I know you're retired, but in hopes you might have a potential explanation or solution, I've tried using this, but like BlackCoat below, this mod appears entirely non-functional for me. No saves are created at all. To make matters worse, I started to troubleshoot, and even when I disable _ALL_ other mods, and clear my configs, this mod still fails to create save files for me.

I do hope there's something I can do - I hate using the default Autosave, but I have a terrible habit of forgetting to save manually.

@Keras
The "Tactical State Cleaner" mod could help reduce the size of your save files.

Could this be extended to add an option to autosave when returning to the avenger after completing a mission and disable the mission launch save? I'm suffering from save bloat which makes the launch save unusable but mission start/completion would be very valuable since that is the only time a save is guaranteed to work.

@☠Солевая Кобураϟ
If you use Quick Soldier Information disable that until you've loaded into the mission. Otherwise try a binary search: https://old.reddit.com/r/xcom2mods/wiki/mod_troubleshooting#wiki_binary_search

Подскажите пожалуйста что делать, игра останавливается на кадре с днищем Мстителя сразу после загрузки той миссии когда в заставке НЛО сбивает Мститель! Стоит данный мод и получается что сейв больше не годен так как при перезапуске (LWOTC,Легенда,Терминатор) загружается также на этом кадре и дальше тактическая карта не грузится.... Причем это не зависание игры, на фоне слышны звуки игры, но вот картинка как встала намертво так и стоит((( Дайте подсказку хоть люди, с каким модом это может быть связано?

@FLY4EF
你能用这个模组让游戏崩溃并上传你的 Launch.log 文件吗？

@FLY4EF
您是说这个模组导致您的游戏崩溃吗？

Appears non-functional for me entirely. No saves are being made automatically.

I've encountered a couple crashes recently on mission launch (over a year into the campaign) I noticed when the game ends up crashing the AutoSave file from this mod seems to get deleted as well. No idea why this is happening as when I don't experience the crashes the autosave file shows up in the list. Believe the crashes are related to running out of memory.

No, that's not what it does.

My bad, to clarify I subscribed to this mod hoping it would make a save to where my troops would be in the mission and I could play it without being in the loading screen beforehand (skyranger -> mission debrief), if that's not what this mod was intending to do then I apologize.

@Metablueba
Tried "using it" how? This mod just makes auto saves automatically when you start a mission in squad select, there's no way to "use it"?..

Tried using this on the gatekeeper (coordinate codex) mission but to no avail, any solutions? I'm forever stuck on the XCOM spinning screen.

This mod has saved my bacon multiple times. From being stoned and loading the wrong squad , to tactical crashes that won't resolve, and just being convenient. A 'must-have' for my core collection.

@zin
The game is supposed to Auto Save at the start of each turn and keep a track of 3 Auto Saves for each mission, but this functionality sometimes breaks for unknown reasons.

I'll think about it, but no promises.

I’ve had pretty bad crashing issues when firing beam and plasma weapons in my WotC playthroughs, and I was wondering if perhaps you could change the mod so that it auto-saves automatically (without showing a pop-up) on the start and end of all your turns?

I always thought it already did that, but I’ve found that unless I save manually (usually by pressing F5 using this mod), I’ll get booted several turns back. If you could make it auto-save on the start and end of all your turns, particularly in Iron Man, that’d be super useful, although I’d understand if that’s something you can’t or don’t wish to implement.

Is it possible you could allow the F5 save ability to also be used on the Avenger, including the pop-up? Would be super useful!

Awesome, thank you! Works perfectly :)

@zin
Fair enough. I've added a popup when that happens.

No, when I press F5, nothing happens except the game pauses for about 0.1 seconds.

I think a small icon is supposed to rotate somewhere in the corner of the screen?

Love the mod, but when I press F5 to save in Iron Man, nothing happens. I don’t actually know if a save has been made. Is there supposed to be no feedback? If so, a little notification when a save is made using this method would be nice.

Это вообще не ко мне проблемы, а так можешь попробовать этот мод поставить:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2781621935

И еще, играя на терминаторе в лейте (май 2036), при загрузке 7-8 миссий (состав 6-9 бойцов) и при размере файла сейва свыше 9100KB, сейв крашиться критически. Именно сейв с глобальной карты, а не с миссий. Это проблема ни как не решается модом, если бы смогли и это пофиксить, было бы круто. Если нужны еще какие то "тесты" могу помочь.

