I just don't trust it

[the_picard_maneuver@lemmy.world]

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[wizzim@infosec.pub]

Plus Ludusavi afterwards to backup the saves !

[gork@lemm.ee]

Manual saves are often a lot more stable than automatic saves.

[louslash@sh.itjust.works]

When you think about it, every save is manual one, like in order to use "automatic" save, you have to actually launch the game and play it

[free_opinions@feddit.uk]

DayZ master race. No saving available.

[obsidianzed@lemmy.world]

Save game

Autosave game

save game

save and exit game

"I don't think I have trust issues. Why do you ask?

[the_picard_maneuver@lemmy.world]

I would also add in saving to a separate save slot, just in case.

[lemmyng@lemmy.ca]

Save game

Exit game

"Are you sure you want to Exit? Unsaved changed may be lost."

Cancel

Save game

Go to Load Game screen to check that it was saved

Exit game

[missgutsy@lemmy.world]

Fun fact: pretty much all exit-saves in Bethesda games (Skyrim, Fallout, etc.) are not necessarily complete in their Data. There are actual cases where these can be easily corrupted and won't work on a reload or even introduce long time save corruption if you use them. Don't ever trust an exit-save in those games! (Source: me fooling around with the save system too much)

[obsidianzed@lemmy.world]

That's probably the second "save game" lol

[ilinamorato@lemmy.world]

Save game twice, but then don't actually exit game just in case it didn't actually save

[the_picard_maneuver@lemmy.world]

Ok good. That makes me more comfortable.

[kusimulkku@lemm.ee]

Didn't it have some combat logging thing

[kusimulkku@lemm.ee]

Can't relate, I've always just save and exited if it offers that.

[free_opinions@feddit.uk]

There's a 15 second delay for logging out but yeah, you can log out mid-firefight and many people do. However the point was that when you die you don't get to try again from last save - you start again from zero.

[kusimulkku@lemm.ee]

It was a lot of fun. A lot of just walking around, checking out houses, mundane stuff really and then suddenly someone starts shooting and you fucking panic and try to run aaand you're dead game over. 20 hours of game time gone.

No other game has got me so panicky, it was awesome. You really really really don't want to die after a while, but you also sorta forget to be as careful if nothing happens

[free_opinions@feddit.uk]

It is by far my favourite game ever. I'm not aware of any other quite like it. The level of immersion is insane and like you said, you really don't want to die and lose everything you've been working for tens of hours. The base game itself is not that difficult once you get the hang of it but the fact that you may get shot at by other player literally at any moment changes everything. It's an absolutely massive map and even if there was like only 5 other people playing you still can't let your guard down because one may be in the same town as you. I just wish people were more willing to talk instead of shooting on sight, though I can't really blame them.

[kusimulkku@lemm.ee]

After all the times I've gotten blasted when trying to be nice towards someone...

But some of the best moments from that game are when I've actually managed to find nice people.

[armoredthirteen@lemmy.zip]

Out of curiosity about how old are you? Back in my day sometimes saving just didn't work which is where I built up the habit of saving a couple times. For really important saves using two slots was best just in case one spontaneously corrupted as well

[kusimulkku@lemm.ee]

Let's just say that I don't think that's it. I think I've just been lucky and also saving often enough that going back one save isn't a concern