Checkpoints are saves!!

[IvanEBC]

Dammit - why am i going through this again! Didn't we learn?
Come on Canada .... if the game says checkpoint - then save it .. thats what a checkpoint is ... don't let me get almost to the end, see a checkpoint and then allow me to "save and exit" only to find myself way back at the start of a mission. Otherwise .... why bother telling me there is a checkpoint.
I work two jobs and sometimes just don't have time to complete an entire mission before being called out on a job etc. There was enough outcry from Far Cry 3 about this ....

[t00l46_2]

yeah sounds stupid. checkpoints are only if you die you restart at the checkpoint instead of the start. but if you exit and save then yeah it would be nice if the checkpoint was saved....

[IvanEBC]

Yeah fix it so it actually saves ..... or when i click save an dexit, tell me my mid mission progress will NOT be saved ...... i shouldn't have to learn the difference between a checkpoint and a save point .. they are both the same right.,

[IvanEBC]

last post i promise, but to give an idea of the issue here, my save game says i've played for 6 M, while steam says 74!!! OK, some of that is menu time, but still, you can see the issue here.

[BlackShinobi_]

i saved at exited after the main intro sceen, just to find it was not saved and had to restart.

[cassiels]

It is the same as in Far Cry Blood Dragon: play through the Prologue and you will have a Save button next to the Save and Quit button.

It is not too bad this time, just get to the tower. In FC Blood Dragon you had to play through the whole first chapter iirc.

[Ducain]

I know this is old, but game developers need to stop doing this. Let us manually save whenever we want, and go ahead and do 3 or so autosaves, etc. just in case.

[-=SOF=-WID99]

you can but you must do a save not during a mission if you need to do a save fast travel to a recent outpost that you have captured

again far cry 3 worked the same way ..check point saves are just so ya can continue if ya get killed during a mission

do not exit your game

press escape ..and select ABANDON mission if its too hard for you ..then look it up on you tube

yes some missions in this game are hard ..till ya see how they are done

[Ducain]

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you can but you must do a save not during a mission if you need to do a save fast travel to a recent outpost that you have captured

again far cry 3 worked the same way ..check point saves are just so ya can continue if ya get killed during a mission

do not exit your game

press escape ..and select ABANDON mission if its too hard for you ..then look it up on you tube

yes some missions in this game are hard ..till ya see how they are done

Difficulty is never the problem I have with it, it's real life stuff happening that I need to drop the game for a bit, so being asked to spend a solid 30-40 minutes on a mission is not an option many times just because a developer doesn't want to spend the time to properly make the game (and leaving a computer running full blast on a game just because a developer didn't plan correctly is unreasonable).

It also helps mitigate game bugs, hitches, save corruption, and a slew of other issues (like trying out a ability you spend points on only to discover that the description they wrote for the ability is woefully inadequate) I have run into in many games (this one included). It's rudimentary to implement a proper manual save system when planned for properly during development, hence a reminder will hopefully help to motivate developers to plan for it.

[gunvalkyrie]

Here here! Some of us don't have 2 hours to play a bloody game. If I've got 30 minutes LET ME PLAY MY 30 MINUTES AND SAVE!

Some of us work for a living. This isn't 1992.