A little backstory, I am utilising the Steam Family Sharing functionality to essentially create a new Steam account with all of my current games on it. I have played Payday 2 extensively and reached level 100 with a whole variety of weapons, gadgets and stuff to blow people up. As a result of playing Payday 2 via the Steam Family Sharing functionality my character is not present – if I play using the original account it's all there and safe.
I copied the contents of Steam\userdata\profileID\218620 to the new profileID folder for the new account, however upon starting the game I get the following error:
Is it possible to transfer characters between Steam accounts so I can keep my character or am I going to have to start again?
Best Answer
No, there does not appear to be any way to transfer save data between Steam accounts, for good reason. Just search for "payday 2 save" on Google, and you'll see what I mean.
OVERKILL doesn't want people using pre-made or modified saves, and have thusly, made it very nearly impossible to modify them (though not technically impossible, since save data is stored on the client-side). It would appear that among the information that the save file stores, your SteamID is part of it, to keep people from using "LEVEL 100 ALL PERKS ALL MASKS ALL WEAPONS $1 BILLION CASH" save files off the internet.