It wasn’t supposed to be like this. The Last of Us is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated titles of the year, with many eager gamers across the globe heading to stores to pick up their copies today. Unfortunately, the launch has been plagued by a disastrous bug, which can cost you hours of progress as a result.
The glitch first popped up on NeoGAF, but has been slowly infecting Twitter over the past few hours. Basically, it pertains to the autosave feature in the game, which has a tendency to fail. If you continue playing during that time, there’s a high risk that you'll lose your progress. We never had any issues with our debug review code, so we’re assuming that this is caused by the title’s day-one patch.
Naughty Dog’s yet to comment on the issue, though we’re sure that it will have a solution ready soon. In the meantime, the only real way to ensure that you haven’t been affected is by pausing the game and checking the “last save” message. If it gets stuck on “autosaving, please wait”, it’s probably time to turn the title off, as you’re not going to be able to record your progress.
Have you been affected by this issue? Have you happened upon a temporary solution? Let us know in the comments section below.
Update: According to Naughty Dog, this issue has now been solved.
[source neogaf.com]
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What an absolute bummer!
I just want to play the game. It's at 56% and won't start.
It really is. I got through the prologue, and got the bug. None of my progress had been saved. Played through again, rebooted, game had saved an hour of play. Now I'm stuck because the autosave fails at the same point every time. Crying shame, as the game is brilliant.
Maybe all the media outlets gave this game a 10/10 a little too soon? I know it will be fixed, but how did this not happen to anyone's review copy?
@SuperKMx Absolutely crazy! The debug code was absolutely fine — it crashed once, and that's it. No saving issues or anything. I've no idea how these kind of problems slip through QA.
@XCWarrior I can confirm that this was not a problem on review code. I've no idea what's going on.
@Dosx001 Have you purchased the PSN version?
@Dosx001 its at 68% the point it becomes playable
If the problem was (maybe) caused by the day one patch, then maybe we could just refuse the update (press O instead of X when it says to update) or disable internet connection in PS3 settings before playing. I'll give this a try and see how it works.
@DVD_Sandwich It's a worth a try.
There is a temporary fix it seems. According to a reddit reader instead of pressing continue game, you press load game and it should have the latest save. I may be wrong.
I wiped the 1.01 Update and am about to start the game up - I'll keep you guys informed if this keeps me from getting the bug or not. I do know that this will keep my playtime offline for the time being, which isn't an issue for me.
Is this for DL, disc or both?
@rjejr Both it seems.
I'd like a fix before I start it please (got everything downloaded and installed ready.
OMG this is crazy. I remember same thing happend with Resident Evil 6 patch 1.01. And Capcom fixed everything in 24 hours.
From Reddit:
If you think you can remember to save yourself, autosave can be disabled when loading a game by pressing O, it should warn you that autosaving will be disabled. You press yes and the game won’t auto save anymore.
Yap, got infected too. What a shane... But I've managed to pass throuh that bug.
Pop out the disc, delete game and save data, shut down ps3. Start again an it worked! However, it was 8 min in the game so I could afford to delete saves. If that happens later in the game, I'd cry.
Friend of mine had absolutely no problem wit the game. So far.
So playing offline seems to help.
@RetryAgainEric That's what I'm currently doing. I've been held up in a phone call, but I plan to keep updating here to see if it works or not.
Soooo lame... The game is amazing other wise.
must be a day one patch.....my copy which is from last week is still working fine and im about 6 hours in auto save no issues.
EDIT: btw i recently played yesterday so if there was a patch today that most likely is the culprit.
@JayArr Interesting. If it's not the patch, that probably sounds like the best solution for now. Thanks for posting.
This is why I normally never buy games when they first come out. I'm so upset right now...
According to Naughty Dog's twitter ( https://twitter.com/Naughty_Dog ) the issue was on their end, and it's been fixed already
@catcher82611 Thanks for that mate!
I've been playing offline without an issue, so far. I guess it's time to head back out of the game to download the patch again and get back at it.
I started over it's working fine now online.
Glad to hear they got it fixed.
I was 4 hours in and the pause menu said autosave in progress waited 20 mins didnt get fixed so I turned my playstation off tried to load the save and it said I was 12 minutes in on the prologue I will no doubt play it again but it just sucks
Got to the Ranch House and the bug is acting up to the point of cant leave the house at the end and I have to start over the entire chapter to load anything. It has been an issue several times before this but I have always been able to just kind of work around it. I can't wait for the patch because this game has been great for the most part.
I have had issues with this game over five times. I'm actually pretty annoyed with it. I keep trying to find an article about my problem but i just keep finding this one, so i'm going to assume this is the one messing with my game. The problem i'm having is this. I will play the game through, and just randomly the game will stop working, Not freeze or anything. But just glitch out and not let me advance into the next part of the level. I'm not exactly sure if this is the autosave bug messing with it. But i've lost over a days gameplay because of it. Now heres the real kicker, Once i turn off the game to reload. If i hit continue or ''load save'' the game won't load. it'll sit there at the loading screen at either 58.93%, 89.40% or 100.00% but the game won't load or save. When i go to the ''Chapters'' section and reload the entire chapter. The way i need to go to advance is glitched out and doesn't load all the way. So the pathway isn't there, and it seems as if i'm underneath the map of the level. Please fix this.
@TheBeatingDrum Yeah that's what mine is doing but now its having a hard time loading any chapters at all. I hope it doesn't progress any worse and theres gotta be a patch on the way.
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