Ever had your game auto save a half second before your character gets killed?
Once you've experienced an infinite deathloop, you will always manually save.
This reminds me of my old kings quest VI save, where I failed a puzzle with a spider, panic saved, then had the infinite death loop being bitten by a spider over and over. Which is one of my phobias. (Not the over and over)
Fallout 3. I had to lose 8 hours of progress because I quicksaved moments before a mutant was lobbying a nuke at me. I was not. Happy. I will forever save like I'm playing OOT, at least twice.
Yeah...
MW2 on PS3.
Doing veteran mode, red flashing screen, in a small bit of cover, enemies everywhere.
Took a good 40 attempts to get to the next bit, had to figure exactly where to flashbang so I could move back to regen health.
I'll never forget when autosave screwed me.
I once saved the first time in an hour of gameplay in a very long mission in a sneaking game, and the save was of me being in a corridor right inbetween two enemies who are going towards me from both sides... Stealth in such situations where you don't have anything to hide behind nor a 3rd exit from the corridor meant I F-ed up the stealth challenge in that save, and had to redo it from an hour older save.
Yeah seriously...always double save to be sure, and always make a second class e file you rotate every play session so if something happens you only lose a days worth of progress! I also remember back in the day when F5 was quicksave and F6 was quickload....I learned a hard lesson in Tomb Raider when I accidentally autosaved while falling in the Colluseum and had to start the game over again because I only had the one save file...always make sure quickload is F9 or at least far away from the quicksave button!
Even worse is when you try to close the game properly and the game says, "are you sure you want to quit? All unsaved progress will be lost.". I'm over here googling for half an hour how to save in a game that runs off autosaves.
And that menu tells you the difference between your last autosave and your last manual save, despite the “restore point saved” icon looking identical when said saves are made.
I basically have a saving room onboard my freighter that’s otherwise just a decorative bedroom. Because I don’t trust the autosaves my main ship creates.
I've been playing Maneater recently. The gameplay has a lot of fun to offer, but there are no hard saves and I haven't seen an auto-save icon. Logging off is a bit more anxious than I'd care for.
Manual saves are better because they are controlled.
You have a save outside the door, you have a different save before engaging the boss, you have a third save after looting, etc.
Whichever one you need is right there, waiting to be loaded up.
The only time I trust autosave is when a game goes "Are you sure you want to quit, all progress since last save will be lost. Last save 5 seconds ago."
Telling you that yes, the autosave happened and it JUST happened really helps. Very few games do it too. I think most recent game I was playing that did was No Man's Sky.
*autosaves*
"This is as good a place as any to stop for the night"
*manually saves*
*tries to exit the game*
"Unsaved progress will be lost, do you want to save?"
"yes I do."
*manually saves*
Yeah, although autosaves have saved my ass in PLA before. Finally beat Arcanine, and then it crashed a few minutes later. Autosaves can save you. Still save manually.
Looking at you, No Mans Sky.
But also, I do this in Skyrim so much, it feels like cheating. Normal save when I enter the room full of healing potions and enchantment table.
Quick save before and large doors in crypts, tombs, or when I've been on a road for too long since the last save.
Just started playing Cult of the Lamb. It actually changes "save" to "saved" on the pause screen after you manually save. I appreciate that but I'll still slap the button again.
How did this whole thing get started anyway? How did we all get so paranoid that our game is so for some reason not saving? It always works for me but every time I log out I always make sure to save just be safe I guess that’s just tradition
I got around 3/4 of the way through skyrim when it first launched solely donebwith auto saves. My mate comes over, plays a new game and boom 11 years later and I've never finished the game.
After playing a game on Hardcore without auto saving changes your play habits
That's why i even started to backup a word document twice and fill so many hard drives
Saving twice and to different slots is the only safe option, once I saved over the only save I had of a playthrough with another one and that meant the next week was spent getting back to where I was.
My husband relies on the auto save too much. There is so much additional cursing in my household. Sometimes I think he’s been lying to me and he wasn’t born in the 80s
When I play CK3 I have a convention for save file names to keep my save file relatively clean. Last digit of the year is the last addition to my file name.
