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After playing some Divine Divinity this weekend....

I love the game. It's great.

But it has this one glaring flaw.

A flaw that absolutely must be rectified in Original Sin.

Please.

Please.

Please.

Please implement auto-save functionality very liberally! Let the game auto-save each time you change areas, exit combat, and/or complete a quest.

Please.

Although I am a compulsive saver myself, I can see the need for that. Just the other day over at the KS comment section, a poor fellow had lost 3 h playtime in DD, because he forgot to save.
How about 3 autosaves that keep being made at those points proposed by Arsene?

F5 is a button full of magic^^ But yes, autosave is very important. When it reduces the times you press F5 or do a normal save in the menu, it is a success.

I would agree with you on this the game really needs this.

Agreed but I think the game should just autosave when changing areas & when completing quests. I'm playing the Witcher 2 and find the autosaves are way too frequent; if anyone has played that they will know what I mean.

I'm fine with autosave being available for those who want to use it - as long as there is also an option in the menu to switch it off.

Personally I will switch autosave off whenever I can, I would rather do my saves manually, without having to put up with the stutter and pause that autosave often creates in the game, also in my experience relying on just one save is a good way to loose all progress if that file gets corrupted.

With the combat being as difficult as it is it might indeed be good to have a save before you enter combat so that you can reload just before if it all goes pearshaped.

Heh, playing modern games I never used to save. Then I played Risen, I learned to save quite often during that. Then more modern games before stumbling into divine divinity.

I lost a good hour and a half of progress due to not saving >.> Auto saves would be nice but I've learned my lesson to save often.

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No, before battle is not the best way for an autosave. Imagine, when reloading an autosave game, you're deadlocked on fighting a very powerful mob that you can't escape from.

If Larian followed The Witcher 2's example and had a new save slot each time it autosaved it would be better than having a single autosave slot as it can get corrupted as Kiya-Elle pointed out.

Saving before battles is a bad idea, yes. That's why I suggest only autosaving after completing a quest or changing areas.

Same as above, I don't mind an autosave option to those who need it, as long as it can be switched off. I like to save when I decide to.
If I miss a dialogue because I've chosen answer A and can't reload because of this autosave, I'd be completely pissed off. I frequently reload my game from a previous point just to read all the possible answers or explore all the possible paths.
(Personally, I've never approved this autosave feature, and don't like the idea of a forced "point of no return")

A good quicksave system would be much better than autosave (the one in DD was pretty bad). Especially since there won't be many area transitions at all from the looks of it.

reminds me to save more in DD, I just started and finally get to chat with Laninor.