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光雄䝿 30 Dec, 2021 @ 5:24am
Stranger quits game & corrupts data
I've played the game since yesterday, up to the point where my group meets the knight around Act... IV, I think? However, at the point where I was supposed to name the character, the whole game just quits at the Load screen. I loaded the profile and the Stranger is nowhere in my group. I recuited a Knight in the underground town, then went to check the Group, then the Command Prompt popped up and closed on its own multiple times before I was given an error, crashing the whole game.

Now I can't load my profile anymore. The game has quitted unexpectedly multiple times before, once when I tried to start a level, and I believe once when I tried to quit to the main menu. The only way around this is to start over from scratch and pray that the game doesn't quit on me at a Name Entry screen again.

At least I can get a joke out of this: ''I'm the Knight that crashes the game we are in! Bahahaha!''
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Originally posted by Wisp:
Sorry it took so long for anyone to get around to this. Apparently, a decade on, the game can sometimes crash on newer versions of Windows and Steam Deck. If this happens during a cutscene you were intended to re-recruit a character on in NewGame+/Play+. there's a rare chance a character might not rejoin. Luckily, it's an easy fix!

1. Close the game.
2. Right click Defender's Quest in your Steam library and temporarily turn off Cloud Saves so they don't interfere.
3. Go to C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\LevelUpLabs\DefendersQuest
4. Create a copy of your save file somewhere, just in case!
5. Right click your save file and select Open With -> Notepad.
6. CTRL+F classes_hidden to get to the right spot.
7. Delete the relevant line of the missing unit above <\plus_classes_hidden>

If you're, for example, missing the Dragon Niru you would delete <_class id="dragon"/>

8. Save the file, load the game up, problem should be solved. :bakal:

If, on the other hand, you're not in NG+/Play+... things are a little more difficult.

Look for a section like
<class_entry value="berserker">
instead. If you're missing Markos, what you want to do is to find the spot below Ice Mages and paste this in:

<class_entry value="knight"> <character handle="markos" hero="true" name="Markos"> <info level="1" xp="0"/> <skills points="0"> <skill type="attack" level="1" id="swing"/> </skills> <colors values=""/> <target chance="false" default="null" effect="false" boss="true" cheap="false"/> </character> </class_entry>

I think that should work. This is four years removed from you, so likely not of help to you, but hopefully someone.
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Vinticore 28 Oct, 2023 @ 11:38pm 
Jupp I got the exact same problem
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Wisp 4 Feb @ 10:03pm 
Sorry it took so long for anyone to get around to this. Apparently, a decade on, the game can sometimes crash on newer versions of Windows and Steam Deck. If this happens during a cutscene you were intended to re-recruit a character on in NewGame+/Play+. there's a rare chance a character might not rejoin. Luckily, it's an easy fix!

1. Close the game.
2. Right click Defender's Quest in your Steam library and temporarily turn off Cloud Saves so they don't interfere.
3. Go to C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\LevelUpLabs\DefendersQuest
4. Create a copy of your save file somewhere, just in case!
5. Right click your save file and select Open With -> Notepad.
6. CTRL+F classes_hidden to get to the right spot.
7. Delete the relevant line of the missing unit above <\plus_classes_hidden>

If you're, for example, missing the Dragon Niru you would delete <_class id="dragon"/>

8. Save the file, load the game up, problem should be solved. :bakal:

If, on the other hand, you're not in NG+/Play+... things are a little more difficult.

Look for a section like
<class_entry value="berserker">
instead. If you're missing Markos, what you want to do is to find the spot below Ice Mages and paste this in:

<class_entry value="knight"> <character handle="markos" hero="true" name="Markos"> <info level="1" xp="0"/> <skills points="0"> <skill type="attack" level="1" id="swing"/> </skills> <colors values=""/> <target chance="false" default="null" effect="false" boss="true" cheap="false"/> </character> </class_entry>

I think that should work. This is four years removed from you, so likely not of help to you, but hopefully someone.
Last edited by Wisp; 4 Feb @ 10:03pm
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