New Characters are not saving Offline on a Switch

I know the Switch has some real bugs with Diablo2 Resurectted, but not the expansion, though maybe the expansion still has the bugs.

For the life of me I can't get a new character to save. I have had 2 characters deleted in the past and lost a lot of collected items. So I am very careful about creating new characters, but now I can't seem to do it at all.

My steps:
1. I make a new character.
2. Do something in town.
3. Save and exit.
4. Go into another character, play a bit.
5. Save and exit.
6. Repeat until I see the spinning pentagram.
7. Go back to new character, do something else in town to force a save. Sell a potion, something like that.
8. Save and exit.
9. Force close the game.

In the past if the character is there after a force close, its gonna be fine but now its not.

I am now trying other things too.

I created an online charater, and that saved. But my offline I made before, gone.

So then I created 3 new Offline characters, then did those 9 steps above, all 3 are gone.

So I am really at a bit of a lose, any other ideas I could try?

Are you playing with the clock to manipulate tz?

JulieP wrote: 5 hours ago

Are you playing with the clock to manipulate tz?

Oh for sure I am, but not when I am making new characters. Has that changed where there is some penalty or bug that messes all that up?

Do you have Switch Online? Could be an issue with cloud saves.

Hellspike wrote: 2 hours ago

Do you have Switch Online? Could be an issue with cloud saves.

No, the offline saves don't use that anyway, so I haven't put the money up for it