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Post by mrmike49 on Aug 24, 2017 19:59:22 GMT
Trying out the game during the sale , free trial for 10 hours - and NOT liking the Check Point Save system, at all!! That is why I didn't buy the game in the first place, as I loved ME1&2, and at least enjoyed ME3. As I understand it, sometimes you CAN do a "regular" save?? Can someone explain how that works? I had purchased Bioshock Infiniti a few years ago (on sale for $13.67!), played a few days, and then the game screwed up, lost my save game (the ONLY save game), and it was over! I never re-started the game! Can't see paying $20 for a possible repeat of that!!  How can even console kiddies put up with Check Point saves??It's an ancient leftover from when consoles didn't have HDD, or even Flash Ram, but used a small EEPROM to "save" the little info it could Something was seriously wrong at Bioware to go with a checkpoint save system - it was good that EA fired whoever was in charge and made that decision, too bad they took out the entire group |
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Post by ShadowAngel on Aug 24, 2017 20:02:46 GMT
Haven't played since launch but if I recall, you had auto save points in everything and during the main story related missions you couldn't manually save at all. It's one of the games biggest issues, and one that will go unresolved.
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Post by melbella on Aug 25, 2017 0:53:13 GMT
The game is autosave only until you get past the prologue and make it to the Nexus. Then you can manually save whenever, except during combat or "story missions." The definition of the latter is a bit fuzzy. Also, there is no quick save at all.  |
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Post by mrmike49 on Aug 25, 2017 1:18:26 GMT
thnx, so at least I wouldn't lose ALL progress like I did with Bioshock Infinite
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Post by Element Zero on Aug 25, 2017 2:34:31 GMT
thnx, so at least I wouldn't lose ALL progress like I did with Bioshock Infinite Nope. If anything, the autosaves are a bit too zealous. The game maintains 10 autosaves, in addition to "milestone" saves and manual saves. It's excessive. You don't have to worry about losing progress, though. |
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Post by Cyberstrike on Aug 25, 2017 2:39:08 GMT
Trying out the game during the sale , free trial for 10 hours - and NOT liking the Check Point Save system, at all!! That is why I didn't buy the game in the first place, as I loved ME1&2, and at least enjoyed ME3. As I understand it, sometimes you CAN do a "regular" save?? Can someone explain how that works? I had purchased Bioshock Infiniti a few years ago (on sale for $13.67!), played a few days, and then the game screwed up, lost my save game (the ONLY save game), and it was over! I never re-started the game! Can't see paying $20 for a possible repeat of that!! How can even console kiddies put up with Check Point saves??It's an ancient leftover from when consoles didn't have HDD, or even Flash Ram, but used a small EEPROM to "save" the little info it could Something was seriously wrong at Bioware to go with a checkpoint save system - it was good that EA fired whoever was in charge and made that decision, too bad they took out the entire group The game auto-saves during the main quest, you can only manual save when you're not involved in the main quest (the first time is after you meet the Nexus leadership). It sucks the only good it does force you to pay attention to what your doing, I guess. |
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Post by Guts on Aug 25, 2017 2:39:55 GMT
Haven't played since launch but if I recall, you had auto save points in everything and during the main story related missions you couldn't manually save at all. It's one of the games biggest issues, and one that will go unresolved. This issue was just dumb. I mean, why not allow us to manually save during an important mission? |
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Post by Cyberstrike on Aug 25, 2017 2:44:32 GMT
Haven't played since launch but if I recall, you had auto save points in everything and during the main story related missions you couldn't manually save at all. It's one of the games biggest issues, and one that will go unresolved. This issue was just dumb. I mean, why not allow us to manually save during an important mission? My guess: everybody was a throwing a hissy fit about the animations so those got fixed first and then they added more auto-save slots (I think). |
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Post by LogicGunn on Aug 25, 2017 9:32:07 GMT
Trying out the game during the sale , free trial for 10 hours - and NOT liking the Check Point Save system, at all!! That is why I didn't buy the game in the first place, as I loved ME1&2, and at least enjoyed ME3. As I understand it, sometimes you CAN do a "regular" save?? Can someone explain how that works? I had purchased Bioshock Infiniti a few years ago (on sale for $13.67!), played a few days, and then the game screwed up, lost my save game (the ONLY save game), and it was over! I never re-started the game! Can't see paying $20 for a possible repeat of that!! How can even console kiddies put up with Check Point saves??It's an ancient leftover from when consoles didn't have HDD, or even Flash Ram, but used a small EEPROM to "save" the little info it could Something was seriously wrong at Bioware to go with a checkpoint save system - it was good that EA fired whoever was in charge and made that decision, too bad they took out the entire group You can save anywhere except during Priority missions. You will get autosaves frequently, and also chapter and mission saves at the beginning of each which are useful incase you really fuck up. But no saving mid dialogue to try out other options. |
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Post by Thrombin on Aug 25, 2017 12:22:45 GMT
I think they disabled saves during missions because missions tend to have significant story choices and this helps to discourage people from doing the usual 'save, choose, reload' if they don't like the result. Makes the choices more of a thing, I guess.
I can't think of any other reason for doing it!
In the end it's no big deal. You lose a couple of minutes at most if you need to go back to an autosave and most of the game you can save whenever you want.
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Post by Hawke on Aug 25, 2017 15:30:24 GMT
Trying out the game during the sale , free trial for 10 hours - and NOT liking the Check Point Save system, at all!! That is why I didn't buy the game in the first place, as I loved ME1&2, and at least enjoyed ME3. As I understand it, sometimes you CAN do a "regular" save?? Can someone explain how that works? I had purchased Bioshock Infiniti a few years ago (on sale for $13.67!), played a few days, and then the game screwed up, lost my save game (the ONLY save game), and it was over! I never re-started the game! Can't see paying $20 for a possible repeat of that!! How can even console kiddies put up with Check Point saves??It's an ancient leftover from when consoles didn't have HDD, or even Flash Ram, but used a small EEPROM to "save" the little info it could Something was seriously wrong at Bioware to go with a checkpoint save system - it was good that EA fired whoever was in charge and made that decision, too bad they took out the entire group There are normal manual saves available anytime, except combat and Priority Missions (main storyline) and autosaves (about 10, one on entering a location and the others on activating something or exiting a dialogue). Also in one of the patches Chapter saves were added (at the beginning of a mission), with chapter/mission number and name. The thing with the checkpoint system is that quicksave could mess with mission triggers, so it was removed (I might be mistaken). |
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Post by NRieh on Aug 25, 2017 23:18:22 GMT
Haven't played since launch but if I recall, you had auto save points in everything and during the main story related missions you couldn't manually save at all. It's one of the games biggest issues, and one that will go unresolved. This issue was just dumb. I mean, why not allow us to manually save during an important mission? Very likely - due to some engine\tech-related issues we'll never hear about. Like a manual save in a wrong time'place possibly ruining the entire further level scripting. Another possible reason is that they had too much shit to worry about at a time, and the manual saving had slipped down their priority list. Obviously, they had never created objectives like 'to make a player's life more miserable'.  |
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