Annoyance: Please STOP autosaving AFTER fights!

[imgran]

Its not a bad feature

You keep sayng it isn't and I keep proving it is.

 

[imgran]

See Twezie's post. It isn't catering solely to hardcore players, in fact the primary reason for the feature- as in 'literally every game ever'- is to save the game after an important event. You could crash soon after doing really well in a battle, or simply exit the game quickly without remembering to save it. Then you would be frustrated, especially so if it had been a hard won battle that you expected to lose.

That said, of course more options are better, and though autosave might be particularly beneficial during early access when the game is less stable (not just for the player but also potentially for the player to pass on the save file to the devs to figure out bugs and crashes), disabling autosave entirely should be a feature. If not now, at least in the final game.

Generally speaking when autosave is employed in a game it's done at the beginning of an event, it's considered the player's responsibility to save after events if they've gone to their liking.

Even a game like Skyrim autosaves when you enter a new mapspace which is perfect for trying that stealth mission over and over until you get it right. It doesn't autosave after you've already been spotted and killed, like this game does.

When it comes to terrible autosave features, "instantly saves after a failed skill check" is right up there with the worst. Bannerlord is not a roguelike. Its autosave feature should not behave as if it thought it was a roguelike.

 

[Revverie]

Huh, so you will autosave before battles and if you win and your game crashes or whatever you will have to fight all over again, wth is this just use manual save like everybody else

 

[Stepan]

Some games do autosave before the encounter and then after once you accept the outcome. Total Warhammer 2 does that.

Different people play a same game differently. Some will accept whatever outcome and never reload, some will see important battles like "missions" that you restart to succeed. There is also the player experience : people can want to reload because this battle looked like fun and they got one shot at the start of it and couldn't play/enjoy it.

The best thing would probably be a "restart battle" option at the end of a battle.