Local Save Files = Unfair Online Play?

[CowboyCat]

I just don't understand the local save file situation. Does this mean someone with the best gear can just duplicate his/her file to friends or other steam accounts and have the perfect raid group?

[ele]

It was a weird choice for sure. That said, why would you bother playing the game if you were going to cheat?

[CowboyCat]

Escrito originalmente por ele:

It was a weird choice for sure. That said, why would you bother playing the game if you were going to cheat?

Well I wouldn't be interested in taking that route myself, but it makes me wonder how long the online will last as long as stat manipulation is possible. Imagine you wanted to pug a raid group or something just to enjoy the story but someone just one shots everything on the map and just kills the experience for you.

This sort of thing will just make PvP (if considered) a total waste of time if you played legit as well.

[TotesAdorbs]

There are positives and negatives.

On the upside, this is promising for the longevity of the game (i.e. not dependent on Square to maintain the servers) and the potential for mods to one day be created. This also enables those who have the time and are interested to gain access to things gated by MTX without spending money.

On the downside, yes it is likely the online will feature a decent number of edited characters unless they implement some form of check or safe guard for the most egregious offenders. Also, there is no feeling of permanence or safety that often comes from having your character and progress data stored server-side.

Overall, it does seem an incredibly odd choice for a game that has been heavily marketed and portrayed as a live service in the vein of Destiny or Diablo 3.

Ideally, I would like them to have a split option similar to how Diablo 2 handled this, wherein you can create a server-side character, or a local character, and that character would only be able to interact and play with others of the same type. This option I feel gives the best of both worlds and I hope is something they explore in the near-future. How they would implement this now, with the game already live and prone to save editing, however, would be quite a challenge to overcome for sure.

[Skiptro]

if it didn't save offline people wouldn't be able to play offline, they had to choose which devil to confront.

[iduno]

we already connect to the servers for things like the battle pass and any money we spend.

god forbid they store more information about our account like gear, unlocks i mean it wouldn't make sense to do that though and add a checksum to validate what you have is what you own.

good job to them for using Marvel to play on our emotions and just turn into another borderlands

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Does this let you get exclusive stuff & store cosmetics.

[Zorgy]

Dark Souls series had local saves as well, whenever it detected any save manipulation, it banned your account from online play for good. I can only imagine it would be the same here.

[ele]

Escrito originalmente por Skiptro:

if it didn't save offline people wouldn't be able to play offline, they had to choose which devil to confront.

Played offline died in what, 1995?

[GD2X]

Wish I had known about this before investing over 2 hours into the game.

[Death Jr.]

You have to transfer the file old school from one pc to another.. I play on two different pc all the time and like the abilty to sync to the cloud and when I found out that it doesn't do that I was like where the work around.. So if anyone found the save game files?

[GD2X]

I think it's mainly just a lack of PC care. Consoles is where they will be making their money.

[Captain Worthy]

Escrito originalmente por ele:

Escrito originalmente por Skiptro:

if it didn't save offline people wouldn't be able to play offline, they had to choose which devil to confront.

Played offline died in what, 1995?

Half-life 2 began the always online era, in 2004. Online games first appeared in the 1970's though.

[Adanu]

Escrito originalmente por ele:

It was a weird choice for sure. That said, why would you bother playing the game if you were going to cheat?

Some of us play games for story and gameplay. ♥♥♥♥ loot.

On the other hand, after having seen the beta and twitch videos, I'm seriously considering requesting a refund, because I wasn't looking for Destiny lite.

[Aredi]

Escrito originalmente por Adanu:

Escrito originalmente por ele:

It was a weird choice for sure. That said, why would you bother playing the game if you were going to cheat?

Some of us play games for story and gameplay. ♥♥♥♥ loot.

On the other hand, after having seen the beta and twitch videos, I'm seriously considering requesting a refund, because I wasn't looking for Destiny lite.

The game was advertised as a looter shooter, get a brain.

[Inuakurei]

Escrito originalmente por Adanu:

Escrito originalmente por ele:

It was a weird choice for sure. That said, why would you bother playing the game if you were going to cheat?

Some of us play games for story and gameplay. ♥♥♥♥ loot.

On the other hand, after having seen the beta and twitch videos, I'm seriously considering requesting a refund, because I wasn't looking for Destiny lite.

If you want a single player experience, refund now.