Why my game saved without my permission?!
the new save system ruined my game, if I quit without saving it shouldn't save! some things happened that I don't want to save! the new auto save in terrible! the game lagged when I tried to propose ...
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Think of your Auto-Save like a separate save file that periodically overwrites itself with newer save information.
When you manually make a save file, that is your own file and Auto-Save won't touch it. Your own save files will only be overwritten if you choose for them to be.
If you make your Manual Save A at 8:00pm and you quit without saving, your Auto-Save might try to bring you back to a point like 8:32pm, which you probably don't want. If that happens, go to the main menu, click "Load Game," and load Manual Save A. That will bring you back to the point you chose to save your game last, regardless of when Auto-Save did its thing last.
Generally speaking, with how this game works, it's not a good idea to rely on Auto-Save in any capacity for making sure you don't lose data. In fact, Auto-Save features in general seem to be pretty useless, in my experience. I'm sure there are edge cases where it's a saving grace, but like @MasonGamer pointed out, it might save at a point way further back than you would have liked it to.
Best practice is to save often and if you're concerned about not being able to go back to Point A, make a save at Point A and then when you save again, make it a fresh save, with a different name. Ex: If Point A Save is called "ToddlerMayhem," you could call the next save for the same game "ToddlerMayhem2," then "ToddlerMayhem3," and so on. Your saves can get cluttered quickly if you do this too much, so you'll want to go in and clean out old versions of saves every so often. But if you're serious about keeping stuff intact, this is probably the best way to do it.
When you manually make a save file, that is your own file and Auto-Save won't touch it. Your own save files will only be overwritten if you choose for them to be.
If you make your Manual Save A at 8:00pm and you quit without saving, your Auto-Save might try to bring you back to a point like 8:32pm, which you probably don't want. If that happens, go to the main menu, click "Load Game," and load Manual Save A. That will bring you back to the point you chose to save your game last, regardless of when Auto-Save did its thing last.
Generally speaking, with how this game works, it's not a good idea to rely on Auto-Save in any capacity for making sure you don't lose data. In fact, Auto-Save features in general seem to be pretty useless, in my experience. I'm sure there are edge cases where it's a saving grace, but like @MasonGamer pointed out, it might save at a point way further back than you would have liked it to.
Best practice is to save often and if you're concerned about not being able to go back to Point A, make a save at Point A and then when you save again, make it a fresh save, with a different name. Ex: If Point A Save is called "ToddlerMayhem," you could call the next save for the same game "ToddlerMayhem2," then "ToddlerMayhem3," and so on. Your saves can get cluttered quickly if you do this too much, so you'll want to go in and clean out old versions of saves every so often. But if you're serious about keeping stuff intact, this is probably the best way to do it.
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