Saving, Death & Respawn

Progress in Drug Dealer Simulator 2 is stored in a cartel save. You can only save in a safe place, and losing a fight sends you to a medical point, into police arrest or to the work camp depending on who beat you.

Contents: Saving · Losing all your health · Arrest, raids and the work camp · Not found in the game files

Saving

• You can only save in a place with save functionality: hideouts and bars.
• In a safe place you can save manually from the pause menu; the game also autosaves periodically while your character is in a safe spot.
• In multiplayer, all players need to be in a safe place to save.
• The minimum interval between saves while players are in a hideout is 60 seconds.
• The pause menu has Save & Backup. Backups are labelled by in-game day, and from the main menu you can load the latest save or one of the backups.
• The controller makes autosave attempts on a timer and the game mode can block autosaving; the game mode also remembers each player's last position and inventory.
• A "Can't save the game now" message appears if the game refuses a save, and a separate error appears if the file cannot be written to disk.

Losing all your health

• A fall from a height, a snake bite or a beating by thugs can take all your health. You then end up at the nearest medical point.
• A beaten player loses consciousness after 30 seconds. The respawn screen counts down and also offers a "respawn now" option.
• Medical points are shown on the map with a hospital icon, and a medic character with dialogue exists. At a medical point you can pay medical staff to treat your wounds, or just carry on after respawning. The treatment price is set in dialogue scripts, not in the tables.
• In co-op, teammates can revive a downed player.

Arrest, raids and the work camp

• Losing a fight to police ends in arrest and the loss of your carried drugs and weapons.
• Being caught in a militia raid, or losing a fight to militia, sends you to the work camp, and the drugs in a raided hideout are taken.
• See Wanted Level, Militia Raids & Arrests for the full sequence and Prison Work Camp for life in the camp.

Not found in the game files

Source: game DataTables (BalanceFlagsDatabase, strTable_GameHints, strTable_MainMenu, strTable_ShortNotifications). Values are as stored in the current Steam build; bolivars are written with a leading B.

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