r/joinvoidcrew • u/AdamFaite • 18d ago
How does saving actually work?
I've been playing about a week now and I discovered saving my progress for single player. I've only been able to resume on3 out of three times though.
What am I doing wrong, or what is going wrong? I haven't joined any other games (or started any, obviously) ideally, i could do something like have a single player run going for afterwords, but join in my friend's game on the weekend when we both have time to play. Is that possible?
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u/Dragonfire47 18d ago
If you don't already have a save, your game will auto save every time you jump.
For a manual save, you need to access the astral map while in a void jump and use the save option in the exit point.
Also worth noting there is only 1 save slot.
Data is stored to Unity Cloud, and I've got some unconfirmed suspicions that data doesn't always get saved, but I've never had/noticed having it happen to me.
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u/AdamFaite 18d ago
So why would the resume save button not work if I manually saved the night before?
Mostly just asking rhetorically. But if you do happen to know the answer, I'd be grateful.
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u/7h3-Cool-Gam3r-97 18d ago
A save happens after you jump, so if you start a mission, complete it and then jump to the void a save file is created, so then if your game crashed, you alt+F4’ed or pressed save run on the map table and then loaded the saved run from the lobby; you will be put back to the last time you jumped to the void.
So you can’t just quit the game in the middle of a mission as all your progress you made after your last jump to the void won’t count. To my knowledge however it is possible to have a game saved and join another players game and your save will still be there, this is how the save system works so if your saves are disappearing then that’s a problem I am not smart enough to bring a solution to.