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All arsenal loadouts wiped out after sudden PC shutdown

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So I was previewing a scenario earlier and the power went out, and so did my PC. After starting up and everything, I booted up Arma 3 to get that "Welcome" message you get when you play it for the first time. I shrugged it off and went into the editor and saw that all of the arsenal loadouts were gone. Everything else seems to be intact, the campaign and any other scenarios are marked as done and everything. I validated the steam files, started up again and got the upcoming updates (Nexus, expansion) message, and yeah, the arsenal is still empty of loadouts.

 

Any leads?

 

EDIT: VR Training seems to have been reset as well as my best times on Firing Drills and lap times.

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Have a look inside 'C:\Users\YOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAME\Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\Your_ARMA_PROFILENAME\' and see if there is a file called 'YOUR_ARMA_USERNAME.vars.Arma3Profile'. I believe this is where your Arsenal Loadouts are saved. If it is there, then check its contents (though don't be alarmed if its mostly illegible - a snippet of mine looks like the below:

Item82 ½0  Item83 Å’2  Item84 3  Item85 m3  Item86 *5  Item87 –5  Item88 6  Item89 €6  Item90 õ6  Item91 ]7  Item92 Ä7  Item93 68  Item94 ½8  Item95 %9  Item96 â:  Item97 R;  Item98 ½;  Item99 eH  Item100 ¡)  Item101 *  Item102 *  Item103 ++  Item104 ‘+  Item105 ,  Item106 €,  Item107 î,  Item108 ^-  Item109 Ç-  Item110 g2  Item111 Ñ2  Item112 :3  Item113 §3  Item114 4  Item115 Ä4  Item116 .5  Item117 —5  Item118 þ5  Item119 d6  Item120 Û6  Item121 T7  Item122 ½7  Item123 {9  Item124 ç9  Item125 P:  Item126 À:  Item127 *;  Item128 ‘;  Item129 <  Item130 |<  Item131 é<  Item132 N=  Item133 ·=  Item134 $>  Item135 ÞE  Item136 MF  Item137 ¶F  Item138 $G  Item139 ñH  Item140 fI  Item141 ÉI  Item142 AJ  Item143 «J  Item144 K  Item145 K  Item146 ôK  Item147 nL  Item148 ÙL  Item149 AM  Item150 ­M  Item151 N  Item152 â€N  Item153 O  Item154 iO  Item155 ÛO  Item156 EP  Item157 ³P  Item158 Q  Item159 Q  Item160 ìQ  Item161 WR  Item162 ÃR  Item163 =S  Item164 Ç|  Item165 B}  Item166 ¿}  Item167 *~  Item168 —~  Item169   Item170 t  Item171 D  Item172 ®  Item173 ‚  Item174 ‚  Item175 ç‚  Item176 ¯„  Item177 }†  Item178 ð†  Item179 Y#

Anyway, if the file is there AND has similar content I'm not sure what to suggest. However, the more likely issue is the powercut caused Windows to (for whatever reason) either delete the file or corrupt it to be unrecognisable by the game), as such you're SOL.

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Yeah I do have the file and it looks like yours (even though I opened it with notepad since I doubt I have any tools for it). It just seems pretty weird.

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I've had this happen when I cleared Steam's cache with any anti-virus program.

Perhaps your anti-virus does that automatically every restart.

 

I don't know how to recover it, though.

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I've had this happen when I cleared Steam's cache with any anti-virus program.

Perhaps your anti-virus does that automatically every restart.

 

I don't know how to recover it, though.

 

It doesn't happen after every restart/shut down. Best guess is that something got corrupted. But it's fine, all good things must come to an end.

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This happened to me too yesterday. My user missions are still there. If yours are you could try importing your units into virtual arsenal.

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