CMBN on Steam - Steam cloud saves

[KewDok]

I usually play my games across several computers, eg laptop, gaming rig and my Steam deck. Because of this I love the Steam cloud for saves feature. Imagine my thrill when I noticed Steam cloud saves is available for CMBN after activating my key(s) and installing the game through Steam.

I loaded up a new scenario, played for a while, then saved and closed the game. Steam did it's thing and I noticed that the Cloud Status for CMBN was "Up to date". I logged in to my laptop, installed CMBN, and noticed that the Cloud Status here was "Up to date" as well. However, no saves show in-game at all on the laptop.

Did some digging and found that (at least for me) the only thing synced to Steam cloud are the files listed below (Copy pasted from https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage )

This game files are saved in your Steam Cloud :
 

Folder	File Name	File Size	Date Written
WinMyDocuments	Battlefront/Combat Mission/Battle For Normandy/Launcher/LauncherSettings.Config	1.25 KB	3 Apr @ 3:00pm	Download
WinMyDocuments	Battlefront/Combat Mission/Battle For Normandy/Launcher/log.txt	11 KB	6 Apr @ 9:20am	Download

 

These files are the ones that absolutely not should be saved to the cloud since they are host specific settings. I do not want the same settings on my gaming rig and laptop (even more so for my Steam deck).

Am I the only one who has this issue, please? I am posting here to see if this is affecting all Steam installations for CMBN, or just me.


PS: I just tested my installation of Shock Force 2 and it seems like the Steam sync is not working as it should here either. In fact, it looks like Steam sync settings for both games has not been updated to reflect the new location of the save files which in Steam is
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Combat Mission - Battle for Normandy\Game Files\Saved Games
and
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Combat Mission Shock Force 2\Game Files\Saved Games
respectively.

[Bartokomus]

you are completely correct btw; this is my experience as well on all four of the steam CM games.

[B0ff]

Same problem on CMBN, did you ever get a fix?

[B0ff]

48 minutes ago, B0ff said:

Same problem on CMBN, did you ever get a fix?

To be clear, I installed CMBN on my previous laptop last year, then re-installed in on my new one (having uninstalled Steam and all games on the old one first), it then worked fine until I recently moved from Windows 10 to 11 and now it doesn't load at all, I can see what looks like a Steam Cloud alert and then it just stops loading, I can see the same 2 save files in the Cloud that KewDok mentioned.

Edited November 17, 2023 by B0ff