I had a level 32 Nord warrior who I had been roleplaying with, didn't fast travel ever and had only been to a few of the holds. Anyways I wanted to make a sneak thief and have a Dead is Dead character so started a new game.

Bear in mind I have hard saved my Nord twice. One save is where I have a random dragon attack within Solitude which was awesome and massively unexpected, I'm level 28. Another was where I currently was which is in a certain huge dwemer ruin.

I went to main menu and selected New Game. Played a little then decided I wanted to continue with my other character only to find that the game made a hardsave on top of my most recent hard save. What the hell is up with that? This game really needs a way of saving per character. I'm torn now whether to carry on from that old save which is many hours behind where I was or to continue with my new character. Really svcks bad and honestly I'm a bit pissed, not had this problem with other Bethesda games.

I'll eventually want atleast three characters for each archetype, mage, thief and warrior. Does anyone know how to keep saves safe? Also has this happened to anyone else or did it just bug out?

Well I know on xbox you can create a new profile so it is literally impossible for one character save to overwrite another characters. On the pc it is possible to cut and paste your saves into a separate folder, thus doing the same thing.

So is it possible to create a new ps3 profile? If so that would be a good way to keep your character safe.

With the game naming saves based on location it is almost impossible to keep different characters straight. I have to use folders and Windows Explorer on the PC to organize my different characters. I move them in and out before I start the game.

This is not a PS3 issue, it is across all platforms.

So, all I can say is be careful. If there is a way to archive saves on the PS3 like to a memory card, then that maybe the way to keep things straight between characters. You would still have to move them around outside of the game.

Haven't experienced that, but I disabled auto-saving, and if I'm at a "decision point" I create a new save rather than overwrite a previous one.

I understand the way it feels to look for a save game fully expecting it to be there, only to find that the most recent one left is hours behind where you really were. I suggest just keeping it a bit messy, and keeping all of your characters' save files available. Back them up if you want, but only all or none.

Another reason against the console...

on ps3 u can see the name of the character on the save file so its no hassle my nord warrior is named nord and my wood elf is named elfie so its easy to remember

This really svcks. I can't believe it hard saved over my character. Almost puts me off the game, almost. Not had this issue with other Bethesda games. Think I will need to usb save characters if I plan on making a new one from now on

Hope this at least raises awareness for people who are trying out new characters.


EDIT: Just to clarify, I didn't hard save it was the game itself at the opening. It hard saved over my Nord without me saying so just before the character creation screen.

On the contrary...

When you hover over the save file, you see detailed information listed such as character name and hours played. As long as you named all of your characters differently, it should be easy to tell them apart.

I think he's aware of this, but still prefers the look and feel of an 'uncluttered' save list.

Again, it saved over it for me. I didn't choose to save over my Nord Ulfgraad. I'm aware of how to easily distinguish between saves. It decided to save over my most recent hard save without any input from me.

Same thing happened to me, I had a level 15 guy and I was about 15 hours in and wanted to try a new guy for a bit and when I went back he was gone. On the ps3 btw. I made a thread about this like a week ago and some guy just said I was an idiot for overwriting my guy but glad to see it wasn't me but it was the game......but holy crap is this game good.

I've got about 130 saves for my lvl 38 bosmer thief. No chance in hell of this happening. You only had 2 saves and were level 32?

I have a thread on this very exact reason lol

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1274717-anyone-else-think-there-should-be-character-slots/page__p__19288252__fromsearch__1#entry19288252