A rant on how angry I am at the Witcher 3 game save system

So let me start off by saying what started this anger. I was doing a main story mission, i was 2 hours in to it and I saved the game while I was doing the mission. I eventually died fighting the boss and the game reverted me back ALLLL the way back to before the main mission, heck all the way back to before I was even in the city.(Witch Hunt ruins mission)

I'm sure you can understand how extremely frustrating this is, I essentially wasted 2 hours. I just don't understand why the witcher can't have an Autosave system that REGULARLY saves the game for you as you complete checkpoints. The autosave for me took me back even further then my manual save.

Now i'm not sure why my manual save in the game did not work, or why the autosave is slow and not up to date. But my point is, CD Projekt Red really should of devoted more time to a way more reliable auto save system. Cmon man we're not playing ps2 games, this is 2015, it should be the standard, especially for RPGs to have good reliable autosaves, much like Inquisition.

Thats all

I haven't had any trouble at all. Are you on console or PC? I'm on PC, and I make sure to hit the F5 button every five minutes or so. Haven't had a problem yet luckily.

Had absolutely no trouble with the saves. It auto-saves as expected and manual-saves work fine. When I die all I do is to load from the most recent save. (I'm playing on PC)

I'm playing on the xbox one, i wish i could simply hit F5 instead of opening up the menu

There's no auto save? Surprised. I don't have the time for these longer games, but back when I did I always thought of saving every second simply spoiled the experience and was almost a form of cheating.

Use the autosave key yourself more frequently?
I know it's a struggle but you can do it, I believe in you.

It saves pretty often in the PC version and I always make a save when I've traveled far or won a hard fight.

When are you guys going to be happy? People bitch about Dark souls saving system and now Witcher 3, which has both autosaves and manual saves.

Benefits of playing on PC. There's a program that will allow keyboard bindings to be mapped to controller buttons, so I bound quicksave on the guide button. Quicksave half inch away. It's awesome.

There is Autosave, Checkpoint Save, and Manual Save.

I'm not sure I follow - this sounds like the frustration is just from a bug or a fluke where your manual save didn't work? Because the game has both autosave and manual save... how many more options do we need? Are there any?

I'm playing on PC, but I'm playing in my floor gaming chair in front of my projector screen most of the time so I'm playing on controller. Getting to the manual save via the menus is only a few button presses so I don't consider it to be a major inconvenience. As for the autosave, it sounds like something might have happened with the op specifically but generally speaking it saves at mission milestones as jun pointed out. I haven't lost any significant progress from reverting to an auto-save -yet- but wether or not that can happen is probably determined by how the missions and checkpoints are structured and that might be on a per mission basis. I'm also a compulsive manual save-er in games like this, especially the Witcher series where preparation for each battle is just as important as the battle itself. I'll save before going into literally any encounter if the game lets me. I've had it crash on me once but otherwise run like a champ. The only game that had a really obnoxious (to the point that I didn't rely on it at all) autosave system was Skyrim, because it would only save when you went into a menu after X number of minutes or you changed zones. Completing missions or other milestones had nothing to do with it.

-Byshop

Yeah, the save system kinda sucks. It autosaves very rarely, you have to be manual saving often in this game.

In agreement that this game needs to auto save more often. There's been plenty of times where I've died in a cheap fashion and it's thrown me way back before I've done a ton of different things on the map. It seems to only want to auto save at very rare intervals or certain parts of a story event. It never consistently auto saves though.

I made a thread on the Witcher 3 technical support forum about this. I added a poll to vote on the issue as well. Lets make this issue known!

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Keep saving once every 10 minutes, problem solved.

Not saying it's what happened to you but there's some bugs in it as is the case with every enormous game that gets released. A friend of mine recently had a problem where he lost 11 hours of gameplay because the game simply stopped calculating XP for finished missions. But anyway, a general rule for any large game that doesn't use a checkpoint system is SAVE OFTEN. Especially when it's a huge open world RPG that has recently been released cuz it's likely there's gonna be lots of bugs.

You may have encountered a bug or a glitch. I'm playing the Xbox One version and I haven't encountered any save problems as my manual and auto saves work fine.

@wadegillis: Please don't post links advertising posts/polls of yours in other forums. It's against our CoC around spam and advertising.

-Byshop

LOL like I have to with Skyrim on PS3.

Skyrim on PS3=lag and freeze fest

I look forward to getting a PC at some point in my life.