Saving and persistence

Freedom Fighters is a semi-persistent scenario, which means that overall game progress is saved, but not the exact state of the world. Global save is performed periodically every 10 minutes to protect players from losing progress due to a fatal crash, and on every server exit (or closing the game in single player). In multiplayer, the player profile is saved on player disconnect.

Character

Your character position and inventory is fully saved. On return you will spawn at the same location you have exited, so make sure to exit the game while in a safe location!

If your character dies, their body will be persisted after you disconnect or exit, enabling you to return to it. But if you lose your next character, the previous body will be removed - only the last body is preserved.

Your AI subordinates are saved with your character. In multiplayer they will join and leave the server with you.

Enemies

Specific enemy characters are not saved, so if you exit the game while surrounded by enemies, they will be gone after you load the game. Garrison compositions are however saved, which means if you attack a place of interest and eliminate a single enemy, that specific character will not automatically reappear. If you clear a location, but do not capture it, it will remain empty after the load - of course, unless enemy reinforcements arrive!

This means that every fight counts and you can effectively clear garrisons by war of attrition, small chunks at a time.

Vehicles

Vehicles found in the world are not persistent by default - regardless whether you capture them on the go, or hijack from a parking spot. To preserve a vehicle during save/load, you have to assign it to a parking spot in a garage or a helipad at a controlled operating base.

Vehicles that are parked in camps and operating bases are persisted even if they are not assigned to a parking spot.

If you abandon a vehicle in the world and get sufficiently far away, it may be gone once you get back! Assigning the vehicle to a parking spot also prevents this. Additionally, you will be able to recover the vehicle from far away.

Claiming ownership of a vehicle does not affect its persistence.