Saving issue, Rooms 2.0 bug

What device/platform are you having the problem on?

Meta Quest 2

Were you alone or with other players?

With other Players

How often does the issue occur?

Random, (maybe ik a way to replicate)

Room Name

WorldOfBlades

Subroom Name

Home

Description

So there is a bug with saving the room, that happens randomly, (or there might be a reason for it). The main problem is that when saving the room after working on it for a while can sometimes sort of “corrupt” the save. What this does is making it so people can’t load into the room after leaving, and this also kicks the person who saved the room. The way this happened to me is when i added a little new system with around 50-75 circuits at max and saved the room, after taking a very long time to save i got kicked to my dorm, and after trying to join the game again the loading screen kept getting stuck on 100% and not putting me into the room, i have tried inviting other people to join the room by partying up with them in other rooms and inviting them to it, and everyone got the same issue with the loading screen getting stuck at 100%. After waiting for a while it will eventually kick the loading players back to their dorms due to a timeout error.

Now the way i found to fix this was by going on rec net and restoring the previous save of the room, after that i was able to successfully load into the room with the old save and the things added being gone. I have also tried restoring to the newer save after loading back into the room, but it was still “corrupted” and kicked me back to my dorm not allowing me to load in again until i restored the previous version.

Now a possible way to replicate this save glitch: I was working on that room on my main account, which was on vr (quest 2), after saving the room i gave my alt, which joined that room a little after the save (on ps4), co owner, then went afk on my vr (which i was working on before joining on my alt on screen). And by “afk” i mean i put my headset down without turning it off, or quitting the game. After leaving it for a while and coming back my headset account left automatically by that point, so i started working on the room on my alt on screen. And then when finishing everything i saved the room which caused the bug. So it might be random, or can be replicated this way.

Also this happened in rooms 2.0, i haven’t tested it or tried replicating it in rooms 1.0.

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yes i have encountered this issue and i did some testing and a think i found the cause. I was making a room and an error occured which said that it failed to find authority or smth and i saved and the save broke. i found out this error occurs when anyone leaves the room and if you save with this error the save breaks. so basically the cause is when someone leaves the room Like when your headset auto left. I got around this by not inviting anyone and if I needed to test with an alt I will save before inviting them and I will reload the room to avoid any corruption when they leave. If you really wanted to be sure you can just copy the subroom to have a backup and if the save is broken you can just load the subroom and delete the other one to have everything. It sucks because you can’t collaborate unless you are sure you will save before any of you guys leave

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As much as this is a fix it’s only a temporary solution because it complicates issues with collaboration so it would be better for rec room to fix the issue

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It’s a screen one too not only VR