PlayerPrefs & Steam Cloud

Hey all,

I'm finishing up my project Pinstripe, and I'd like to utilize Steam's cloud save feature if possible. Pinstripe is a single player adventure, so using PlayerPrefs was a more than reasonable option to save the game. However, I'm realizing now that PlayerPrefs is a pretty dynamic system, varying it's save location from device to device. I'm curious if anyone has figured out how to implement PlayerPrefs & Steam Cloud.

I've referenced the following, but understand that it's using persistantDataPath and not PlayerPrefs: https://partner.steamgames.com/documentation/cloud

Any thought?

Thomas

 

I'm curious, have you found a solution to this or did you end up not using PlayerPrefs ?

 

Any update to this ,I'm stuck here as well.

 

Hi guys

I made a free PlayerPrefs replacement library that does everything playerprefs does AND saves the data to a file that can be easily synced with steam cloud save.

check it out here: https://github.com/richardelms/FileBasedPlayerPrefs

It has all the same methods as PlayerPrefs so you can just do find replace in your project to switch over.

 

Thanks so much for this!, super simple to implement and works a treat.

 

Currently using 2019.1.8f1 and still works like a charm! Thank you so much.

 

Just tried the file based one and players are able to change the values in cheat engine. Just posting this here if anyone comes searching in the future.

 

Players can change the values in the normal registry-based PlayerPrefs as well. Attempting to stop players from reading/changing data on their own computers is a futile effort.

 

Yep, the best you can do is raise the skill level required to make the changes, or raise the time investment needed (encryption/obfuscation/etc). You can't actually stop it from happening.

 

Still works very well!

 

Works great, thanks!