How To Use Downloaded Saves

So, I've been getting into this beautiful gem of a game again (So happy it's on Steam now! :woohoo:), and I wanted to skip ahead of act 0 and most of act 1, since I recently played past those parts before I got the Steam version. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any instructions on how to use the save file I downloaded. Could someone please explain for me?

Just put the .sav file into the "saves" folder inside the game.

If there is not saves folder, create one and put the file in there.

schmatzler wrote: Just put the .sav file into the "saves" folder inside the game.

If there is not saves folder, create one and put the file in there.

Thank you, Sir, and thank you very much for restoring one of my favorite sites on the web! I must say it looks much more... modern, for lack of a better word.

However, this did not work at first, for some reason. I used "verify integrity of game cache" within Steam, and it downloaded most of the game's files again. It turns out that many of them were missing!

So, I try it again, and it still doesn't work. Was it supposed to go in the main game directory?

Not exactly in the main directory, it goes into

C:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Independence War 2 - Edge of Chaos/saves/

schmatzler wrote: Not exactly in the main directory, it goes into

C:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Independence War 2 - Edge of Chaos/saves/

I probably should have specified, but I already tried that.

I guess there isn't much hope of this method working. I recall there being a way to skip forward in the story using a setting in flux.ini. Do you know what it is?

I just checked - some of the gamesaves aren't named correctly.

Make sure to put it in the save folder and rename it to "savegame0.sav" - it loaded for me then. I got a save file called "savegame06.sav" which didn't work without renaming.