New Auto-Save feature, Mr. Resetti has lost his job

[BossMK]

Though timetraveling has in fact been abused despite it being something very easily done, it would be kind of sad to see it removed. Alot of events happen on saturday, a day I can't onto the switch, so I need to move the clock a day or two ahead (assuming more saturday events will come in this game) so I don't miss out on fun things.

Then they don’t should buy it. TT was never a ingame feature the devs wanted to have in their game. If the absent of TT makes people don’t want to buy the game then they aren’t true fans either and it won’t affect the sells at all. It was exploitet till Vallhala and it should go. You have 4 games of the series where you can exploit it as much as you want - for ME (I mark this one, FOR ME, my opinion) I‘m glad it’s gone.

I will say, they would have made many many more measures against it if it wasn't an intended feature, heck, they made turnips something you couldn't do with time travelling, so they were completely aware of what powers they gave to the player. In the end its up to the player playing how they want, whether they abuse it or not. Taking it away would hinder the people who don't abuse it, and even if its taken away people will find another way, probably hacking if a feature is removed in order to get it back for their own game. I'll make due if its timelocked, (hopefully if they do it, you set the time in the beginning of the game and then tell you time can only be set once so choose wisely). Cheating to get what you want is frowned upon but you can't get mad at what people are doing with their own villages as long as it doesn't effect your own.

 

[DJStarstryker]

LOL Poor Resetti. I am pretty curious what he's going to do now. Animal Crossing games have over time been changing/evolving the roles of NPCs, which is good. But he has always kept the same role. I think it's good for him to finally be allowed to do something else.

Now I wonder if Rover is going to have another role. He's always been very similar to Resetti in the always doing the same thing aspect.

As far as auto-save goes, I feel like it's less of a problem now that they've already said that we can change where villagers' houses are going to be. The only times I feel like this can be a problem is if you accidentally run over some rare flower or sell some item you didn't mean to.

The rare flower destroyed by running through it may not be an issue anymore. Plants are confirmed to work different than they used to. You can dig up a tree and put it in your pocket. You can chop it with an axe to farm wood for crafting and it doesn't seem to hurt the tree. You can also pick parts of flowers but the plant is still there. Yeah, just because flowers got destroyed by running in the past doesn't mean they will anymore.

For items... well, I don't think there's a way around that. You might just have to be careful when selling, I guess. But the upside is we don't know how often the game auto-saves. If the game saves every time you enter/exit a building, for example, then if you notice the accidental sale before leaving a shop, you could reset and you'd still have it. But we just don't know yet. We probably won't know for a detail like that until the game's release.

 

[Rosalie1991]

It is a ingame feature. The devs are aware of TTing why else is there a ingame clock in every game and I don't see that this feature is even gone. And it's not up to you to decide who is a fan and who is not. I am almost 30 and I have many things I have to take care of in real life. When I want a break I sit down and play video games and sometimes I just don't have the time for certain festivals.
So I should wait a year to experience it? I played ac since I am a kid and I don't need others to tell me if I am a fan or not Actually I think it's important to accept other players way of playing. Someone wants to do plot resseting; dublicate items; spring into 2300? Cool with me. As long as others are nice to each other everything is good because the real problem are the toxic players who destroy your town or scam you.

I never have the feelilg others are affected of what you do in your own town! Your town your way to play

Maybe there are some mistakes english is not my mother tongue

I get your point and I agree (never thought really in that direction so thank you)
my fan argument was just because I don’t think that not TTing would be a reason to not buy a beautiful game. But it’s up to you.

 

[Stella-Io]

Then they don’t should buy it. TT was never a ingame feature the devs wanted to have in their game. If the absent of TT makes people don’t want to buy the game then they aren’t true fans either and it won’t affect the sells at all. It was exploitet till Vallhala and it should go. You have 4 games of the series where you can exploit it as much as you want - for ME (I mark this one, FOR ME, my opinion) I‘m glad it’s gone. I see a lot of people have a different opinion about this and how they want to play the game.
They should decrease the time for a villager moving out though. I was never a fan of the 5 to 10 days to move out which the update causes

Um, excuse me? So sorry that life keeps me busy, and that TTing allows me to go back and enjoy events I missed out on because of soemthin unpredictable like someone calling out from work and I had to fill in or an emergency. And it was ALWAYS an ingame feature, all the way back to gamecube. You're really sayin that because I have to work holidays, that I shouldn't buy my favourtie gamer series? Yeah right.

