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  1. #1

    FarCry 4 Bug/Loop

    Escort Mission, the one with the boat.
    I get near the place where I have to get in the boat, and "Mission Failed, Boat not Protected".
    Game load and it's the same, mission failed.
    I can't fast travel, i can't abort the mission. Restarting the game or the pc doesn't do the trick.
    What can I do?
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  2. #2

    This is well known "corrupt save looping issue"...
    The only hope is that the game haven't overwritten all your save files (you have at least two on your hard drive) with corrupted ones.

    First verify your game files:



    Then try to do the following:

    1. Turn cloud synchronization off (uncheck the box near the option "Enable Cloud Save Synchronization.." in Uplay general settings).

    2. Locate your FC4 saves folder ("420" or "856" or something else, read the instructions here) and back it up in a different place.

    3. Open this folder - you will see a set of numbered pairs of *.save and *.save.upload files (sometimes it's just *.save files). Pick only one of the *.save files and delete all the rest (obviously, you need an older save before the glitch happened). Now, if the number in the file's name is different from "1", rename it to "1". Sometimes there is a *.save.temp file, you can use it, just rename it to 1.save.

    4. Load the game, and see if it fixed (press "Escape" and "Abandon mission", if you need). If it didn't work, exit the game, restore the content of FC4 saves folder from the backup you made in step 2, and try to use different save file as described in step 3.

    In the future I recommend to turn cloud synchronization off permanently and instead regularly backup your saves as described in my guide.
    If you do so you can always roll back to one of your older saves that wasn't corrupt without losing the entire progress...

    There is also a possibility to recover some of your older saves through general system restore to a previous restore point.

    If nothing helps, you can also take one of my saves (I have more than 100 saves along the game). The last one is at 90%, 3 campaign missions left, all outposts and fortresses are liberated, 2 Shangri-La missions and Yak farm left, as well as number of side missions.
    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ollection2.rar
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  3. #3
    Thank you sooooo much! One of my save was'nt corrupted, so i can keep playing!
    THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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  4. #4
    You're welcome, I'm glad we caught it before it was too late.
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