[Feature Request] Please bring back multiple save slots to FarCry 5
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Only thing stopping me from playing really is that there's no NG+. Even on hard difficulty once you rank up a couple of your perks its still really really easy. I'd love to see some seriously challenging enemies. Started my second playthrough with the mindset that I was going to go slow, no fast travelling, and just explore the map and really get to know it.
Even with the slower consistency gameplay I was still leveling up through the different parts of the map too quickly, I was taking my time and it still felt like I was rushing to get to the final cut scene. I mean, locking weapons behind resistance is kind of dumb IMO, by the time you've unlocked some of the better guns the games already almost over.
Noticed a lot of newer games these days are allowing for only one save slot. Really disappointing
Been saying this since the first game I noticed Ubi only creating single saves in the first Watch_Dogs. Then saw it in AC Unity, and then FC4. When Origins had multiple save files & was hopeful that would spread to FC as well, though sadly I was mistaken. Hopefully they patch it in or at the very least re-implement it in all future titles.... Sometimes I want to 100% a game, but want to start it over first, I'd rather be able to retain my first playthrough to eventually 100% it, but have a second file to just replay the game....
i know the frustration, i created this thread once back in FC 4, they never answered it, and i never played FC 4 even though i bought it and that was the last FC game i bought.
This option would be a warm welcome to players who want to try multiple play styles and see which one is more suitable, and allow them to make another choice that players did not do at first.
Edit: Fixed sentence.
I wish I enjoyed the busy chaos of unliberated areas more before I finished the game :(
Honestly in 3 and 4 I quickly could play in any style I wanted regardless of perk choice. My actions in character building had little in game consequence.
i know i can do that, but i don't have to. that's the whole point of this post, i literally dont have to go through all that when i paid for the game which tells me to delete my entire progression to start a new game.
I did this with FC4 and it worked out. bit more work but its definitely is a workaround for now
I’d rather have a ng+ option, that way you can play the game again on a harder difficulty but with the late game equipment
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Exclamation [Important] Bring back multiple profile save - Gamers request to Ubisoft
why remove the option? there weren't hurting anyone, in FC 4 there's multiple choices, why can't i have multiple saves as FC 3 and play both ? why should i delete my old progression in the first place? this is just non sense from ubisoft, first it was watch dogs, then AC and FC, it was much easier before, as i said, why remove something that was working for everyone ? infact in ACU, there's no new game option at all!!, you have to delete it and restart the game. AC Origins brought back Mutliple saves yet FC 5 still doesn't
I'm not much of a programmer, but I see no reason why this would be at all difficult to implement. A few lines plus the placement of the button.
If save clicked = Save1Button
Code: [View]
Load "save1.save"
End if
If save clicked = Save2Button
Code: [View]
Load "save2.save"
End if
It isn't that hard to implement a proper save system. Just give those options:
[Overwrite existing save (click on existing save file)] [Create new save] [Load save file] [Delete save]
Automatic save also isn't that hard. Save automatically at specific milestones and let it display as such:
"auto save YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm"
Every game these days has the option to create multiple saves, we're paying a premium to play these games, atleast give us the option to play the game 2nd time around without deleting our enter old progress
AC origins added it back. Why can't we have that option in fc 5?
You think the problem with multiple saves us that they didn't know how to trigger loading the right file on button press? Are you serious?
Programmer here. This is not how it works at all. There are a lot of more factors in play here. Especially since your account is tied to your multiplayer as well.
Sure, an extremely simple method like yours might work for a less-complicated game, like saving your progress in a linear SNES beat-em-up game. But not for a game with so many complex algoritms like Far Cry.
There is much more going on behind the save slots.
My workaround is different USB drives. I put my main completed story 100% complete on one stick, started a new game for my "cowboy playthrough" and popped it on another stick and have another on a third stick saved just after doing the initial Dutch's island so I can go from there. :) (on PS4)
I create a batch script that runs after a game closes to automatically back up the save files in their own timestamped folder. It's useful for those rare times when a save file gets corrupted (I can just go back to the backed-up save made right before) and so I can go back to old saved games overwritten by a new one.
Actually, I use it for every game now, regardless of whether or not they have more than one save slot.
For instance, this is the one I used for Assassin's Creed III
set TIMESTAMP=%DATE:~10,4%%DATE:~4,2%%DATE:~7,2%_%TIME:~0,2%%TIME:~3,2%%TIME:~6,2%
@echo TIMESTAMP=%TIMESTAMP%
:: Create a new directory
F:
CD "BACKUPS\Games\Assassin's Creed III\"
mkdir "%TIMESTAMP%"
copy "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\5eb7f787-96f7-42d0-ad0e-61e61d82e588\54" "F:\BACKUPS\Games\Assassin's Creed III\%TIMESTAMP%\"
echo "Files Copied Successfully"
Pause
I wrote a little thing that lets you manage multiple saves, I posted about it here (obviously still not near as good as multiple saves in-game would be):
https://www.reddit.com/r/farcry/comments/8b5zil/i_wrote_a_small_and_nerdy_windows_app_that/
... and I just updated it to hopefully support Steam saves as well.
I'd love people to try it but I wouldn't trust some random dude putting unsigned code on the internet without being able to understand the source.
I would be more happy if they would allow a new game+. That way you could start off with all perks you got and weapons you unlocked it would also help arcade players because I believe it uses your current character in arcade. So basically you start a new game and your stuck with a mostly perk less character in arcade.
If you do a second profile do you still keep your original campaign? I’d like to replay the game, but I don’t want to erase my original progress.
I would back this up if Granite-2000000 wasn’t still screwing up my saves☹️
Fixing the night time glitch would be nice too. Stopped playing it and haven’t beat it yet just because it just totally ruins the experience.
Don't worry, folks. I'm sure they'll give us more save slots - as microtransactions.
/cynisism
I wanted to love FarCry 5 as I did the rest of the series, and I really tried but there are so many inexcusable little things that are a step backwards in gaming and in the series.
Play the game differently? There's like all of 3 choices through the game.
If you want to play without save scumming, that option is already there. They shouldn't have to take away the option to have multiple save files. I find it especially frustrating since I can't let my girlfriend start a brand new game without deleting mine. It's bullshit.
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