Saturday May 3rd 2008

GTA IV - Always save your game manually before cheating…

Published by Dysantic at 8:10 pm under Gaming

Once in a while when I’ve been playing GTA IV for a bit, I’ll opt to use the cheat codes to give myself health and armor, as well as all weapons, and go fucking crazy. Sort of a stress relief, ya know? :-D

I had the game on auto-save, and had been playing out the story for two hours this afternoon when I decided to lay waste to Rockstar’s version of Manhattan. Seeing as how my game had been saved automatically, I figured that I would manually save later, so I gave myself everything, and set to work. I was blowing up cars, bringing down helicopters, and generally raining down pure Armageddon for about an hour, and was going to quit, when I remembered that as I was in a cop car, I could partake in vigilante mode. I selected a crook, and then chased after him as he sped off for his life, and finally brought him down.

As soon as he died, the game auto-saved again.

Two hours of actual story progression, gone.

Fuck.

It’s not really surprising that the game would automatically save after a mini-mission like that, but still, after having cheats enabled, you’d think that Rockstar would have programmed GTA IV to put up a warning stating that the game was about to save and give you the option of not overwriting your previous auto-save which DIDN’T have cheats enabled. Seeing it from the other side, I guess I could have turned off auto-save prior to going on a killing spree, but it just didn’t occur to me.

Ah well. I’ll remember that for next time. It just means that I’ll be playing parts of the story over, and perhaps I’ll do better this time round. Still, that’s pretty fucking irritating.

2 Responses to “GTA IV - Always save your game manually before cheating…”

  1. # sergon 07 May 2008 at 5:11 pm

    HOW THE FUCK DO U SAVE MANUALLY I CANT FIND OUT HOW I AM SUCH A NOOB!!!!!!

  2. # Dysanticon 07 May 2008 at 5:18 pm

    lol

    Just go to your safe house, and walk towards the bed. You’ll have the option of saving your game, and six hours in the game world will pass by. Somewhat useful if you want to play during the day, and don’t want to wait for the in-game sunrise.

    The auto-save function overwrites your previous auto-save, so if you are going to do a mission that you’re not quite sure about, or want to save your game at parts throughout the game should you screw something up, you have 12 save slots available.

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