Anyway, just firgured I would post that Steam is not the only client that is getting stuck on the _"Syncing with Cloud"_ or whatever it is titled. lol, you'd think I would know after staring at it for ages wondering when I could finally save again. not a huge deal since I got up and did a bunch of things in real life and when it was still "syncing" an hour or three later and the save options were still grayed out I knew that I was going to have to restart. Anyway, you can make sure it doesn't happen by turning off cloud sync and cross platform saves when you initially boot the game. Hopefully my previous saves are uncorrupted. Good luck, and hopefully the can fix it sooner than later. Either way, heck of a game. Weird how none of the reviewers have reported game breaking bugs and there are already a bunch popping up all over the place. I really, really don't want to have to do the first three levels of progress all over again, and absolutely do not feel like being on the Nautiloid ship after the amount of times I did it in Early Access. Ahh well, at least it's a lot shorter than it was when it first came out. Still, I'd rather not lose all my progress because the game overwhelmed the servers by saving.

Steam is cloud saves ie controlled by steam

Gog does not have cloud saves for this game

Cross saves are an Larian account thing controlled by them

Assuming you don't want to keep old EA characters (and they don't work now unless you roll galaxy back) then go into the game menu and delete them... Yes syncing takes forever but you can just turn it off unless you need to load saves into another system for travel or what not

Wait for patch and/or do not sync to Larian or Steam Cloud. It seems to be a known issue. Sad they shipped with it present.