I can’t stress how much I HATE defeating a boss, only to die to some environmental thing a few seconds later and then have to REDO THE ENTIRE BOSSFIGHT.
Screw that.
Be like literally any game in the history of videogames, save when boss is defeated and respawn after. Simple.
The game has so many infuriating issues like this. It’s so clear that it’s really still not even closed to a polished finished product. Checkpoints are a disaster. If the game was going to be structured this way it needed an actual save function. Certain areas are near impossible on legendary because they’re just plopped in the open world.
The core game here is exvellent but it’s totally clear it’s been pushed out the moment it worked. Another 6 months of balance and polish might have meant far better reviews and a much better game.
I finished the campaign on legendary this morning and I can 100% agree the save spots/checkpoints are garbage. Several times during my play through I had to go afk for an hour (or a whole night) because of the frustrations with checkpoints not making sense and forcing me to do the whole thing over after some random bs killed me.
For me, the checkpoints have actually been rather generous in my Legendary playthrough. Even downright excessive at times, as there were instances where it saved in the middle of battle where I was about to have a Grunt throw a Plasma Grenade at me or spawn me with the boss in my face.
It actually did help me in the third boss fight though, where it decided to give me a checkpoint where I had already stripped the boss of his shields and took out half his health. I quickly defeated him the rest of the way from there.
I never encountered this issue. I actually thought they held your hand during boss fights with the checkpoints. If I died fighting a boss, it would spawn me where the fight left off. At least nearly. The boss health was lower forsure
This is still a massive issue. Trying to complete the campaign on legendary at the moment and it’s putting me so far back after a death I’ve had to step away from the game because it’s so infuriating and time wasting.
I hope they fix the checkpoints or add a manual save function ASAP.
Just wait until you try to do a LASO run with the same issue except you have no HUD to tell you when the game is saving. Saving also only occurs if you are at full shields which is sometimes hard to tell since there’s no HUD.