Unlockables Not Shared Online

[budswell]

Hi,
Not 100% his is a bug, but I thought the point of an online profile was that things such as the unocks (just Wilder and Arcmage for me so far) would be available.
But I'm now on a different computer, I signed in in the game, but I cannot create an Arcmage. I didn't try at first, I created a new character (after signing in) and then when he was in the olf forest I got the message about having unlocked the Wilder, but I already had???
My character is saved online and everything, but the unlocks are not available.
I assume saved games are not meant to be available online.
This is all with beta 16.

[jhauser42]

I had the same issue. It seems that beta 16 is not updating the file allow_build.profile. After realizing that my unlocks from one machine were not available on another, I ran an older version of the game (beta 13) and had all my unlocks available. I then ran beta 16 again and my unlocks were still available.

So, it looks to me as if the allow_build.profile file was updated with beta 13 but not 16. Try running an older version on the non-updated computer and then running beta 16 and see what happens.

[budswell]

OK, on a related note, does this also affect the other statistics and achievements. e.g. Kill 1,000 humanoids. Are the totals between the two computers being agregated, or did I effectively restart when I swithched computers?

[greycat]

The counters for reaver/pyro/cryo unlock are not shared among computers. They're stored locally.

So yeah, you've "started over".

[darkgod]

To people for whom the sync'ing is not sync'ing; do you have cheat mode enabled ? altered some game files ?
When you start a game; does it says it disables the profile ?

[jhauser42]

No, none of that is enabled. I can reproduce the situation consistently.

If I edit the allow_build.profile and remove my unlocks, then install a new copy of beta 16 in a new directory, it does not update my unlocks. I am only allowed to use whatever unlocks I leave in the file. If I then run my already installed copy of beta 13 or beta15b my allow_build.profile is updated and I can use my unlocks in any version of the game including beta 16.

The other thing to note is that this is only happening if I unlock something on one computer and then try to access the unlock from another computer. Beta 16 does not seem to be updating the allow_build.profile.

All of this is being done on Windows XP computers.

[jhauser42]

I am seeing the same thing with beta 17. It will not update the allow_build.profile, but everything from beta 15b and earlier does.

[darkgod]

I'm afraid I found the bug a few horus after the release.
I did not want to delay b17 though, not knowing how much free time I have until the year's end :/

[jhauser42]

Good to know that you found it. And, since there is an easy work-around and it is not a game-crashing bug, having it wait for the next release is not a big deal, in my opinion.