Save game

[Dentifreak]

Hi,

how the save system in this game ?

One of my problem in the last years is finding games that had manual save OR saves very often. With a family you cannot always play 2 hours straight. Sometimes I have only 20 minutes to play. There are a lot of good games I skip because I always have to restart whole missions because saving system sucks. Open world game are the worst for this.

Is this game at least save during missions ?

thanks

[Blade Master]

There's no manual save, but auto save can be triggered by quitting game, also auto save is activated by doing various things, obtaining new item, crafting and etc.

I never had any issues with saving for 1,500+ hours and neither lost anything.

I can enter game, move weapon in inventory, quit then rejoin and it'll be there where I moved it.

[Dentifreak]

if you're in the middle of a mission and then you quit. What happen on load save game ?

[Blade Master]

Originally posted by Dentifrice:

if you're in the middle of a mission and then you quit. What happen on load save game ?

Depends on mission, missions have checkpoints, for example you meet this person, then another person, and then you must kill for example 10 zombies, reloading save will most likely reset that zombie counter or zombies respawn.

But for big missions, they have their own checkpoints.

Also any mission can be speedrun and completed in less than 5-10-15 minutes, not talking about big story missions, but these have checkpoints.

Anyways, you'll have issues if:

1. You rush story missions, means underdeveloped character in tight situations, take longer to finish missions, not fun.

2. Exit game every 5 min, not fun. But you still won't lose any item or experience, and levels are most game changing in Dying Light, means your best character performance is affected by your levels and not story.

With decent level and weapons, missions become piece of cake even on hardest difficulty.

3. You only do missions and never explore open world. This is stupid.

You'll never have issues if:

1. Take your time playing slowly and relaxed.

2. Spend your time developing your skills and explore open world for loot, zombies and weapons. Missions aren't only fun thing to do, there's much more.

Edit: Also, zombies can be ignored, so it's not an issue if they respawn. And other missions don't take long.

[Dentifreak]

thanks ! that's what I called a complete answer. I'll try it !

[petri.piira]

Also, whenever you load the game from a save, where you spawn will depend on the mission which is active in that save.

You can abuse this to kind of fast travel - need to get across the map? Select mission on the other side of the map, save and quit, load - you will spawn near that mission.

However - not all spawn points are inside safe houses. You can enter safe house near night, save and quit ... and when you load, you can be outside, with the night falling. If there was a mission active with an outside spawn point in your saved game.

[C H A O S]

i know its 2022 but can someone explain to me how the saving system works in missions , i went to school killed bunch of people and then died , so the game spawned me close to enemy and they start hitting me before even selecting my weapon ....