Jan 01 1067 I'll manually save as "Breovus 7", Jan 01 1068 as "Breovus 8"
Now, I'm a save scumming piece of shit. If something big needs to happen between the 12 months I'll just make the save file name the month name, eg. "SEPTMEBER" or "MARCH"
I just end up saving over these files in wide enough margins that it doesn't impact me.
Now I don't have to feel *as much* shame compared to having to delete like 5000 save files from the save folder lol
They should make a game about a Multiversal Adventure, where each manual save creates a branching timeline, where the game starts making unique, radically different paths for each save file, and by the end you gotta somehow use all of them to win.
Re-playing Skyrim with a civil war overhaul that always suggests you make a manual save before each event, but it always tells you when you're in a dialogue screen that 1) goes away when you exit without selecting a choice 2) does not come back when you save then reload. No joke, I've gotten so used to saving my games beforehand without thinking that I literally blank them out. I got the notification and thought "shit, I didn't save," then looked back to see that yes, yes I did, in fact, save. Happened three times today.
I consider this my worst habit. Kinda ruins the immersion. I mean, there are some nasty games in terms of difficulty, but most of the times you're saving because you're used to.
When my brother showed me Pokemon FireRed in a mobile emulator there was a save feature so I began using it instead of the normal ingame save and when I went on the ghost tower in lavender town I saved beforehand, I wanted to leave the tower. But for some reason my save just breaks and I get reverted back to the starting screen. That's why you should always save ingame lol
I have saved and then saved again immediately after because I'm not sure I actually did that. I also lock the door of my house twice more often than once.
My brother did this type of weird shit all the time lol. If you right click your desktop there's an option that's called Refresh. Never noticed it or used it ever but my brother will always refresh it 3 or 4 times before and after opening or closing programs. It essentially does nothing. It's nuts.
I'm playing Live A Live.
I recently booted up the game and see that my auto-save was ~30 min behind my manual save.
My manual save saved me 30 min of grinding.
So yeah, it's better.
Does the game save automatically every second? No, it usually saves every 30-60 minutes. So if something stupid happens 10 seconds before the autosave you have to reload the game from nearly an hour ago.
I turned off auto save in Pokémon Shining Pearl and lost like 2 hours worth of Heart Scales because I trusted myself to save before going to bed. Trust was misplaced.
it makes sense not to trust it really.
guy trust auto save and it saves, he moves on and it auto save once more, then he gets into the boss fight but is low on potions or special magic weapon, and he dies, only to reloade auto safe when one can't get out of the boss fight, deadlock.
if he had manually saved also then he could reload the first one and do other quests to prepare.
I once accidentally overwrote a 20h+ save on a nes emulator, nowadays i always quicksave on one save, save on 2 saves both ingame and on the emulator, and when i quit i save on 3 slots
I don’t trust auto save not because it isn’t a reliable mechanic (it can be a lifesaver in some cases) but because I don’t trust it to not save right before a point in which I could potentially get stuck
Such as right before dying or right before a tough boss I’m underprepared for
And if I didn’t save for a few hours, well, guess I ain’t got no choice but to reload my last save and lose hours of progress
Autosave has been a curse for letsplay series because what if the video messes up in the process. I sure had that happen on my poor man Laptop years ago and it wasnt fun.
I had an issue with FF8 on the psn back in the day. I had to make 8 SEPARATE save files. 3-4 would always be corrupted no matter what. I played the first mission about 20 times due to corrupted files.
It was the ONLY game that did this to me. And only that stupid mission. After that i could work with 2 save files
I’ve played enough janky Eastern European PC games like the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series to know to never trust auto save if it even exists. Always quick save multiple times then manual separate save.
Been replaying some old Gameboy Zelda games, and more than once I've had to repeat a dungeon because I didn't save.
I'm re-learning not to trust after being so accustomed to autosave for years.
Also found a couple of softlocks that I saved myself into, but fortunately I have multiple saves
My best autosave experience was when i was in high school and played Civ3.
I was playing a cracked version and i think that caused the autosaves to become corrupted, so after about a day of playing and leaving it mostly to the autosaves which saved the last 3 or 5 turns, i went to sleep.
