Glitch caused by ending online session via minus button?

[jiojiop]

Actually, this might be a minor thing but rather the lack of hard save (like manual saving) we rely heavily on autosave and that's nearly messed up some of Nintendo's switch games (i.e Fire Emblem Three Houses' first week that SOFTLOCKS you if you saved at a specific battle) if only we had manual and autosave we'd have more backups with our save despite not having cloud backups. And I know, this might be abused by save scummers but that's the auto save is for (to stop abusing the manual save). But since we run solely on autosaves with no other saving options, we're pretty much gonna encounter a desync if we go online. Sure, rarely, but might be high since not everyone has a stable net and we don't have a server to host multiplayer stuff.

Also constant saving/timed saving could be bad because idek, from what I've observed so far the biggest issue has been the autosave (i.e the recent duping and the failure to properly rollback to the previous save if someone disconnects accidentally or letting the "leaving" timer run out)

I hear what you're saying, but there's another way around this.

Why design the game so that everyone has to be out of menus and sitting through cutscenes for people to enter/leave drop-in/drop-out coop? No other game does this, and they seem to manage their save integrity just fine. I think perhaps a large contributing problem is how they've implemented the online so everyone has to be synced up like this.

 

[Dormire]

I hear what you're saying, but there's another way around this.

Why design the game so that everyone has to be out of menus and sitting through cutscenes for people to enter/leave drop-in/drop-out coop? No other game does this, and they seem to manage their save integrity just fine. I think perhaps a large contributing problem is how they've implemented the online so everyone has to be synced up like this.

Yeah that's a thing too. I honestly think they went backwards on the multiplayer aspect on this. (Also, you know, there's a skip cutscene if you create another islander. Why can't you skip the "landing cutscene" as well? Their choices are so bizarre sometimes? It's so time consuming and it stops everyone too. LOL.)

 

[Rosie Moon]

Hi, they meant this:
Save Data Wipe Error

You're safe to do it as 1 on 1 (like no other person other than you and the host) but if you go to crowded ones, you will risk desyncing the saving process, causing a potential save data wipe. This is caused by pressing the (-) button to leave. This isn't exactly the - button's fault but most likely how unstable the multiplayer can get in crowded islands (and abruptly leaving/letting the countdown timer run out). Best you abstain from exiting via (-) button during turnip runs or other mass activities.

Oh geez, so it was true after all! Thanks for the info!

 

[Dormire]

Oh geez, so it was true after all! Thanks for the info!

I'm one of the translators of (90%) of the JP tweets so, I might not be able to provide enough ENG source but a video proof should be at 1st post. Don't worry, it's not THAT common. But it's best to be aware.