after it happened to me in at least one Solo Challenge in the 'Team Standouts: Serie 3' promo yesterday, I took notes, how often the bug happens to me in this promo.
yesterday, I had the bug twice (one after 6 games in a row (or earlier), and one after 5 games). today, I did not face the bug while playing about 20 solo challenges.
in detail:
yesterday, I played the first Solo Challenges in a row (i.e. always started the next challenge immediately after completing the previous one without going back to the menu) and realised the bug in the Solo against the Chargers. so, at least the 8th challenge was affected.
after completing this challenge, I went back to the menu and started the Solo against the Chiefs from there. Abilities and x-factors were there for 5 Solos, but they were gone in the 6th against the Falcons.
Today, I started with the Solo against the 49ers and completed 13 challenges in a row (the last one was against the Saints). in all these challenges abilities and x-factors were there. I also tried to repeat a challenge (after completing it) to test whether repeating the challenge triggers the bug. it did not.
after that I repeated the solo against the 49ers and went back to the menu, tried to sell some items from the item binder.
in my next 2 games (against Seahawks and Steelers), the bug did not occur either. it also did not occur in the remaining 3 challenges which I played after checking my lineup
I also took notes while playing the Zero Chill challenges released on Dec. 14th.
I played challenges in 6 'series' (i.e. the first game from each series was started from the menu 'Challenges' while I started the next challenges using the option 'play next challenge' directly after finishing the previous challenge) and the bug occured in 3 of them:
summarising: the bug occured in 3 out of the 6 series I played to complete the first two sets of Zero Chill Solo Challenges. In total, I had 4 games without x-factors nor abilities. if I did not stop the series as soon as the bug appeared for the first time (i.e. going back to the menu and newly loading into the challenges) I would have had 4-5 Solos with x-factors and abilities and 14-15 Solos without x-factors/abilities (incl. the repetitions of a few Solos to collect all available bonus stars. the '4-5' results from the fact that I cannot exactly remember whether the bug was already there in the very first Solo).
frankly, the bug simply occurs far too often!
UPDATE: in the 3rd Zero Chill solos series ('Who's Sandersclaws?') the bug did not occur.
for the MCS 'Week 6 AFC North' Challenges the bug occured in the second game (against the Ravens). after going back to the menu and starting the 3rd challenge (against the Browns) , x-factors and abilities were back again.
summary: bug occured in one of four Solos
next update:
for me 2 times today. 1st in the i think 5th game from the latest zero chill solos and 2nd in the 4th game of the weekly 50. and still no reply from @EA that they even noticed this issue...
