"Can't save right now" bug

[Theos 🪐]

Hey, so, this just happened to me, now I cant save my game anymore

Every time i try to save or quicksave I get the cant save right now message. Ive searched about it and it seems to be a pretty old bug that never got fixed. It doesnt seem to be related to any specific quest since every person ive seen relating the problem says it happened in a different quest.

Ive tried doing the solutions that most people say it worked for them, but none are working for me. Ive tried:

Opening a drop point to force the game to autosave then loading that autosave
Reading all messages and calling someone
Sleeping at my apartment
Skipping time through the menu

None of these worked for me, even though they are the most popular solutions.

Any other suggestions on how to deal with this? Or am I forced to go to a drop point to autosave every time I want to close the game now?

[Theos 🪐]

As I said I don't think this is related to any quests but just for the sake of information, this started as soon as I did my first "I Really Wanna Stay In Your House" romance hangout quest with Judy in the main apartment. As soon as she arrived, I couldn't save anymore.

[Theos 🪐]

Help

[=HellFire=]

Yeah I had the same after leaving Judy's house for the first time. I think I died by car combat after they ? somehow came after me after meeting Mama Welles. It was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ funeral and still they insisted on that car combat gameplay aspect. Oh well. It's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ bug and shouldn't be here in this game at this stage but here we are.

Reloading after a death and starting all over helped for me.

[Theos 🪐]

Dying didnt help
Ive also completed a couple of main quests and that didnt fix the problem like some people said it does. I'm running out of options.

[Theos 🪐]

After around 10 hours of using my bike's stash to trigger autosave, the bug fixed itself. Don't know exactly when it did, but I only noticed after I met Kerry and started the Second Conflit quest.

[Tugakit]

Hey ! It's very strange that the game doesnt save when you go to sleep. Try the original v appartment and sleep for 24 hours that's the only solution, other appartments didnt worked aswell.

[Theos 🪐]

Tugakit님이 먼저 게시:

Hey ! It's very strange that the game doesnt save when you go to sleep. Try the original v appartment and sleep for 24 hours that's the only solution, other appartments didnt worked aswell.

I did try that at the time. Doesn't work.

[Lil Psycho Panda]

Lost HOURS of playtime due to this bug! One of the worst bugs I've even encountered!

[Phynrae]

Visit your stash (either at home, or from the trunk of your car) and the game will perform an auto-save when you exit the stash.

Then quit to the main menu and reload, and the save bug should have corrected itself.


Should you for some reason not have access to your stash, visiting a store or a dropbox also performs an auto-save when you exit their interface.

[Lil Psycho Panda]

Phynrae님이 먼저 게시:

Visit your stash (either at home, or from the trunk of your car) and the game will perform an auto-save when you exit the stash.

Then quit to the main menu and reload, and the save bug should have corrected itself.


Should you for some reason not have access to your stash, visiting a store or a dropbox also performs an auto-save when you exit their interface.

Nope, that didn't work either. I pretty much tried everything :/
- Sleep till next day
- visit a drop point
- check my stash
- killed myself
- went to the end of the map in multiple directions
- fast travelled
- used a metro
- yeah... pretty much everything :/

[Theos 🪐]

There is no guaranteed fix for this bug. It fixed itself for me just like it started, randomly. All you can do is keep playing the game and using the vehicle stash or a drop point to trigger the game's autosave whenever you need until the bug fixes itself, like it happened to me.

[Maerkuz]

not a bug.
It's designed to block saves in certain interactions and places so you can't quick save/quick load to cheese important events. I guess it's meant to "save" the integrity of the story and some side quests, since most ppl will do that trick for the majority of the game anyway.
It's a shet mechanic, but most games like this one do it as well.

[Phynrae]

Lil Psycho Panda님이 먼저 게시:

Nope, that didn't work either. I pretty much tried everything :/

Hmm, think we'll need more details then.

This save bug is an old bug (which is why i already knew what to do about it), it was fixed some time ago, but now it seems to have crept it's way back in with patch 2.12.


I had it myself two days ago, i had just completed the "gimme danger" quest, and sure enough, i hit F5 and get told "Can't save right now", even though the quest was done and over, and i absolutely should be able to save.

Called my bike, went into the stash and back out again, game auto-saved. A quick exit to main menu and back in again, all was fine.


So the bug still works the same way it used to, and the work-around still works too, i've confirmed that in my own game, so i'm at a loss as to why it woulden't work for you.

Unless of course this isen't that bug. Did you bail prematurely from a still active quest perhabs?

[Lil Psycho Panda]

Phynrae님이 먼저 게시:

Lil Psycho Panda님이 먼저 게시:

Nope, that didn't work either. I pretty much tried everything :/

Hmm, think we'll need more details then.

This save bug is an old bug (which is why i already knew what to do about it), it was fixed some time ago, but now it seems to have crept it's way back in with patch 2.12.


I had it myself two days ago, i had just completed the "gimme danger" quest, and sure enough, i hit F5 and get told "Can't save right now", even though the quest was done and over, and i absolutely should be able to save.

Called my bike, went into the stash and back out again, game auto-saved. A quick exit to main menu and back in again, all was fine.


So the bug still works the same way it used to, and the work-around still works too, i've confirmed that in my own game, so i'm at a loss as to why it woulden't work for you.

Unless of course this isen't that bug. Did you bail prematurely from a still active quest perhabs?

My bug started after accepting the quest from Rogue and doing the quest called "Herous", while being the Afterlife club. The bug persisted even after a full computer restart and even after initially completing mainline quests for hours! As I mentioned above, I tried a LOT of things and the only thing that "fixed it", which is not really a fix if you have been playing for a while without saving, is to load the last save, get out of the club and to several new saves while going away from the club. I really hope they fix this damn bug, but now I know that if it happens again, I'm just gonna reload my last save and not waste time.

[Maerkuz]

Phynrae님이 먼저 게시:

This save bug is an old bug (which is why i already knew what to do about it), it was fixed some time ago, but now it seems to have crept it's way back in with patch 2.12.

How long ago was the 2.12 patch? This is something that's been happening for me since I first started oh, maybe about a month or so ago. I can save fine before and after a mission, sometimes even while I'm still doing a mission. For me it's just during some sequences where saving while they're going on, would be confusing to come back to in the middle of them after loading...and I've reloaded saves many a time with no changes at all, but then again I do save probably way more often than the average player anyway so I can backtrack if I missed something.