Lost two hours of progress on Dragons Dogma 2 today because I didn’t realize when you die and respawn at the last Inn, it’s from last time YOU SLEPT at an Inn. Auto saves don’t count. Went from level 7 down to level 2. Fortunately I just played a different vocation the 2nd time do I didn’t feel too pissed off.
Leather39
In Jedi Survivor you don’t have autosave, only meditation locations that serves as save locations
Desperate_Guava4526
The worst is quicksaving right before dying in skyrim. For some reason when you reload that save file, it’s delayed by a few seconds so you die IMMEDIATELY into loading that save, soft locking you until you load a previous save. Lost me a lot of progress.
VermilionX88
you can manually save tho
you can evcn save and quit
imotlok_the_first
Semi-trusting. Sometimes autosave would…save me from replaying some moments since it auto-saved almost right before my pc farted (turned off from heating).
hard_body_mommy_738
Autosave’s like a coin flip – sometimes it saves your game, sometimes it ruins your day. Hit or miss, eh?
SpaceWizard999
I was there… 3,000 Years Ago. The day the Autosave Failed.
Jobogame
Either comes in clutch or at the worst time no in between
Minimum_Film1688
My man, i dont even trust manual saving
*saves again..
Nina_Zarmerk
I trust quicksave even if it means I accidentally save when I’m 0.5 seconds about to die
Swimming-Country5640
A wise man once said “Save now, save always.” He might have been on to something due to the auto saves.
Adamantem24
Years ago, when Oblivion had only been out for a few months, someone posted on the forum a request for help together with an explanation that in effect they were completely stuck and needed help figuring out what to do. I can’t remember exactly what had happened, but either their character was literally trapped in an unwinnable encounter or in a crevice, or a key quest had been irredeemably messed up. The best solution was quickly offered by another user: load the last save and just replay the lost few minutes, and this time avoid the problem. Several things had gone exactly wrong, leading to a scenario that would be hard to replicate if you tried, but the problem could be immediately solved with a save reload.
However: they only had the autosave, and that autosave had captured the game breaking state their game was in. Loading the autosave only forced them to replay the moment they realized they were screwed. They had not once manually saved during 60 hours of game play.
Others kept offering other suggestions, and the person who had asked for help kept trying them. Nothing worked.
They had to restart the entire game.
I saved multiple times an hour after reading that thread.
SkaterGirl789
New Vegas’ autosave sometimes crashed the game. It’s literally safer to just turn it off lmao.
gogozombie2
After over a decade of testing video games, I trust autosave. It’s the same save system as when you manually save. In a survey I made up for this post, 90% of the time you think autosave failed, it was you who failed.
LostPlastic6126
Ubisoft games? Yes
SenpaiSwanky
I turn it off, too many save files eventually otherwise.
Bethesda, why do I need to autosave on rest, and wait, and travel? Some of these things come in handy SOMETIMES, but usually my save scumming skills that I’ve honed over the years do the trick for me.
I turn it all off lol
AleksasKoval
For singleplayer games that(for some unknown reason, even to the developers) don’t have manual saving:
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Saves right before you are 1 hit from death
Lost two hours of progress on Dragons Dogma 2 today because I didn’t realize when you die and respawn at the last Inn, it’s from last time YOU SLEPT at an Inn. Auto saves don’t count. Went from level 7 down to level 2. Fortunately I just played a different vocation the 2nd time do I didn’t feel too pissed off.
In Jedi Survivor you don’t have autosave, only meditation locations that serves as save locations
The worst is quicksaving right before dying in skyrim. For some reason when you reload that save file, it’s delayed by a few seconds so you die IMMEDIATELY into loading that save, soft locking you until you load a previous save. Lost me a lot of progress.
you can manually save tho
you can evcn save and quit
Semi-trusting. Sometimes autosave would…save me from replaying some moments since it auto-saved almost right before my pc farted (turned off from heating).
Autosave’s like a coin flip – sometimes it saves your game, sometimes it ruins your day. Hit or miss, eh?
I was there… 3,000 Years Ago. The day the Autosave Failed.
Either comes in clutch or at the worst time no in between
My man, i dont even trust manual saving
*saves again..
I trust quicksave even if it means I accidentally save when I’m 0.5 seconds about to die
A wise man once said “Save now, save always.” He might have been on to something due to the auto saves.
Years ago, when Oblivion had only been out for a few months, someone posted on the forum a request for help together with an explanation that in effect they were completely stuck and needed help figuring out what to do. I can’t remember exactly what had happened, but either their character was literally trapped in an unwinnable encounter or in a crevice, or a key quest had been irredeemably messed up. The best solution was quickly offered by another user: load the last save and just replay the lost few minutes, and this time avoid the problem. Several things had gone exactly wrong, leading to a scenario that would be hard to replicate if you tried, but the problem could be immediately solved with a save reload.
However: they only had the autosave, and that autosave had captured the game breaking state their game was in. Loading the autosave only forced them to replay the moment they realized they were screwed. They had not once manually saved during 60 hours of game play.
Others kept offering other suggestions, and the person who had asked for help kept trying them. Nothing worked.
They had to restart the entire game.
I saved multiple times an hour after reading that thread.
New Vegas’ autosave sometimes crashed the game. It’s literally safer to just turn it off lmao.
After over a decade of testing video games, I trust autosave. It’s the same save system as when you manually save. In a survey I made up for this post, 90% of the time you think autosave failed, it was you who failed.
Ubisoft games? Yes
I turn it off, too many save files eventually otherwise.
Bethesda, why do I need to autosave on rest, and wait, and travel? Some of these things come in handy SOMETIMES, but usually my save scumming skills that I’ve honed over the years do the trick for me.
I turn it all off lol
For singleplayer games that(for some unknown reason, even to the developers) don’t have manual saving:
“I have no choice but to trust you”