Okay on topic, I don't really like the idea of autosaves, but if they work anything like the Fallout series, then you can easily make/force saves and load old saves. Thou I doubt it, since a lot of storage would be required. Also, if there was a save log, how many saves would it hold before it starts to delete old ones? In Fallout you can have a ridiculous number of saves, but I don't imagine they will implement this as part of the autosaves.

 

[Mokuren]

I get your point and I agree (never thought really in that direction so thank you)
my fan argument was just because I don?t think that not TTing would be a reason to not buy a beautiful game. But it?s up to you.

Sorry if it sounded upset didn't mean to! xD I will buy it either way but many people don't have a switch yet (like me) and will buy it for ACNH. I can understand everyone who don't want to spend over 350 euros just for a game and then there aren't even their must have features. Plus for example you can't like every song from your favorit band and you are still a fan

 

[lars708]

Hmm autosaving? Well that's going to take some getting used to. In normal gameplay I never really had problems with it, never had to reset I mean. but how will I deal with evil people online now when my trustworthy network switch no longer works ;_;

 

[drowningfairies]

While I don't mind the autosave feature, I can see why it could be bothersome to other players.
There's always tiny mistakes that can happen, and resetting to fix it is always what I do.

However, I will also think that it won't be too annoying or overly done. Maybe it autosaves after certain things, so you do still have a chance to reset if need be? Either way, I'll wait and see about it before judging on it.

In other news, I wonder what Resetti will be up to this time?? It's so odd to think of him doing anything other than yelling at people.

 

[Hsn97]

Auto saving in any other game and fans would be thrilled. In AC, we worry.

 

[Alolan_Apples]

I love how this game is addressing all the things players obsessively exploited in order to achieve what they perceived as perfection. Manual saves were a relic times long past and was in no way there for people to exploit. Nintendo saw what people were doing with it and made a perfectly acceptable and believable in-game version of it for everyone.

This also means that cloud saves may be supported now, which is by far and large the most important thing that they could add.

I highly doubt there will be an on/off option, otherwise why make a big deal about Resetti getting a new job? This is to stop cheating/duplicating first and foremost and likely to make it compatible with the NSO cloud save feature.

I also thought autosaves were implemented because if you worked so long without saving your game, you may lose all that progress. But with autosaves, you won’t lose all that progress you made in five hours without manual saving.

I don’t know if they’re going to do away with time traveling, but I do know that with this feature, people won’t be able to dupe items. Maybe they should also implement a feature that if you’re using an unauthorized device (which is what hackers do), they won’t even let you play. Kinda like how Resetti notices if you resetted. Or how some sites notice that you have adblock turned on.

 

[Pellie]

Am I the only who is more upset about the way they treat Resetti over the years? First you the
player can decide if he should be able to do his job in New Leaf, in a way where he can never do
anything ever again if you don't build the Resetti Surveillance Center, now they take him away his
job completely. Seriously, I don't like this. I do hope whatever new job he will get, that they start
to treat him better again and don't turn him into a joke where nobody takes him serious anymore.
He doesn't deserve this.

As for the Auto-Save feature, well, what should I say. In games like Splatoon I don't have a
problem with this, in games like Animal Crossing however, I perfer it more to have the control
whenever I would like to save or not. Well, now it's there and I have to accept it. Kinda sucks,
but whatever. I hope it doesn't get too annoying, like that the game saves after every flower
you plant for example, because 'Oh dear! You changed something on the island, better save it!'.

 

[Splinter]

Imagine you accidentally run through the blue roses to took you 3 months to grow. Imagine your finger slips and you hit 'yes' when your favorite villager asks you if they should move. Imagine you accidentally sell the rare furniture you didn't realize you had in your pockets.

That's how it's supposed to be.

 

[Justin]

Let's keep on topic about the auto saving issue at hand here. I may have missed something but I'm not sure how this effects time travelling? That seems like an entirely separate discussion.

