| Name of the file: Pacific Drive Cheat Codes - Author: DAV |
| Pacific Drive Cheat Codes: ------------ Submitted by: David K. How Can I Save the Game?: ------------------------- If you’ve completed the tutorial you can save at any time from the pause menu while in the garage, if you’re out on a trip, you’ll need to complete your current junction in order to trigger the autosave. You should try to exit the map! If you’re on a trip with multiple stops, moving on to the next one will auto-save your progress, and if you’re already at an end destination, you should gather anchors and activate a gateway, which will auto-save your progress when you go back to the garage. Devs go into more detail about our save system, how it functions, and why: -=Saving on a Trip in Progress=- Currently, saving functions like this: when you’re in the garage, you are able save up to your current level of progress. Parts will stay on the ground, your inventory stays the same, you’ll even have the same amount of gas in the tank for the car, etc. While out on a trip into the Zone it’s a bit different. You’ll keep all your progress up to the current junction, but nothing after – your game will save automatically when you enter a new level and the game won’t save again until you get back to the garage, or move on to the next junction. Due to the scope of the game, and our focus on providing a robust and varied experience across a high number of trips into the zone, with variable map sizes, anomaly populations, and the amount of hazards, we had to make technical sacrifices early on in the project that makes revisiting this save behavior not feasible. While we understand why this is highly requested, it’s not something we plan on revisiting for those reasons. We believe that once a majority of players have had time in the game, it’ll be apparent why the save system is working this way. The game gets much faster and more intense the more you learn your way around the Zone and you’ll have plenty of time to grab the essentials and get out or take your time and explore. If you do need to save mid-run, just head for the next exit and then you can safely quit the game once you load into the next level, without losing any progress. - Devs Pro Tips for the New Driver: ---------------------------- Written by Sinta 1.Saving while in the garage, then loading that save in your next drive (say, to get something important that you forgot), will load you back on the road at the beginning of the drive — meaning to say you are unable go back to the garage unless you go through the whole escape sequence. Kind of annoying, but meh. 2.Leaving the car running drains some amount of fuel, but I've found that going through the motions of turning the ignition and then getting into drive does NOT make up for the negligible fuel savings if you decide to turn off the car every time you get out of it. If you know you'll be away from the car for more than just a couple minutes, then you should maybe turn it off. 3.In contrast, try to save as much battery as you can, since teleporting the car (and getting revived, etc.) uses up a lot of power. Also, because driving in the dark/fog with no lights is not an enjoyable experience. 4.I felt like this wasn't made clear in the tutorial levels, but escaping (i.e. racing towards the yellow pillar of light) is made much easier by getting to the minimum distance away from your nearest and most accessible gateway - and then starting the escape sequence. The map will tell you when you're too close to a particular gateway to start the escape. 5.Nothing super bad really happens when you take a Stable Anchor from it's pedestal, despite the very loud and scary music sting that plays. 6.The amount of "energy" you get from an Anchor is shown by how big it appears on the map. If you already have enough energy to go home, small Anchors are very much not worth your time if they are hard to reach/ surrounded by anomalies. 7.If you have even the slightest bit of "loot bug" syndrome, you will soon be drowning in basic materials after a couple of drives. Don't worry too much about missing a car, or house (or two) if you don't feel like going through them. 8.Speaking of materials, save your chemicals! In the early game, 9 times out of 10, you will have more than enough mats to craft a whole new part, rather than use chemicals to make Repair Putty. 9.Pick up the mats from the Matter Deconstructor, and don't use the vacuum to scoop them up — you may lose them! I've lost three Dumpster Pearls worth of mats from using the vacuum this way. IDK if this is a bug, but it does seem that dropped items from other sources are safe from this happening to them. 10.Check the car's status screen in the garage before leaving! God forbid you go into a drive with half a tank of gas and a dead battery, because you left the car running while messing around in the garage. (Totally did not happen to me.) |