[2022] Newish Player with Ironman Cloud Save Borked on Update

If you load a 1.4.4 Ironman save under 1.5.x then it is permanently altered immediately and cannot be then loaded under 1.4.4 .

If you are lucky though, Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/last_save.ck3 will still be the 1.4.4 version - try copying that into the /save game/ folder.

If that doesn't pan out then I'm afraid that campaign is lost. How did you get to load it under 1.5 though? It should prevent that, or at least warn you I thought?  

I just tried this - I made an Ironman save under 1.4.4 then updated to 1.5.0.2 .

In the game launcher I see an orange ! triangle next to the PLAY button that says:

The last save game was created on a different version of the game (1.4.4). Resuming from it might cause the game to malfunction or even crash.

If I hit PLAY there instead of Resume, when I get to the Load menu in the game that 1.4.4 save does not show unless I tick the "Show Invalid Savegames" box. If I do that it has a Red ! next to it saying Different Version.

I'm not sure if you used Resume or the Load menu, but did none of those things happen for you? Or were they perhaps not prominent enough to get your attention? I'd really like this to not happen to anyone again!