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Another example: Oblivion.

It has VERY small save files. I've played 38 hours, save file size = 1,8MB.
And when you compress it with winzip...it goes to 0,590MB

If you know the game, you can just wonder how they did it. If each save was 10MB, I still wouldn't think they're too big.

(of course, some information is lost..but then again, a dead bug in the wild isn't going to be there after a while )

If they do it properly, the saves aren't too big.

I'll look at this objectively. What do you really need to save?

1) Story position. I assume that it's going to be a sort of story tree, where there is only a certain number of major decisions and each one leads to a different branch. So you only need the position on the tree. Small.

2) Weapons, inventory, upgrades, health, etc. Again, small.

3) Enemies. You save the coordinates, AI state, and enemy number. Small.

4) Environment things. This is really the variable part: it can be really large, or really small, depending on how much detail you want. You could have it save only whether something is destroyed, and the game would just spawn it in a random destroyed position, or you could save its exact orientation and such, which could be... big. I think they'll hit some sort of balance.

I just can't see the save game size being very large, honestly. Less than 1MB for the entire game, possibly increasing as you go to the end of a section, then decreasing again, since you don't need to keep things from the previous and later chapters. All conjecture, though. Tell me if I missed something?

My opinion: small and simple=beautiful

[Unlike your old signature =P ~Kizza]

Roughly 100kb - 200kb

^^ screeny

Kizza wrote:

I don't think Crysis would need to save forests, either. That's a bit excessive. Other things, probably. But I don't think tree positions are that important as they'd be in the map files.

I thought that you could destroy the forests? what if, say you let rip with a rocket launcher, causing a fire that wiped out an acre of trees? wouldn't you want that to be there if you needed somewhere to land a chopper while under enemy fire? or would you rather have it wiped when you exit the game? I thought Crysis was meant to be seamless and immersive, if so changes to the environment would have to be taken into account.

RTsa: Yes, yes it is. It uses SpeedTree RT. My mistake. Though it saves the terrain. I don't know whether it was a seed, or not.

As for saving the forest. If it is generated by a seed, then there should be no problem. But I guess only moved/destroyed trees need to be saved. I meant the parts of the forest that were as they were in the map file should not need to be saved. Just any changes that may have happened.

I think I read somewhere that Crysis will still use save points for autosave, just like Far Cry. Can anyone verify this?

Most games have Autosave, and if Crysis has one, it's probably on some savepoints.

...It will probably save "spawns" for models and such, it would be a text file basically, It doesnt need to save the actual models themselves..1meg tops I reckon.

We'll see.

I wouldn't mind if savefiles were huge, if they really store all the previous destruction, current daytime and weather and those small things that enemies and friends remember they must be quite big. And for the quicksaving, I liked the FarCry idea of checkpoints but it didn't work that well..I remember it saving during combat all the time so I used the quicksave consolecommand instead