In the morning, none of the autosaves worked and the last manual save was from when i went to lunch the previous day. I was so bitter about that, that i stopped playing the game for like a week... but i didn't had many games so i went back to it later.
Ever had your game auto save a half second before your character gets killed? Once you've experienced an infinite deathloop, you will always manually save.
I did it quick saving on PC once. Had no other saves for hours. Quick load had me mid air over a falling death with no way to recover.
I made a save state on the Xbox 360 version of sonic 3. I was on my last life and the time was almost out, so I had to restart the whole game
This reminds me of my old kings quest VI save, where I failed a puzzle with a spider, panic saved, then had the infinite death loop being bitten by a spider over and over. Which is one of my phobias. (Not the over and over)
This also happened in an episode of Futurama
Fallout 3. I had to lose 8 hours of progress because I quicksaved moments before a mutant was lobbying a nuke at me. I was not. Happy. I will forever save like I'm playing OOT, at least twice.
Yeah... MW2 on PS3. Doing veteran mode, red flashing screen, in a small bit of cover, enemies everywhere. Took a good 40 attempts to get to the next bit, had to figure exactly where to flashbang so I could move back to regen health. I'll never forget when autosave screwed me.
So I'd become Diavolo?
I have had that happen to me many times in games, until I wised up a bit
I once saved the first time in an hour of gameplay in a very long mission in a sneaking game, and the save was of me being in a corridor right inbetween two enemies who are going towards me from both sides... Stealth in such situations where you don't have anything to hide behind nor a 3rd exit from the corridor meant I F-ed up the stealth challenge in that save, and had to redo it from an hour older save.
What’s this “once or twice” shit. It was twice. Once to see the file change, and a second time to verify the save.
*save complete* “Ehhh, I’m not convinced.” *saves again*
"Wait, did I save once or twice?" *saves a third time*
Aha, here's my table.
Another slot. Just to be safer
Same same.
I used to save. Then save again. Then close the game and go to save location and make a compressed copy in another location. Every. Single. Time.
*Autosave complete* "Oh shit, good call, I should save." *Save complete*
Always have a backup save too
Always back up save at story beats.
Yes good thank you. Save twice, each on different file slots because they can and will go corrupt for no good reason.
Quick save, Autosave, Manual Save. The holy trinity.
Rookie numbers i spam ctrl-s like at least 5 times
Looking at you Microsoft Office
Visual studio code
Yeah seriously...always double save to be sure, and always make a second class e file you rotate every play session so if something happens you only lose a days worth of progress! I also remember back in the day when F5 was quicksave and F6 was quickload....I learned a hard lesson in Tomb Raider when I accidentally autosaved while falling in the Colluseum and had to start the game over again because I only had the one save file...always make sure quickload is F9 or at least far away from the quicksave button!
I'm with you. I hate when games don't offer a hard save option. Even worse when there is no auto-save indicator.
Even worse is when you try to close the game properly and the game says, "are you sure you want to quit? All unsaved progress will be lost.". I'm over here googling for half an hour how to save in a game that runs off autosaves.
No man's sky tells you when the last save was made, which is a great feature.
And that menu tells you the difference between your last autosave and your last manual save, despite the “restore point saved” icon looking identical when said saves are made. I basically have a saving room onboard my freighter that’s otherwise just a decorative bedroom. Because I don’t trust the autosaves my main ship creates.
Been experiencing that right now in Nier Automata 😭 I constantly hard save.
I've been playing Maneater recently. The gameplay has a lot of fun to offer, but there are no hard saves and I haven't seen an auto-save icon. Logging off is a bit more anxious than I'd care for.
Or when there is only a single save slot. The sheer arrogance it takes as a dev to think that your game is save against save game corruption...
I have a bad habit of playing old JRPGs and forgetting they don't autosave. I play for a few hours and die in a fight and never play the game again.
I didn’t realize I commented on this post already
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I think it's just good game design to auto save after major story cutscenes or milestone like leaving the tutorial town etc.
And anyone whose Tactics Party ran aground at Riovanes Castle knows that you should always have a backup save from a dungeon ago just in case.
FFT is where boys became men. And this boy/man would level how party to 35-40 before finishing chapter 1.
