

Worked for me too

Just another question (I'm new to this forum):
Is there any chance a Dev or CM will post here?

I mean, this is a little(?) bug that almost destroyed the game for a lot of people, but there's no official help or even response.

I have to say, I'm pretty pissed of by TellTale

Mike (http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/member.php?u=312109) has been posting in this thread trying to get info/help. Not sure what he does, but is on the Telltale team. So I'm sure they're aware of it, and working on it.

[Sucrizzle]

After updating the props file I was able to start episode 2. But when I tried to resume my progress, all the saves were for episode 1.

Going to do a reinstall and start from scratch to see if that helps at all....

[Merc]

-Possible Fix-

The game stores a "prefs.prop" in two places. One in:

C:\Users\___\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead

And the other in:

D:\STEAM\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default

Or if you don't have the Steam version, its somewhere in your game DIR.
Do backups before overwriting anything.

Copy the prefs.prop file from your game's DIR folders, and overwrite it in your Documents\TTG\TWD folder

Go in game and load the save game with your finished EP1. Switch to EP2 in the chapter select and run it.

This worked for me when any other solution did not. My decisions carried over.

I- I love you. :)

[warxsnake]

After updating the props file I was able to start episode 2. But when I tried to resume my progress, all the saves were for episode 1.

Going to do a reinstall and start from scratch to see if that helps at all....

The game has issues updating the menus. Those saves were good, they just show up as EP1 but they would have worked if you loaded them. Had that problem too exiting the game and coming back in

[Liquid Gardens]

The game has issues updating the menus. Those saves were good, they just show up as EP1 but they would have worked if you loaded them. Had that problem too exiting the game and coming back in

I think I had the same issue. After warxsnake saved Ep. 2's launch with his workaround this weekend, I played for a while and then quit, and then came to resume and was concerned that my main save game still said Episode 1; thought I had lost my Ep 2 progress. When I selected Episode 2 though it picked me up where I left off.

[Sucrizzle]

The game has issues updating the menus. Those saves were good, they just show up as EP1 but they would have worked if you loaded them. Had that problem too exiting the game and coming back in

When I had started episode 2 I used the first slot. When I went back and all the saves were labelled 'Episode 1' I thought it was a labelling issue so I used the first slot again and started episode 2. Once I started I was greeted with 'Last time on...'.

I still have the saves in a backup folder in case I can still salvage them, but I'm hoping a fresh start will fix things.

[Galan_Vaurek]

-Possible Fix-

The game stores a "prefs.prop" in two places. One in:

C:\Users\___\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead

And the other in:

D:\STEAM\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default

Or if you don't have the Steam version, its somewhere in your game DIR.
Do backups before overwriting anything.

Copy the prefs.prop file from your game's DIR folders, and overwrite it in your Documents\TTG\TWD folder

Go in game and load the save game with your finished EP1. Switch to EP2 in the chapter select and run it.

This worked for me when any other solution did not. My decisions carried over.

I wish I'd read this before.. lol I just uninstalled and reinstalled.. deleted my previous saves. I just said f*ck it.. I'll start completely fresh. If I still have the problem, I'll definitely use this as a fix.

[Tower_Mazer]

Worked you dah man.

[Cruisix]

If you want to play EP1 one again you need to move prefs.prop back to the install dir again. It's still messed up like i told in my large post earlier wich allready housed this solution but was probably TLDR for most.

so: EP1 uses prefs.prop from install dir. copy to documents for EP2 and back to install for EP1.

After each play of a EP (either one or two) i make sure the prefs.prop is the same on both dirs and so far this worked on 3 seperate playthroughs.

[Khorino]

I don't have a "prefs.prop" on the install dir. However, I noticed that Kenny being angry with me is because of the "We reason with him" option on EP1, which I chose, but I also used the "NO! [Stop him]" after that, and this is not being carried over. He called me a good friend at the end of EP1, but he's angry with me at the beginning of EP2.

[pricci23]

Not the most comp literate person around...but where exactly is the game directory pref.prop file? I ran into the same problem and I'd like to try and fix it.

[davidraybridger]

i dont understand how to do any of this with my mac on steam??? and im not good with computers :(....steam episode 2 is just a black screen. help?

[JudyOct98]

-Possible Fix-

The game stores a "prefs.prop" in two places. One in:

C:\Users\___\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead

And the other in:

D:\STEAM\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default

Or if you don't have the Steam version, its somewhere in your game DIR.
Do backups before overwriting anything.

