When I open Dungeons of Dredmor, it accidentally stores my last picked skills in a dummy save which crashes instead of loading; when I actually try clicking 'Last', it just picks the first seven skills.
Uhhhhhh, that's... I'm not even sure I understand. Delete the last.txt file that is in your savegame folder, then make a new character, quit and see if it remembers the skills you chose on that character.
I'm getting a similar issue. The first time I start a new game in a session, Last picks Throwing, Unarmed, Burglary, Archaeology, Big Game, Vegan and Demonology. Last works correctly for subsequent characters (and last.txt reflects this), until I exit and restart, at which point last.txt is ignored and that same set shows up. Hunch: this may have been the last skill set I used before 1.10, and patch notes say Steam integration was added. Perhaps there's some sort of accidental reverse-cloud-sync going on?
Hmm. That makes some sense. Again I would try to delete last.txt as well as loadsave.dat and the other savegames left and see what happens.
Well, it's not Steam. Even with my router unplugged, a fresh last.txt with the abovementioned skills appears when I launch the game. So I guess either DoD keeps two copies for some reason, or UAC file virtualization is doing something stupid?
Run the game with -nukesteamcloud *once* as a command line parameter. See if that clears this madness up.
That is the best command line parameter ever. I can just see the Dwarven Mod Loader pop up with a little box saying "DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A MODDED GAME? HOW ABOUT INTERNET THERMONUCLEAR WARFARE."
-nukesteamcloud (from within Steam) doesn't fix it. Interestingly, launching from the commandline does (regardless of switches). But recall that it happens even when I'm physically offline. So... yeah.