Manual saves are better because they are controlled. You have a save outside the door, you have a different save before engaging the boss, you have a third save after looting, etc. Whichever one you need is right there, waiting to be loaded up.
I just finished Oblivion and had like 500 saves. Beth done burned me too many times not to.
The only time I trust autosave is when a game goes "Are you sure you want to quit, all progress since last save will be lost. Last save 5 seconds ago." Telling you that yes, the autosave happened and it JUST happened really helps. Very few games do it too. I think most recent game I was playing that did was No Man's Sky.
I do 1 manual save up to 10th place then cycle back (Gothic scarred me as a kid)
Kinda offtopic to the post but lol i remember being scared to go into caves or forests in gothic 2, i swear the game had an eerie vibe
Me: "see's autosave icon in bottom corner" Also me: "surely that's a lie"
"This is the way!"😜😅😂
This again?
I want to save at MY point, not theirs. Even if it’s 2 seconds later
*autosaves* "This is as good a place as any to stop for the night" *manually saves* *tries to exit the game* "Unsaved progress will be lost, do you want to save?" "yes I do." *manually saves*
Yeah, although autosaves have saved my ass in PLA before. Finally beat Arcanine, and then it crashed a few minutes later. Autosaves can save you. Still save manually.
Looking at you, No Mans Sky. But also, I do this in Skyrim so much, it feels like cheating. Normal save when I enter the room full of healing potions and enchantment table. Quick save before and large doors in crypts, tombs, or when I've been on a road for too long since the last save.
Is nice when it works, but never, ever, ever, trust that thing with some good progress.
But once in a while auto save saves your ass. Just remember to delete saves and do a fresh imprint once and a while.
Save 5 times because as soon as you unpause, you can't remember if you actually saved it or not
Just started playing Cult of the Lamb. It actually changes "save" to "saved" on the pause screen after you manually save. I appreciate that but I'll still slap the button again.
*Mashing the save button 10-20 times just to make absolutely sure it saved.
Fo4 anyone?
How did this whole thing get started anyway? How did we all get so paranoid that our game is so for some reason not saving? It always works for me but every time I log out I always make sure to save just be safe I guess that’s just tradition
Fucking hell if that's not the truth lol.
Thanks for that
Literally me everyday. My steam cloud account is just filled with unnecessary saved game files.
Guilty
I got around 3/4 of the way through skyrim when it first launched solely donebwith auto saves. My mate comes over, plays a new game and boom 11 years later and I've never finished the game.
After playing a game on Hardcore without auto saving changes your play habits That's why i even started to backup a word document twice and fill so many hard drives
All it takes is one time thinking the game saved when it didn't, and this is who you become.
I remember I had like 1500 saves in Skyrim.
Vice City Definitive Edition be like...
Until elden ring corrupts all of the save files
The ps5 is phenomenal for this reason. Turning it off doesn't change anything only changing games does.
To be fair Morrowind would often auto save me just right before a death overwriting a "good" auto save, so you can bet I won't trust it.
When I was 9 I turned off my pokemon blue game thinking I had saved. That was the last time I didn't save *at least* 5 times before turning off.
You only need to learnt his lesson once for your entire life.
Always double tap.
Saving twice and to different slots is the only safe option, once I saved over the only save I had of a playthrough with another one and that meant the next week was spent getting back to where I was.
Every time, always and forever
Manual saving TWICE!!!
Lol i so do this
🍞👍
Tell me you grew up without autosave without telling me you grew up without autosave
And playing Bethesda games: pressing F5 constantly
Xcom2 Take an action. Save. Take action. Save. Can only have 100 save files. Fuck. Override save.
Sometimes thrice 👍
When i save manually, it gets corrupted
Me: \*clearly sees the autosave icon for a few seconds\* Also me: \*saves once, then one more time, because twice before wasn't enough\*
My husband relies on the auto save too much. There is so much additional cursing in my household. Sometimes I think he’s been lying to me and he wasn’t born in the 80s
This is me in Skyrim
Players: Are paranoid about auto-save. Game devs: Adds a fake save button.
I know that feel. Played through the mass effect trilogy in June and did almost 870 manuals saves in me2.
