Howto: Restore "lost party members" (2.0-beta1 bug)

A bug in the first BETA version caused party members to be "lost". Although you should always have a backup save when you are testing beta software ;-), some people don't. So here a a quick howto on how to "restore" the party members that were lost due to the bug. You will need 2 things though for this to work:

1. A "good save": a savegame with the party members you lost in it, it can be a while back doesn't matter, it just needs to have the same original party as your "bugged savegame"
2. You need to have the toolset installed. Sorry, no way doing it without it AFAIK.

So if you have both things ready, read ahead.

First, open the "good save" in the toolset. When it opens, expand the Top Level struct, SAVEGAME_PARTYLIST, SAVEGAME_PARTYPOOLMEMBERS nodes. Right-click on the SAVEGAME_PARTYPOOLMEMBERS node, and choose Copy.

Now, this is important, or the toolset will crash: CLOSE THE SAVEGAME!. Not the toolset, only the save game.

Next, open up the "bad save game", expand the Top Level struct, SAVEGAME_PARTYLIST, SAVEGAME_PARTYPOOLMEMBERS nodes again, right-click and choose Delete this time.

Now, right-click on the SAVEGAME_PARTYLIST node and choose Paste. Now save your savegame.

now exit the toolset, fire up the game, load the corrected savegame and your party should be restored. If it isn't, you did something wrong, read this howto again :-)