COD 2 Idiotic Save Game System

IceBus · 25 Feb 2006 at 20:52

Well I caved and bought this today and started playing through on Veteran. I was on the Russian radio wire mission and was nearing the end (I was on the next objective with the sticky bombs) and after spending about an hour and a half making it through the houses I decided to leave it there for now and take a break. Went to Save and Quit - was told all progress up to the last checkpoint would be lost, no problem I just got to a checkpoint. Hit Save and Quit, went back to the main menu. I thought I'd check it was there OK...

Went to Missions, clicked the mission in question and it went back to the start. :mad:

Went to main menu and hit Resume Game - exactly the same thing!!

Presumably it Autosaved when I went to Missions and overwrote my original midway through checkpoint. WTF was wrong with letting you choose a save game name/location on the PC version?!?

So now I have to start this infurating mission, again, from the beginning!

I bought it to enjoy over the weekend but now feel driven round the bend!

Pete

Sagalout · 25 Feb 2006 at 20:58

yeah, I agree. I got to nearly the end of the 3rd russian mission on veteran then left it. My son had a go on easy using my profile which over rote my saved checkpoint

jimmy · 25 Feb 2006 at 22:04

Had this happen to me as well. You can use the mission select cheat to continue from where you were. I got the cheat from www.gamewinners.com

da_mic_1530 · 25 Feb 2006 at 22:35

wont that cheat screw the xbox live achievements?

NokkonWud · 25 Feb 2006 at 23:04

IceBus said:
Presumably it Autosaved when I went to Missions and overwrote my original midway through checkpoint. WTF was wrong with letting you choose a save game name/location on the PC version?!?

Because that system sucks and ruins many games, turning them into "Save after this kill" sections. I personally thought the CoD2 save system was perfect, and mine did save to the latest checkpoint.

It will only put you to the start if you click the beginning of the level, or choose another level since.

NokkonWud · 25 Feb 2006 at 23:04

jimmy said:
Had this happen to me as well. You can use the mission select cheat to continue from where you were. I got the cheat from www.gamewinners.com

Why cheat? I personally didn't find Veteran _THAT_ hard that I would want to cheat.

da_mic_1530 · 25 Feb 2006 at 23:09

in defense to the saving system, as i stated in a previous thread , when i did cod 1 on verteran on the pc i just quick saved after every 5 seconds or so, made the game Very easy, im finding cod 2 on the 360 a challenge on verteran, a challenge im enjoying thouroghly (obv sp)

IceBus · 26 Feb 2006 at 01:48

NokkonWud said:
Because that system sucks and ruins many games, turning them into "Save after this kill" sections. I personally thought the CoD2 save system was perfect, and mine did save to the latest checkpoint.

You misunderstood my original post. I have no problem with going back and replaying certain sections - quicksaving would make it too easy and repetitive, my problem is not being able to specify a name for my save game or a location - i.e. I might want to have more than one game going at once or more importantly, so it doesn't autosave over 2hrs of work!

NokkonWud · 26 Feb 2006 at 02:24

IceBus said:
You misunderstood my original post. I have no problem with going back and replaying certain sections - quicksaving would make it too easy and repetitive, my problem is not being able to specify a name for my save game or a location - i.e. I might want to have more than one game going at once or more importantly, so it doesn't autosave over 2hrs of work!

It seems to be a system employed by almost all Xbox360 games, where 1 account is limited to 1 save. All my games apart from Kameo employ the same system.

IceBus · 26 Feb 2006 at 02:42

NokkonWud said:
It seems to be a system employed by almost all Xbox360 games, where 1 account is limited to 1 save. All my games apart from Kameo employ the same system.

In Madden you can save multiple franchises and get to name them to avoid any overwriting. I don't have a problem with it, but just as I say I wasn't given any prompt or warning and it was a loss of a fair bit of work.