[minimod][v1.4.2] Autoautosave

[m8f]

autoautosave is a must-have for anyone who frequently forgets to save across long periods of time but doesn't want to resort to savescumming, automating the saving process every X minutes under Y conditions. Extremely useful!

Autoautosave is a universal autosaver.
It works as a configurable checkpoint system.
It is designed to be compatible with any monster and weapon mod, and any map.

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Source code

Features

• autosave on various events: enemies alerted and killed, health or armor drops or rises, items are found, etc.
• periodic autosave.
• autosave on every event is optional.
• some events have fine-tuning options.
• optional screenshot taking when events happen.
• three options for event reporting: console, on-screen, and voice.
• interface for mod support.

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As always, feedback and bug reports are appreciated.

This mod is a part of m8f's toolbox.

[Someone64]

How is mod compatibility with this thing? Could mods that change the Mastermind and Cybie, keys, powerups, etc easily break it?

[m8f]

Most of the events are universal. Changing monsters, keys, etc will just cause to some events to not happen. Autoautosave will not crash, it will just autosave less often. That's why I'll have to extend pickups, keys, and monsters events to other games and mods manually.

Edit 2018-03-31: now all events should work with any mod - if you notice game isn't saved when it should be - please tell me.

[insightguy]

- player has less than 25 health.

Is it possible for the player to set this threshold? I would imagine there are people who want to autosave even at 10 hp for those long streches without healing items

[m8f]

Not yet, but I plan to make everything configurable. I just wanted to stabilize features before implementing options.
Edit: right now you can change it in ACS, if you are up to. This is controlled by healthLimit variable.

[Someone64]

Here's a list of event's I'd like to see for a configurable universal autosave mod (this list may include things already implemented):
when player's health reaches certain level (or under, or over)
player's armor reaches certain level (or under, or over. both shouldn't be mutually exclusive)
time interval
key pickup (would be nice to have a separate addon that entirely replaces keys to be loaded after a mod that replaces keys)
kill any monster considered a boss
save on hotkey (yeah, GZDoom has its own for that but the first save requires naming)

There's also something interesting that the UAC Survival Pack mod did where it spawns its items beside certain types of item spawns which works universally. Maybe you could implement it in the same way and spawn an invisible item directly on the spawn spot that auto saves the game instead? This could be a solution to the mod compatibility problem.

[m8f]

Thanks for the list and for the compatibility suggestion! I'll look into it.

[4thcharacter]

How about a toggle? I wouldn't like it autosaving on some parts for more challenge, but there are some parts where we would find that an autosave would be neat, like the all monsters are killed and 5 mins. have passed.

[m8f]

Update:

How is mod compatibility with this thing?

Done.

- player has less than 25 health.

Is it possible for the player to set this threshold?

Done.

when player's health reaches certain level (or under, or over)
player's armor reaches certain level (or under, or over. both shouldn't be mutually exclusive)
time interval
key pickup
kill any monster considered a boss
save on hotkey (yeah, GZDoom has its own for that but the first save requires naming)

Done.

How about a toggle?

Done.

[namsan]

This mod is so great. It really improved my Quality of Life.
I was tapping quicksave key on every 20 seconds, but now I don't have to.
Thanks!

[Someone64]

I have a really interesting idea for auto saving but it is probably out of the scope of this mod. There is a mod called Keymaster by JPL and a similar concept can be applied to auto saving. Basically, random enemies, items, or whatever else are assigned auto saver status. They have floppy disk icons floating over their heads. Murdering the monster or collecting the item with this status will auto save your game. Would be great fun for no save runs where you actually have to go and earn your autosaves when you turn off time interval saving.

If not, though, would be nice to apply the icon concept at least. So for example, you have the current feature set with certain items set to be auto save items, you could maybe have an icon floating over them making it easily understandable to the player that their auto save mod is working and that picking up this or that item will save the game.

Also, you should probably increase the threshholds for the health and armor stuff because ridiculous mods like Russian Overkill where 10000 health and armor can be easily attained are a thing. Not only that but it seems these can't be disabled.

EDIT: It seems compatibility with the Doomzone mod isn't so good. It doesn't seem to detect monsters with over 2000 health, it doesn't save on Cybie and Mastermind kill, and doesn't save on weapon pickup. Is it just the mod working in a strange way or autoautosaver not working?

[m8f]

This mod is so great...

I'm glad that mod helps. Thanks for kind words.

random enemies, items, or whatever else are assigned auto saver status

That's an interesting idea, but this will affect gameplay a lot, so I don't plan implementing this. Plus, saving in the middle of a battle under enemy fire isn't wise, and this inevitably will happen if random enemies' death will cause autosave.

icon floating

I tried to make this mod as silent and unobtrusive as possible, and icons are out of scope of this mod.

increase the threshholds

Will do.

compatibility with the Doomzone

I'll investigate it.

Thanks for great feedback!

[m8f]

It seems compatibility with the Doomzone mod isn't so good. It doesn't seem to detect monsters with over 2000 health, it doesn't save on Cybie and Mastermind kill, and doesn't save on weapon pickup. Is it just the mod working in a strange way or autoautosaver not working?

Strange, I receive autosaves both on weapon pickups and Cyberdemon kill with the Doomzone. Maybe you have not enough health or not enough time has passed since previous autoautosave? Please, take a look at options, there is "At least N seconds must pass before new autoautosave". Maybe you want to decrease this.

[Tesculpture]

So, this is the doom equivalent of this?

Would it be possible to have it autosave when a boss monster is alerted? Better yet, when ten or more monsters are alerted at the same time?

[m8f]

I don't know how autosave can warn player, if player isn't already warned by suspicious powerup or key
About saving when monster is alerted - I'll check if this is possible. If it is, it must be in Autoautosave.

Edit: totally possible.