Add autosave?

[AnAnnoyinGoose]

Lost 3 days worth of progress when friends computer crashed..

[KushDragger]

Autosave is bad idea for this type of game. It wasn't in first game they wont add it to this one. You can really mess a game up with autosave an end up having to start all over from day one with that type of feature. Im past day 120 an id hate to have to restart because an autosave saved at a dumb part an makes the game unplayable or in loop of restart. Either way you should be saving each day or night when you sleep. Save after a good build or whatever you think you should. if you are playing in a friends world you need to save yourself they just need to save the world. A host should always be saving when online because you never know when a crash is going to happen or someone comes to ruin your online game.

[Ataxio]

Agreed, we dont need an auto-save. Losing progress sucks but it's a hard reminder to always safe frequently and in different slots.

[Bunker]

kinda the point of the bed save thing
i say it's fine without auto save. as save states every 2 seconds already is a waste of resources.

to make auto save work in games it requires pausing the game sate, writing the state, playing the state every time. hot saves are even worse because of how you need a dynamic variable for every variable that you wana save.

the sleep save is actually a very old school work around for low computer power and a good idea of how to cover the pause with a story related thing like a character needing to sleep.

just pressing the save button is too mechanical for this type of game. it's a reminder that it's a game. and immersion is important in a non super in your fact action game.

games like doom need those kinds of saves to remind folks that it's justa' game bruh

[Anthony John Soprano]

sleep

[Skywalker]

I had a game crash before I could save. So an autosave would be appreciated.

[mtandy]

There is an autosaver mod. Works great. located here https://sotf-mods.com/mods

[Ozzys_Dad]

Originally posted by Skywalker:

I had a game crash before I could save. So an autosave would be appreciated.

So what do you think should trigger auto saves?

[Skywalker]

Originally posted by Ozzys_Dad:

Originally posted by Skywalker:

I had a game crash before I could save. So an autosave would be appreciated.

So what do you think should trigger auto saves?

Definitely should be automatic autosave on sleep and custom time that could be set like every 1 or 2 or 3 ingame hours (depends what the player chooses) on Long day setting. Should be also scaled for the other day time settings. Depends how often want's the player to save. Also the amount of autosaves could be set e.g. max 50 saves. Then replace the older ones.

[wildguy]

I try to save every time i sleep or complete a structure. Sometimes though i get too engrossed in what i'm doing and forget to save then have a random crash and lose 2-3 hours play. my fault, not the games because i'm in control of this so when this does happen it reminds me to save often.

edit; the one thing i do not like about the saving in this game is all my saves look the same, a deer bed as that's what i end up using...i like the look. I've lost a few games by overwriting the wrong saves because of this coupled with maybe playing way too long and being a bit tired when logging off :)

[threethreethree]

Please, no auto save.