{"id":2842,"date":"2010-12-23T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2010-12-23T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T17:00:20","slug":"divinity-2-or-adventures-in-quick-saving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/23\/divinity-2-or-adventures-in-quick-saving\/","title":{"rendered":"Divinity 2, Or Adventures in Quick Saving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Divinity 2<\/em> was recently reissued with a new expansion pack, so after hearing a number of really good things about it, I jumped in. <\/p>\n

It’s been a while since I played a non-party RPG, Dungeon Crawl aside<\/a>, so I forgot little things for some reason. Like how even a slight upgrade in your weapons can have a huge effect on your success in battle. Like how my usual warrior tactics of charging in and hoping the mage will clear the room for me are best left to action movies. Like how I need to adapt MMO tactics like kiting to suck monsters away from their friends.<\/p>\n

I love RPGs – they aren’t games that generally force me to put my brain in an uncomfortable place like Rhythm Heaven<\/em> does.<\/a> And I am really enjoying Divinity 2<\/em> – I will do up a proper review once I have gotten through it.<\/p>\n

What I do not love is being a moron. And as my friends will tell you, my high intelligence, wisdom and charisma do not prevent me from making an ass of myself either in public or private.<\/p>\n

Quick save is not mapped in Divinity 2. So I chose a key that would cause no problems – Grave\/Tilde, way over on the left. No problems. I might accidentally hit the 1 key, but since that was a power move, no big deal.<\/p>\n

Then I somehow mapped my healing potions to the 1 key.<\/p>\n

You can see where this is going.<\/p>\n

Stuck in the middle of a tough battle, I reached for a potion. Hit the quick save. And screamed as I saw what I had done.<\/p>\n

This is not an issue for a game that uses a lot of autosaves, but you have to understand that I save my RPGs very rarely. I think I used two or three save slots in Dragon Age. A few more when I played Oblivion or Fallout, because those games allowed more experimentation.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I ended up replaying hours of the game because I am a moron.<\/p>\n

Quick save is now the = key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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