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Post by Pounce de León on Mar 20, 2017 12:25:33 GMT
That's why I showed everyone back in the day how to increase the save limit in ME3 so they can save till their heart's content. And that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. How do you get into a game-breaking situation if you save? it's happened. I saved in a constant death spiral my... I believe second time during In hushed whispers. That's not a problem of save game features, that's a problem of broken quest logic.
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Post by degs29 on Mar 20, 2017 12:50:14 GMT
Am I the only one who thinks they restricted manual saves during priority missions for a reason? My guess is that you can get yourself into a game-breaking situation that you can't get out of if you save at the wrong time, and they wanted to avoid that. Still, restricting saves is a bad solution to that particular problem. That's why I showed everyone back in the day how to increase the save limit in ME3 so they can save till their heart's content. And that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. How do you get into a game-breaking situation if you save? So you think it's arbitrary?
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Post by Ieldra on Mar 20, 2017 13:13:42 GMT
Uh....did they really do that? Disable manual saves during priority missions? I...have no words, actually. There are no cuss words to adequately express my disgust with this.
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Post by MissOuJ on Mar 20, 2017 17:59:27 GMT
Uh....did they really do that? Disable manual saves during priority missions? I...have no words, actually. There are no cuss words to adequately express my disgust with this. For. Fucking. Real. And apparently (if I've been reading the reviews correctly) autosaves aren't that frequent either. I thought this was one of those issues gaming has already figured out: frequent autosaves, save points etc. = Good. Losing hours of progress because of a glitch / real life forcing you to quit your gaming session sooner than you'd have hoped = Bad. If there's something that will kill my engagement and enjoyment 100 % of the time it's losing progress for reasons outside of my control. This is one of the gameplay design decisions in MEA that is just inexcusable IMO.
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Post by squidney2k1 on Mar 20, 2017 20:00:54 GMT
Wow. No idea manual saves were disabled during priority missions (spent all of my trial in MP). That's garbo.
Thanks for this temp fix, OP.
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Post by badpie24 on Mar 20, 2017 23:35:31 GMT
I'm sure I'll get used to it and I'm sure they did it for a reason, but as a compulsive saver I admit the lack of having the option made me sweat a little.
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Post by Space Cowboy on Mar 21, 2017 13:13:34 GMT
Uh....did they really do that? Disable manual saves during priority missions? I...have no words, actually. There are no cuss words to adequately express my disgust with this. For. Fucking. Real. And apparently (if I've been reading the reviews correctly) autosaves aren't that frequent either. I thought this was one of those issues gaming has already figured out: frequent autosaves, save points etc. = Good. Losing hours of progress because of a glitch / real life forcing you to quit your gaming session sooner than you'd have hoped = Bad. If there's something that will kill my engagement and enjoyment 100 % of the time it's losing progress for reasons outside of my control. This is one of the gameplay design decisions in MEA that is just inexcusable IMO. I played Fable for the PC a while ago. YOu start as a kid, eventually become a teenager, and then an adult. I played til almost done with the teenager year.. then left the game. Probably a couple of hours just to get through kid/teenager I think. Went back into the game the next day.. turns out all the saving did was save my inventory. My character was just starting out as a kid again. So fine, weird, but lets try again. Played until adulthood this time. Surely there would be a hard save now, right? Quit. Restarted later. Kid again. I didn't go back. You'd think developers nowadays would know better. Apparently not.
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Post by House Targaryen on Mar 21, 2017 17:29:58 GMT
Good to know. I hate not being able to save whenever I want to.
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Post by malakizedek on Mar 21, 2017 17:48:43 GMT
I can confirm that this absolutely does NOT work on the Xbox One. I tried about thirty times, switching to different side quests and back - it did not make a new auto save.
You want to know how frustrating that was? Last night, I spent over an HOUR replaying the same 15 minute segment multiple times. It was inside the Remnant vault on Eos - you have to do these stupid, tedious steps to raise these platforms to jump across and I got in a fight, cleared the enemies, kept advancing and then got in another fight and died (on Hardcore FYI) and it reverted to an auto save 15 minutes old! You'd think it would auto save after the first battle but NO I had to do it all again... four times because I kept dying,
STUPIDEST SYSTEM EVER, BIOWARE. I literally wanted to slit someone's throat last night. It made me want to stop playing the game.
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Post by TormDK on Mar 21, 2017 18:19:52 GMT
Holy fucking shit this is annoying in single player.
Why would you ever design something in that way!?
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Post by Elfen Lied on Mar 22, 2017 0:17:00 GMT
Smart move from Bioware... Because, you know, CTD never happen on PC!!
