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Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Baldur's Gate 3's huge launch has reignited the age-old debate about save scumming.

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[–] the_frumious_bandersnatch@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I only wish they had an option for time based auto saves. Realized too late that it's based on milestones and had to relevel every character after a tpk.

[–] ThayWizGwar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I bought a super fast NVME drive just for this game as I acknowledge that I am a save scummer and hit F5 before and after anything important happens. It's muscle memory by now. Someone looks at me sideways, they get an F8 to the face.

On top of that I do periodic named saves because I left number of autosaves and quicksaves set at default 25.

I realize I haven't Got Gud at the game as quickly as a result, and do respect those that only reload after a TPK.

When watching streams, I start to stress when the player hasn't saved in the last 5 minutes. It's the price I pay.

[–] Hairyblue@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yea this would be nice

[–] BadlyDrawnRhino@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

There is a mod on Nexus, the Life Saver Mod, which is supposed to auto save whenever you enter combat. But it hasn't been updated since 2020 and doesn't work on the release version. Hopefully the author comes back to it, or someone releases something similar.