How to save the game and when not to save? | Hero - Harkyn Lords of the Fallen Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

In Lords of the Fallen the option to quick save is absent. To save your progress in the game, you use the red crystals all around the map. After you approach one, you have two options to choose from: character development and health regeneration/replenishing healing potions. After you choose one, the game saves automatically and you respawn in that point automatically, after you die, or load the game. In most cases, it is a good idea to use each crystal that you find, but there are exceptions. First of all, it may happen that you come back to the locations that you have already visited, to find an item or a character. You can lose your directions, though, and get to a different part of the game world, than you actually wanted to. If you do not use any crystals, along your path, you can have yourself killed and respawn in the point that you originally left. This method also works, when you take a long journey, to find an item only, because even after you die, the item that you have found stays in your inventory. You only need to save the game before you turn leave it.

Another reason not to use the saving points is gaining more experience. Each opponent that you kill raises your points. If you kill an opponent for 30 experience points, each opponent, of the same type, that you kill afterwards, provides you with 31 experience points. Using the crystal resets the conversion factor to the initial value. If you do not want to take too much risk, though, you do not need to worry. The game has been designed in the way that allows you to reach an appropriate experience level without raising the conversion factor. It is a form of challenge that the conversion factor rises and the more experienced players may undertake. How about completing the game, from the beginning to the end, without using a crystal once?

At some points, the game saves automatically, e.g. after you enter a New main location, or before a boss battle.