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DS1 Save Games saves everything Submitted by iryan on Tue, 2016-07-26 03:22
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One of the problems with modding DS1 is that save games save all information about the world. As such they get progressively bigger. I remember making a respawn mod for DS1, which worked but eventually it caused the game (and saved games) to crash. Looking at the size of the saved game file and it was enormous (can't quite remember how big but approx. 10 times normal).
Also when making Legends of Utrae I had exception problems at certain points because of errors in monster templates (especially the krakbones I put around the swamps). As soon as the area containing the faulty template was loaded into the world, it would cause an exception. It was also quite fixable with saved games since I could repair the faulty templates and eventually move pass the problem area.
Faults in usable templates (weapons, armor, etc) generated by the pcontent system could be more problematic to fix as everything would work well until a call was put through the pcontent system that tried to generate an object, which would generally cause an exception. However sometimes the object would be generated into the world and only caused an exception if you tried to pick it up or equip it. Depends on what was the cause of the problem.
Also common is making changes to usable templates already in the inventory or being equipped or changes to the actor's template. These are the types of errors which can cause save games to break and can be difficult to repair.
As you can see there's numerous ways of problems appearing when modding the game. Did I mention mod compatibility as well? This often causes issues between mods and can be very hard to track down.
All of the above is the reason GPG implemented the save system used in DS2. It only saves information about the party and quest status as well as details about doors opened, containers opened, etc. World details like actor positioning, etc, isn't saved. This makes save games very small but means you always have to restart saved games from certain start points, unlocked in the towns when you reach them.