So one save slot is basically a scam

[opus132]

I don't have other people in my household that would also be playing this, but what if you do? What if you have kids old enough to want to play with you, are you supposed to just buy multiple copies of the same game?

I don't know what i'm missing but this seems something i expected some people would be talking about. It's a bad precedent i think. I was already annoyed at Doom Eternal having only three save slots now this.

[魔装機神 Psybuster]

I wouldn't call it a precedent since games have done this for a very long time - the original Pokemon did this back in 1996. It's still not a good thing though.

[La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo]

I've never tried this, but considering how a lot of games save somewhere within %userprofile%, which is your personal per-user home folder, I suspect playing with a separate Windows user would give you the ability to have a separate save. However, since Steam would try to synchronize your save with Steam Cloud, you could end up just having the same save across Windows users.

So using a separate Windows user and a separate Steam account might be what accomplishes it in the end. You'd likely need to do Family Share with your own computer so someone in a different account could use your library.

Such a chore, isn't it? It's unfortunate and frankly unacceptable that games don't allow you to have more than a single save slot. FromSoftware of all developers should do better in this regard.

[Star47]

Just back up your current save then start a new save. It's trivial to workaround the oversight.

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Family share! If you family share your library they can play the game with their own profile on their own saves lol

[opus132]

Originally posted by KingOfFriedChicken:

Family share! If you family share your library they can play the game with their own profile on their own saves lol

I see.

It still seems odd to me. I don't think i ever played a game with only one save slot so i'm having some trouble wrapping my brain around this.

What happens if several years from now you want to play the game from scratch? Now i have to back up my previous savefile which, sure, it's easy to do, but it's still kinda of annoying and strange.

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by opus132:

Originally posted by KingOfFriedChicken:

Family share! If you family share your library they can play the game with their own profile on their own saves lol

I see.

It still seems odd to me. I don't think i ever played a game with only one save slot so i'm having some trouble wrapping my brain around this.

What happens if several years from now you want to play the game from scratch? Now i have to back up my previous savefile which, sure, it's easy to do, but it's still kinda of annoying and strange.

More or less if you wanna save stuff, usually If I'm at that point I'm not going back to my old save so I'm fine losing it personally. Or alternately make a 2nd steam profile then share with it, play on that profile.

[La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo]

Oh yeah, I think this has to do with the influence of consoles. In a console, it's easy to just create another profile, so not having different save slots is almost not a problem. In a computer, creating a second user is... not something that should be expected to be done lightly.

[魔装機神 Psybuster]

Originally posted by La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo:

Oh yeah, I think this has to do with the influence of consoles. In a console, it's easy to just create another profile, so not having different save slots is almost not a problem. In a computer, creating a second user is... not something that should be expected to be done lightly.

What do you mean by a "profile"? A console is just a machine where you put the cartridge in and play. Besides, multiple save files have been the norm in console games that have save games for decades.

[Outsider]

They went from multiple (infinite) save slots to just one in AC5 and never turned back.
One of the benefits of playing on PC is that you can manually back up your save file at the very least.

[REBirthTheEdge]

This autosave is nice actually.
Now we just a debt mode so we can have some roguelite elements.

[DonnyGuitar]

Originally posted by opus132:

I don't have other people in my household that would also be playing this, but what if you do? What if you have kids old enough to want to play with you, are you supposed to just buy multiple copies of the same game?

I don't know what i'm missing but this seems something i expected some people would be talking about. It's a bad precedent i think. I was already annoyed at Doom Eternal having only three save slots now this.

Opinion noted, evaluated and discarded.

[XXX_SniperSlayer42069_XXX]

Originally posted by DonnyGuitar:

Originally posted by opus132:

I don't have other people in my household that would also be playing this, but what if you do? What if you have kids old enough to want to play with you, are you supposed to just buy multiple copies of the same game?

I don't know what i'm missing but this seems something i expected some people would be talking about. It's a bad precedent i think. I was already annoyed at Doom Eternal having only three save slots now this.

Opinion noted, evaluated and discarded.

Who is you?

[sQuark]

the save system in general is garbage. game crashed at a very annoying boss after i completed s rank arena. my game got reset back the missions i was doing in B rank. so i just lost an entire play session. i have 0 motivation to do that all again. just because of a crap save system. just auto save after every mission, its not hard. idiot devs.