How to Save Progress

[bschor]

I just started playing Chants of Sennaar. Enjoying it. I see three "Save" slots, but don't know how to use them. I'd like to "save" when I finish a partial level, be able to Quit, and when I resume, "continue from where I left off" without losing the old save. Can't figure out how to do this, so I end up deleting my save and starting the entire game over again.

What am I missing? How to I "resume" a saved game, but "save in the next free slot"?

[Echoes of the Silk: Songpour]

It saves automatically... why are you deleting your save to begin with?????

[Rushin]

The three save slots are typically used for when you have several people using your account and willing to play this game individually - without affect one another's progress. If you are playing on your account alone you don't really need to use more than one slot. The game saves automatically and does so very often. You should lose no progress if you quit at any point, maybe half a minute of progress at worst.

From what I understand, you want to duplicate your save file so that you can continue on one slot but keep an older save on another?

If so, your save files are located at C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\LocalLow\Rundisc\Chants Of Sennaar
There are two files for each save slot, "journal_X" and "places_X" where X is the slot number (0, 1, 2). You can make copies and rename those files accordingly. You should disable Steam Cloud before you do so or it will put everything back to how it was.

I don't know why you would want to do this though. You can simply keep using the same slot, explore, revisit old areas later. Only one achievement is missable; if you want 100% achievements, beat the game without (very mild spoiler) rebuilding ALL links. This probably means nothing to you now, which is good, but remember this advice in 5-7 hours of playing it. You can then fully complete the game and obtain all achievements.

Other than that there's no reason to keep older save files around. Why would you want that?

[Rundisc]

Originally posted by Rushin':

Only one achievement is missable; if you want 100% achievements, beat the game without (very mild spoiler) rebuilding ALL links. This probably means nothing to you now, which is good, but remember this advice in 5-7 hours of playing it. You can then fully complete the game and obtain all achievements.

This is not true anymore :)
A patch corrected this problem and now there's no missable achievements in the game.

Everything else is correct : there's no use for multiple saves in this game as you can't miss anything and/or can always backtrack.

The three slots are indeed meant to be used by several players. :)

[Rushin]

Originally posted by Rundisc:

This is not true anymore :)
A patch corrected this problem and now there's no missable achievements in the game.

My apologies. I admit I have not completed the game yet. I did however carefully read the achievement guide, in such ways that I am minimally spoiled but aware ahead of time of what not to miss out on for 100%. It must be a bit outdated then.

Would you care to spoil me a bit on how it works now? I was under the assumption that you get to the ending and either achievement unlocks depending on whether you've done everything or not. This is quite typical for similar games, and it makes one achievement missable by such design. How did you make both possible on one save file?

[Rundisc]

You'll just have to finish the game to discover it :)

[Rushin]

Cheeky breeky. Okay, so if I complete all... optional... objectives before the end I can still 100% everything, then?

Full disclosure I honestly care about achievements more than spoilers.

[Rundisc]

Yes.