Can You Force Save

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Can you force the game to save without having to fast travel (always encumbered and cant) . I was just in The Deep inside the commie compound when my game bugged and I had to force quit and restart. This threw me out of the The Deep cave so i now have to do the whole thing over again. Need manual saves bad in this game. Part of the bug made my main menu button not work and my HUD disappear. I have no mods installed, it almost felt like I had accidentally togged it off but couldn't figure out how to turn it back on. Or it could have just bugged out. On PC. Any advice, suggestion or fixes? Helpful comments always appreciated.

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Originally posted by Fallout 76 Best game Ever:

you have to do the motherload quest before you go into the deep

Ah, ok, I don't know if I have done that quest yet, I'll check it out to make sure. Thank you for this info. I am still not sure what was going on yesterday other than my toon was half broken by some sort of bug issue. Exiting the game fixed the bug with my character but I get to redo the whole cavern and compound all over again.

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Originally posted by lolz:

Can you force the game to save without having to fast travel (always encumbered and cant) . I was just in The Deep inside the commie compound when my game bugged and I had to force quit and restart. This threw me out of the The Deep cave so i now have to do the whole thing over again. Need manual saves bad in this game. Part of the bug made my main menu button not work and my HUD disappear. I have no mods installed, it almost felt like I had accidentally togged it off but couldn't figure out how to turn it back on. Or it could have just bugged out. On PC. Any advice, suggestion or fixes? Helpful comments always appreciated.

This is because you were in an instance. This is the only time where you have to reach checkpoints in order for a save to occur. 90% of the time it will never be a problem.

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Originally posted by SmallSheriff:

Kill them again. No commie left. Good weapons to scrap.

Lolol!

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Originally posted by Softspokenman:

saved or not you leave the server your waking up outside

Originally posted by BizarreMan:

Originally posted by Softspokenman:

saved or not you leave the server your waking up outside

Yup, and saved != check-pointed. Disconnect and you will have all of the loot, but you will still have to do things over again until you hit that magic moment.

Yep, found this out. Exiting the game did fix the issue with my toon not working right but it was sucky. I've played Fallout 3, NV and 4 and am familiar with bugs and needing to save frequently. This game in the series feels like I have a lot less control over some things.

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Originally posted by Mooman:

Quest progression is it's own thing and only saves at set checkpoints that the player isn't aware of. Character saving is different as a characters data can be saved (current gear and perks etc.) but the quest isn't as it hasn't hit the checkpoint.

Nothing you can do about checkpoints. If your client crashes or other issues such as bugs then all you can do is try again and pray to the Tod Almighty you make it to safety.

The auto save checkpoints aren't close enough together. lol Had to quit yesterday (aggro), will try it again today.

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Originally posted by lordoftheapes79:

Originally posted by lolz:

Can you force the game to save without having to fast travel (always encumbered and cant) . I was just in The Deep inside the commie compound when my game bugged and I had to force quit and restart. This threw me out of the The Deep cave so i now have to do the whole thing over again. Need manual saves bad in this game. Part of the bug made my main menu button not work and my HUD disappear. I have no mods installed, it almost felt like I had accidentally togged it off but couldn't figure out how to turn it back on. Or it could have just bugged out. On PC. Any advice, suggestion or fixes? Helpful comments always appreciated.

This is because you were in an instance. This is the only time where you have to reach checkpoints in order for a save to occur. 90% of the time it will never be a problem.

Yeah, I thought it might be instanced. I hope the 90% rule turns out to be true. :D

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Originally posted by Dezktop:

saves as you play with that ini line magic don't run programs.

I wondered if that would work on an MMO.

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Originally posted by The Geologist:

I don't think this game works like that. Its an online game that saves as you play.

Yes it is saving as you play. Just this setting makes it save to the server/cloud more often AFAIK.