Problem with saving a multiplayer game

[Zalsak 10]

Hi!

I have made a big cops and robbers map which i play with my friends but the problem is that i can't save it. There is no suspend or save option on the menu, only abort. It's annoying to always start all over again. Most of the missions i play has these options but this map doesn't. Sometimes when i load a save it gives an error message that says: "This mission uses downloadable content and you can't play it" or something even though i have the addons. So if i get the save working how can i prevent that happening?

[Taxman 10]

As far as im aware matey,, There is NO save option in any multiplayer mission.......

[liquidpinky 11]

As far as im aware matey,, There is NO save option in any multiplayer mission.......

You can certainly save self hosted games by choosing the suspend option when you are the host, not sure about server hosted MP games though.

[Taxman 10]

You can certainly save self hosted games by choosing the suspend option when you are the host, not sure about server hosted MP games though.

Isnt that just for the campaigns ?

[TechnoTerrorist303 10]

afaik you can't save a game if it's hosted on a dedi server. Why would you want to? Just set the server to run as persistant and then you can just log in and out as required.

[liquidpinky 11]

Isnt that just for the campaigns ?

Works for any game mode I have tried so far, including Warfare and Domination.

[Taxman 10]

cool..... I only use a dedi for online play so I have no idea with that bud,,,, if you say it works then it works,,

[Zalsak 10]

Im the host and im not running dedi but if i have understood right when hosting dedi your computer must be on all the time so it's not going to work. I don't know what gamemode the map is it's just messing around with unlimited respawns and there isn't suspend but i can see save option on the menu but it's grey so i can't click it. What about the saveGame script or some other script? There must be a way!

[Zalsak 10]

C'mon there must be a way! This is a crucial factor whether im going to continue playing this game or not. Seriously! This may sound silly but only reason i play this game is cops and robbers and without save option it will really suck. If it doesn't exist someone should do something about it!

What about the suspend option? Why i have abort instead suspend and what should i do to get the suspend option? Please help, i will really appreciate it!

[Taxman 10]

I guess its GTA for u then :(

(only jk bud, hope you find a way)

[Hanzu 10]

i can see save option on the menu but it's grey so i can't click it.

In the hardest difficulty called Expert you can only save once per mission after that SAVE option in menu gets greyed. So what difficulty you play on?

What patch version are you using?

What mission and gamemode you play?

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In Singleplayer campaign if you are the host you should be able to save in three ways:

1. Choosing SAVE from menu
   
2. Choosing SUSPEND from menu
   
3. The game will also save automatically in certain points of the campaign missions with text "Saving game. Please wait." appearing on your screen
   

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You can choose to load Autosaves and manual saves, but SUSPEND saves are not visible in the loadgame list, but they should load with Resume if SUSPEND-save is newer than manual SAVE or Autosave.

There is also a bug that is causing some campaign missions (for example Manhattan and Badlands) to have SUSPEND save overriding all other save methods. See my CIT report for it:

http://dev-heaven.net/issues/16205

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All three save methods also work with separate COOP missions. But I do not know about any other gamemodes since I only like to play campaign and coop.

[Taxman 10]

In Singleplayer campaign if you are the host you should be able to save in three ways:

op stated that this is his own mission not a campaign buddy

[Zalsak 10]

op stated that this is his own mission not a campaign buddy

Yeah and seems like the difficulty is not causing it. I have tried all difficulties. I have checked the UNLIMITED SAVES option too.

[Hanzu 10]

op stated that this is his own mission not a campaign buddy

Oh yea, should have read more carefully the part "I have made a big cops and robbers map".

Posting to sub forum "ArmA 2 & OA - USER MISSIONS" might have gave more help for the issue.

[Acecool 0]

What information are you trying to save?

[Taxman 10]

Posting to sub forum "ArmA 2 & OA - USER MISSIONS" might have gave more help for the issue.

Very True :)

[Zalsak 10]

What information are you trying to save?

Changes to the world in general. I should try the RTE mod. If i've understood right its muliplayer compatible and you can start it when ever you want so when i want to save i just start RTE and press export all to the RTE capture and save the file. But i don't know will the MBG creationism things save. Gotta try that out.

If my problem will not get solved about within a month i will try the USER MISSIONS section.

[Zalsak 10]

RTE didn't help...