I'm stunned they didn't even mention it in the patch note. That's EA for you.
wish me luck folks. heading down the steam refund rabbit hole even though I have 19 hours of not getting anywhere logged in game. I'll let y'all know how it goes.
"EA/Dice removed the functionality from the game that I paid for. The removed progression from solo/coop gameplay and do not plan to restore that functionality prior to the games launch. since I paid for the Gold edition to gain access to that functionality prior to launch and have not been able to use that functionality at all I would like a refund. I understand that my playtime is well over the normal window for granting refunds however EA has created extenuating circumstances that I feel warrant some extra leeway. Thank you for your consideration."
regardless you paid at least 30 dollars extra to get something they took away and are not going to put back in until nearly the full release date. doesn't really matter when/if they put it back in you still got screwed out of every penny you paid extra to get in early.
We have to keep hope, I'd still play the game cause of the amount of wait. When I first got on the game (only had 3 hours of sleep that day cause too excited) I sat there and grinded the living out of my soul, I've complete the M5A3 only in Coop on the first day, nearly completed the DM7 the next morning, when I noticed my stuff wasn't tracking anymore, I restarted the game once, played again, quickly started to realize what was happening, I was so sad, yet I kept playing cause I know one day, they will reenable it, they said the XP measures where temporary, yet I don't know if those issues can be said for progression. Only time will tell. We must all keep hope, and have the greatest patience ever on this topic.
and in case anyone needs some info to stand their ground on their rightful expectations this sentence is on their official "Battlefield briefing: get ready for launch" posted to steam on Nov. 10th
"All experience you earned in Battlefield™ 2042 is universal and shared across all its modes, which means you’ll be leveling up and unlocking new weapons, gadgets, and cosmetics no matter which mode you’re playing."
At the moment the best we can do is unlock all the guns in their stock form, but I suppose you can still do that if you want to while we wait for an answer.
For me I just can't find interest in it to play more than half a round until they fix it.
Attachments, Mastery and everything.
update: steam approved my refund even though I have 19 hours on record. if they ever fix solo/coop i can pay the normal price to get the game instead of paying the 30 extra just to see how broken it was early.
I’m really wondering if when they flipped the switch to turn off all stuff for portal mode in turn it was also the same switch for solo and co-op. Maybe they can’t change it individually but have to do it all together? Honestly we will find out when they enable xp for portal, hopefully sometimes this upcoming week
hella disappointed in this dumpster fest...
no progression...lost items.....items being disabled for days...no working loadouts.....glitchglitchglitch's for days....LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG, when im at 17 ms.... rubber banding........did i mention rubber banding??? more rubberbanding......hmmmm.....rubberbanding........... LLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG....
good god...this is alpha ffs....we paid the damn devs to create a game not actually release a working game..........gj me...gj me.
i thought i would have learnt to stop pre jerking on games .......this is it for me...im done with pre ordering..and im done with this damn game
@gbullock32already tried, but since i played the hell out of it the first day before the patch, and after the patch didn't realize what's going on, i already had quite some time on my counter, now stupid me played 1 round every day to see if something changed so just got too much playtime... but apart from 2 very stubborn ones - i at least managed to talk some friends out of buying in the first place, at least till it's not such a mess anymore, and once it's cheaper...
For now yes - It's even false advertising... but if they fix it, then at very least it's not worth whatever money was paid to play it early.
thanks anyway thou, i'll surely help some other poor folks
They shouldn't even need to patch this issue that we are all having with Solo/Co-op. I believe it's a server side change so it should be easy for them to reinstate the experience for AoW Solo/Co-op and keep it turned off for Portal, but it is EA/DICE and they seem to struggle with simple tasks...
AngryJoe is beside himself and the rest of us should continue to keep up the pressure on EA/DICE for their incompetence. This is an amazing franchise and they need to quit f**king over their consumers with incomplete bullsh**.
If the progression doesn't come back by the time portal has its xp and such back I'm pretty much done with this game, Ea be like hey we got this solo mode so you can play alone or with friends and still progress... Sike. i honestly don't understand why they removed it, it was actually part of the original game i can understand if it didnt have progression from the start but with how they said you could do it and how you could do it at launch it doesn't make sense. also considering this hasn't been taken down if its not a bug might mean something. or it means they cant take it down
Honestly, I just want an answer at this point from someone, and no copy/paste, automated BS either.
Devs, Managers, Reps, just communicate with your fed-up consumers already!!! We want to hear an actual response, and get some real answers for once!
Always been a fan of popping into Red Orchestra 2, BF2, Insurgency, whatever and playing against bots. When I noticed 2042 was gonna have that, I was enticed, and bought it specifically to play against bots in solo/co-op. I realise a whole bunch of people have been ragging on solo players for buying a multiplayer game to fight bots, but the game has been advertised from the beginning as a personalised experience. Play your way, and you'll play the same as everyone else. Then it [progression] gets disabled because a totally unrelated group abuses it, and not one soul but the EA Help people on Twitter throwing out hollow responses, actually respond to the issue in some kind of public address. The fact that so much of their direct communication have been diligent towards fixing server issues is remarkable and worth appreciation, but Christ, all we need is an answer as to what's going on. Hope they at least answer before the launch of the game.
Woke up yet to another disappointment EA still doesn't acknowledge the fact this is an issue. The update that released today didn't fix it. When will EA actually start to listen to it's people, We bought the game at a higher price cause we trusted you. yet you leave us to die in a place of ignorance and misconduct. I'd say this is typical EA, yet I've never seen anything like this. Time to get on the game and do like 1-5 Coop/Solos (which won't even give me the First Match Of The Day XP) and wonder why they haven't said anything about this issue. I still keep hope for this topic, we must not stop posting, no matter how desperate the situation looks.
