[FEATURE REQUEST] Save State by Hotkeys

[Blackgrowl]

Hello. I would like to request an ability to save states as hotkeys.

I believe this can be simply made by adding it into Hotkeys category, perhaps making it into its own tab as well to keep it tidy.

Since Ares uses Slots from 1 to 9, allow as much then.

You can name them all as such:
Save State to Slot X
Load State to Slot X

By default (I don't think this matters, hotkeys are always set by user), they're set from F1 to F8 and the "Load States" require Shift to be hold.

I also hope that Shift can be made non-strict, meaning...I can hold Left OR Right Shift, not exclusively Left Shift.

[remutro]

There are currently two hotkeys that can be set to load and save state, but only from the currently selected slot (there are also undo/redo options if you mess up and revert before other changes to state). But there currently aren't hotkeys to scroll or select save state slot which I agree would be useful. We likely wouldn't add 18 new hotkeys though, one for each. I say 18 hotkeys as we don't currently have the ability to be additive (so you can't hold one key and press another), so it may make more sense to add two keys to go forward/backward through save state slots. But you would only see this in the status bar using windowed mode as no overlays are currently implemented right now for full screen mode.

[FitzRoyX]

I personally think that the concept of switching between an "active slot" with more keys is bad. All it does is let you have more slots than you have F keys, but at the expense of being way slower and more error prone. Saving should just be F1, F2, F3, F4 and loading should be F5, F6, F7, F8.

[remutro]

Actually we have four hotkeys for this that can be defined to manage them in Settings > Hotkeys. Two for incrementing/decrementing the save slot, and two to load or save from the current slot. And if you use the psuedo-fullscreen mode (also a hotkey, and also only available in the latest nightly build right now), then you basically get a full screen with the status bar at the bottom so you will be able to see what save slot you are selecting and if you save or load. This seems like the best way to handle this without having the need for too many buttons, or not having enough buttons to cover all options.