Dragon's Dogma 2 Players Need to Be Super Careful When Loading Their Saves

23.03.2024 - 21:53 / gamerant.com / Dominik Bo

Dragon's Dogma 2 players need to be super careful when loading their saves, as the «Load from Last Inn Rest» option will delete their manual save file. This behavior has been described as unexpected by some fans, who claimed to have lost hours of progress after picking the wrong resume option from the Dragon's Dogma 2 main menu.

Much like its 2012 predecessor, Capcom's new fantasy RPG offers only one manual save slot. While the same has long been true for many Japanese RPGs, ranging from Elden Ring to the mainline Pokemon games, Dragon's Dogma 2 save system is particularly peculiar on account of constantly overwriting one's manual saves with autosaves. Ditto for its inclusion of inn saves, which have a separate slot that gets overwritten every time the player rests at a tavern. Booting the game after one's first session will see it present the player with two resume options, Load from Last Save and Load from Last Inn Rest, which correspond to those slots.

But what Dragon's Dogma 2 doesn't clearly communicate is that resuming from the last inn rest will automatically delete the player's sole manual save. More specifically, it will overwrite it, because the game will immediately perform an autosave as soon as it loads. A number of Dragon's Dogma 2 players have already taken to social media to claim that they have lost up to ten hours of progress because of this behavior, which some of them have described as completely unintuitive.

Some fans chiming in on this idiosyncrasy have opined that they don't have an issue with the save system itself, merely the game's lack of attempts to properly explain all of its intricacies. The chances of Capcom changing the way saving works appear slim, as a similar system has also been present in the first series entry, and is very much a deliberate design choice. Given that state of affairs, Dragon's Dogma 2 players are advised to rest at inns as often as possible. Doing so is also the only way to sync one's singular save file with Capcom's servers.

Despite an immense critical reception, the Dragon's Dogma sequel has so far elicited a mixed audience response. Severe performance issues and an abundance of microtransactions have been among the most common complaints cited by the players who voiced their displeasure with the RPG. As far as the former is concerned, Capcom said it's currently working on better optimizing Dragon's Dogma 2 and fixing any bugs that players have reported since its March 22 release.

The long-awaited sequel to 2012's action RPG, Capcom's Dragon's Dogma 2 follows the Arisen, a hero whose heart is stolen by a powerful and massive dragon. Featuring a world 4x the size of its predecessor, Dragon's Dogma 2 emphasizes customization and player control through