Key Takeaways
- Xbox’s Quick Resume feature is creating issues with save functionality in Death Stranding Director’s Cut.
- Players who load the game with Quick Resume will not be able to make a manual save or an auto-save.
- Players can avoid this issue by fully quitting and reloading the game every time they start a new play session.
Xbox’s Quick Resume feature, which allows players to quickly jump back into their games, is creating an issue with Death Stranding Director’s Cut‘s save functionality. This issue is causing some players on Xbox Series X/S to lose their progress and forcing them to replay sections of Death Stranding.
Death Stranding Director’s Cut was released on Xbox Series X/S on November 7, 2024, five years after the game’s original release on PlayStation 4. While this Xbox console release will give a brand-new group of players the opportunity to experience this unique action title from the legendary game designer Hideo Kojima, they will need to exercise some care while playing if they want to avoid being affected by a bug that can lead to lost progression.
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This bug occurs when loading Death Stranding Director’s Cut with Xbox’s Quick Resume feature, and it makes it impossible to save the game. Indeed, players who jump back into the title using Quick Resume will find that they cannot make a manual save and that the auto-save functionality is also not working. This means that any progress that is made after loading the game with Quick Resume will be lost if the software is ever closed.
Death Stranding Director’s Cut Xbox Save Issue
While 505 Games, Death Stranding‘s publisher, has indicated that it is working on a fix for this issue, players should take action to avoid it until that fix arrives. Specifically, fans should manually save the game at the end of every play session. Xbox players should also fully close and reopen Death Stranding Director’s Cut every time that they start a new play session, and it is wise to perform a manual save straightaway to confirm that the game’s save functionality is operable.
For full clarity, players can make a manual save through Death Stranding‘s System menu. Additionally, here are the steps that should be taken to fully close the game and guarantee that it does not load via the Quick Resume feature when starting a new play session:
- Press the Xbox button on the controller.
- Highlight Death Stranding in the Guide menu that appears, and press the Menu button on the controller.
- Select “Quit.”
- Select “My games & apps” from the Guide menu.
- If Death Stranding is listed under “Quick Resume,” highlight it, press the Menu button on the controller, and select “Remove from Quick Resume.”
To note, this is not the first time that Quick Resume has caused problems for Xbox players. For example, there was a time when the feature could cause issues with cosmetic items in Halo Infinite. However, that issue was addressed very quickly, and it is reasonable to expect that the problems that Quick Resume is creating for Death Stranding players on Xbox consoles will also be corrected in short order.
- Released
- November 8, 2019