Играю на терминаторе (LWOTC) долго страдал от критических вылетов с затиранием сейва. Нашел этот мод, почти все проблемы решил. Но, столкнулся с новой проблемой.... При использование бойцом крюка, боец теряет вижен (проблема самой игры) раньше это решалось через перезапуск игры (вижен возвращался в норму), но теперь при нажатии на "сохранить и выйти" игра крашится и сейв пропадает. Если кто-то с этим сталкивался отпишитесь как можно решить.

Nevermind can confirm it does not regenerate missions

Do you know if a mission regenerates after loading? So if I change like spawn pod counts in a file will changes take effect if I reload this save?

This mod creates an auto save when you click "launch" in squad select. So in case of LWOTC/CI, autosave happens on the infiltration start, not mission start.

is it supposed to work with lwotc ? not saving on my side on lwotc that's why i'm asking , to know if it's normal or i have something conflicting

Просто роскошный мод, особенно в случае с "Терминатором", спасибо Т___Т

Nope, you have to backup your save file manually.

My game deleted my ironman save by a crash, will your mod prevent this?

Just finished a campaign with about 685 mods, this one included, and had no major issues! Thanks for putting this up.

I’ve been using this mod since it came out and it is an absolute livesaver especially for someone like me who likes to use more mods than my computer can actually handle half the time. Everyone who plays this game should have this mod.

Забываю

Во время задания просто F5 можно нажать в любой момент чтобы сохраниться.

А у меня в конце задания вылетает, ближе к мидгейму и дальше. Можна такой же мод, но перед эвакуацией? :))

Thank you so much. You must have suffered the same as I did with squad select crashes and having to redo the entire loadout.

@Agape do you have the path for clearing out the logs? Pretty sure my doc folder could use some housecleaning.

Some tips to avoid crashing if you have a large mod load order. These only apply for my load order, but I use a lot of popular mods, so they may apply to others as well. Whenever I make changes in the MCM it will always crash loading into a mission. So make the changes, then restart your game. If you have mods allow you to change your AWC perks, do not make these changes on the squad select, it can also cause the game to crash. Adding additional perks via console commands in this same scenario, can also cause a crash. Lastly if you do crash frequently, clear out your documents folder of the logs where the saves are stored every once in a while. The files are huge and can bloat your HD significantly.

@DarKeng
I looked it into it and confirmed the issue. It is a big problem, since on non-Ironman that save is effectively useless, and in Ironman, it would be a campaign ender. So the only thing I can do is prevent the mod from creating Auto Saves when launching missions like that.

The mod's logic specifically looks if the mission prevents the player from backing out of Squad Select, so it should automatically cover all missions like that.

Thanks a lot for your report, so I was able to fix it quickly, before it ruined anyone's Ironman campaign.

@Beagle
Ask and ye shall receive. Foxed in the requested functionality, press F5 for magic to happen. There's no in-game indicator, but there will be a message in the log about a successful save.

@DarKeng
Thanks, I'll think what to do about it.

Found an interesting bug: if you load the safe file created before enemy UFO defense it will softlock the mission (you can fly and do other missions and stuff, but cant do UFO defense)

How fitting that I'm here looking at mods cause my game crashed loading a mission.....

@Stratejik Skum
It will load you onto the Avenger. If you open the squad select screen, you will find your squad set up exactly as it was when you clicked the "Launch" button, unless you use that squad manager mod, which might auto select a different squad for you. But at least the gear will be equipped just as you left it.

so if you load the save would it load into the squad select screen or the very beginning of the mission?

fucking legion dude thanks bro.

@Iridar ah ok, from image i thought, it would create separate autosave. Even for ironman.

This is actually genius even for Ironman players, because XCOM 2 Ironman saves a surprisingly limited amount - crashes tend to set you back a lot, either having to redo your entire loadout screen or having to re-do entire turns because the game saves at the start of turns but not at the end, and inevitably loves to crash during certain alien turns. Manual saving isn't possible in Ironman without saving and quitting and reloading, which takes a lot of time especially with a modded setup.
I'd go so far as to ask if this mod could even have a hotkey or something similar for deploying a manual auto save, just to make it even more useful for Ironman players who want to decide *when* that single autosave is triggered, protecting them from crashes. I'm biased because my modlist keeps fucking crashing!

Anyway, fantastic mod and thank you Iridar and Dragon32!