Why can't we load saves from the pause menu?

[Zhetone]

The title should explain everything really. You can do this in every other Paradox game, and it's tedious having to quit to load a game. Yeah savescumming is dumb or whatever, but sometimes you make a stupid mistake and want to load a save, or maybe you loaded the wrong one, and then it takes 30 seconds to load the next one because you have to back out and then load it up from the main menu. It doesn't seem like it should be too hard to fix this, and it would be nice.

 

[Boodas]

I feel like you used to be able to a while back.

 

[Peregrinus Magnus]

Actually,for some reason it was never an option in Crusader Kings II. My guess is that the devs were trying to discourage people from loading save games every time when something went wrong. In fact, I think that it was a pretty good idea.

 

[Aotrs Commander]

Actually,for some reason it was never an option in Crusader Kings II. My guess is that the devs were trying to discourage people from loading save games every time when something went wrong. In fact, I think that it was a pretty good idea.

Except it doesn't, in fact, discourage people, really. It just prolongs the process. If'n you're going to reload, you're going to reload, even if (lookin' at you Civ V, thanks for reminding me one of the many reasons I don't like you all that much) you end up breeding a lot of Pokémon on your DS while you're waiting...

(For some reason, you can't load a save from the pause menu in EUIV if you have a random new world, either. *shrug* So you have the same issue there...)

 

[DPS]

Well, you don't have to quit to load a save, just resign.

 

[Narvait]

Well, you don't have to quit to load a save, just resign.

Which is (almost) just as bad.

 

[chopak]

I wouldn't be surprised if loading game without quitting caused some problems, so they removed it.

 

[blackninja9939]

I wouldn't be surprised if loading game without quitting caused some problems, so they removed it.

I am pretty sure that is the reason, hell in EU4 doesn't it basically relaunch the entire game when you resign compared to ck2 just going straight back to the main menu. I am pretty sure I remember seeing a dev say it is due to something causing problems if you don't go back to the main menu so it is why there is no in game load option

 

[Zsrai]

I'm pretty sure that the games needs to go back to the main menu to "reset" event flags and so on. Some devs posted years ago why, and it was some engine or scripting limitation with how information would still carry over and corrupt things. Look at EU4 and how it restarts the whole game just to let you go back to the main menu. That would likely be the solution in CK2, if possible at all, if you were to be able to load a game from play.