Does not save progress.

[treepour]

Anyone else experiencing this? I get through various checkpoints, then exit to windows, and when I come back, I start at the very beginning.

I've tried changing the ubi launcher thing to launch in offline mode, but it hasn't made any difference.

[NorkDorf Entertainment]

I just came to the forums to see if other people were having the same problem as me. It makes me feel good that I am not alone. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[andy]

Had the same problem in the first mission. As many pointed out, it's not a bug it's a feature. You have to finish the first mission completely, what actually takes a while since it's long. After that, saving gets a bit better.
Still not the way I want to play though...

[SharpObject1]

There is an option to save on the pause menu. I think you might want to try that before exiting the game.

[Sergeant Pepper]

That doesn't work either and also when you go to verify files in properties, it says there was an error downloading 50 files and that it will download them again. But when it's finished downloading, there's still 50 files missing.

I wish they would make a game playable, before they decide to release it, sick and tired of the idiotic tutorial and having to start over. :(

[sq2]

Same problem here. Played this first mission 3 times. And I was sure it was going to save this time since there was a cut scene.

Hmm, what if one likes playing games in small doses?

[Sergeant Pepper]

No chance of that with this one!

[Insane1ntent]

You cant leave the game during a mission it wont save your checkpoints in the mission. So when you play make sure your not on a mission when you save.

[Lostedge]

Same as in Far Cry ... cleared one area fully from collectible and when I restarted next time all progress was gone. You need to do quets / missions for it to save game.

[RaxxMaxx]

Get to a scientist rescue. Then it can save.

[treepour]

At least I'm not the only one. Thanks for your responses, everyone. I'll try playing through the first mission entirely -- if it doesn't save after that, I'm giving up completely.

I realize I'm preaching to the choir here, but I have to say that this brave new world of auto-saving and cloud-synchronizion is one of the most error-prone and frustrating trends in gaming in recent memory. When you leave a game for whatever reason (life calls, sometimes), you shouldn't have to wonder whether you're going to lose all of your recent progress (by design, bug, or synchronization failure).

[.:C7:. NOTWS]

Originally posted by treepour:

At least I'm not the only one. Thanks for your responses, everyone. I'll try playing through the first mission entirely -- if it doesn't save after that, I'm giving up completely.

I realize I'm preaching to the choir here, but I have to say that this brave new world of auto-saving and cloud-synchronizion is one of the most error-prone and frustrating trends in gaming in recent memory. When you leave a game for whatever reason (life calls, sometimes), you shouldn't have to wonder whether you're going to lose all of your recent progress (by design, bug, or synchronization failure).

You have to beat the first mission to auto/manual save, its not a bug/glitch, its just how they designed the game. I agree that it should save about halfway through the first mission though.

[CreeewDeeeTaaay]

Yeah, I am finding this extremely frustrating, too. I got pretty much all the way through the "blow up the dam" mission, and then quit, thinking it would be saved, and then it put me right back at the beginning when I returned today. Same thing happened with the first mission, as you all mentioned: got through to shortly before Spider gets fried by the mainframe, and then quit, thinking it had saved, only to find all my progress (an hour plus!!!) GONE COMPLETELY. This is ridiculous. Maybe not a bug, but definitely in need of overhaul.

[treepour]

Originally posted by C7:NOTWS:

You have to beat the first mission to auto/manual save, its not a bug/glitch, its just how they designed the game. I agree that it should save about halfway through the first mission though.

Good to know. I guess my main point is that if it's not going to save until you're done with the first mission, the game should make this VERY clear. Not knowing whether or not the last hour or so you've sunk into the game is going to be *completely* lost if you quit is a pretty big argument to not bother playing (and hence, buying) -- for me, at least.

Weeks go by where I can only get 30-60 min at a time in. At least make it obvious from the outset that I'm going to need to set aside a good hour or two to make it to a save point, so that a) I don't spend fruitless time searching for a bug fix where the "bug" is by design and b) I can actually schedule sufficient uninterrupted playing time. The failure to make this clear is incredibly inconsiderate and, arguably, even unethical from a business standpoint.

[where's my hidey spots?]

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/768107-save-issues-Forums?s=d1ada263f9036b4748e7d94645ad08e6

[treepour]

Thanks for that link, lemonade. Sounds like some people still can't save after going through the entire first mission and then some.