Heyo folk, happy Friday! Roll on the weekend!
Here’s a question for this week:
What’s the most cursed auto-save you’ve been stuck with?
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For me, it happened many moons ago as a kid playing Morrowind.
During a Thieves guild mission having just stolen something valuable in the basement of some building. There is noone apart from me in the basement, all good, right? …Wrong.
“You violated the law.”
Somehow, the guard above had spied me through the stone floors and walls.
I immediately try to bolt through the basement door. The only available door.
The guard is already on the other side of the door, but they do not open it and enter. They are infinitely walking against it, blocking the door from opening. Of course, it opens outwards.
*Auto-saves*
I am now a wanted criminal, forever trapped in a basement. No fast travel. No other exit. The guard continually mocking me from outside. No recent alternate backup save because I am silly.
gg.
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Once had an auto save in a Snowboarding game where it save in a place where I had no means to move other than just dropping to my doom into a chasm.
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I recall rather vividly an “auto-save” moment from ~4 years ago when I originally had me and my friend group descend on Back 4 Blood for the first time, following its rather coldly received post-launch period.
B4B does have a system where before a mission starts people can play one-time-use “burn cards” that alter the game in your favour - they are typically collected after the players have gotten all the cards from predefined card packs, unlocked through an in-game currency.
One of these cards is dedicated to giving your team a “one more try” before your campaign fails and one has to start over. We entered a map with barely any resources left/collected and tried salvaging it several times while typically tripping against the first horde of Ridden (we weren’t skilled enough back then to handle it properly) - so we had restarted the level several times with the help of the burn card I’d mentioned, bashing our heads against the wall, and effectively used up all reserves of that card we had collected so far, before eventually succeeding - with fortunately more supplies to scrape by the remainder of the campaign.
I have fond memories of B4B in general - it wasn’t the best L4D clone and had terrible marketing slogans associated with it, but it managed to get some things right that made it fun. I hope that Turtle Rock can one day disclose what project they’re undertaking now (rumour has it it’s B4B2, but it’s hard to settle on that until it’s public).
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I got stuck in an auto death loop playing Oblivion
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Not an auto save exactly but long ago I treated the quicksave button in Max Payne 1 as an auto save and save cheesed my way through most of my first play through.
I was struggling with one of the earlier bosses and had made a quicksave behind cover. Right as the boss threw the perfect molotov to finish me off.
I panicked and tried to quickload but for some reason I hit the quicksave again.
You’ll never guess what lesson I didn’t remember when I played Quake 
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Fallout 4, easy. Was new to the game so I didn’t realize how quickly you could get yourself blown to pieces if you rushed straight forward.
Two questions if are able to answer, @FatsharkLev .
One, is Julia all right? she is usually the one that does the off topic friday questions.
And Two, are we ready to aid Queen Kerillian in her quest for Bugman’s?
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I imagine a good work-life balance includes not checking forums if you’re off/sick or something but this probably isn’t her only responsibility anyway 
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True, and considering the amount of flak that gets tossed at these folk it would essential to take a breather. People are upset about not getting Aquilas for every event, but they don’t realize they can’t do that every time.
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My first playthrough of Half-Life I quicksaved a millisecond before getting hit by lightning and dying, I had to load a 2 hour old save.
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Ouch!
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This exact same thing happened to me in Morrowind and on that exact same quest.
Well, since you’ve taken that one…
Oh, @DornIvanotic took the Oblivion autosave death loop too… I could mention Skyrim, but why not change it up a little and do a Fallout one?
Isn’t it funny how consistently “cursed autosaves” tend to come from Bethesda games?
Okay, well… in Fallout 4, I ALSO got stuck in a death loop because it autosaved when I left a specific building in Boston and a Super Mutant Suicider immediately detonated his Mini Nuke in my face, killing me. I didn’t possess the necessary HP to tank it in that moment…
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the most cursed auto safe for me has to go to Stalker Clear sky, when getting out of the swamp for the first time you have to walk through radiation, and upon loading the new map you are met with a military Mashinegun emplacement that is always aware of your presence that easily covers 150m that 2 hits you (you will have a very bad pistol and a doublebarrel shotgun at this point both barely able to hit anything past 20m), loading a new map also quicksafes. usually you can then walk back and use an exit that then opens up on the previous map, you have to walk through radiation again, i forgot to bring enough healing/radiation meds to make it through a second time, so i was softlocked between a rock and a hard place
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Sorry for the slow reply! I fell quite unwell over the weekend and I’m finally feeling alive again.
I was covering a Friday question as Julia was out of office this day 
everything is good!
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No problem! Just take it easy, can’t have a grand VT2 anniversary if you out with something nasty.
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