Saving system

[Akbalder]

In the trailers, I didn't understand the bell and the pearl for the save. While playing, it wasn't better: I thought that the bell was doing an autosave but, in fact, it's just a reminder to do a save.

And I really don't like that the pearl recovers the screen. In previous game, it was possible to save very often while keeping playing. Now saving is a real break while playing and is very annoying.

[zgrssd]

Agreed. The animations are a serious disruption of the gameflow. Unfortuantely, presentation and gameflow collide here.

[kelso]

Desperados 3 also had an animation when saving. It was simpler, but a complete overlay for the screen and a simple soundeffect.

[随便玩玩]

agreed

[harken23]

+1 for toning down the way over-wrought save reminder. I also thought it was saving for me, and there's one voice line that says something like, "Here, let me." me, and doesn't save. But I like it so far. The voodoo stuff in Diablo3 was kind of dumb, to me, in the setting, but hopefully it'll continue to work in this! Love ya, Mimimi!

[BonesAndWolves]

Yeah +1 for the whole flashing pearl screen, I get migraines from flashing so it would be nice to be able to choose a little logo option

[frostdiamond]

Previous Mimimi games let you turn off the save reminders. Does this one not have such an option?

[harken23]

Originally posted by frostdiamond:

Previous Mimimi games let you turn off the save reminders. Does this one not have such an option?

You can turn it off, but if you want a reminder, the big production number is the only way.

[irenya]

Agreed. So far the only thing I really don't like about this game. I am a compulsive F5 hitter, it's so annoying and I think it actually breaks immersion.

[SixtusTheFifth]

Yep, I was fooled and thought it was saving for me. Only cost me 5 min but I'm glad I learned the hard way when I did.

[Spacy Krawler]

Originally posted by irenya:

Agreed. So far the only thing I really don't like about this game. I am a compulsive F5 hitter, it's so annoying and I think it actually breaks immersion.

+1

[Wormerine]

I too think that the bell is more confusing than helpful - I thought it was an autosave as well.

I don't mind the pearl animation - it seems to me it's tied to save being saved and reloaded. If it actually lengthens time it takes to save and quickload, than yeah it's annoying.

I am also not sure if drawing attention to the fact that we are quicksaving/loading is making it any better. Than again, I am not someone who had ever a problem with the gameloop - so I would be curious if folks who found quicksaving in Shadow Tactics/Desp3 are getting along any better with Shadow Gambit now when there is a narrative contrivance to explain it.

[zgrssd]

The load animation - which I assume is purely a animation, not the actual loading time - interferes with iteration time:
https://youtu.be/ea6UuRTjkKs?t=250

And if that is actual loading and save time? You need to work on loading and save times against a SSD ;)

[MidnightMist]

The bell reminding you to save as well as the ship telling you to save every few minutes is every annoying. Hopefully that's just a tutorial thing or at the least toggleable..

[Birkenlachs]

The idea of embedding the bell and the spoken reminder seemed good at first sight, but after a while it gets really annoying. I can try to ignore it, but its just too prominent. Maybe after 3 or 5 minutes would be ok...

The F5 animation is really throwing me out, much too prominent. Those massive flashes of light are quite annoying for the brain. Enough that i did not complete the demo in one day as planned, but came back to it another day.

The load animation however seems acceptable, as you get a few seconds to remember where you were and what to do next.

[zgrssd]

Originally posted by MidnightMist:

The bell reminding you to save as well as the ship telling you to save every few minutes is every annoying. Hopefully that's just a tutorial thing or at the least toggleable..

You can change the save reminder interval in minute steps. Default is 1 minute.