Posted December 11, 2020
Wasn't sure where to post it so if there is a different place for this, let me know.
Anyhow, allowing to rename your savegames would a be nice feature to have. While showing the chosen path in the save/load screen is nice, being able to distinguish different saves by name would be even better.
I already noticed you can actually rename the save-folders (located at `%userprofile%\Saved Games\CD Projekt Red\Cyberpunk 2077`) and they show up in the load-menu with the changed name. However, the save does not appear in the save-menu and therefore cannot be overwritten (probably a filter for savegame names so that the autosave/quicksave can't be overwritten manually).
So allowing to rename the saves in-game would be appreciated, or in case renaming savegame folder names is 100% safe to do (which I'm assuming, but a confirmation by CDPR would be appreciated nevertheless), allowing to overwrite savegames with a name that was changed through file explorer would be fine as well. The latter solution might even be quite simple to implement (just filter out autosave/quicksave folders instead of explicitly allow only manualsave folders to show, perhaps with a filter for UTF-8 only in case character encoding could cause issues).
IMPORTANT: For anyone else wanting to give this a try, hereby the obligatory "try at our own risk" warning. I only tried copying an existing save and changed that name to "test-1". Issues could occur, especially when using pre-determined savegame name-formats (f.e. renaming a save to a manualsave with a number that has yet to be reached).
Anyhow, allowing to rename your savegames would a be nice feature to have. While showing the chosen path in the save/load screen is nice, being able to distinguish different saves by name would be even better.
I already noticed you can actually rename the save-folders (located at `%userprofile%\Saved Games\CD Projekt Red\Cyberpunk 2077`) and they show up in the load-menu with the changed name. However, the save does not appear in the save-menu and therefore cannot be overwritten (probably a filter for savegame names so that the autosave/quicksave can't be overwritten manually).
So allowing to rename the saves in-game would be appreciated, or in case renaming savegame folder names is 100% safe to do (which I'm assuming, but a confirmation by CDPR would be appreciated nevertheless), allowing to overwrite savegames with a name that was changed through file explorer would be fine as well. The latter solution might even be quite simple to implement (just filter out autosave/quicksave folders instead of explicitly allow only manualsave folders to show, perhaps with a filter for UTF-8 only in case character encoding could cause issues).
IMPORTANT: For anyone else wanting to give this a try, hereby the obligatory "try at our own risk" warning. I only tried copying an existing save and changed that name to "test-1". Issues could occur, especially when using pre-determined savegame name-formats (f.e. renaming a save to a manualsave with a number that has yet to be reached).