

Long story short, I think someone who actually has bought the Windows Store version with money or a dev has to weigh in whether this is a bug. Or maybe it's some obscure DRM, not recognizing the DLCs across platforms.

It might also be that you are "renting" the extensions from Game Pass, and do not own own them, so it might be failing a check.

Maybe it doesn't, I just started the game so I cannot tell. Looking at the version I installed from the Windows Store (BATTLETECH Mercenary Collection), it seems like Game Pass includes all extensions. However, it failed to load it, because the Game Pass version thinks you do not own the season pass extensions, which I owned on Steam while saving. When I restarted the game in this state, it finally did see the save file. I also had to terminate internet access, because it just wasn't seeing the local save game (cloud sync?). sav extension (because that's how it originally was on Game Pass). sav extension, and then another copy of it without the. I copied over the Steam save file with the. I first moved out the old, existing save file without the extension, but I left that other very tiny container.# file in there that seems like a save game index. It was working.Īfter playing in Steam for a while I tried testing transfer back to the Game Pass version. I then quit Steam, restarted Steam, relaunched the game, and it recognized the saves, cleaned up the directory, deleted the duplicates, renamed the files automatically, synced to the cloud etc. Basically, I copied the large file without an extension to the Steam folder, then made another copy of it and altered it to have the. The Game Pass save file has no extension, but it's easy to see which file it is. It took much more effort than any save transfer has a right to take *smh* but it worked. I managed to import my Game Pass saves to Steam. Now, to the juicy part (I cannot say with certainty all steps below are mandatory, in my testing some were redundant to save time): %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\ParadoxInteractive.Battletech-MainGame_SOMEALPHANUMERICCHARACTERS, then \SystemAppData\wgs\ followed by the directory \SOMEALPHANUMERICCHARACTERS followed by another directory \SOMEALPHANUMERICCHARACTERS The Game Pass installation however is at: Yes, the Steam saves are always in the same place. As you realized, the help section is incomplete.
