No Manual Savings on Priority Mission?

Obviously that is what I'm going to have to do, right?  The question is why should I have to keep replaying little sections of the game from a previous autosave in a single-player game.  I don't care that some other guy might use the feature to "cheat themselves" in their own single-player game.  I would still prefer to use (i.e. enjoy using) the convenience of being able to manually save whenever I need to. Not having it diminishes my enjoyment of the game.  Make it such that there are too many long sections without a manual saving ability, and I'm simply not going to enjoy playing that game near as much as one that offers me that convenience.

Has checkpoints and only autosaves ever been a good decision for a game? Not in my experience.

Is it maybe a good decision in a story heavy, decision rich RPG-like game? No. How would that improve any gaming experience by limiting to ironman-like story paths? In order to explore other story option you need to replay the whole fucking thing? That's not how people play.

Is it maybe a good way to prevent save game corruption and break progress for an entire playerbase? I doubt it. It might even do the opposite.

I can't wrap my head around why contemporary game design still FUCKING insists on removing save game features.

I can't understand that and I'm not ok with it (though grateful it only seems to be the first mission). If I want to savescum, it's none of their business. This isn't MP, no one else is affected by how often I save and reload so I should be able to do it as much as I like.

Honestly I don't do it too often but there are times in Bioware games when the dialogue I choose doesn't say what I thought it would (or in the tone I thought it would) and at those times I want my manual saves. As other people have pointed out, not everyone wants to replay a mission every time some decision or conversation choice turns out differently from how they thought it would.

Lolwhat?

It's their game. Everything in it is their business.

Sigh. I didn't mean "business" literally. Of course everything in it matters to them. English isn't my native language so sometimes I express myself poorly. My point is savescumming doesn't affect other players and it doesn't affect Bioware really (since they have it in the rest of the game it isn't like they have to create it from scratch or add some extra resource) so if I want to do it I can't see why I shouldn't be allowed to. I meant "I can't understand it" literally. Other than trying to control how I play games, I can't see the benefit of this. As I said, this is not something I do often, but the option should be there for when it's needed.

There are quite a few auto-save points in the priority missions - but I agree, a manual save between combat points, would have been optimal.

I'm guessing it overwrites... at least on the consoles.  It might alternate between two different overwrites (ACIV does that), but I've never seen a game yet that saves each autosave to a new save.  Hard drive space and/or cloud space can be at a premium on some consoles.  I agree with your point though... I do like to go back and replay missions just for the heck of it or to refresh my memory as to what I may have done on that mission.  I also suspect that preventing this was also one reason why they went the autosave route... to accommodate an open world where you're able to go back to the same area after the mission is complete... i.e. to enable the game to keep track of your actual progress without getting confused by replaying missions and perhaps doing sidequests and such that you did not do during the original playthrough of the mission.  This would at least be a somewhat valid reason for them choosing this route.

I still prefer the convenience of being able to manually save and don't like this industry trend away from allowing them though.

True... and I may indeed decide to buy someone else's product instead... I appreciate the OP who thought to point this out so that I can make a more informed purchase decision.

Username checks out.

I saved the game several times after the first mission. Its only then and it autosaves about every 30 seconds when you are moving forward.

The drama is in everyones minds. All this catastrophic end of the world, we are all doomed, emo drama over the SLIGHTEST little things is so comical.

"What? No half caf decaf skinny lattes served on the ship? That's it. I canceled my preorder!!!"

It's very easy to overstate the amount of drama being implied by others here though, isn't it?  I merely said it was an inconvenience and would enjoy the game more with a manual save... and got into a 5 post responding session here with someone.  I'm not being overly dramatic over this.  It's an industry trend I disagree with and I do enjoy games more when they allow me the ability to manually save.  That's not being dramatic... that's being honest.  I can tell Bioware I would prefer they allowed manual saves... but in the end, the only decision I'm empowered to make as a consumer is whether or not I still want to buy their game.  In making that decision, I'm certainly not going to base it on just this one item... I'm ticking the boxes of things that are important to me on both sides of the ledger (positve and negative).  If another product comes up with more positives than Andromeda... I'm probably going to spend my $100 on that game instead.  That's just life in a free-market economy.

Good question.  I'd hate to have to kill myself just to exit the game mid-mission and be able to reload at the autosave point.