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area or if you get a bad feeling about what is just
around the corner.
There are ten save game slots. A save game slot
will hold one save game file, so you can save up to
ten different locations or positions at a time.
Once you save ten save games, you will have to
select one of the older games to overwrite when you
decide to save a new game.
When you first start playing Fallout 2, all ten
slots will be empty. Each slot will say EMPTY,
just to prove our point.
To see what a save game slot contains, left-
click once on a slot. A picture of where you saved
There is a philosophy about saving
games. Some people say that you should only
have one savegame file, and you should rarely
save to it. These people believe that this
increases the danger of playing the game, and is
thus more dramatic. Others claim that you
should be able to save before every combat, be
able to replay every action and have unlimited
saves. Since the Fallout 2 development team is
pretty nice, we tend to lean towards the
latter. You are allowed to save up to 10 save
games, using slots, at pretty much anytime.
Should you save every few steps? Well, it’s up
to you. We do highly suggest that you use
multiple slots when you save. Start with slot 1,
and then use slot 2, then slot 3 and so on.
Only use slot 1 again when you have gone
through all ten slots. This way, if something
really bad happens to your character or savegame,
you have a fairly recent backup of the game and
you won’t lose much progress. But the
frequency of your game saving, and how you use
it to play the game, is entirely in your hands.
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