 

[LambdaDelta]

tbh, some people are making pretty good arguments for resetti yelling at them. seems they never learned anything

also, re: online/multiplayer sabotage: I feel the best case scenario there would be to make that be switched to manual saving. so hopefully they do that there, or at least make it an option

- - - Post Merge - - -

also, time traveling is so much a core part of the game that you can literally get a rumor started around it for you in new leaf

saying it was an unintended exploit is about as far off wrong as you can be about it. otherwise they would've punished players more or just removed the ability to time travel completely

hell, you basically had to time travel with the first game, unless you just kept the system on 24/7

 

[Snowesque]

Honestly my largest concern at the moment is auto-saved griefing and theft.
I am really hoping there are/will be things in place to prevent that.

 

[Winona]

Imagine you accidentally run through the blue roses to took you 3 months to grow. Imagine your finger slips and you hit 'yes' when your favorite villager asks you if they should move. Imagine you accidentally sell the rare furniture you didn't realize you had in your pockets.

Because I've done all of these things and let me tell you: I DON'T WANT AUTOSAVE. We have always had the freedom to hit the emergency button when things don't go our way and I don't see why they're taking that away.

Imagine you made an awful lot of progress, but accidently hit the turn-off button or the battery ran out before you were able to make it to the charger or back home. Auto-save would save your butt then! Both scenarios are unfortunate, but Animal Crossing has always been about a bit of randomness and having to deal with certain situations. Since the biggest reason to reset was to decide where animals built their houses and this is no longer an issue, I think you just have to deal with the rest.

Friends move away just like in real life. Animal Crossing has never been about creating the perfect world, but about letting go and enjoying the relaxing atmosphere. If you accidently sell rare items, then that's just how it is. I'd laugh about it and move on. At least that's my opinion.

 

[Seastar]

I'll only be okay with this if it can be turned off or you're not forced to use the last autosave. (Like in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
Also, I cannot imagine it having any reason to also do autosaves while you're visiting another player's town or someone is visiting yours. That just wouldn't make sense.

 

[visibleghost]

honestly if everything auto saves then that sucks. if you can choose to go back in the save or shut off auto save then it's good but like.... i hate making a mistake and not having the option to go back.

That's how it's supposed to be.

it is how it should be if you want to play like that. it's not as much fun for people who don't like the challenge of losing progress.

 

[Bcat]

Sorry guys but I don't buy the 'it's in the spirit of animal crossing' reasoning for implementing this feature. You know what else is in the spirit of animal crossing? Playing it in real time. Now by show of hands how many people couldn't play without time traveling?

If you guys like the autosaving feature, that's awesome. I'm happy for you. All I'm saying is I and a lot of other players like having the choice to reset if we want to. Just like we have the choice to change the date if we want to. Some of us want the ability to choose. Please respect that.

 

[dizzy bone]

I?ll be really disappointed if they implement auto-saving with no way to turn it off/do it manually. Please at least make it like BOTW where we can choose a previous save!! Even if we might not need to ?reset? for plots anymore, i still like having the freedom to save when I want to. I know a lot of people here are trying to make a case for ?randomness? being in the spirit of animal crossing, and if you make a mistake, you should live with it... but I don?t agree with that. We should be able to decide when we can save after our hard work, or when we can reset after a mistake. Forcing that on us doesn?t contribute much to our gameplay, since most people won?t forget to save a game at an important moment anyways (unless their switch dies from a drained battery or something, so really this feature is only a safeguard for that). Auto saving doesn?t really contribute to any spirit of animal crossing, if anything, it makes it easier for theft and other things to occur during trading and multiplayer play. Also, as others have mentioned, TTing is an acknowledged part of new leaf gameplay (time traveler rumour) so it?s not a ?wrong? way of playing. I?m really sick of hearing this. Yeah, some might find playing the natural way relaxing. But other people also find it relaxing to play on their own time schedule with the help of TTing as well. Perhaps in New Horizons they?ll change this (god I hope not)... but for now, everyone knows that time traveling is a way of playing for a lot of fans.

Anyways, I?m not saying auto saving features are bad, but forcing it on us isn?t great either and a lot of fans will be disappointed. I hope by release they make this feature optional. We?ve survived without this feature for so long, so why now? Making it optional is the best way to cater to the whole fan base.

 

[EpicGamer12]

Just using my best judgment, I’m 99% sure there won’t be save slots like BOTW. In BOTW you can save before you make a specific decision or trying to beat a certain boss, and the game autosaves at certain points. NH has no incentives to work like that. It will likely be a continuous auto save that you have no real control over.