takes a bit of work to get functioning and is not a 100% save. one of the two saves is in ng+ and provides you with most locations and you start with a good deal of stuff, however you do not have the climax hex and you can only get it in ng, which means you cannot get the achievement for having all hexes. you also do not start with any covenants leveled up or any items needed for the covenants.
the other save does not really have anything, and all the npcs are dead.
all things considered the save is helpful, but you will still need to progress the game on a new character to actually get 100% :/
So i was stuck too coz the save game was coming up corrupted and after a lot of googling this worked for me:
Step by step guide:
Note - Be careful not to select "Yes" in the "save data not loaded correctly" dialogue bar, unless you have your backup saves in another folder.
1 - Have your corrupted backup saves on your desktop 2 - Start a new game on Dark Souls 2, as soon as you spawn in Things Betwixt quit to the main menu, but do not quit the program. 3 - Click the screen again bringing you to the main menu. 4 - Alt-Tab out of the game without quitting it and navigate to the folder C:\Users"user"\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsII\ 5 - Go into the folder in this folder that has a bunch of random numbers on it 6 - With the game still on the main menu, take your old corrupted Dark Souls 2 saves from your desktop (should look like "DARKSII0000.sl2") and overwrite the newly created one in this folder. STILL KEEP A COPY OF THE OLD CORRUPTED SAVE JUST IN CASE. 7 - Now, go back into the still running Dark Souls 2 game, and click on "Continue". 8 - Try loading the newly created character. This should fail, and bring you back to the "Continue" menu. However now, you should see your old saves. 9 - Try loading one of your old saves. This will fail. Now go back one screen to the main menu, and click on "New Game" 10 - Once again, quit the game once you spawn in Things Betwixt, and now you should be able to load your old corrupted backup saves.
If this save file doesn't work for you here's another file if you just want to play the DLC. This is for "Scholar Of The First Sin EDITION" https://www.dropbox.com/s/2uk4ptlvbfuwtzo/DS2SOFS0000.sl2?dl=0
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the other save does not really have anything, and all the npcs are dead.
all things considered the save is helpful, but you will still need to progress the game on a new character to actually get 100% :/
Step by step guide:
Note - Be careful not to select "Yes" in the "save data not loaded
correctly" dialogue bar, unless you have your backup saves in another
folder.
1 - Have your corrupted backup saves on your desktop
2 - Start a new game on Dark Souls 2, as soon as you spawn in Things Betwixt quit to the main menu, but do not quit the program.
3 - Click the screen again bringing you to the main menu.
4 - Alt-Tab out of the game without quitting it and navigate to the folder C:\Users"user"\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsII\
5 - Go into the folder in this folder that has a bunch of random numbers on it
6 - With the game still on the main menu, take your old corrupted Dark
Souls 2 saves from your desktop (should look like "DARKSII0000.sl2") and
overwrite the newly created one in this folder. STILL KEEP A COPY OF
THE OLD CORRUPTED SAVE JUST IN CASE.
7 - Now, go back into the still running Dark Souls 2 game, and click on "Continue".
8 - Try loading the newly created character. This should fail, and bring
you back to the "Continue" menu. However now, you should see your old
saves.
9 - Try loading one of your old saves. This will fail. Now go back one screen to the main menu, and click on "New Game"
10 - Once again, quit the game once you spawn in Things Betwixt, and now
you should be able to load your old corrupted backup saves.
If this save file doesn't work for you here's another file if you just want to play the DLC. This is for "Scholar Of The First Sin EDITION"
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2uk4ptlvbfuwtzo/DS2SOFS0000.sl2?dl=0