How about 2 Quick saves & 2 Auto saves?

Post » Thu May 19, 2011 1:34 am

I'd like to see 2 quick saves slots - which automatically alternate every time you hit the quicksave key. I forget how many times I've gotten into trouble by hitting the F5 key at the wrong time, and had to re-load a save a few hours old

I'd also like to see 2 Auto saves : 1st when you go into a new area/city/country, and the 2nd when you go into a new building/cave/dungeon

So go ahead and vote

One thing to remember - nobody is forcing you to use either Quick Save or Auto save
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 8:53 am

I'd like to see 2 quick saves slots - which automatically alternate every time you hit the quicksave key. I forget how many times I've gotten into trouble by hitting the F5 key at the wrong time, and had to re-load a save a few hours old


This is why I started making frequent hard saves. :thumbsup:
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 8:53 am

Do any games have this? I'm just curious.
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 9:22 am

Do any games have this? I'm just curious.


I've played a few games with double Quick saves - only one I can remember off hand is Divine Divinity: it was VERY handy several times!!

I don't know of any game that had double Auto saves, though

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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 9:49 am

I've played a few games with double Quick saves - only one I can remember off hand is Divine Divinity: it was VERY handy several times!!

I don't know of any game that had double Auto saves, though

MikeK


To me, quick saves are just slightly more convenient than "pause and save" saves. I can't imagine there being two auto-saves in any game like Skyrim. Some games like Crysis have auto-saves for each new area, which wouldn't work for an open world game obviously.
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 1:23 am

I've played a few games with double Quick saves - only one I can remember off hand is Divine Divinity: it was VERY handy several times!!

I don't know of any game that had double Auto saves, though

MikeK



I guess I would expect some redundancy from something called Divine Divinity. :wink_smile:
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 12:13 am

i'd be fine with double autosaves, but instead of double quicksaves i'd much rather infinite quicksaves, where it saves like a normal save except you can't personalize the file name or whatever, because when theres quicksave i tend to neglect to save regularly so if i quicksave at a bad point i could end up going back hours and thats damn annoying.
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Post » Wed May 18, 2011 9:27 pm

Sounds kinda stupid I dont use it rly at all I press escape then save not using the lazy quick save route. It might work but meh not worth their time let em work on the better stuff.
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 9:14 am

Sounds kinda stupid I dont use it rly at all I press escape then save not using the lazy quick save route. It might work but meh not worth their time let em work on the better stuff.


Well, the idea is to save time and mouse clicks and key clicks for re-naming old saves, unless you make an infinite number of saves.

And I can't see it taking much developer time at all to implement
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 10:03 am

You can already have as many saves as you want.
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Post » Wed May 18, 2011 11:22 pm

Can't you customize the hotkeys on the PC?
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 1:40 am

I'd say yes. There has been some times when my autosave or quicksave (or both) has become corrupt or unusable in some other way so having two of both could help in that situation.
I see no harm in having an option for such feature.
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Post » Wed May 18, 2011 11:47 pm

i'd be fine with double autosaves, but instead of double quicksaves i'd much rather infinite quicksaves, where it saves like a normal save except you can't personalize the file name or whatever, because when theres quicksave i tend to neglect to save regularly so if i quicksave at a bad point i could end up going back hours and thats damn annoying.


You could actually fill up even a 1 TB disk drive with infinite individual quick save files - need to re-use the files.
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Post » Thu May 19, 2011 1:30 am

Yes I've heard that quicksaves can produce corrupted save files too but I am not sure about it
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