Arma: Cold War Assault - Multiple Saves?

[XTwos]

One save per mission? The original Operation Flashpoint had a ridiculous one save per mission system in the campaign. So you could only save at one point and that was it. You used up your one available savegame which could not be overwritten. Is this still present in Arma: Cold War Assault? Is there some way to allow multiple saves or do you have to Alt-Tab to your files and rename/delete the save file to trick the game into thinking you haven't used it yet?

[Dwarden]

that's still there because the engine is same ...

imo it has one of the oldie charm feelings ...

[Undeceived]

I agree with Dwarden. :)

This "feature" was one of the things that made me really feel scared and careful in this game! :)

[Jonez]

One save per mission? The original Operation Flashpoint had a ridiculous one save per mission system in the campaign. So you could only save at one point and that was it. You used up your one available savegame which could not be overwritten. Is this still present in Arma: Cold War Assault? Is there some way to allow multiple saves or do you have to Alt-Tab to your files and rename/delete the save file to trick the game into thinking you haven't used it yet?
Long missions have save-points, with could be used by pressing reload/restart button (The other was load) If my memory serves me riht, it has been so long when I last time played this classic.
And you can cheat the engine, if you want multiple saves. I'm downloading the game now and I'll edit howto when dwnload is finished. It has been too long and I can't remember how it was possible, so I have to play with files myself (I don't wan't to ruin your saves)

[emil2796]

It isn't ridiculous. You just have to bring your A-game.

[Necronaught]

or you could just alt tab and delete your save file, then you can save over and over again :)

[Dwarden]

not possible, only manual trick like necronaught suggest

[EnthalpyFlow]

There was a cheat in Operation Flashpoint that allow you to save any time you want, but man... Why you would do that? This is ARMA

[Necronaught]

This is how you do it. When you have saved your game and you don't feel confident enough to complete the mission without losing.

Alt Tab and go into your program files folder then, steam, steamapps, common, arma cold war assault, users, (your name), saved, campaigns,1985 and delete the save file. Tab back in and you can save again. Don't delete the autosave. keep that folder open and just repeat for as many times you like :)

[kara_bulut]

If memory servers me right you could save using a cheat

Press Shift and - then type savegame

[Andreson]

Hmm.
Says here you can!
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Operation_Flashpoint:_FAQ:_SinglePlayer#Is_there_a ny_way_I_can_do_multiple_saves_during_a_single_mis sion.3F


Quote from the page "Is there any way I can do multiple saves during a single mission?

es there is! One way is to use this small OFP mission save utility for campaign missions. (NOTE: This utility does not work with OFP: Resistance version 1.75 and above). To install, just extract the contents of the ZIP file into the directory of your choice.
To use, run the utility program before you run OFP and leave it in the background. Start OFP and play as usual. When you save a mission for the first time, just do it normally as you always have until now.
When you next want to save during mission play, press your keyboard's PAUSE/BREAK key. This will cause the save utility running in the background to rename the existing save file. This will allow you to save your mission again from the mission Pause menu.
If you want to restore one of your previous mission save files, press the ALT+TAB keys to go back to Windows and bring up the save utility's menu. Select the RESTORE option from the save utility's menu and then select the save file to restore. The utility's saved file names contain a date and time stamp. After restoring a saved mission file, go back to OFP, press your keyboard's ESC key to display the mission Pause menu and click on LOAD to use the restored mission save file.
OFP player Dan "Haddock" reminded me that another way to force a game save on the fly is to use this simple built-in game cheat: hold down the left SHIFT key and the minus ("-") key on the numeric keypad, then type the word SAVEGAME and hit the ENTER key. You should see a message that your game position has been saved.
If for some reason you don't want to use the mission save utility nor the game cheat, you can do multiple saves manually. During SP mission play, hit ESC to pause the mission. Then return to Windows using the Alt+Tab keys and rename file SAVE.FPS in one of the following locations:
For stand-alone SP missions:
\OperationFlashpoint\Users\your_player_name\Saved\ missions
For campaign SP missions:
\OperationFlashpoint\Users\your_player_name\Saved\ campaigns\1985
Later you can rename any saved copies of the file back to SAVE.FPS should you want to revert to a particular point within a mission.
For campaign SP missions, you can also copy the SAVE.FPS file to another directory and later you can revert back to that point within the campaign by renaming it to CONTINUE.FPS and copying it back to:
\OperationFlashpoint\Users\your_player_name\Saved\ campaigns\1985
before starting the game.
(With thanks to Martin Bires, of Kosice, Slovakia, for this FAQ entry)."

[Andreson]

I wonder if it works with the new version of ArmA: Cold War Assault.
For me 1 save is not enough, later ArmA games allow you to save multiple times, and while I know it kind of gives it a cool aspect, there just some missions where there are just too many enemies and you feel nothing short of cheated when seeing that you die over and over on the same spot, while you could have just saves and forgot about it a long time ago!