Patch 1.5! Save Game on Demand! The future is here! — Hard West Steam update #721820

In all seriousness, you've told us loud and clear that the ability to save at any point was important to you. While individual missions aren't that long and we originally tried to minimize hiding behind saves to avoid the cruel hand of fate, that was an idea which didn't suit everyone. Adding the save game functionality after launch was actually quite tricky and required extensive testing but here it is. We're calling it an experimental feature because the game was originally balanced without it but we've put it through a lot of tests, and we believe it works well. tl;dr 1. Go to Options > Game > Enable Quicksaves 2. You can re-bind the keys (default F10 save, F11 load); on a controller, it's bound permanently (LT+RB save, LT+LB load in the in-game menu). 3. Have fun! 4. There are certain rather obvious situations when the game can't be saved: during cutscenes, during the enemy's turn, w...