Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Game Auto Saves - and Animations

I read in the Patch notes where quick saving was encouraged

However I would like to add a few things I have seen with this.
Even when you get the Auto Save message - still quick save.

I have died repeatedly doing dumb things - because I enjoy doing dumb things...
The issue is even after seeing an "Auto save" message appear on the screen if I die I do not return to that Autosave point - I return to the End fight on the ship...
I get way passed that point, link up with my Party members and clear out the Crypt, kill the Goblins etc and if (ok when) I die and get sent to the load save game screen and I select the last Auto save I find myself back at the Ship final battle and have to do everything again... and again...

This is frustrating because if I close the game and re-open it I start where I left off not at the ship battle - I don't know if this is intended or not but this is extremely irritating...
because...

Animations... there is no way to skip the animations... I have seen the 2 to 3 minute animations for the ship battle and crash like 20 times... no way to skip this
Even being reset back to the Ship fight I would be ok with if I could skip the 15 minutes of animations between where I died and where I start again at...

I hit quick save every 5 minutes, tops, and then hard saves once every 30-45 minutes, just to be on the safe side. Never hurts to have more saves, especially for EA when there's a ton of bugs and issues to fix.

As for the animations, that's weird... I've been able to skip them fine using ESC. It may be a bug, but check your key bindings and make sure you have the Skip Cutscene button mapped.