inconsistent auto saving

[J5]

Is there a surefire way to get the game to save? I have redone hours of the game, sometimes the same area 3 times before finally moving on. I see the autosave looking circle at control points. I can fast travel, quit and load back in where I left and other times hours just gone.

[Ficelle]

Game autosaves a lot, more than once a minute for me...unless totally idle

Pretty much every time you do something...it autosaves
Control point, teleport, looting, switching gun or mod, killing, accept / complete quest, exit to menu...and probably much more....autosave

Honestly, unless you have a problem with your computer writing saves, the cloud, or some sort of corruption, i dont see how you could play minutes (let alone hours...) without autosaving

[J5]

It is weird. As it does save and I can test and then again when doing the TV object mission I lost all that progress when leaving. It is easy to test as the collectible items are still there and I have to repick them up. Whenever I do quit I have always gone to a control point to travel hoping that it will save. It seems like a 50/50 chance it saves or not.

[Ficelle]

Mmm, not sure about which mission you are speaking about

Still, the game doesnt save everything
Your character, guns, mods, your quests, unlocked parts of the world...etc these are saved

Now, some things arent saved and reset back to default just switching area or moving away...or leaving game
It means some quests and puzzles have to be done in one go (and without changing area or room eventually)..., otherwise all progress will be lost

[Aris]

One way to force the game to save is interacting (no need to travel or anything else, just press F) with a control point. If it doesn't then there's some weird bug with your game.

[J5]

I'll give it all a try. Today I was going to control points and then quitting and then going back to continue at the main menu to make sure it was saving.

The TV mission was for levitate ability.

[River Victor]

Disable your cloud save. The game reload stuff from cloud, and if your internet isn't good, you'll lose progress because the save didn't make it to heaven. This happens a lot and corrupt saved games like Monster Hunter. It could be happening to you. If you must, manually back up save.

[Ficelle]

This guy is right

Cloud saving is probably more than half the save issues in gaming
Rollback, corruption, lost save...

Instead of having your saves only dependant on you and your own drives...
...you have your saves depeandant on the internet, your FAI, a few third parties and their servers somewhere in the world, with all control on how and when to backup or modify taken away from you, and of course no one carring as much as you about your saves...
Talk about the sure recipe for disasters...

Only allow cloud saving if you really need to have your saves on the cloud... 90+% people dont, but still save on cloud

Another common culprit is an overzealous antivirus