Endless Archive - Please add Save Progress

Jaraal

Rowjoh wrote: »

Dragonstar Arena and Blackrose Prison are 4 man ONLY.

I've soloed Dragonstar Arena, and I'm not an elite player. Haven't tried BRP solo, though.

AlterBlika

Jaraal wrote: »

I've soloed Dragonstar Arena, and I'm not an elite player. Haven't tried BRP solo, though.

They probably meant that DSA and BRP are considered group content only

Alaztor91

Just add an option that disables Leaderboards and allows you to start from an Arc that you have previously reached, giving you the corresponding amount of random Visions(or just giving you the selection option multiple times at the start).

Can you imagine if you wanted to run a Dungeon/Arena/Trial in Vet Mode but you were forced to run the Normal Mode before? each time you wanted to do it? doesn't seems very funny to me.

J18696

Psilent wrote: »

A save feature isn’t needed just Arc Progress. For example, my account clears Arc 1 and opens up Arc 2 I can now choose to start at Arc 1 or Arc 2. However, this would invalidate the leaderboard.

The leaderboard isn’t much different than Emperor in Cyrodiil. It’s pretty much going to be who can spend the most time playing the game.

With that said, I am really enjoying Endless Archive. I was one of the few WoW players who loved Torghast. So was very excited and am very pleased with Endless Archive.

Being able to chose what arc you start at would also not work because as a example I start at arc 6 now I need 6 arcs worth of visions so it will give me the missing visions where this becomes a problem is people will just restart over and over until they have the perfect vision combo.

The better solution is to just let the current session progress save the same way maelstrom and vateshran do since time does not factor into the score honestly no real problem.

ajkb78

Save progress should definitely be added, for exactly the same reason that it was added in Maelstrom Arena (because not everyone has the time required to run as far as they want to in one go) and implemented in exactly the same way: if you leave the Archive, or if you log out, you don''t get a final score and you don't go on the leaderboard. There would be a bit more nuance needed given it's duoable, but a reasonable equivalent would be that if anyone joins or leaves after the start of the run then it becomes a no-score run. Or they could simply allow progress saving only for solo runs.

For the time-constrained among us, it would be nice to be able to knock off a few stages, log out and come back to the same run. That way we're constrained by running out of threads; as it is, we're constrained by running out of time.

This approach would be entirely consistent with the approach taken to other soloable content in the game, and would be a huge blessing to those of us with busy lives.

Just because you personally don't see the benefit of this to your play style, don't knock the idea when other people are clearly saying it would be of huge benefit to them.

Necrotech_Master

Lugaldu wrote: »

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Dark_Lord_Kuro wrote: »

Though it woulnt be too much to have some kind of grace period like 5-10 min when crashing.

They say there´s a 5 min grace period, but 5 min is nothing when you suddenly lost internet connection, have to make a restart of your computer or got kicked due to inactivity because you went in the kitchen to get yourself a drink!

It takes you more than 15 minutes to get a drink?

My computer restarts in less than 30s.

Good if your PC restarts in 30 seconds. But I already described my experience in the OP that I was back in the game after about 6 minutes after the internet connection crashed and this already led to a "back to 0". There was nothing like a 15 min. grace period. And it also already happened many times that the game kicked me out after being afk for 2-3 min...

the instance reset is 5 min, for this particular instance they should extend this timer to like 15-30 minutes, as there is a manual instance reset in the archive itself that has a 5 minute cooldown

if your in a 2 person group though, its more than likely at least 1 player would still be in the archive keeping the instance alive if you got dc'd for whatever reason

Hapexamendios

I would like to see the progress saved myself. My reason would be available play time. I'm pretty busy and can't play for more than 45 minutes to an hour most days. Being able to pick up the EA where I left off would make it much more playable for me.

HappyTheCamper

I made a post a few days ago about how my entire run was ruined because one mob sank under the floor, and became untargetable/killable. I had like an hour or so of progress wiped trying to fix it.

I also do not care about leaderboards at all. Save progress should be allowed in some regard, or at least should be considered, especially since we have a set number of wipes/lives. Your position can save when you leave, but your number of lives/wipes remains what you have. That to me seems fair.

This is (one of) the only pieces of content in the game that forces you into the leaderboards. I’d wager that 90% of ESO players do not care about leader boards.

Wolf_Eye

Ravensilver wrote: »

Thee_Cheshire_Cat wrote: »

Torghast in another game never had a 'save progress' option. Nor should this one. It is an MMO, there is no 'save progress'.

You did not mention that Torghast is only one run through and you're done. Then you can go on to the higher level or to another instance of Torghast. But you're not going from level to level to level without a break.

Just for those who don't play WoW: Torghast is a tower that has many 'rooms' in it. Each 'room' has 6 consecutive small instances, with one big boss at the end of the final one. So basically you're climbing the tower *in one particular room*. After you finish the boss, you return to the starting point and can either choose to go to the next level of this particular 'room', or choose a completely different one.
You also get a lot more buffs on each floor, because there are urns and mobs and so on that will give you buffs if you destroy them.

So, on a technical level, this Torghast basically has a way of "saving" your progress so long as you stop after killing the boss in the "room". Is that correct? Because you're right, that doesn't sound the same as how EA is set up....

Marquesta

Please! Please add a way to save progress! I don't have time to play for hours on end. I can only mange to get to about half way through the 3rd arc before I am forced to stop.
I love this new feature and will still play it, but I don't see any way of me getting much past this point having to start at the beginning every time I have to log out to do something else. This will quickly lose it's luster if I have to keep doing it.