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Post by ProbeAway on Mar 22, 2017 5:58:42 GMT
I can confirm that this absolutely does NOT work on the Xbox One. I tried about thirty times, switching to different side quests and back - it did not make a new auto save. You want to know how frustrating that was? Last night, I spent over an HOUR replaying the same 15 minute segment multiple times. It was inside the Remnant vault on Eos - you have to do these stupid, tedious steps to raise these platforms to jump across and I got in a fight, cleared the enemies, kept advancing and then got in another fight and died (on Hardcore FYI) and it reverted to an auto save 15 minutes old! You'd think it would auto save after the first battle but NO I had to do it all again... four times because I kept dying, STUPIDEST SYSTEM EVER, BIOWARE. I literally wanted to slit someone's throat last night. It made me want to stop playing the game. I'm on PC and this didn't work in the Eos vault for me either. I changed to a couple of different active quests and the save option was still greyed out. Really cool level, just sucks that there aren't manual saves or at least more regular auto saves.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 12:35:36 GMT
I have a question. When you get in the game menus and switch something around, say toggle helmets on/off, it does indicate the save icon during priority missions. Does this save only the menu changes or does it save everything? If it does, that would be a way to save on priority missions, if the OP's suggestion doesn't work for certain people. I haven't tried it yet, but I thought about that whilst playing last night. If sometime tries before I do, would you kindly let me know if it works or not
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 20:46:31 GMT
Uh....did they really do that? Disable manual saves during priority missions? I...have no words, actually. There are no cuss words to adequately express my disgust with this. Right there with ya. This particular design decision is... pretty much unfathomable to me. On another note - I have a distinct preference for managing my own save files, and would also like the ability to disable autosave altogether. MET provided a configuration option to do that, even though they still sometimes created saves. This no manual save nonsense makes it very difficult to leave the game during a priority mission, since you have no way to leave the game in a familiar state, so you'll know where you're at when you come back to it. A few other things I've noticed... The autosaves seem to happen fairly often, and rotate through 4 different files. In looking at the timestamps, the ones I've seen have been no more than a few minutes apart, and I've actually found 2 that had the exact same timestamp, down to the second. There is no message to tell you when the game is autosaving, but I've noticed a blue arrow pointing down that occasionally appears in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. I've come to believe that is the indication that your game is being autosaved.
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Post by peabuddie on Mar 23, 2017 6:04:57 GMT
I made this post on Reddit, but thought I share the love here... https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/60bnr8/no_spoilers_psa_how_to_quick_save_during_priority/ Shoutout to Reddit User /u/Saiaxs who said: Be doing a priority mission, switch your active quest objective, save, switch back. Temporary workaround till the devs fix it"
I tried this a few times couldn't get it to work. It's a mess. I was going through the Kett Base. The HUGE Kett base and died at the boss fight. That place is so confusing. It spawned me somewhere a few areas back from where I was. I had no idea what direction I was going. I was so confused. Then all the like 8 or 10 markers to turn off the shields were all showing up on my map even though I had turned them all off before I died in the boss fight. If you've been in that fight you know you're getting raped left and right there are zillions of Kett and I had no idea where I was, meanwhile SAM is telling me to turn off the alarm but with the way that base is laid out and all the markers back up I couldn't find it. So I died. Then I quit. I had already played too many hours anyway, but it really pissed me off.
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Post by vonuber on Mar 23, 2017 8:39:33 GMT
Just had the really fucking annoying experience of this in the Eos vault. I am baffled why they have done this, if anything is going to stop me playing it will be this. Mind boggling stupid.
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Post by cribbian on Mar 23, 2017 14:08:09 GMT
What are the odds that Bioware, instead of letting us save when we want, "fixes" this workaround so it doesn't work anymore?
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Post by maxzero on Mar 23, 2017 14:50:20 GMT
Just need to vent. Clearing the Kett tower in Iceworld on Hardcore. Three switches, defence gird, armour stash (got a two great SR mods that I have been after a while). Died to a grenade I missed the last pack before tower.
Autosave is 30 minutes earlier.
Just sitting here for a moment.
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Post by vynticator on Mar 23, 2017 15:47:53 GMT
Yes, it's not fun. That Kett base on the ice world is dreadful without saves.
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Post by ticktak77 on Mar 23, 2017 16:15:00 GMT
Has anyone confirmed this works on Xbox One?
If I'm understanding it right, because it appears the post on the Reddit thread has been deleted:
On a Priority Mission, go to your Journal, select a side mission, That should let you Save Game?
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Post by ShiftyCow on Mar 23, 2017 18:03:42 GMT
Another +1 for this NOT working on PC.
And this will be the last time I buy a game for PC that is designed for console. Fuck this ridiculous layout and skill limitations from the port (and BAD decisions by BW and EA).
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Post by MASTER MENACE on Mar 23, 2017 18:45:26 GMT
They patched this to not work anymore. Sorry guys.
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Post by SofaJockey on Mar 23, 2017 20:15:59 GMT
They patched this to not work anymore. Sorry guys. What is your evidence, please? This was already known to not be foolproof because: Enemies nearby, even if unseen. The game is loading resources over-riding save. If you're going to advise it was patched (why would they do that), what is the tweet/confirmation?
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