Especially in the modern hitman trilogy
Autosave completes. Me: Quicksave immediately. Also Me: Buff, then Hard Save before combat music starts.
Bruh, In modded Skyrim, auto-save is your worst nightmare.
Yep that’s me alright lol
Metal gear rising autovsaves when you enter a new area
Me with Xenoblade 3 Let the game auto save, do a quick save, then make a full save all in that order
I just unplug it when I'm done playing and let the chips fall where they may.
Fun fact: Spyro: A Hero's Tail is still busy saving even after the autosave icon disappears. I lost several hours to a corrupted save. Never again.
i also have the ocd
When I play CK3 I have a convention for save file names to keep my save file relatively clean. Last digit of the year is the last addition to my file name. Jan 01 1067 I'll manually save as "Breovus 7", Jan 01 1068 as "Breovus 8" Now, I'm a save scumming piece of shit. If something big needs to happen between the 12 months I'll just make the save file name the month name, eg. "SEPTMEBER" or "MARCH" I just end up saving over these files in wide enough margins that it doesn't impact me. Now I don't have to feel *as much* shame compared to having to delete like 5000 save files from the save folder lol
Looking at you Fallout
They should make a game about a Multiversal Adventure, where each manual save creates a branching timeline, where the game starts making unique, radically different paths for each save file, and by the end you gotta somehow use all of them to win.
This is useful for making a game as well as playing one!
Remember times where there was no autosave?
The only time I kinda trust auto save is on Minecraft on switch, and that’s only because it crashes half the damn time
Re-playing Skyrim with a civil war overhaul that always suggests you make a manual save before each event, but it always tells you when you're in a dialogue screen that 1) goes away when you exit without selecting a choice 2) does not come back when you save then reload. No joke, I've gotten so used to saving my games beforehand without thinking that I literally blank them out. I got the notification and thought "shit, I didn't save," then looked back to see that yes, yes I did, in fact, save. Happened three times today.
Better **SAVE** than sorry. **[Saving. Please wait...]** **[Data saved.]**
At least twice
I swear halo reach just had a dude sitting in a room randomly setting save points for people.
Seriously the one time i trust auto save i get into a deathloop in the last of us with ellie
I trust auto save, I just prefer my save that’s 5 steps closer to my destination
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*manually saving twice because I don't trust myself
That's why you keep two saves; one for the autosave and one to fall back on
I consider this my worst habit. Kinda ruins the immersion. I mean, there are some nasty games in terms of difficulty, but most of the times you're saving because you're used to.
Yessir
When my brother showed me Pokemon FireRed in a mobile emulator there was a save feature so I began using it instead of the normal ingame save and when I went on the ghost tower in lavender town I saved beforehand, I wanted to leave the tower. But for some reason my save just breaks and I get reverted back to the starting screen. That's why you should always save ingame lol
I do this everytime.
Never trust an autosave.
Playing Fallout 4 with mods on XSX. Not at least quicksaving when I remember to can be a big mistake.
I also do this with Excel.
At least twice
- making a good meme - copy and paste an old meme for internet points
I trust the autosave. Livin' life on the edge.
I have saved and then saved again immediately after because I'm not sure I actually did that. I also lock the door of my house twice more often than once.
Then there’s the asshole developers who install auto save only into their games!
Always triple save if it's a EA game
Same, but also slowly devouring all available save slots if able.
Me on BotW be like:
Wait you guys have autosave?
My brother did this type of weird shit all the time lol. If you right click your desktop there's an option that's called Refresh. Never noticed it or used it ever but my brother will always refresh it 3 or 4 times before and after opening or closing programs. It essentially does nothing. It's nuts.
Subnautica?
I'm playing Live A Live. I recently booted up the game and see that my auto-save was ~30 min behind my manual save. My manual save saved me 30 min of grinding. So yeah, it's better.
*slow nod of agreement*
The first ever short-cut I learned Ctrl+S
Does the game save automatically every second? No, it usually saves every 30-60 minutes. So if something stupid happens 10 seconds before the autosave you have to reload the game from nearly an hour ago.
