Save scumming

[majik]

After a bit of fiddling around, turns out you can turn off cloud saving, and just make a copy of your save file (located in AppData/Local/Returnal/Steam/Saved). At any moment you can delete your current "Saved" folder and replace it by your copy to get back to your previous save file. Use at your own discretion.

[SpiderMan120988]

Just wanted to confirm that this works.

[majik]

Yep, hate to admit it but I finished the game thanks to save scumming, and ended up enjoying it much more this way.
Btw, if you plan on using it, be on the safe side and create a few different save files – not just one. On a few rare occasions, I fell through the bottom of the map while reloading, ot got the "teleporter scramble" bug.

[Paps()]

Its no shame to save scum a game which won't load a run mid way and has crashes.

Honestly, devs should always include a feature like this to stop people feeling held hostage by a game.

[Phishfood]

It's a single player game, enjoy it how you want. Not as if it'll ruin the coop experience for someone else.

Personally I didn't save scum and I think if you do then you're probably missing out on a lot of the audio logs and weapon trait upgrades.

I finished the 5 bosses after 15 deaths and there was still 1 weapon I had not found. Most of the my weapon traits were still level 1.

[TheForestSpirit]

That defeats the purpose of the game to me and completely eliminates any satisfaction that could have been gained from beating a Biome the intended way but you know you be you and all that.

[RdRStar]

good idea to back it up regardless

[Trevor Reznik]

You don't even have to turn off cloud saves. Just overwrite the files in the save folder with files you've backed up.

[Trevor Reznik]

Originally posted by TheForestSpirit:

That defeats the purpose of the game to me and completely eliminates any satisfaction that could have been gained from beating a Biome the intended way but you know you be you and all that.

Being at 10% health and picking up an item that has a 50% chance to damage you and 50% chance to benefit you. Dem satisfactions.