How do I manually save a game when docked?

[Gunship]

I don't know how to access the menu when docked?

[Hazzy]

The game autosaves every time you dock. Otherwise to manually save when docked, just press P to bring up the pause menu and there'll be an option to save there.

[Gunship]

P it is, thank you

[Giraffasaur]

Also want to mention that we are implementing an auto-save for when you LEAVE a station (so it remembers everything you repaired, restored, and purchased), as well as a Save Anywhere feature that lets you save the very moment anywhere, so long as enemies are 2km away from you. This save will retain your exact items and position. It does not override auto-saves though, so you'll always have a checkpoint save, just in case.

[Dwarf80]

post is still relevant at this time, i show the last save was 1.5hrs ago while i was playing and had been in and out of trading station twice within that period turning in a mission, and was no other saves to load from after being killed within that time frame....this was very disappointing.....so this only applies to stations and not trading docks...stations are not exactly in every instance. At this point in time when i quit to desktop which is quite often i always loose everything so to me at this time this game plays like everspace 1 in that respect, rogue like...until a manual save is implemented into the game, the rest of the gameplay is what i was looking for.

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Dwarf80:

post is still relevant at this time, i show the last save was 1.5hrs ago while i was playing and had been in and out of trading station twice within that period turning in a mission, and was no other saves to load from after being killed within that time frame....this was very disappointing.....so this only applies to stations and not trading docks...stations are not exactly in every instance.

Anytime my ship landed I could save manually just fine - didn't pay attention to auto-saves but then again - I only died maybe... twice?

[Dwarf80]

decided was easier before a squad of groupies to just warp out then back in, this seems to activate the autosave for me, and maybe respawn a few drops here and there.

[Giraffasaur]

Originally posted by Dwarf80:

post is still relevant at this time, i show the last save was 1.5hrs ago while i was playing and had been in and out of trading station twice within that period turning in a mission, and was no other saves to load from after being killed within that time frame....this was very disappointing.....so this only applies to stations and not trading docks...stations are not exactly in every instance. At this point in time when i quit to desktop which is quite often i always loose everything so to me at this time this game plays like everspace 1 in that respect, rogue like...until a manual save is implemented into the game, the rest of the gameplay is what i was looking for.

I tried to reproduce this in the live early access build, and my auto-saves are working normally. This almost seems like a bug to me somehow, but I'm not really sure where to start cracking it open.

That said, it may just be one of those instances that sucks that it happens in this build. Basically, this is fixed and both auto-saves and manual saves have been addressed in our internal build that will be added in the upcoming April update at the end of this month.

[rockfish_andi]

Sounds indeed weird what Dwarf80 is describing and I don't think I've ever heard any problems with the game not being saved when it should be. The way it is currently supposed to work (and in my experience is working):
- Autosave is created whenever you enter a location or dock to any station
- In rare cases an auto-save is created during a mission (these are then labeled as "checkpoint")
- Manual saves can only be created via the pause menu (P) while being docked to a station

[Dwarf80]

i verified that entering a location works, a trade station dock does not work, am heading back over to the main station and will check that one.

Yes it is working when i enter the station and did activate the <P> pause game, it gave me the manual save option also, so yes all this is working, i just didnt know about using the pause key to pause at anytime, i was hitting esc to get to this and in station only the pause key will allow you to save manually but since it is autosaving when entering station this takes care of that. Tnx for explaining all this to me.