No Saving On Commentary Mode?

[Wylyth1992]

Seriously, what was wrong with the simple "achievments are disabled in Commentary Mode" thing that was in Portal 1. I never been able to listen to all Commentary nodes because in some places I end up dying in some of the later, harder test chambers/ areas before the "loading screens" which are the only "save points" in this mode. I rather not have to resort to using cheats.

[Silver0ptics]

use the save button...

[Silver0ptics]

doesnt one of the f keys save it im pretty sure f5 or f6 does a force save where your standing

[Silver0ptics]

btw the game really isnt that hard to go without dieing...

[Dax]

Can't you just use the tab button to teleport to the next node?
Or was that only for the hub?

[Silver0ptics]

btw why dont you want to use noclip? it just makes life 10x easier

[Khorps]

Originally posted by foodhatesme:

btw why dont you want to use noclip? it just makes life 10x easier

that ruins the fun

[Dax]

Originally posted by Khorps:

Originally posted by foodhatesme:

btw why dont you want to use noclip? it just makes life 10x easier

that ruins the fun

I am not going to argue against what you consider fun, but you may want to consider this.
You are playing commentary mode, which implies, that you are interested in the behind the scenes stuff. I also assume, that you know the single player mode well, at this point. Using no clip gives you the chance to look at thinks you are not supposed to look at, or at least from new different angles. Allowing you to get new insights, into how things were build, both aesthetically and technically.

[Dax]

Originally posted by X12-1992:

I dont want to have to "cheat". I have no problem "save scumming" though, and if the "quick save" option works in commentary mode, thats great.

I tried it, and neither quicksaving, nor tab-teleporting works in the singleplayer campaign during commentary. A notice actually tells you that saving will not work, when you start.
Maybe you can somehow override it in the console

[prandr]

I've found a workarond for this problem:

-start a chapter in normal mode
- enter 'commentary 1' in the console.

The commentary will become available after the next map change, and you keep the ability to save the game.
You'd miss the commentary on the first map, but you could play it in the developer mode first and then once more as described above

[Tphive]

Originally posted by prandr:

I've found a workarond for this problem:

-start a chapter in normal mode
- enter 'commentary 1' in the console.

The commentary will become available after the next map change, and you keep the ability to save the game.
You'd miss the commentary on the first map, but you could play it in the developer mode first and then once more as described above

(Old thread, I know, but could be helpful)
Follow up the 'commentary 1' with a 'reload map' command, and you'll have commentary nodes with full save function from the very beginning.

[☥ Linh]

Originally posted by prandr:

I've found a workarond for this problem:

-start a chapter in normal mode
- enter 'commentary 1' in the console.

The commentary will become available after the next map change, and you keep the ability to save the game.
You'd miss the commentary on the first map, but you could play it in the developer mode first and then once more as described above

This works, thanks.