So I restarted this and was playing along. Doing the mission where you have to recover the archives (in the first set). I'm in the second part, I saved the game in there and accidentally got my main character SMG'd after killing the target. SO i reloaded, took out several guys and was jsut about to move in on the target. I thought "Why not save?". So I quickly saved my game, 2 seconds later it gives me the message saying objective failed, he made it to the exit. I reload, goto combat time. No dice, 1 turn and objective failed. I'm nowhere near him.

What a joke. I normally alternate my saves, but for some reason didn't feel the need this time so I have to play the entire mission over again.

Now that is harsh. I've saved and immediately found myself in deep shit before, but nothing that bad.

I've done that playing half-life before. It sucks big time! You can't even alternate saves there. I was trying to hit the quick load key and I hit the quick save one by mistake. Ouch.

Yeah I played it over again last night. This time I alternated saves. I tell you, I've never had so many guns jam and break. For only being like the 3rd mission Gator had the machine-gun (that first one you find, the one that only has long burst) it jammed 3 times and then finally broke. I'd given Nellie the silenced stein you find in the snitch mission (only his second mission of using it, I did 1 random mission) and it jammed twice and broke.