MatthewMarinets
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1 month ago Save/load is not supported in Archipelago Starcraft 2, and likely won't be as it would take a significant rework of the infrastructure used to communicate with the game.
This is one of the reasons why we recommend doing a first playthrough one difficulty lower than a player's comfortable vanilla playthrough difficulty, and we design our logic rules with lack of saving in mind. Difficulty can be changed between missions with the /difficulty command in the client.
If the player is getting very frustrated or just wants to skip a mission, it's possible to get the locations from the server command line (ie the text box in the room page), using a /send_location [slot name] [location name]. It's also possible to use cheats to fly clear through a mission, like "terribleterribledamage".
A rudimentary checkpoint system is under discussion for some missions that have hard breaks or no-build segments, such as Enemy Intelligence, Belly of the Beast, etc
SwooshyCueb
ScipioWright
What happened?
Whenever I try to load a save or restart a mission from the ingagme menu in Archipelago Starcraft 2, the game crashes. This means that if I miss a check or fail an objective, I have to start the entire mission over again. Considering there are missions where you have objectives like defending a structure for thirty realtime minutes, I feel this is unacceptable.
If it matters, I'm playing the game in Proton, specifically GE-Proton9-10. I am not using the AppImage, but launching the SC2 client from the tarball.
What were the expected results?
I expect that when I restart a mission from the ingame menu or load a save made during that session, the game should do the thing instead of crashing.
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