Q: I lost my Achievement progress and or MP Level– For some reason; I’ve lost any progress I made toward achievements/rank. What happened?

A: I’ve seen people reporting this problem. (Even after TU4) A couple of notes for everyone playing Gears of War 2:

Please do not shut down your console or launch the Dash in the middle of a game. Quit to the main menu. All save data is stored in the profile, and quitting prematurely can corrupt the Gears 2 data in the profile and therefore effectively reset it. There are several times that a game saves a significant amount of data. This happens after you cancel matchmaking (”Updating: Network settings are being updated”) and when you hit a checkpoint in the campaign “Saving: Please do not shut down your console”). But there are also several quick saves that happen in SP and MP, such as when you pick up a collectable or earn progress towards an achievement. Quitting out or shutting off the console prematurely is bad. The safest way to exit Gears of War is to quit to the main menu first. Also try to avoid playing offline because that seems to affect the rank as well. Do not take your profile to play on someone else’s Xbox that’s does not have TU3 or later.

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