Any word about adding quicksave / manual save during main quest?

Nothing about adding quick saving, but I will say that it auto-saves like a madman. I've had auto-saves during locked in quest lines that were less than 2 minutes apart. It's not quick saving but it's pretty close.

Probably not.
It's not a huge deal, the game auto-saves when you change loadouts and every 2 minutes, pretty much.

It was only really an issue during the prologue for me...

It's quite embarrassing that a standard feature in the industry for how long now? Like quick saving was left out of this game. Hopefully someone was fired for it.

Console Gaming.  Most console shooter type games don't let you quick save, it's all checkpoints.

Well, those two minutes can be the difference between the beginning of the mission and 3 mob squabbles later, when you accidentally fall through the floor, or die, or have your toddler wake up and demand attention

I'm an easy mode player, so this isn't really a problem for me, because I never really die.

But I wish we had a way to turn off autosaves. Everytime an autosave happens dialogue is put on hold. And that gets really annoying with the amount of times the game autosaves.

Like the OP I've hardly played the game partially due to this issue. I like to manage my saves so I know exactly where I am with them. Relying on the autosave takes away my control. Plus in the few hours I did play it the autosave took me forward in time, I re-started at some point later than I died.

Since it was Bioware who introduced me to quicksaves and regular saving in BG I feel especially let down that they've taken it away.

Go for it, nothing is going to change.
BW added this "no save during main missions" in ME2 DLCs and we had it in ME3 priority missions as well, not just the DLCs. So the chance BW will ever back off from this very questionable design decision is very low.
Why this is so we will, most likely, never know. I said it before and some mentioned it here already, most likely it is because of this "checkpoint" system, console shooters/actiongames are very notorious for having it. Why? Well mostly because it increases challenge/difficulty... devs want us to replay a specific scene over and over and over again until we master it perfectly, to them it is not just the shootout, but also the very close jump afterwards.
I just wonder when they are going to change it to the likes of "tomb raider" or "satellite reign" where, when you load a game, you start at the closes "savepoint" to where you saved...

I remember the first "tomb raider" game, I was not much of an action gamer back then and saved before, like, every jump that seemed "harder then easy", because I did not want to replay over and over again. I also remember a friend who played TR on the first PS that had just checkpoints... and how frustrated he was to replay whole sequences all the time. Well, as I became better, it became a personal challenge for me to finish the game with as few saves as possible. Now it is no longer my decision when to save, it is the devs decision and I have to take it, they force me to play like THEY want, not like I will. Any understanding of this mechanic is completely beyond me, I have no idea what they want to achieve... challenge? Noe. Difficulty? No. It is just frustration. Is it gamebreaking? Nope, but it sure is a frustrating annoyance. And MEA have many of such things, way too many.

Screw Mass Erect

I don't know, but it sucks the balls. More autosaves ain't doing it for me. More autosaves may effectively work just as well for me as manually making the saves myself, but perhaps it's a psychological thing--needing to feel in control of creating my own checkpoints. Also, autosaves inevitably save over themselves. Manual saves do not. I like having permanent checkpoints within missions, even if I never end up going back to them. I guess it's a security blanket thing. I'm goddamn Linus over here.



I will say, though, I love how many manual saves MEA lets you create when you're allowed to. Shit seems limitless. The only thing I hate almost more than context-specific manual saves are limited manual save slots. Motherfucking WITCHER 3 DO YOU HEAR ME? You only get like 7 goddamn manual save slots! Yes, I'm a console scrub. Anyway, I hope to God Bethesda never goes the way of MEA's saving system. It'd be unplayable.

The auto-save is killing me. I have more autos than I do manual saves. Seriously. In Dragon Age it saved over the old auto, leaving only three recent or so. Happened with Fallout 4 as well, but I expected that with Bethesda (I also was happy that my HDD wasn't corrupted too, but that's a different issue, different board). I REALLY hate having a message pop up while I'm playing telling me it can't save anymore while I'm traveling. If I don't go back and delete the autos, it'll keep popping up. Like was mentioned above, EFFECTIVE autos would be great.