Palworld's latest update deleting multiplayer progress on Xbox, developer warns

Palworld developer Pocketpair has warned players on Xbox not to load up their multiplayer progress following reports its reverting progress to an earlier state.

Palworld's latest patch - which adds a new raid against a powerful evil entity known as Bellanoir - launched for Steam last week, and arrived on Xbox earlier today. Soon after its console debut, however, a few teething problems surfaced - Pocketpair earlier confirmed an issue preventing players from placing their inside the incubator - but it's now clear the update has arrived with more signficant issues.

In a post on social media, Pocketpair acknowledged an issue where "multiplayer player save data is not being loaded correctly when multiplayer save data from an older version is loaded". Player responses beneath the post indicate the bug is, more specifically, causing all progress to be wiped on loading a save, with some suggestion the issue might also be affecting single-player too.

The developer says it's now identified the cause of the issue and is currently working on a patch to fix. In the meantime, it warns players not to their save data until after the patch is released. Additionally, it notes that any save data created while using the currently patch - officially known as v0.2.0.6 - won't be usable once the fix goes live.

"We are really sorry for this inconvenience, Pocketpair concludes, "and ask that you try to not load any multiplayer data until this fix is applied soon. Thank you."

Pocketpair recently opened applications for a Palworld closed testing program, with the goal of catching issues ahead of public patch releases, so hopefully such cataclysmic updates as today's will soon be a thing of the past.