Weapon Progression Unlocks (NOT XP-Unlocks) Not working (Kills not counting)

Product: Battlefield 2042
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
AMD or Nvidia Model Number RTX2080TI
Enter RAM memory size in GB 64GB
Are you using any software with an overlay? No
Which part of the game is the issue happening in? Multiplayer
Which part of the mode? ConquestSmall
Please select your region North America
On which server did this happen? Solo/Co-Op
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) 12.11.21 19:00 CST
Summarize your bug Weapon unlocks based on achieving a number of kills with a weapon are not working in Solo/Co-op All Out Warfare
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? 1) Play Solo/Co-Op All Out Warfare 2) Go to your loadout screen and edit the attachments for your weapon, find something that requires 30+ kills to unlock and take note of how many kills it currently has 3) Kill any number of enemies 4) Go back to the loadout screen, and the number of kills has not changed at all
What happens when the bug occurs? Kills are not accumulating to allow progression towards weapon / vehicle mastery, and therefore not allowing attachment / equipment unlocks
What should be happening instead? Kills should be accumulating allowing mastery and unlocks

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This issue is not about XP-based unlocks, it is purely about cumulative KILL COUNT based unlocks.

This was posted about last friday, but the 600+ comment thread was deleted without any comment from EA other than a copy/paste of a tweet about XP being disabled on Custom Portal Experiences. Based on the *only* response that an EA CM has provided, both here and on twitter, I am lead to believe that it's possible the temporary fix for the Portal XP Farming of turning off XP in Custom Portal Experiences and reducing XP gains of Solo/Co-Op All Out Warfare is somehow also affecting the kill tracking for mastery unlocks on weapons / vehicles. If it is related, however, it's very much a "known issue" to the EA team at this point, and it's not even being tracked anywhere official, so the community is unaware of it.

@EA_Atic: if you could please shed some light on this and just let us know if it's being looked into, that would really help a significant portion of the customer base. The thread got excessively toxic, but a cursory review of the evolution of the comments would have shown that that was due to spending a week with hundreds of "I have the same issue" and +XP votes that ultimately lead to no responses from the team at EA.

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karms-USMC
4 years ago
Something has been changed on the server side and this issue is now resolved.
Want to thank the back end devs for their work on this, and ... while the patience of the CM team for not completely losing their mind due to the toxicity of some of the posts about this is to be lauded, the complete lack of communication on this issue for over a week is shameful. I recognize it's a hard job, but your job is managing the community, and you dropped the ball. Please do better, the game's success depends on it.

25 Replies

karms-USMC
4 years ago
Correction: The previous bug report regarding this issue was not deleted. It was moved. To general discussions.

@EA_Atic I think there might be a bit of confusion regarding the often copy/pasted "XP awards" tweet. There's two separate currencies when it comes to unlocks and awards, XP and kills. The tweet talks exclusively about XP, which is why that post has gotten the attention that it has. No one, anywhere, has officially acknowledged the issue with kill tracking. Is that because officially the two are related, and that's why there's nothing to say on the topic that wasn't already said in the tweet?
brrap66
4 years ago
@karms-USMC I’m having the same issue on Xbox series x
rekoj1806
4 years ago
@karms-USMC the likely reason why this is not being addressed is because they do not want bots used to farm the unlocks/mastery badges either. The reason the mastery badges are so high for kill counts is so that when you achieve them it is suppose to represent dedication and skill, not killing bots. You can unlock the first 20 kills of attachments for every weapon in bots still so i would say it’s completely intentional.
Scarex_666
4 years ago
@rekoj1806 Then why not split progression for pve and pvp? There are people who don't even touch pvp ad did buy the game because they advertised "you can unlock everything on every mode o matter how you play" I did jump in pvp because of the disable, but hated it. Hovercraft, dozer with is stupid shield that runs over you and the pro players who kill you like it's nothing. Two matches of constant death and 1 or 2 kills... That is no fun for me
rekoj1806
4 years ago
@Scarex_666 It will come back but just like the xp exploiting, they are trying to find a way to remove the exploitability of the modes.. probably end up like 4 kills = 1 kill progress but it will take a little to do all the coding and such before they put it back. It is annoying fighting sweaty players but it also is an issue that needs to be addressed
Scarex_666
4 years ago
@rekoj1806 But why is there complte silence about the subject? They only told the players that xp was reduced intil they find a solucion. Nothing about the kill count for mastery progression
Scarex_666
4 years ago
@rekoj1806 With the complete silince the shoot themself in the foot. Did you see the bad revieuws on steam
rekoj1806
4 years ago
@Scarex_666 Yes they are not doing themselves a service with the lack of detail but keeping in mind that the level of communication right now is far better than previous games so they’re getting better. Regarding the reviews there’s too many people giving the game a 0 because of things that are not big enough for that score. The games a 5/6 out of 10 more so as it has a strong foundation and on some fronts is highly impressive (visuals in particular). It needs a lot of work but if they put it in it’ll be as good as the bf4 (which was absolutely hated by everyone for the first year).

I agree with the view that it should have been ready at release but people mouthing off at developers rather than giving calm constructive criticism and feedback will only make them communicate less (who wants to be answering someone’s questions when they’re being screaming at and abused).

While there’s plenty of things I want to see in the future for the game, I also know it will never come if EA think the game is not worth the resources (Battlefront 2 being a good example due to the hate it got at launch, followed by the withdrawal of funding and support shortly after the issues were fixed)
finiteworm66
4 years ago
@rekoj1806 Bro we did for a whole week and got nothing but copy and paste in return most of us for that 1 week spent 90 to 119 for the game and answers nor even a mention of were all gonna get mad
rekoj1806
4 years ago
@finiteworm66 Again, they could have handled it better by just clarifying that it was for progression too and that it was being exploited as well. At the same time the original message was very clear that it was a temporary solution and that it would return when fixed. I assumed like many others that this related to both xp and progression straight away, as they were both removed. I imagine the team thought it was quite clear in that regard too so of course they won’t respond with more because it just seems like a bunch of people didn’t see/read their original message.

If there was a completely civilised discussion with no attacks on the devs of anything toxic, then maybe they would have clarified it, but there’s so much hatred in these forums right now that I’m surprised they haven’t just closed off communication.

Since this isn’t a bug and this is not the discussion forum, this is my last message.