Just for future knowledge and in the hopes that this game will go down in history as other ARPGs
Before any season patch, make a backup of your SteamApp folder of last epoch along with
“C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Eleventh Hour Games”
Just restore the appdata folder to match whichever SteamApp version you want to run
I.e. If you are running v1.17 harbingers, then restore the 1.17 appdata folder to match.
You can always run your favorite season (yes in full offline mode). Whenever you wish
Here is current steam 1.2 running along side the harbingers exe file with the --offline flag
Make a shortcut on your desktop to wherever you have stored the backup such as:
“D:\Last Epoch 1-17 Harbingers\Last Epoch\Last Epoch.exe” --offline https://imgur.com/a/Yut0gg5.png
Your appdata folder is what contains the full offline saves.
But unless you’re taking a copy of the game data itself, just making a backup of the save data isn’t giing to mean you’d be able to play prior leagues, just prior characters.
You are correct. Sorry i may not have been clear in my original post. I do state to back up the steamapp folder along with the appdata folder.
Yes,
Backup the actual game install folder
Backup the Appdata folder (path in original post)
You must restore both folders to replay any version of the game you wish.
This presents its own problems if you want to swap between current and past season. But a simple dual boot system can be one solution.
It’s just really refreshing that this exists. In the future it’s Season 15 and you wish you could relive the glory days of Tombs of the Erased. You can.
Would be kind of cool if they made a True Offline - Season Selector option.
Edit. Even in my original post the screenshot i posted doesn’t really convey what i’ve said. Here is a better example: https://i.imgur.com/sbL5j5r.png
Both live version, and backup version running together
That would require to keep game data for all the seasons, which would inflate the game size by a lot. You would soon have a 100GB+ folder just for an option barely anyone would use.
This shouldn’t really be a thing that EHG has to do, this should be an option from steam, allowing you to reinstall older versions. So you should suggest it to them. Though I doubt they would, because, again, it would massively inflate storage required.
You are aware that steam has to redownload the entire game when you change the version option, right? It doesn’t keep all that stuff on your machine all the time.
You used the CK3 as an example of having access to all the options in an attempt to contradict the other poster talking about how much storage space it would take, effectively moving the goalpost.
The other poster was responding to the OP describing everything being saved on the user’s hard-drive. I get what you are saying and you’re technically correct, but there is a disconnect between your example and the conversation. For clarity’s sake, the CK3 post should have included the data storage benefit of not needing all that data to be stored locally.
Hence why I said “Pretty sure its on devs to do that”. Nothing more to it. If I were to talk about users storage space, I would quote the part I’m replying to; but I didn’t since I wasn’t talking about users storage space.
I don’t know how steam deals with pricing, but does steam not charge developers/publishers more for larger games than smaller ones? Granted I’ve had some background in warehouse accounting & it’s likely not the same, but that’s where my head goes…
From what I was able to gather when I researched that some time ago - no. At least no public documentation mentions additional fees for another branch. Here is a link for Steamworks docs on branches - Branches (Betas) (Steamworks Documentation)
