At one point while playing Witcher 3 (PS4) I tried to manually save my game and got a message like, "You can't do that at this time."
At first, I assumed it was because I had started in on a mission. No spoilers, but I was on my way to back to the baron after the part where you ring a bell. I went through all the stuff you do there, then set out on the next part of the mission, still unable to save. Now, just before confronting the baron, I fast traveled back to the starting area herbalist. I bought a few things from her I'd been unable to find, then went back. The load going back took a really long time. Just before I shut the console down, it loaded up. That's when I started getting the "You can't" message.
I noticed my last manual save was from nearly an hour back, even though I had saved after the herbalist before fast traveling. My auto save was more recent. When I loaded the auto save, though it had a current timestamp, I noticed I had lost quite a chunk of progress.
Tried loading other saves, encountered the long load again. This time, after five minutes I decided to close the application. It wouldn't close. Tried again. Nope. Tried to shut down the PS4, couldn't get the menu. Then the console locked. I had to hold the button on the console face until the system shut down.
I reloaded and selected the most recent save, got in and tried saving my game. Got an error saying my save was corrupted and had to be deleted. It deleted the old save and wrote a new one. I've lost maybe an hour or so, so it's not the end of the world. Thing is, I'm afraid to even keep playing now.
I've heard this bug was on Xbox, but I'm playing on PS4. I always rotate my saves, manually saving over the oldest save most of the time. I am a bit obsessive about saving. I just noticed that my damned saves were not going to the cloud, so had to go delete a bunch of online saves to make room. (Note: buy a damned flash drive).
TL;DR
This is a warning for anyone getting into the game. There is a save bug that can corrupt your save on BOTH consoles. Can't speak for PC. Rotate your saves, back them up. If you experience an abnormally long load time, you may be experiencing this bug. You will probably lose some progress, but hopefully you can roll back your save. I have read that you may have to COMPLETELY POWER DOWN your console and restart. I did this because my console locked, but I read later that it may be necessary (Xbox One).
Anyone else have problems? Anyone unable to recover? Will this bug likely hit multiple times in a playthrough? Anyway, be warned. Maybe don't buy this game until it's been patched again. I took two days off of work for a long weekend to play this. Really hope I don't lose a bigger chunk of progress.
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