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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9725525" data-attributes="member: 18">Decided to start an Honor Mode playthrough of BG3, and six hours in, got reminded of why I loathe "Iron Man" one-save-type modes in games which are anything less bug-free masterpieces (and unfortunately most* games with Iron Man modes are actually buggier than ones that don't have them). Chrome managed to lock up my PC requiring a reset, and whilst I had BG3 open (and couldn't get it to close), I wasn't worried because I'd hard-saved recently which you can still do on Honor Mode, just gets overriden by more recent saves, but that's fine, you have a save.Now I should have been worried because the very first time I loaded into this campaign, it did a bizarre thing where it loaded the right campaign, showed it for a second, then as the opening Nautliloid cutscene started (i.e. in the in-game one, getting out of the pod), loaded the wrong campaign! I mean that's straight-up classic Larian buggy-ness, and I had to manually reload to the right campaign. The moment it did something like that I should have started backing up the save!But I didn't!So when I reloaded after the reset, I was a little surprised to see a different save listed for "Continue", and then I went into load save options, and they did have my actual save from the right time, but had lost the character name and image, had an incorrect time played (like 120000 hours), and said "deprecated version" for the version, which it doesn't even say for my Early Access saves! And because there's only that one save, there's no way to fix it. Great!All of which sucks pretty bad. It's actually way worse than if you lose on Honor Mode, because that just boots you into Custom (IIRC)! Like, what's the point in Iron Man, if the game is just going to break your save or otherwise bug out, and the only way to deal with that other than potentially losing dozens of hours to corruption/a bug is to back up the save regularly, negating the point of Iron Man? This isn't a question just for BG3 to be fair, it's a question for a lot of games.* = I exclude roguelikes as they're inherently from day one ironman and thus have to program around that, so usually handle crashes and so on gracefully by the time they reach 1.0, whereas most other games have glued on "after the fact" Iron Man and aren't stable enough to support it.</blockquote>

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