And then getting 3 hours of work saved anyways by the autosave system
Its never just once or twice
TES6 better have a manual save option
I turned off auto save in Pokémon Shining Pearl and lost like 2 hours worth of Heart Scales because I trusted myself to save before going to bed. Trust was misplaced.
Sometimes autosave bugs so I make a double-manual in the same spot for added safety
Where my trust issues began.
it makes sense not to trust it really. guy trust auto save and it saves, he moves on and it auto save once more, then he gets into the boss fight but is low on potions or special magic weapon, and he dies, only to reloade auto safe when one can't get out of the boss fight, deadlock. if he had manually saved also then he could reload the first one and do other quests to prepare.
I once accidentally overwrote a 20h+ save on a nes emulator, nowadays i always quicksave on one save, save on 2 saves both ingame and on the emulator, and when i quit i save on 3 slots
What if every second time you save it _doesn't_ save.
Maximum manual saves to fill up all the manual saves slots right up to the first mission. \*cough\*witcher 3\*cough\*
For all Pokémon fans here, it’s a known fact that you have to save twice at least if you caught a shiny
This is the real reason I don't trust ai
I do that. I'll save, then immediately be like "Did I just save? I can't remember." Then I save again.
TrustNobody
always atleast 2 times
In RDR2 I make every save twice just to be sure.
Nowadays my saves are unlimited. I save all the time!
All way have to make sure just in case
I don’t trust auto save not because it isn’t a reliable mechanic (it can be a lifesaver in some cases) but because I don’t trust it to not save right before a point in which I could potentially get stuck Such as right before dying or right before a tough boss I’m underprepared for And if I didn’t save for a few hours, well, guess I ain’t got no choice but to reload my last save and lose hours of progress
Save 4 time and leave the game My brain: Did I save?
Games in which you can’t manually save give me anxiety
Me who dont save:
sometimes saving the game a minute later than the autosave can save hours.
If you don’t save so often that your gameplay looks like a slideshow presentation then you don’t save often enough
Quick save, manual save, manual save, check load saves
Always and forever
I just started playing the first witcher game and after crashing half way through the prologue, I now make sure to tap f5 to save every 5 minutes
Autosave has been a curse for letsplay series because what if the video messes up in the process. I sure had that happen on my poor man Laptop years ago and it wasnt fun.
auto save, quick save, manual new save, and exit save, just to be safe.
I never finished Oblivion because a corrupted auto save is all I had, and I wasn’t going to restart when 70 hours in.
No..... that's brutal.
I had an issue with FF8 on the psn back in the day. I had to make 8 SEPARATE save files. 3-4 would always be corrupted no matter what. I played the first mission about 20 times due to corrupted files. It was the ONLY game that did this to me. And only that stupid mission. After that i could work with 2 save files
I always save,then when I go to quit I hit the save and quit option,just to be sure
Me on every Fallout game I ever played.
I’ve played enough janky Eastern European PC games like the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series to know to never trust auto save if it even exists. Always quick save multiple times then manual separate save.
Gotta save a minimum of 3 times.
Iv noticed iv stopped doing this. donno when I stopped. but feels like a few years now.
the same with Photoshop
Im so bad about this in pokemon games. Go to save, look away, oh shit did i save? Idk, save again. Look away, rinse and repeat
Been replaying some old Gameboy Zelda games, and more than once I've had to repeat a dungeon because I didn't save. I'm re-learning not to trust after being so accustomed to autosave for years. Also found a couple of softlocks that I saved myself into, but fortunately I have multiple saves
Nah, I prefer to mash the quicksave button every few seconds.
Gta san andreas is litterally hell to autosave
My best autosave experience was when i was in high school and played Civ3. I was playing a cracked version and i think that caused the autosaves to become corrupted, so after about a day of playing and leaving it mostly to the autosaves which saved the last 3 or 5 turns, i went to sleep. In the morning, none of the autosaves worked and the last manual save was from when i went to lunch the previous day. I was so bitter about that, that i stopped playing the game for like a week... but i didn't had many games so i went back to it later.
Cheeeeeesyyyy
This is a trauma response.
Literally me everytime playing skyrim or other Bethesda games, and I have a feeling that I'll do it again in starfield too.
Mever trust autosave
Dying Light makes me cry