What happened to my East Wind Campaign saves?

[Electricleash 133]

Sooo the campaign Episode 2 - 'Adapt' has just arrived on Steam, decided to wait for it (instead of Dev-branching it) and now I find that my Episode 1 -'Survive' progress/saves has been mysteriously removed from my user profile.

Oddly (while kind of logical I guess) I can't start Episode 2 until I've completed Episode 1... which I've played through 3 times now.

While playing through it again is not the an awful prospect, It's a little irritating when I really just want to spend my day off diving into the new stuff that I've waited patiently for a couple of months for...

While I realize there is some 'cheat' to open up the campaign tree, I shouldn't really have to, should I? I feel that my personal continuity has been derailed somewhat.

Is there a particular reason for deleting our campaign progress? Looking for an official answer here not speculation.

Regards

E

[tom3kb 15]

Use "campaign" cheat in campaign menu if you want to unlock all missions and start from 2nd episode.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA:_Cheats

[Electricleash 133]

Appreciate that, but the problem with this is that it unlocks ALL the campaign missions including those in the new episodes.

Edit:

In addition, if I start playing through, with the unlock cheat, it will only let me play the one mission then send me back to the campaign screen which has now reverted to having no saves.

There must be some bug in the campaign saving procedure.

One difference in my setup is that my user files are located on a drive separate to my install directory. Not sure if this might make a difference as it doesn't seem to with the single missions and scenarios.

C: Arma3 install.

E: Is my User files and Saves.

These appear to hold the campaign save.

Saved -> A3 -> Missions_F_EPA

Saved -> A3 -> Missions_F_EPB

Edited January 21, 2014 by Electricleash

[tom3kb 15]

When you unlock all missions You must choose first mission from new campaign and click restart not the 2nd option. When you choose Restart you will start campaign from this mission and then play each mission one by one.

[Electricleash 133]

Alright, I'll give that a try, thanks Tom.

[nicolasroger 11]

I got the same problem. Lost my first campain.

Anyway I replayed through it but I think this might be a bug.

[MissionCreep 12]

You can just go start each mission and do the endmission cheat for each mission (please verify, but off the top of my head its)

<L-Shift><L-Ctl><Num Pad minus> endmission

Only takes a few seconds per mission.