Backup your save! Here's how to

Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag553 views14 favorites3 min readby Max le FouUpdated Jul 30, 2020View on Steam ↗

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Ubisoft, you had one job.

You too, Steam.

So this game doesn't record your saves in any cloud at all. That sucks. It also sucks it's not even explained. But well...

So here's a script and instructions on how to backup your save into an archive file that you can save anywhere.

Instructions

Requirements
7zip[www.7zip.org]. It's like Winrar but completely free, way more better and can also read and make rar files too, so get rid of that sh***y winrar and get this instead. :p
Prepare the script
Copypaste the code in the next chapter into a new text file using notepad and save it as a .bat.

WARNING! Ensure the file is labeled .bat and not .bat.txt!

Change the following:

On the line that says set USERID=YOUR_ID, replace YOUR_ID with your Uplay user ID. It's a long hexadecimal string that you can find in the name of the folder inside C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\. There should be only one folder in savegames anyway so you won't miss it.

On the line that says set DESTFILE="%USERPROFILE%\Google Drive\AC4backupsave.7z" change the path between the brackets to whatever you want your backup file to be named and saved. Here, by default, it saves it in the user's Google Drive Folder.

Backup the saves
Double click the script everytime you want to backup your save. That's it!
Put back the saves
To get back your saves, first, ensure that uplay is installed and that you logged in it at least once.

If all is good, just open your archived file with 7zip (7zfm.exe in case you don't know which exe to take) and extract the content in C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\YOUR_ID where YOUR_ID is that long string i evoked earlier. There should be only one folder in savegames anyway so you won't miss it.

The script

@ECHO OFF REM Ubisoft, you had one job! title ASSASSIN'S CREED 4 BLACK FLAG CLOUD SAVER REM This script makes you save your AC4BF saves into a 7z file so it can be easily saved REM in your fav cloud service or in a usb key or anywhere you want. REM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REM This script expects you to have 7zip installed on your PC. You can get it REM for free at www.7zip.org. It can read RAR files and is way better than that sh*t of WinRar, REM believe me... REM ##### BEGINNING OF THE CUSTOMIZATION PART ##### REM Here goes your Uplay user ID. It's the name of the folder containing your saves. REM E.g. for the folder bgelow: REM C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\FOLDERID REM The User ID is FOLDERID set USERID=YOUR_ID REM Here's the full path of where you want your archived save files to be REM and what name you want to give it REM E.g here it puts it in the root of your Google Drive folder set DESTFILE="%USERPROFILE%\Google Drive\AC4backupsave.7z" REM ######## END OF THE CUSTOMIZATION PART ######## echo Copying save files... "%ProgramFiles%\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -t7z %DESTFILE% "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\%USERID%\437" echo Done! echo. echo To put back your saves in the game, extract the content of %DESTFILE% in "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\%USERID%\437" echo. pause exit

Advanced trick: launch the save after gaming!

There's a simple way to make the script getting launched just after playing.

Just creat ea shortcut, but when it asks for the path, copypaste this:
"%programfiles(x86)%\Steam\steamapps\common\Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag\AC4BFSP.exe" && "%userprofile%\Documents\AC4 cloud saver.bat"

where the part at the right of && is the path of your script. For instance, here, the script is called AC4 cloud saver.bat and is stored in My Documents

Save the shortcut and launch it to game and backup the saves. ^^

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