Copy the prefs.prop file from your game's DIR folders, and overwrite it in your Documents\TTG\TWD folder

Go in game and load the save game with your finished EP1. Switch to EP2 in the chapter select and run it.

This worked for me when any other solution did not. My decisions carried over.
Hi There,
I recently did as suggested to copy the pref.props file to the game directory, or at least I think it was the right directory. EP2 is installed, but won't launch so I continued where EP1 left off. After the recap, the game loads and all I'm hearing is the audio, but still get no video. Am I doing something wrong? I rechecked the files and everything, restarted the game several times....any ideas or help please. I'd like to start the next episode.

Thanks.

[eau]

i dont understand how to do any of this with my mac on steam??? and im not good with computers :(....steam episode 2 is just a black screen. help?

same problem for me : I'm playing with the steam version on mac, but can't do the prefs.prop trick because I don't know how to locate this file on mac (if it ever exists on the mac version!)

[Galdis]

Same issue for me,

I even attempted to replay the carly doug decision and other things having the same problem.

The continue option does not progress to the next episode just restarts the last section of the episode. If i attempt to start episode two no decisions transfer over.

I am running Windows 7 64 bit, have not uninstalled or reinstalled the game, on administrator. I chose Carley but the opening credits showed that I saved Doug. I tried clicking "Continue" from Episode 1 and replaying the last scene and I also tried clicking "Play" on Episode 2, getting the same results. I recently got the game from the Steam Summer Sale, after Episode 2 was released.

I start the game, click "Play" and select "Game 1" which is my only file. Although I completed Episode 1, it says Episode 1 from the menu. I click on Game 1 and then click Play, which takes me to the Episode 1 screen. I am able to view my stats which accurately reflect my choices from Episode 1. When I click "Continue" from this screen, it just replays the last scene from Episode 1 and brings me back to the main menu. When I click the arrow to go to Episode 2, I click "Play" and get the same results - the opening cutscene talks about Doug when I saved Carley. I have the Steam version and can't actually run the game as "Admin" from the Desktop icon but I tried running Steam as admin which didn't work.

I then saw warxsnake's post:

-Possible Fix-

The game stores a "prefs.prop" in two places. One in:

C:\Users\___\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead

And the other in:

D:\STEAM\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default

Or if you don't have the Steam version, its somewhere in your game DIR.
Do backups before overwriting anything.

Copy the prefs.prop file from your game's DIR folders, and overwrite it in your Documents\TTG\TWD folder

Go in game and load the save game with your finished EP1. Switch to EP2 in the chapter select and run it.

This worked for me when any other solution did not. My decisions carried over.

This worked for me. Move prefs.prop from your directory (either in your install folder or your Steam/common folder) into the folder in your documents. A great big thanks to warxsnake!

[MEMANIAsama]

Ok, so you still have to copy the pref files, regardless, because the episodes save them in different places... wow, smooth move Telltale! You couldn't release a hotfix for that, like right off the bat?

Anyways, here's my real question.

My wife just played through the game. She'll probably play Episode 2 sometime soon, but then there's a huge wait for Episode 3 at that point. I might want to play Episode 1 & 2. It sounds like there are multiple slots for saves? Is that true? I'm worried about overwriting my wife's decisions here. Advice?

[eau]

For the mac users :
Okay, here are the exact steps. If they don't work for you, complain loudly to Telltale that I shouldn't be having to fix their game for them. :)

1. In the Finder, click the Go menu, choose Go to Folder...
2. In the box that appears, type ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/the walking dead/TheWalkingDead.app/Contents/Resources/Pack
3. You should now be in the correct folder! If it can't find that folder, again, complain to Telltale (unless you didn't buy the game on Steam or put your Steam folder somewhere weird).
4. Copy (not move) the prefs.prop file from the 'default' folder to the 'WalkingDead102' folder.
5. Start the game.

It worked for me !

[zooglea]

Thanks for the fix! Here's where I found it on a Mac: Library/Application Support/Telltale Games/The Walking Dead. Delete the prefs.prop file and you're zombie hunting can continue. Still buggy while move from chapter to chapter, but better than a black screen and crickets. :D

[zooglea]

For the mac users :


It worked for me !

Tried it this way too, and got it working again.:D

[qreqorious]

I registered here on the forums just to reply here and say THIS WORKED! THANK YOU! Some of these companies needs to hire some of the gamers and pay them for their support to players. Dont sell a product if you cant back it up...

[Kim84]

I registered here on the forums just to reply here and say THIS WORKED! THANK YOU! Some of these companies needs to hire some of the gamers and pay them for their support to players. Dont sell a product if you cant back it up...

^this

Thanks you saved my night!