How to stop yourself from Save-Scumming ?

[CrimeMaster Gogo]

Basically the title,
I loved playing DOS:2 and I loved this game in early access but I have this really bad habit of saving after every turn/dialog whatsoever in order to undo anything which makes a negative effect.
I want to stop doing this and play my first run with all my spontaneous decisions (which I as a human would take if I were in this character's place).
I dunno how to stop myself from doing this.

Help me !!!

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Practice.

It took me years to break this bad habbit.
In this game have 2 rules.
1: No reload unless it is party wipe.
2: No undoing choices.

If you break either of those rules punish yourself.
Meaby 10 push ups or not being able to play for an hour.

Threat yourself as if you would discipling a misbehaving child.
As much as we like to pretend otherwise we never grow out of the praise and punishment system.
It works.
Ofcourse reward yourself for not save scumming.

Also remember:
Emotions come and go.
Just outlast them.

[CrimeMaster Gogo]

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

Practice.


If you break either of those rules punish yourself.
Maybe 10 push ups or not being able to play for an hour.

Just outlast them.

Geez, I might finally cut my DadBelly 'Without the Dad' part of it

[Fujisawa1]

I suspect a lot of people will make jokes of this post, but its been proven that players killing their own fun is a real thing.

Breaking gaming habits can be tough, I used to save scumm a lot. I think coming up with rules like above is helpful though, pick what you consider unnacceptable outcomes, and only load on those.

For me, character death, at least on my first playthrough. I want to see my characters stories and play with the characters I like. I 100% want my owlbear cub, heh. Lastly, I want to see where the romance story goes, so if that somehow gets completely borked by 1 decision, I'll load.

I've never tried rewarding myself, but maybe I'll come up with something for that.

[TaliHazard]

the other people i play with are the only reason that i don't do it lol, they FORCE me to live with my bad decisions

[Pixie Paws]

Play in co-op. So your friend gets angry.

[TaliHazard]

seems to work for me, i've gotten used to it by now by getting yelled at if i try it lol

[CrimeMaster Gogo]

Originally posted by Pixie Paws:

Play in co-op. So your friend gets angry.

I'll play co-op but my first run gonna be solo only.

[Lur Nen Rue]

embrace it that your inner rouge speaking

[Mr. Redhand]

I had to start the game and say to my self "Everything that happens is supposed to happen." And i just repeat it when the dice seem to be against me. so unless i wipe, i wont be save scumming.

[Senditu]

easy 3 step guide to not safescum, foolproof 100% guarantee or money back:
1) get a sledge hammer
2) use sledgehammer on both hands, requires a strong jaw or a friend to help
3) now you are unable to safe scum

you are welcome

or if this is not for you: get some self control

[Dreaming Prince]

discipline

[NaRf]

Originally posted by CrimeMaster Gogo:

Basically the title,
I loved playing DOS:2 and I loved this game in early access but I have this really bad habit of saving after every turn/dialog whatsoever in order to undo anything which makes a negative effect.
I want to stop doing this and play my first run with all my spontaneous decisions (which I as a human would take if I were in this character's place).
I dunno how to stop myself from doing this.

Help me !!!:BEgloomy:

Don't do it.... Kind of easy really.

[⇧⇨⇩⇩⇩]

Originally posted by CrimeMaster Gogo:

Basically the title,
I loved playing DOS:2 and I loved this game in early access but I have this really bad habit of saving after every turn/dialog whatsoever in order to undo anything which makes a negative effect.
I want to stop doing this and play my first run with all my spontaneous decisions (which I as a human would take if I were in this character's place).
I dunno how to stop myself from doing this.

Help me !!!:BEgloomy:

Just have some willpower. Its not that hard mate. XD

[Detective Costeau]

Don't press f8?
I guess you could glue a tack to it or something, but the trick to not loading after every failed roll is to not do that.

[NzFox]

Originally posted by Fujisawa1:

I suspect a lot of people will make jokes of this post, but its been proven that players killing their own fun is a real thing.

I know I have real issues with this, I use to kill my enjoyment of totalwar games until I changed it to have one save slot only. Accepting a failure can be really hard unless you are forced to do so, but it can really ruin a game to have effectively 'god mode'