It take the paint off your car and wreck your FRIDAY, too...

[MetalDog]

But did you get to PLAY your new character?

[JasonPratt]

Speaking of not getting to play: I just spent about two hours setting up a new AAR for my first Deadnauts campaign; and then discovered that unless I actually start a mission, the campaign doesn't save (nor can it be manually saved, since this is a roguelike).

All that effort, mostly wasted. The game naturally generated a whole new set of cretins, and a new mission, when I restarted. 

[JudgeDredd]

^ Bugger!  :-\

[Huw the Poo]

Speaking of not getting to play: I just spent about two hours setting up a new AAR for my first Deadnauts campaign; and then discovered that unless I actually start a mission, the campaign doesn't save (nor can it be manually saved, since this is a roguelike).

All that effort, mostly wasted. The game naturally generated a whole new set of cretins, and a new mission, when I restarted. 

Huh, really?  I could've sworn I was able to rejoin a campaign after immediately quitting following the completion of a mission.  Although I suppose it's possible I had started the next mission first, just to see.  Quite an oversight by the devs if true.

[Martok]

But did you get to PLAY your new character?

Heck no!  Too much time was spent on the creation process and various, um, conversational digressions.  (That, plus it took a while for my friend and I to come up with a halfway plausible-sounding backstory for my new half-orc wizard...)  :-[  ::) 

[JasonPratt]

Speaking of not getting to play: I just spent about two hours setting up a new AAR for my first Deadnauts campaign; and then discovered that unless I actually start a mission, the campaign doesn't save (nor can it be manually saved, since this is a roguelike).

All that effort, mostly wasted. The game naturally generated a whole new set of cretins, and a new mission, when I restarted. 

Huh, really?  I could've sworn I was able to rejoin a campaign after immediately quitting following the completion of a mission.  Although I suppose it's possible I had started the next mission first, just to see.  Quite an oversight by the devs if true.

No, fortunately that wasn't the problem. I hadn't even accepted the first mission yet. I understand the point: there are no manual saves, and the game hadn't gone far enough to autosave because I hadn't started the mission -- thus allowing the player, when starting a campaign, to scope out the situation randomly rolled up and decide whether or not to launch the campaign from there. Going back to the main menu effectively refuses the roll.

I do wish they had thought to add a manual save button for this stage (if only this stage) however since someone might want to keep the game but hadn't finished prepping yet and then had to leave (which is what happened with me, in principle; normally a player would only need a few minutes to consider and prep for the first mission, or to reject the campaign start and try again).

[JasonPratt]

This does mean in practice that if I try to re-create a gamestart for an AAR along the basic plotline I had developed, I'll need to slot enough time to get all that done and then start the mission.

(Or, I might go back to messing with my Russian Darkest Hour AAR mod AAR. ;) Is it Friday yet? It has to be Friday somewhere...)