Restart mission button.....missing

[Alexxx]

I-m at mission 11 where i have to intercept a convoy....but the convoy got away from me.I got a save game that i keep loading in hope that i will eventually find a way to complete the mission......but there is nothing left to do anymore but to restart the mission....but there is no restart mission button.Got any ideas?

[Army Unit]

I wish that there is a re-start button too, mabby you could ask the devs to add one, or just build faster units

[Buginator]

It isn't as easy as just adding a button. Short term, not gonna happen. Long term? Maybe.

[Chojun]

Yep, what Buginator said.

[fisk0]

couldn't it be done by having the game create a quicksave at the very beginning of a mission and then have a button to reload that save?

[Zarel]

couldn't it be done by having the game create a quicksave at the very beginning of a mission and then have a button to reload that save?

My thoughts exactly. Not hard at all; it would just double the size of savefiles.

[themousemaster]

couldn't it be done by having the game create a quicksave at the very beginning of a mission and then have a button to reload that save?

My thoughts exactly. Not hard at all; it would just double the size of savefiles.

Which still makes it "not as easy as adding a button"

[EvilGuru]

Don't suppose any of you have looked at game.c recently

Most of the developers try their up-most to avoid touching save games at-all-costs, unless of course it is absolutely necessary. Hopefully when the file format is changed (2.2 or 2.3, maybe) modifying it will not be as gruesome.

Regards, Freddie.

[Buginator]

couldn't it be done by having the game create a quicksave at the very beginning of a mission and then have a button to reload that save?

My thoughts exactly. Not hard at all; it would just double the size of savefiles.

I didn't say it was hard, but there is more to it than one would think.
That, and the fact that right now, everyone is busy with real life stuff, so things are inching along very, very slowly.

If anyone wants to add support for this, go for it.

[Alexxx]

Started the game all over again.....saved the game each time i finished a mission....it's the only thing u could do.
It would be a good idea to add a button.And i'm surprised there is't already one......

[Kamaze]

Yes, it should be rather easy, by implementing auto save after each mission, since the game needs to know your current state (base, units etc...)

[Chojun]

Started the game all over again.....saved the game each time i finished a mission....it's the only thing u could do.
It would be a good idea to add a button.And i'm surprised there is't already one......

The fact that there isn't a button really is a tribute to Warzone's greatness and uniqueness.

Most RTS games will leave you with a blank slate at the beginning of every mission. In Warzone, your performance on the first mission can and will have implications on your status on the final mission. One of the things I love about Warzone.

[fisk0]

The fact that there isn't a button really is a tribute to Warzone's greatness and uniqueness.

Most RTS games will leave you with a blank slate at the beginning of every mission. In Warzone, your performance on the first mission can and will have implications on your status on the final mission. One of the things I love about Warzone.

Yes, that is a great thing about Warzone, there are very few RTS games that uses that campaign style, but still, an auto-save at the beginning of the mission wouldn't change that.
About "doubling the size of the save files", would changing the save files really be needed? Why not just do it like many games that have auto-saves already do - create a new, standard save file, named by the game to keep it apart from the others?
could be something like "auto-save_[campaign+missionnumber]-[playername]" (the player name would be useful if there are more than one person playing the game on one computer). And then having a script thing that reads the file name to see which cam, mission and player the save file was created for so it won't load the wrong save file. Possibly the auto saves could be stored in a subfolder to keep it apart from the manual saves.
I'm sure this would need a lot of coding to implement too, and might not be a high priority at the moment, but would it really need to change the way save files are written?