As the title suggests, I’d like to know if the zoos we create in the beta will be transferable to the finished game once it comes out? I know I’m going to spend a long time playing the beta, I’m just trying to decide if I want to only experiment, or if I want to really try building something I can come back to! Thanks!
Are beta saves transferable?
- Thread starter Knighterrant
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Zookeeper Thrust from Bradford, who has been playing the game for a couple of weeks, now, says that beta saves are fully tranferable.
I highly doubt it, and I say this because it's a limited beta that takes place in predetermined and limited versions of the game. The Beta will be in the style of the tutorials/career mode with the ability to build whatever, but my point is I'm thinking they're running it like an early demo which wouldn't sink up with the new build that would come out on release. I could be totally wrong however.
No one has ever played it before this week, so how could he be playing it for a couple weeks?
FD's betas are separate from the main game and saves cannot be transferred from beta as far as I know.
Cmdr Thrust is well known for getting everything a few months before the rest of us for some reason.
If it's anything like Planet Coaster, then I'd guess the answer is yes.
I'm still building my Blast Point Resort park in Planco that I started about a week after Alpha was launched in March 2016.
Yes, some things didn't work the way they did after final release, but after a bit of adapting it, I just carried on with it.
And we already know that Frontier have learned loads from making Planco so I reckon that even with the new version of the Cobra Engine, our Beta Planet Zoo parks will be fine.
I'm still building my Blast Point Resort park in Planco that I started about a week after Alpha was launched in March 2016.
Yes, some things didn't work the way they did after final release, but after a bit of adapting it, I just carried on with it.
And we already know that Frontier have learned loads from making Planco so I reckon that even with the new version of the Cobra Engine, our Beta Planet Zoo parks will be fine.
Yaffle
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Chris is referring to Commander Thrust from Bradford. Immortalised (and created by) Flibberflops back in 2014 when Elite was in beta.
I don't mind if they're not. As soon as the full game to PC released you couldn't play them because the spawn point had changed. Beta for me will be like quickly creating a park getting a feel for the game.
I'm guessing this is something they can't really answer because it will depend hugely on the feedback they receive, the changes they make, the bugs they have to fix and the re-balancing they need to do. If they said 'yes you should be able to keep your saves' and then something game breaking needed fixing and it wasn't possible then people would be up in arms. I'm sure if they can make it happen they will but it's not something I would count on. Given in the beta we will have limited access to content (no steam workshop etc.) then they may use a completely separate build of the game.
