How to reset progress/achievements?

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greySky
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How to reset progress/achievements?

Post by greySky »

Hey guys,

So my friend came over and showed me FTL on my computer, he DLed it from steam to my comp. We played for a bit, I loved it, so I bought it. But even after deleting all the local game content via steam, and deleting the prof file under Documents > My Games > FTL, whenever I play the game I have all of his achievements and ships etc. I'm trying to find out how to delete all of this progress so I can start completely fresh. it seems like nothing has worked so far. I've uninstalled/reinstalled, cleared all files off, and deleted that prof file multiple times. I wonder if somehow Steam took his progress and put it on my cloud, so whenever I reinstall, that progress gets installed with it. No idea, pretty frustrated, searched everywhere. Let me know if you guys have any ideas, greatly appreciated.
greySky
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Re: How to reset progress/achievements?

Post by greySky »

The method here worked for me!

http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ile#p42491

However, now I'm afraid that if I ever want to use the cloud again, i will lose my new data, and get the old one returned. Anybody know how this would work out?
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Re: How to reset progress/achievements?

Post by boa13 »

Do you use your own Steam account, or the Steam account of your friend?

What you can do in all cases is make a backup of prof.sav (copy it in a separate directory). In case something goes wrong, you can put that file back in the FTL directory, overwriting the bad file.
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Matthew
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Re: How to reset progress/achievements?

Post by Matthew »

greySky's link should get you sorted out!

@greySky: As boa13 suggested, backing up your profile is probably a good idea. What *should* happen though is Steam will detect a difference between a new local version and an out of date cloud version and ask you which one you'd prefer to use. Then you can just choose "Use Local Files"
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