Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback New game quick saves overwrite previous characters

So I started a second character and noticed that the saves for the new character are in the same "folder" as my first character. So all autosaves and quick saves will overwrite the saves from my first character. I imagine this will be changed at some point but just a heads up to be careful if you start a second character but play to go back to the first one at some point you might accidently overwrite your saves.

Did you start a new Profile?

I'm supposed to create a new profile each time I start a new game? It should automatically separate saves for each new game like basically every other rpg does.

I haven't tested it, but I presume that permanent saves should avoid the problem. I always view auto/quicksaves as rather ephemeral things. That's not to say I don't find myself overly-reliant on them because I tend to forget to make enough permanent saves so I periodically backup the entire save directory. It's saved me on a few occasions; actually a lot of occasions.

Even when I start a new profile, there seems to be no difference.

What is a profile supposed to be able to do?

so far...."quicksave" does a generic quicksave of who I am currently playing/hosting and this appears to be the case regardless of which profile I am in.

Frankly I can't see that being in any different "profile" makes any difference at all.

Pretty sure you supposed to create a new profile. If you go to settings you will see there is a autosave file limit. I don't wanna sound like an A-hole here but I thought creating a new profile was pretty obvious as it's the first thing I thought of when I started my second play through.

Divinity 2 also does this - even if its a MP game on the same profile as your single game. Lost a lot of time on that little discovery

I would suggest a profile per MP game and per Single player game. It really doesnt take much effort and ensures your saves work.

Also, use manual saves occasionally. Do people not understand that "quicksaves" and "autosaves" are quick because they use the same set of slots?




I've made new profiles and the load game screen doesn't have any quicksaves visible. I can check and see if it really does overwrite ones in other profiles, though...

I thought they were quick because you just hit F5 :p

Correct, you don't have to type in a new name or hit okay or anything. You just hit a button and it saves. The quicksave system doesn't usually create an indefinite number of non-overwriting files, because that could eat up lots of space.

I know, I was being facetious haha

Good point; all my "saves" are in the same place, regardless of profile, so I've taken to naming them with a character name or similar so I know "who" I'm picking (before I got organized I had some unpleasant surprises).

This is really why you should manual save at least once for any character you want to play much. Quicksaves are often limited.