Autosave

[DevilkidHUN]

What is the point in autosave, when it only saves when you open the menu? Because the game can't (or doesn't) save, but crashes, I just lost 45+mins worth of work thanks to this... why do i have to open the menu? This is BS...

[Rasping rabbit]

You can always have it like fs17, turn off the auto save and save manually whenever you want.

Although you have to go into the menu to do that anyway.

[DevilkidHUN]

You can always have it like fs17, turn off the auto save and save manually whenever you want.

I know, but it doesn't change the fact that the game will crash...

[RODHA]

What happens if the game autosaves by itself just as you make a wrong decision or move which you need to quit the game and reload your last save point? Now you are stuck with your mistake.

[pingu]

The point of an autosave function in any software should be to automatically save changes without the user having to do anything other than to activate the function when starting to use the software. You should get information on how often it will save. To have something named 'autosave' that requires the user to do something specific in other for it to save seems pointless. Then it is just a normal save procedure. Autosave should also have a history where you can undo changes in case you made some mistake. True autosave without an undo is something a would never want to activate in any software.

[EJgaming]

Auto save function in fs19 is better turned off. Just go in and save manually now and then, so you never have to be stuck with mistakes, or loose to much if game crashes.

[Jagtractor]

yeah it's kind of pointless. sometimes I'll be playing and I haven't noticed it save (because it never does on it's own like mentioned here) and I buy something and think "hmmm maybe I shouldn't have done that" and I go to the menu to quit out and restart and it saves as soon as i open the menu. And then I contemplate life for a second and then take the loss on my mistake.

I have since turned it off and just make sure I save at least every 20 minutes so when my game crashes on me I don't loss my entire nights work. Useless feature

[JohnDeereLimo]

I turned autosave off right away and just manually save every time I complete a task. I also save right before I transport any grain because the train crossing barriers don't close until the train is almost there.

[redglasses]

The point of an autosave function in any software should be to automatically save changes without the user having to do anything other than to activate the function when starting to use the software. You should get information on how often it will save. To have something named 'autosave' that requires the user to do something specific in other for it to save seems pointless. Then it is just a normal save procedure. Autosave should also have a history where you can undo changes in case you made some mistake. True autosave without an undo is something a would never want to activate in any software.

I've made a thread just like this a couple months ago and this one of my arguments, I'm extremely surprised that they haven't fixed this

[Guil]

Rahkiin explained in that thread why it is the way it is.

[pingu]

Rahkiin explained in that thread why it is the way it is.

Could you please link to that thread? When I search for the author and "autosave", I don't find any thread with explanation...

[Rahkiin]

It is because our saves are quite big and we can't stream them like most other games. E.g. in RDR2 they just save what changed since, like your position and some progress and bit of changed world state. We however save everything of the whole game every time because pretty much everything changes anyways. So we have to write a lot of data which takes time. We tried doing this during gameplay but then on consoles the FPS dropped to 0 for seconds. So we had to stick it to the menu only.
You're free to disable it and use it like fs17

[Guil]

Can't find the post so maybe the thread was deleted and I'm confusing where it was posted but there you have it.

[gordon861]

Perhaps a modder could write a MOD that would pop up a warning after a period of time to warn you that you haven't saved in XX minutes?

Or could that be integrated into the game?

[DevilkidHUN]

That would be good, but it probably won't happen