Content Warning: Failed to Extract Error, Explained

Content Warning is a first-person content-creation horror game where you and your friends explore the creepy Old World in hopes of filming scary videos for internet fame. However, amidst the excitement of uploading your video to grab views, encountering a ‘Failed To Extract’ bug after a dangerous session can be incredibly frustrating.

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The ‘Failed To Extract’ error prevents you from retrieving footage from your camera. It occurs when you’re back in the New World and trying to extract the video you’ve captured using the Video Extraction Machine. Here’s how you can work around this bug and avoid it in future Content Warning sessions.

How To Fix ‘Failed To Extract’ Error in Content Warning

While it’s still unclear what causes the ‘Failed To Extract’ error, this bug affects a vital part of the game – uploading videos to SpookTube and earning money from views and engagement. Unfortunately, there is no real way to fix this error other than ending your current session and creating a new lobby.

However, the devs at Landfall Games are aware of this bug and have provided players with a way to debug and extract the video. If you want to recover your footage and watch it back, simply press F3 on your keyboard. Doing so will open up a Windows folder of all your recorded videos from the current session. You can move these to another location and play the recorded footage for yourself.

This method only works for recordings in the current session of the game, so you will not be able to recover footage this way if you already exited Content Warning.

How To Prevent ‘Failed To Extract’ Error in Content Warning

Hopefully, the ‘Failed To Extract’ error will be permanently fixed in a future update for Content Warning. In the meantime, you can try your best to prevent the error from occurring. Here are a few ways you can avoid the ‘Fail To Extract’ error.

• Don't record for too long.
• Avoid switching who controls the camera.
• Avoid excessively stopping and starting the camera.
• Have one designated player (preferably the host) record the entire session and extract the footage at the end.

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