Can we get a limit to saves please?

[MeToLee]

Hi. Firstly I love this game but deleting 165416546 saved games gets almost as annoying. as scorpiom bugs sometimes.. Can we have a limit auto saves please? Like 3-5 auto saves.

[WiLK]

+1

[A.L.E.X.]

+1
This has been a request for years... please devs, this should not be hard to do... please... LOL it is very annoying

[Ģ◊иℤ◊⚡ℤ∀муpΛй]

just delete older saves.

[springy]

considering how often it saves 20 auto-saves would be safer

[A.L.E.X.]

Originally posted by Ģ◊иℤ◊⚡ℤ∀муpΛй:

just delete older saves.

It has around 50 auto-saves if I am not mistaken. There is no way to delete all of them, you need to go one by one, click and confirm...

[SHAD2421]

100% agree with you. You literally have to delete a lot of autosaves to find a specific save. Please allow the autosaves to be overwritten as you progress through the story.

[Ogoor]

Originally posted by Kikuchi:

Originally posted by Ģ◊иℤ◊⚡ℤ∀муpΛй:

just delete older saves.

It has around 50 auto-saves if I am not mistaken. There is no way to delete all of them, you need to go one by one, click and confirm...

You can delete them directly from Saves directory.

C:\Users\<your_account>\Documents\My Games\Starship Troopers\Saves

Every directory is a separate save. I usually just delete all or almost all of them.
Just don't delete steam_autocloud.vdf file by accident.

It's way faster than deleting saves one by one in game, especially when you have to confirm it every time.

[MHGameWork]

Sorry about this, we are indeed a bit worried about lowering the number too much as we don't want players to have to fully replay a scenario in case they get stuck and the autosave got deleted.
I'll bump it higher onto the priority list to investigate a way to improve this.

Are you mainly asking because the menu is hard to use, or because of disk space issues?

MH

[Lotor13]

Originally posted by MHGameWork:

Are you mainly asking because the menu is hard to use, or because of disk space issues?

MH

menu is hard to use - to find some older save between 50 autosaves.

I would suggest to limit austosaves to 5 or 8 for example.

[A.L.E.X.]

Originally posted by MHGameWork:

Sorry about this, we are indeed a bit worried about lowering the number too much as we don't want players to have to fully replay a scenario in case they get stuck and the autosave got deleted.
I'll bump it higher onto the priority list to investigate a way to improve this.

Are you mainly asking because the menu is hard to use, or because of disk space issues?

MH

Not only the first one, as pointed out, but why not have a limit as a setting in options menu? Default 50? Fine. But if I want to lower it to 1 or 2? Why not? :)

[A.L.E.X.]

Originally posted by Ogoor:

Originally posted by Kikuchi:

It has around 50 auto-saves if I am not mistaken. There is no way to delete all of them, you need to go one by one, click and confirm...

You can delete them directly from Saves directory.

C:\Users\<your_account>\Documents\My Games\Starship Troopers\Saves

Every directory is a separate save. I usually just delete all or almost all of them.
Just don't delete steam_autocloud.vdf file by accident.

It's way faster than deleting saves one by one in game, especially when you have to confirm it every time.

This could be a bad thing for the devs, because people might do the wrong thing and call it a bug (no pun intended), then devs would chase something that does not really exist. But thanks for explaining, I will do that myself probably.

[Nivium]

Originally posted by MHGameWork:

Sorry about this, we are indeed a bit worried about lowering the number too much as we don't want players to have to fully replay a scenario in case they get stuck and the autosave got deleted.
I'll bump it higher onto the priority list to investigate a way to improve this.

Are you mainly asking because the menu is hard to use, or because of disk space issues?

MH

As other users have stated, do not set a hard limit. Default the saves to 50 as you already have.
Have a setting in the Options menu that defines the autosave amount.
The issue with this might be when changing autosave counts to a lower number:
Overwriting saves when more than the autosave count exists in the folder could be problematic.
IF this might be an issue, you can save the "Last verified saves" into a separate location that can be increased or decreased based on the chosen setting: Only if the autosaves in folder count is greater than the autosave set in the options, it can grab and save the last verifiable saves in order up to the Autosave count set in the options. Of course if it isn't as many autosaved in the folder as the autosave count set in options, then this should be a piece of cake.

Of course I have no idea how you set up your system of Autosaving but that's just my less than a grain of salt answer to a problem that might not even be an issue. Keep doing your best. :)

[Wilder]

Originally posted by MHGameWork:

Sorry about this, we are indeed a bit worried about lowering the number too much as we don't want players to have to fully replay a scenario in case they get stuck and the autosave got deleted.
I'll bump it higher onto the priority list to investigate a way to improve this.

Are you mainly asking because the menu is hard to use, or because of disk space issues?

MH

Let us choice between 1 or if you like 100