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Starfieldis a massive game with hundreds of worlds for players to visit and explore. Between traveling the stars in their ship to clearing out Spacer camps, it’s important to make sure your progress is saved, so you don’t have to redo anything.
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Saving is important for those wanting to make a checkpoint in case a situation doesn’t play out the way they want or simply for the end of the day when it’s time to turn the game off; luckily, Starfield gives players many different ways to save their game.
Updated On September 9th, 2023 By Joshua Leeds:Starfield has many systems and settings that aren’t completely explained to players in the early stages of the game. This article has been updated to include additional links to further explain these systems.
How To Manually Save
Manually saving in Starfield is simple,open up the main menu, and select the “Save” option, which is the second option from the top of the main menu. Clicking “Save” willopen up your list of save files, where you can save over an existing file or create a new one.It’s helpful to have multiple save files, even for asingle playthrough, as they allow you to go back and play out different sections or the rest of the gamefollowing a different route.
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Autosaving & Quicksaving
Quicksaving is above the “Save” optionand isat the top of the main menu. This saves your game quickly but is a less permanent save file withonly one quicksave file being saved at a time. This quicksave file can be reloaded as often as you like, butquicksaving again will delete the previous quicksave filefor the new one.
Autosaving is done by the gameand will create new save files for you after certain actions have been completed. Autosaves make a new save file each time one is made. Only themost recent autosave files can be loaded up, with older ones being automatically deleted to make room for new files. Players can change how often or not autosaves happen. Gointo the main menu, thensettings, and into the Gameplay menu. From here, you can select if the gameautosaves on Rests, Waits,Travels, or when pausing the game after a few minutes.Starfield will alsoautomatically create another save file when you turn the game off through the main menu, ensuring your game is constantly being saved.
