Concerns about PTR Offline Character Save Files

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I noticed that the D2:R PTR Offline Character files are saved in the exact same folder as our Live-server Offline Character files. I am extremely concerned about this.

With many players experiencing computer or game crashes, these files may become corrupted, causing players to lose the ability to load Characters or access Stash.

I would like to suggest, in future PTR Testing, that a separate folder be created for PTR Offline Character files.

For example, my D2:R Offline Character files are located in:

C:\Users\perus\Saved Games\Diablo II Resurrected

When the next PTR installs, a separate folder should be created for Offline PTR Characters:

C:\Users\perus\Saved Games\Diablo II Resurrected PTR

We have no control over our Online Character save files. (That will be up to Blizzard to handle).

Thank you.

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Why do you play offline chars on PTR in the first place? Also offline will not effect anyone.

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Here’s a question for you:

Why did Blizzard even modify our Offline game files?

And, I’m not playing Offline Characters in the PTR. This thread is about my concern for the changes Blizzard made to our Offline Saved Games file folder with a suggestion to create a separate folder for this in future PTRs.


Really?!

Below is a list of my current Offline Character save files. I have 10 Offline Characters. Blizzard added ISTISTHENEWIST and TOKENS Characters, highlighted in green.

Index of file:///C:/Users/perus/Saved Games/Diablo II Resurrected/

Name Size Last Modified
Chao-Ahn.ctl 1 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Chao-Ahn.d2s 3 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Chao-Ahn.key 2 KB Thursday, December 2, 2021
Chao-Ahn.ma0 5 KB Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Chao-Ahn.ma1 11 KB Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Chao-Ahn.ma2 5 KB Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Chao-Ahn.ma3 16 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Chao-Ahn.map 1 KB Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Chip.ctl 1 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Chip.d2s 2 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Chip.key 2 KB Saturday, October 30, 2021
Chip.ma0 5 KB Saturday, October 30, 2021
Chip.map 1 KB Saturday, October 30, 2021
Custom.key 2 KB Thursday, January 13, 2022
fLawed.ctl 1 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
fLawed.d2s 3 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
fLawed.key 2 KB Saturday, October 30, 2021
fLawed.ma0 610 KB Tuesday, November 23, 2021
fLawed.ma1 84 KB Tuesday, November 30, 2021
fLawed.ma2 5 KB Tuesday, December 7, 2021
fLawed.ma3 5 KB Tuesday, December 7, 2021
fLawed.map 1 KB Tuesday, December 7, 2021
fLawless.ctl 1 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
fLawless.d2s 2 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
fLawless.key 2 KB Saturday, October 30, 2021
fLawless.ma0 5 KB Saturday, October 30, 2021
fLawless.map 1 KB Saturday, October 30, 2021
Gem.ctl 1 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Gem.d2s 3 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Gem.key 2 KB Monday, October 18, 2021
Gem.ma0 70 KB Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Gem.map 1 KB Monday, October 18, 2021
Hirun.ctl 1 KB Monday, December 6, 2021
Hirun.d2s 1 KB Monday, December 6, 2021
Hirun.key 2 KB Thursday, November 25, 2021
Hirun.ma0 5 KB Thursday, November 25, 2021
Hirun.map 1 KB Thursday, November 25, 2021
ITHISTHENEWIST.ctlo 1 KB Thursday, January 13, 2022
ITHISTHENEWIST.keyo 2 KB Thursday, January 13, 2022
Lorun.ctl 1 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Lorun.d2s 2 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Lorun.key 2 KB Thursday, November 25, 2021
Lorun.ma0 5 KB Thursday, November 25, 2021
Lorun.map 1 KB Thursday, November 25, 2021
Medrun.ctl 1 KB Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Medrun.d2s 2 KB Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Medrun.key 2 KB Thursday, November 25, 2021
Medrun.ma0 5 KB Thursday, November 25, 2021
Medrun.map 1 KB Thursday, November 25, 2021
Peregem.ctl 1 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Peregem.d2s 3 KB Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Peregem.key 2 KB Sunday, October 24, 2021
Peregem.ma0 146 KB Friday, November 12, 2021
Peregem.map 1 KB Friday, October 22, 2021
Pirotess.ctlo 1 KB Thursday, December 2, 2021
Pirotess.keyo 2 KB Thursday, September 23, 2021
Settings.json 4 KB Thursday, January 13, 2022
SharedStashSoftCoreV2.d2i 3 KB Wednesday, December 22, 2021
TOKENS.ctlo 1 KB Thursday, January 13, 2022
TOKENS.keyo 2 KB Thursday, January 13, 2022
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Right ok I get it now. PTR save files should be in the PTR folder. Right?

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There’s currently no PTR save files folder for D2:R. But, yes. That’s what I’m suggesting.

Even if it isn’t necessary to (PTR) test Offline Characters, the PTR shouldn’t be making changes to our regular Saved Games\Diablo II Resurrected folder.

Also, I expect that in future PTR testing, there might be a need to test Online and Offline Characters. (Blizzard might as well start planning to have their PTR installations create a Diablo II Resurrected PTR save folder).

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There should allready be one. :confused:

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But, that’s the installation folder. There’s one for D2:R too. But, those folders ARE NOT where the Offline Saved Games files are stored.

On my Games drive I have the following installation folders:

  1. D:\Diablo II Resurrected

  1. D:\Diablo II Resurrected Public Test

But, my D2:R Offline save files are located in:

  1. C:\Users\perus\Saved Games\Diablo II Resurrected

My suggestion is to add an Offline PTR Saved Games folder:

  1. C:\Users\perus\Saved Games\Diablo II Resurrected PTR
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This is where anything should be saved regarding PTR

But this would be the best.

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Bumping this for awareness. Just tanked my softcore shared stash in single player trying to join a game in the PTR client…

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Blizzard has already added a separate D2:R PTR Offline Character save folder as I suggested in the OP. They even named the folder: Diablo II Resurrected PTR.


This may be due to a different issue that has been reported on the Live server forums with the SharedStashSoftCoreV2.d2i file somehow getting corrupted.