Comments

• ChrisIceBox

  February 2020

  You can force-save the game into any slot using the Save: Save or load Action. You can use this to also assign a custom save label from a Global Variable - which could be a string named simply "Autosave".
• bulka_tarta

  February 2020

  I've played around with all Save actions for good couple of hours. Every time I thought I finally found a solution, something broke.

  I think what I'm trying to achieve is not really doable, because it seems that you can't just assign a specific number to a save, unless there's is enough of save already made?

  What I mean is that you can't save on "Slot 5" if there's only 2 saves in the game, because a new save is always created on an incremented value of current number of save slots.

  I wanted to have something like this:
  Slot 0 - Autosave
  Slot 1 - Autosave
  Slot 3 - Autosave

  Slot 4 - Manual save
  Slot 5 - Manual save
  Slot 6 - Manual save

  So if player selects Slot 5 to save, but there isn't any saves already in the game, then that save will be assigned to Slot 0. This means that if later game "forces" an autosave (through Save:Save or Load action) on Slot 0, then it will overwrite player's manual save.

  I hope this makes sense and perhaps there is a way to work around this? It just seems that "forcing" a save will always mean "potentially overwriting player's manual save"?
• bulka_tarta

  February 2020

  EDIT: I settled on a different system for saving the game, so I guess I won't need to do what's described above!

  Would be curious to see if something like this would be achievable in theory, but I don't want Chris and other forum members to waste their time trying to solve this. Thanks!
• ChrisIceBox

  February 2020

  What I mean is that you can't save on "Slot 5" if there's only 2 saves in the game, because a new save is always created on an incremented value of current number of save slots.

  I see what you mean. If a SavesList element has Fixed Save ID only? checked, then you can force loading/saving to a specific save ID. However, the same is not currently true for the Save: Save or load Action. I shall look into this.