Quick Save / Quick Load please

[Piwoailles]

Hello cool people,

It's all in the title. Could you please add quick save / quick load?

[mingyjongo]

The game is designed with manual save points and shortcuts that wrap back around to them. It's one of the survival horror aspects.

[Hogarth]

Originally posted by Piwoailles:

I disagree. Again, there are tons of challenging games that allow quick save/load. I really wish the devs add this feature to the game. People who don't want to use it, good for them, but it would definitely make the game more enjoyable for me. Playing the way you want is the main feature of an immersive sim, right?

Wait for the easiest difficulty comes out you will be able to save whenever you want to. So just be patient :))

[Rex Yaldabaoth]

I'm pretty sure the easy mode will have quicksaving, the demo had that if I remember right

[Unperdants]

Originally posted by krashd:

Originally posted by Piwoailles:

I really don't understand this decision. This has nothing to do with difficulty.
I wish they at least add a "Save and quit" option.

It has everything to do with difficulty. The ability to quick save and quick load would allow people to save scum and remove most of the challenge.

How others play a single player game has zero effect on you. I infer that it annoys you that others might enjoy a game in a way that you don't and that is odd.

It does have real life consequences as you can be forced to lose quite a bit of gameplay through not fault of your own and this is a bad thing. That affects me and it affects others.

If you want to play this like a console game, then fine, but allowing save and exit at least would be better for others at no cost to you.

[Pensacola Steve]

Too many enemies and too few hiding places. The way saving is done really is tedious.

[Piwoailles]

Originally posted by Allrau̇n:

Wait for the easiest difficulty comes out you will be able to save whenever you want to. So just be patient :))

Yep, but what if I want a badass AI and cruel gameplay constraints, while being able to save whenever I want? :)

[Hogarth]

Originally posted by Piwoailles:

Originally posted by Allrau̇n:

Wait for the easiest difficulty comes out you will be able to save whenever you want to. So just be patient :))

Yep, but what if I want a badass AI and cruel gameplay constraints, while being able to save whenever I want? :)

That sounds like a you problem :)))

[Über Five]

Should be added. Then the individual can decide if they want to use the feature. Maybe add a checkbox at the start of the game that lets you disable quick save/loading if so desired. More features and the ability to personally tune game difficulty is never a bad thing.

[Sugoi]

Personally I didn't have too many problems with the availability of save points beyond the very beginning, but I still think allowing an optional quicksave feature to be turned on independent of other difficulty settings is a reasonable ask.

Generally speaking, the more options you have to customize difficulty, the better. I'd also love to see damage multiplier options (both player and NPC) to create a more brutal (but still fair) experience. By default both the player and NPCs have more health than I think they probably should.

[Sitting Eagle]

Disagree. Save scumming ruins gaming.

[Zombie]

EDIT: I have merged this with my later post which elaborates further on our design choices.

If you absolutely need quicksaves and don't want to wait for easy mode to be implemented, you can enable the developer console and use the loadgame and savegame cheats.

1. Browse to the Gloomwood game folder.
2. Open up user.ini in a text editor like Notepad.
3. Change DevConsole and Cheats from 0 to 1 and save the file.

You can then access the console with the tilde (~) key.

[Piwoailles]

Originally posted by Sitting Eagle:

Disagree. Save scumming ruins gaming.

Then don't use it?

[Piwoailles]

Originally posted by Zombie:

If you absolutely need quicksaves and don't want to wait for easy mode to be implemented, you can enable the developer console and use the loadgame and savegame cheats.

1. Browse to the Gloomwood game folder.
2. Open up user.ini in a text editor like Notepad.
3. Change DevConsole and Cheats from 0 to 1 and save the file.

You can then access the console with the tilde (~) key.

Thanks, Zombie, cool trick.

Are you guys considering the idea of a "Save and quit" option? And adding a quicksave/quickload option to every difficulty level?

Cheers.

[Zombie]

Only Crescent Moon difficulty will have a "save anywhere" feature, the other difficulties require you to use phonographs to save as a deliberate design choice. You will always be able to use the console to save on other difficulties, but we want to discourage it if possible.

[vian]

This short snippet of the game has dozens of shortcuts to most save points, you can't go more than 5 minutes without finding one.