Description
Update breaks game for new players with default steam settings
Game Version
2.8.1
What version do you use?
Steam
What expansions do you have installed?
Synthetic Dawn, Utopia, Leviathans Story Pack, Apocalypse
Do you have mods enabled?
No
Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
I just started playing Stellaris 3 days ago. I was running 2.8.1 and still in my very first game ever, but coming along nicely. By default steam installs all game updates automatically, and this never lead to game breaking results before for me, so I never changed that. I had heard some new DLC was coming out and everyone was excited about it, but since I just started playing the game, I didn't pay it too much attention. But to my surprise, when I launched the game today, my save-game broke. A bunch of planets had buildings disabled after loading and my whole economy was screwed up. After asking on discord, everyone called me stupid for installing the update, which is the default steam setting, and using the "resume" button because clearly it's stupid to use it..... (why is it even there then). Clearly experienced players knew this would happen, but for new players, who aren't on top of forums, discord, etc, this is quite an annoying problem since my whole progress was gone and I had to start again. Game breaking changes should not be auto-updated by steam, or the game should offer the option to choose between the old and new version with an explanation why. Apparently, if I hadn't clicked the "Resume" button, there would have been information telling me about this, but I just use the "Resume" button always. At the very least a warning before loading the save game that continuing will break it, and a link on how to downgrade the game would have been nice and prevented me from b0rking the savegame. It wouldn't be great UX, but this is much worse. At least I'm lucky that I decided not to run Iron mode, so I could go back to an older version and still continue after downgrading.
Steps to reproduce the issue.
Install 2.8.1 with default steam settings. Play game, let steam auto update the game, continue playing the old save game.
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Game Version
2.8.1
What version do you use?
Steam
What expansions do you have installed?
Synthetic Dawn, Utopia, Leviathans Story Pack, Apocalypse
Do you have mods enabled?
No
Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
I just started playing Stellaris 3 days ago. I was running 2.8.1 and still in my very first game ever, but coming along nicely. By default steam installs all game updates automatically, and this never lead to game breaking results before for me, so I never changed that. I had heard some new DLC was coming out and everyone was excited about it, but since I just started playing the game, I didn't pay it too much attention. But to my surprise, when I launched the game today, my save-game broke. A bunch of planets had buildings disabled after loading and my whole economy was screwed up. After asking on discord, everyone called me stupid for installing the update, which is the default steam setting, and using the "resume" button because clearly it's stupid to use it..... (why is it even there then). Clearly experienced players knew this would happen, but for new players, who aren't on top of forums, discord, etc, this is quite an annoying problem since my whole progress was gone and I had to start again. Game breaking changes should not be auto-updated by steam, or the game should offer the option to choose between the old and new version with an explanation why. Apparently, if I hadn't clicked the "Resume" button, there would have been information telling me about this, but I just use the "Resume" button always. At the very least a warning before loading the save game that continuing will break it, and a link on how to downgrade the game would have been nice and prevented me from b0rking the savegame. It wouldn't be great UX, but this is much worse. At least I'm lucky that I decided not to run Iron mode, so I could go back to an older version and still continue after downgrading.
Steps to reproduce the issue.
Install 2.8.1 with default steam settings. Play game, let steam auto update the game, continue playing the old save game.
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