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Bastion

Game » consists of 11 releases. First released on Jul 20, 2011

Bastion is a story about a Kid, his hammer, and a world gone all kinds of wrong.

How to force the game to save.

#1 Posted by phrali (646 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

after losing much progress, several times, i found this on another forum.
 
there is no manual save option (srsly WHY THE F NOT?). you must rely on the autosave. 
 
the game does NOT save when you exit to the menu (WHWHHYYYYY)
 
the game autosaves when you enter a mission or a proving ground. but it does NOT autosave when you enter the Bastion (SRSLY WHHHYYYYY). so if you do some stuff, return to the bastion, then exit to the menu, do NOT expect the game to save.
 
if you do some stuff and want to quit, here's 2 reliable options.
 
1. enter the next mission or some unfinished proving ground, wait until the little autosave gear animation in the lower left of your screen stops, then power off. when you restart, you will be in the bastion, and your progress will be saved but it will be like you never went into that last mission.
 
2. enter the aettings menu, screw around with audio settings or something. then exit. the game will save your settings and your progress. 
 
IF YOU DO NOT SEE THE LITTLE SPINNY GEAR IN THE LOWER LEFT OF YOUR SCREEN, DO NOT EXPECT THE GAME TO HAVE SAVED YOUR PROGRESS

#2 Posted by cinemandrew (710 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

@phrali: It always saved when I returned to the Bastion.

#3 Posted by Mr_Skeleton (4986 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

I think it saves every time you go out of an area, never had problems with the saving system.

#4 Posted by Dany (7882 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

It saves when you leave and enter an area. If you return to the bastion and did some work on the forge, arsenal, changed shrines, looked at vigil, bought crap that would be lost if you turn off the console. (happened to me)

One way to 'fix it' is to start a who knows where mission/next bastion mission or a proving ground mission and quit once that is loaded up. You would return back to the bastion when you start again.

#5 Posted by The_Hiro_Abides (1171 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

Yeah, it made me real paranoid. So I just always loaded up a new area before quitting.

#6 Posted by phrali (646 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago
@cinemandrew: really? never did for me. i lost lots of progress thinking it did until i noticed that there was no spinning gear when i re-entered the bastion
#7 Posted by BBQBram (1994 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

@Dany said:

One way to 'fix it' is to start a who knows where mission/next bastion mission or a proving ground mission and quit once that is loaded up. You would return back to the bastion when you start again.

Exactly what I did.

#8 Posted by BerserkingGuts (69 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

I already assumed this well in advance. So thankfully I haven't lost anything... yet.

#9 Posted by YoungFrey (1235 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

One thing that I tried several times and never worked is loading a new area and quitting to The Bastion. 

#10 Posted by phrali (646 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

bump because people are apparently still having problems with the horribly implemented autosave system

#11 Posted by triola (1 posts) - 1 year, 3 months ago

I played through the intro, got to the bastion, then went on to the next area and then quit. When I opened my game up the next day, there was not continue option. I'm very frustrated to have to play through the intro for a 3rd time! (once was the demo).

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