Iron man rest autosave possible bug/exploit

Baklush

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[Android tablet] When loading Iron Man difficulty game you can choose to continue playing from tavern rest autosave. This can be exploited to save character from sertain death or making wrong choice (e.g. retry quests where you have to escort killable npc etc.) by exiting and loading from autosave which defies the point of playing on iron man.
 

p4ran0id

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I don't see the problem with redoing messed up quests, even on Ironman. And there is also another way to save your character from death, you can export the backup and import it back if you die. It's hard to solve that problem
 

Baklush

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I do agree that the problem is hard to solve (and the export/import part is probably isn't worth time required to solve it), but I believe that effort required to use exploit also matters. As a casual gamer i will probably avoid using save managing exploit, but the opportunity to just reload at inn to save dozens of hours spent on a character is just too tempting to avoid (given the game has some imho unfair mechanics like paralysis).
Also (while I like to redo messed up quests) I perceive that devs' intention behind Iron Man was to make choices made by player irreversible, so that players will need to plan ahead if they are actually able to keep that npc alive etcetera and to punish players for bad decisions.
For me, that particular problem destroyed flavor of the difficulty making it just Hard but with a bit less saves.
 

p4ran0id

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The easiest solution is, just don't use that. There is always a way to cheat, iron man is a challenge, but only for yourself. Solve it without using that mechanics. There is no competition between the player in that game, it's all about yourself and you decide if you want to use that or not.
 

DavidBVal

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On mobile, files can easily get corrupted. I was having a significant portion of support problems over ironman corrupted saves, so I decided to add the sleep autosave. Not ideal, I know, but it needs to be there.
 

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