So, I made a great remake for the Forgotten Treasures 2 contest. I had it done over a week ago because I just started school. I didn't want the map to get in the way of my studies. Anyway, I just saw that the contest is up, so I loaded up the map to take screenshots, and there was nothing but a blank canvas. First of all, I'm pretty pissed off that all of my hard work is now gone. Secondly, how the Hell did this happen? How does a file go from having a completed map, to having nothing? Has anyone else run into this? I never saved any other maps under the same name, and that's the only reasonable explanation I can think of. I've concluded then, that it must be some kind of glitch. To make a long story short; my map is gone, I'm pissed. If anyone knows what I did to trigger this, please tell me. Thanks.
actually I've seen multiple post on this subject both here and the bungie forum. it hasn't happened to me and i hope it never does. but that sucks dude hope you figure out what the problem is.
well, i didn't figure out how it happened, but I found a solution. One of my iterations of the map was still in the temporary files. and it was the last one. had i played one more game, it would be gone. problem barely solved. so, if you ever have this problem, look in the temporary files menu and pray that it's there. I got super lucky. MODERATOR: this can be locked. thanks
I found that the game does something weird when you quit your Forge session. It "saves" your map whether you want it to or not. And by "saves" I mean that it makes a temporary version of the map. If you reload the map right away, it will be the version of the map that you had when you quit out. If you load another map and then re-load your Forge map, it will load the last save point. I don't know why the game does it, maybe in case you quit out on accident without saving. So for example, say you build a map and call it Map. Then you save it. Then you place a tank and quit without saving. If you start Forge again, it will have the tank there even though you did not save your map. But if you loaded another Forge World variant or anything else after you quit out, and then loaded up Map again, it would have no tank.