Saints Row IV is a great sandbox, but man does it take forever to get through the prologue missions before you can start wrecking havoc in freeroam. How about changing the time of day? Even longer, my gosh.
This is an opposite of the 100% Saves posted by jmoreno, there are no optional unlocks, no optional collectibles - you get to choose exactly what you want in your experience. Want to collect all the clusters yourself? Don't want to pick wall running? The power is yours.
(Sadly it is not possible to disable superpowers in savefiles after getting them, you'll have to use the nosuperpowers cheat or Sandbox++ if you would like to be powerless - Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+Insert).
You may also want IdolNinja's non-flagging Additional Cheats mod, to get certain missable vehicles.
The saves were made with the LEGACY_STABLE branch of Saints Row IV, I'm not sure if they will work in Re-Elected version (I never tried that version as I don't need crossplay). jmoreno's saves seemed to work for me for testing though.
All Homies, No Powers - Like above but with homies unlocked. Made with X360Hazard's save editor
Before Grand Finale - Just before Punch The Shark line of missions, if you still want to grind side missions for the ""good ending"" as Kinzie puts it. (Fun fact, Did you know 6% of Steam players never got that ending?)
After Grand Finale - Story missions complete, time of day control unlocked. Do whatever you want!
BGF and AGF are made with BeautiDuwanger's Bayonetta outfit mod, loading should work but you'll see a woman in undies if you don't have that mod installed.
AGF (No Bayo) included with Madame President outfit if you'd like the character to wear clothes in the save.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\xxxxxxxx\206420\remote
where xxxxxxxx is numbers of your Steam ID.
For GOG it should be within _saves of game's folder containing exe.
If you don't already have a save, start a new game, make a save immediately, close it and put the save.
If you already have an autosave file I recommend renaming/backing it up incase it doesn't work.
Truthfully I'm not sure if a similiar save for this version exists somewhere else. I hope you enjoy it!
This is an opposite of the 100% Saves posted by jmoreno, there are no optional unlocks, no optional collectibles - you get to choose exactly what you want in your experience. Want to collect all the clusters yourself? Don't want to pick wall running? The power is yours.
(Sadly it is not possible to disable superpowers in savefiles after getting them, you'll have to use the nosuperpowers cheat or Sandbox++ if you would like to be powerless - Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+Insert).
You may also want IdolNinja's non-flagging Additional Cheats mod, to get certain missable vehicles.
The saves were made with the LEGACY_STABLE branch of Saints Row IV, I'm not sure if they will work in Re-Elected version (I never tried that version as I don't need crossplay). jmoreno's saves seemed to work for me for testing though.
Contents
After Prologue - You can freeroam immediately but no superpowers. Has GAT V DLC enabled.All Homies, No Powers - Like above but with homies unlocked. Made with X360Hazard's save editor
Before Grand Finale - Just before Punch The Shark line of missions, if you still want to grind side missions for the ""good ending"" as Kinzie puts it. (Fun fact, Did you know 6% of Steam players never got that ending?)
After Grand Finale - Story missions complete, time of day control unlocked. Do whatever you want!
BGF and AGF are made with BeautiDuwanger's Bayonetta outfit mod, loading should work but you'll see a woman in undies if you don't have that mod installed.
AGF (No Bayo) included with Madame President outfit if you'd like the character to wear clothes in the save.
Location (Where to put)
For Steam, saves are stored in :C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\xxxxxxxx\206420\remote
where xxxxxxxx is numbers of your Steam ID.
For GOG it should be within _saves of game's folder containing exe.
If you don't already have a save, start a new game, make a save immediately, close it and put the save.
If you already have an autosave file I recommend renaming/backing it up incase it doesn't work.
Having the minimum amount of upgrades was really interesting. Despite not purchasing jump upgrades, all missions were completeable, clearly the designers ensured this playthrough was possible. Thank you Voliton!
Shootouts had a lot of longer superpower recharges, so some battles were painful. But with enough wall cheese still possible.
The game's pace was overall a lot more fun, not constantly switching between the main and side quests. A lot of time was saved from going back to ship just to get a reward and a new set of tasks. I enjoyed the game way more than I expected!
Shootouts had a lot of longer superpower recharges, so some battles were painful. But with enough wall cheese still possible.
The game's pace was overall a lot more fun, not constantly switching between the main and side quests. A lot of time was saved from going back to ship just to get a reward and a new set of tasks. I enjoyed the game way more than I expected!
Truthfully I'm not sure if a similiar save for this version exists somewhere else. I hope you enjoy it!