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: 19 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: 16 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

Its not even saving online characters, I am stumped, maybe they are having server issues or something

Is this SW1 or 2? I've had issues in the past with saves and like you, lost some important gear. I was using SW1. I can't advise the root cause but I know blizzard and Nintendo blame each other, no surprise there. I honestly feel it's just a quirk/limitation of the machine. Sucks. If possible, I'd recommend going pc. You can even use hero editor to make up for those lost items.

I dont have a switch and dont know if its possible, but if you can copy files from/to the device: there are online tools to edit save files, you could restore items you lost and remember the stats exactly as they were (they are for PC mostly but I guess the save file format is the same on switch)

biswbdiablo2io wrote: 17 hours ago

JulieP wrote: 19 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?

When I was playing on my switch, i did lose some progress after playing with the clock.
Sometimes not right after changing the time.
So i did do some TZ then reset the time and start a new char without touching the clock again.

I don't think its a penalty as such, but the game crashed and then i lost some progress on my char (Like going from lvl 60ish --->20).
Made me stop playing with the clock lol