Create failsafe saving mechanics
lucashc90
Brazil Join Date: 2017-01-05 Member: 226176Members
Brazil Join Date: 2017-01-05 Member: 226176Members
Hey guys, first post here. First of all I have to say I'm deeply in love with this game, honestly.
Second, the topic at hand, I also want this to become one of the most succesful games on the marked, so I would like to talk about the saving mechanics: more than once my game crashed while saving and currupted my savefile to the point that I started to use console commands to "update" my new savegame to where I stopped. I imagine that people have had the same problems as me once or twice, and thinking about not only game crashes, but system crashes, power shortages and many other inconvenients, I think that a failsafe for save file would be a nice improovment.
As of now, from time to time, I back up my savefiles, but that is not optimal. I know almost nothing of programing, but I notice that some games of mine keeps an older save file that is only erased upon the completition of a new save, so that once the game crashes, you would at least have your last one intact. Think of it this way: while saving, your new file would be processed in a new slot while the last one remained intact, being substituted ONLY when the new save file is 100% complete, with no chances of corruption. What about this?
OR, there could be a system where we could maintain a "last point save", when a new savefile would account for newest achievment in the game while we could also return to the last save as an alternative to "things going extremely sour".
I hope people agree with me and we see this small, but HUGE timesaving mechanic on the game.
Kudos
Second, the topic at hand, I also want this to become one of the most succesful games on the marked, so I would like to talk about the saving mechanics: more than once my game crashed while saving and currupted my savefile to the point that I started to use console commands to "update" my new savegame to where I stopped. I imagine that people have had the same problems as me once or twice, and thinking about not only game crashes, but system crashes, power shortages and many other inconvenients, I think that a failsafe for save file would be a nice improovment.
As of now, from time to time, I back up my savefiles, but that is not optimal. I know almost nothing of programing, but I notice that some games of mine keeps an older save file that is only erased upon the completition of a new save, so that once the game crashes, you would at least have your last one intact. Think of it this way: while saving, your new file would be processed in a new slot while the last one remained intact, being substituted ONLY when the new save file is 100% complete, with no chances of corruption. What about this?
OR, there could be a system where we could maintain a "last point save", when a new savefile would account for newest achievment in the game while we could also return to the last save as an alternative to "things going extremely sour".
I hope people agree with me and we see this small, but HUGE timesaving mechanic on the game.
Kudos
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Anyway, what do you think about the failsafe mechanic being implemented?
Erm. Subnautica game cache is not the same as the Steam "game cache" -- what Steam is talking about is the game install files. What I am talking about is the terrain cache. Try clearing it, it works for 8 or 9 / 10 people that have problems with the game stuttering and / or crashing a lot.
Good thing I backed my files.
There's a section in the cache clearing insturctions in my signature ▼ about using the terraformer to fix this. Clear the cache, then use the terraformer.