Your Game Saving Methods

[swillfly]

With the lack of a blatant game mechanic to force the game to pause and write to disk.. I am wondering when the game autosaves. Somewhere I think I read that using a personal riftgate to town ensures that your progress/loot/experience/etc. is saved but I'm not certain.

In games I always appreciated being able to quickly tap a save game button so I could jump up for whatever fire. I don't want to debate the why it wasn't included or how it's more immersive or whatever. I just want to ascertain: what I need to do to quickly and safely exit the game whilst saving my progress to the Grim Dawn save folder.

In other words, do you periodically riftgate or exit out of the game to save your progress?

[powbam]

The game is pretty much saving all the time. I am unsure of the exact triggers but I imagine rifting or shuffling your inventory etc qualify. If you crash it is possible you may lose some recent data.

[swillfly]

Yeah, right? I lost electricity abruptly when some yahoo hit a powerline near me the other day. I was playing TL2 and I lost a high lvl character I dumped hundreds of hours into as well as all the unique gear and loot on that character as well as the entire contents of my stash. I rage-quitted TL2 as the actual char/stash files existed and had data but the game wouldn't recognize them. That Sucked.

[StreamWhenGuy]

I use GD Switcher to make backups from time to time. You can do it manually, but I'm too lazy to make those extra clicks.
powbam's tool btw.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1393032408

[RodHull]

It saves alot is all i know, found a blueprint for iskandras hood and some mythic thornhide legguards the other day then about 2 mins later had a rare crash (very rare) when i reloaded the game the items were still there.

[powbam]

Originally posted by StreamWhenGuy:

I use GD Switcher to make backups from time to time. You can do it manually, but I'm too lazy to make those extra clicks.
powbam's tool btw.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1393032408

Oh wow cool... i didn't even think anyone used it lol

[ZarahNeander]

It saves alot that's for sure. I once wrote a script to monitor the save files, but I couldn't find any consistent pattern, esp. I couldn't find a way to *force* a save (why the devs refuse to implement a manual save option is beyond me). The rumor that it saves when you pick up an item is *not* true.

So yes, the only reliable way to force a save is s/q. I do it on occasion, when I find an item I was looking for ages, the homestaed 'recover the cannons' quest etc.

[MedeaFleecestealer]

Originally posted by powbam:

The game is pretty much saving all the time. I am unsure of the exact triggers but I imagine rifting or shuffling your inventory etc qualify. If you crash it is possible you may lose some recent data.

Pretty much this. The game saves with nearly anything you do. There was a debate/poll(?) very early on in GD's development over whether to keep the Save button that was carried over from TQIT. Iirc Medierra said the game saves constantly, but Iron Lore or THQ decided to include a Save button so players would feel more secure that the game was saved before exiting. In the end the Save button was dropped from GD.

[Raviel]

There are backups.
However you can lose some progress.
Happened to me a few times, the game got stuck on black screen randomly and i had to signout to kill it. Lost full crusible loot and a bunch more items that way. Very annoying.

Seems to happen alot in coop as well.

Atleast save wasn't corrupted.
Wild guess would be they just write to file and not flush it. Letting the OS flush when its comportable with it, thats why people struggle to know when exactly it saves.