AutoSave/Forced Non Save During Missions

The initial stretch is especially long. I have restarted (and then abandoned) it several times because there's nowhere to save until you're back on the Nexus and it is all over.

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@EA_David wrote:

Thank you for the feedback, I've seen others requesting more frequent save options and I can't say I disagree. 

If/when this gets added we'll be sure to let folks know I'll be keeping an eye out for this on incoming patch notes. 

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Thanks for the update.

I think the 3 main requests are:

1. Possibility to save anytime, as long as you are not fighting/jumping/traveling in the Tempest. Many people like OP may have to stop at unexpected times, this is the point of a SP game.
2. Possibility to name savegames, like: RIGHTBEFOREKICKINGTHEARCHONSBUTT
3. Quick save (F5?) and quick load (F9?) please, it's very tedious to go through the menu whenever you just want to save before a specific situation, for instance to test something, and this would save a huge amount of space on people's computer...

There is no such thing as cheating in a SP game, limitations to when you are allowed to save will rarely be a good thing. If I want that I can play a rogue-like game with permadeath.

or better yet add an iron man mode for people who want it, a game mode that only allows you to save upon exit, and only use one save file per character.

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@CasperTheLich wrote:

or better yet add an iron man mode for people who want it, a game mode that only allows you to save upon exit, and only use one save file per character.

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In the actual state of the game keeping only one save file means that sooner or later you will encounter some game breaking bug and you are screwed.

Or you mean it as an added challenge?Like... let see how far i can go with one save before some quest bugs out and i have no earlier saves to load up....  lol

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@Abex81 wrote:

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@CasperTheLich wrote:

or better yet add an iron man mode for people who want it, a game mode that only allows you to save upon exit, and only use one save file per character.

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In the actual state of the game keeping only one save file means that sooner or later you will encounter some game breaking bug and you are screwed.

Or you mean it as an added challenge?Like... let see how far i can go with one save before some quest bugs out and i have no earlier saves to load up....  lol

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added challenge was what i was thinking. maybe a check-mark or two added to the character creation screen for a new game, or even a ng+, when you select the character's gender, name, background, etc. i'd put them under the import/export characters buttons. or check-marks added to the difficulty screen.

@EA_David

Thank you for the reply.  I appreciate at least the acknowledgement that this might be something that should be considered going forward.

Understand that while I don't disagree with the other comments on the thread about iron man mode or things of this nature (more options on the way to play a single player game to allow more people to enjoy that game for longer the way they want to is what Single Player is all about), my request/requirement is much simpler:

I'd like to be able to save the game in any non-combat situation.  I appreciate the concept of the "priority" ops missions and what design intended with limitations of saves but at the end of the day all it does is forces people with limited time frames to play simply not to play the game.

Failing that, I'd like a clear indication as to when my game has been auto-saved and a more intelligent auto-save that will take more frequent progression into account (after conversations and combat end). 

Perhaps the best solution would simply be to auto-save the game during the "exit to desktop" process if the various rules (such as not in combat) aren't broken.

Thank you, regardless, for your response and the time you have taken to respond.  You have my appreciation for the implementation of anything that assists in this matter.

You'd have my EVEN MORE appreciation if "limiting save locations" was struck from Bioware's roadmap for future games as well. 🙂

I agree with the above. Some of the story missions etc. can be really long continuous sequences where you can't save.

It's like being back in an old-style Arcade where you can't save and have to start over every time you die.

It feels very artificial as well...clearly they went to the effort to program in the save feature, then turned it off for specific areas to artificially ramp the difficulty.

The problem is... ramping the difficulty by making you play for an hour with no saves because you didn't put in good checkpoints in your autosave area is lame. Especially if there's crashes... I've had problems with this 3 times already- once against a boss fight that lasted over 40 minutes because the things health pool was ridiculous, and twice on locked progress missions where you had to go through about 100 enemies and multiple progress points to get to the final objective - only to have a shuttle drop troops directly on top of you, instantly killing you because of the mandatory hide-behind-cover system.

The game would be improved by either putting in actual logical progress save points, or unlocking manual save for the areas it's been locked out of.

Amazing...

I came here to write the same thing. I too, am a dad of 2, and only have 30-40 minutes at the end of the day to spend on games. I don't want to waste this time going through the same battles over and over again, just to reach the boss and get almost instantly killed. I don't mind thinking of new tactics to deal with it, but having to go through his lackeys every time is SUPER ANNOYING.

And I am just in Havarl, which to my understating is relatively early in the game. I understand this "saving checkpoint" arrangement is getting worse in the later stages. 

I see the post of Illydth was published in May 2017.

Does any of you know if EA released some workaround in the past 1.5 years, for the people who don't have hours to spend and just want to reach some progress in games they paid good money for?

Thanks! 

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@iceviper1977 wrote:
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Does any of you know if EA released some workaround in the past 1.5 years, for the people who don't have hours to spend and just want to reach some progress in games they paid good money for?

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@iceviper1977;  No updates or workarounds are ever coming.  All work stopped on the base game after the last patch in August 2017.

Official BioWare Blog post:
"Our last update, 1.10, was the final update for Mass Effect: Andromeda. There are no planned future patches for single-player or in-game story content."

But the easiest thing to do when faced with this sort of nonsense is to reduce the difficulty after the second-or-so attempt, then raise it again after the battle.  I just had to do this myself when encountering my first Architect on Eos during my bizillionth playthrough.  I've defeated them all over-and-over, including on "Insanity" (and have the "Unwavering" badge to prove it. :eahigh_file: )  But for some reason this time when "Go for the legs!" was shouted, the legs weren't being exposed so couldn't defeat it.  😮