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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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[–] emptyother@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do have file versioning on my save game folders. Hourly backup. Have saved my ass a couple of times when a game has limited number of save slots. Like BG3 has. πŸ˜… Dont judge me, i easily do 25 quicksaves in less than 15 min sometimes.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Why is the quick save count limited to 50 at most (25 is the default IIRC)? I'd rather increase that considerably, since I also quick save very frequently. Disk usage isn't really a big concern (a save on the scale of 1 MB is nothing when games these days are on the scale of 50-100 GB).

Though with less frequent auto saves and manual saves at notable times, I think there's pretty good coverage for saves even without any form of backup.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I remember DOS2 saves really ballooning

[–] emptyother@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

The worst saves I ever encountered was my Skyrim saves. 1GB savefiles by the end. Jeez.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

mind.setStatus(BLOWN);

Not only did I not know this was a thing I also just realized I have only 6 hours worth of saves. 😱

Edit: Whew. Only applies to auto saves. I manually saved on the beach (still missed the flaming sword but might as well start from scratch).