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I had progression loss issues, since I bought the game. A few weeks back I stopped playing because of the issue, but I saw the new Patch Notes and I thought it might be fixed now, but to make it short: it is not fixed.
Problem description:
The game loses all progression made for the PvE missions during a play session, meaning from when you log in from the Main Menu until you close the game or go back to the Main Menu.
Reproduction steps:
I have not been able to reproduce this progression loss in anyway. It happens completely randomly. Sometimes after just one mission played sometimes after 4 missions played. Some of the missions it happened on I played with a friend who was on PS5 and all their progression was still intact. The only thing that is consistent is, when you can log back into the game and you have no progression loss then you will keep the progression until that point for sure.
Things I noticed:
Steam Cloud gives me sometimes errors when I close the game, that there is a synchronization error. Achievements on Steam unlock normally and stay unlocked even when a progression loss is happening, but it seems the hours played on steam are affected by the progression loss. My steam shows roughly 45 hrs. of gameplay, but I believe I should have at least 60 hrs. and this also makes sense, because the amount of progression, counted in hours, I have lost total up to about 15 hrs. (I played the campaign for 10 hrs., which means I have lost about 30% of my PvE Progression.)
My guess what is happening:
Backing to the Main Menu can trigger the progression loss, you do not have to close the game completely, so my guess is that the loss of progression happens on SM 2 server side. I log into the server and when I log off and go to the Main Menu the Server resets my save state to the moment I logged in, and such the progression is lost. How this is possible is beyond me though, the game seems to connect to the server between missions, so there should be instances of data with a time stamp that clearly are a later version of the earlier save state and it still overrides them with the earlier one when you log off. The moment I close the game Steam notices a discrepancy in hours played between the save state and Steam's hours counted and notifies me about it.
My complaint:
Frankly speaking I have no idea how such a big bug can still be in the game so long after launch. It has been reported several times on older versions of the game and is still persisting. A bug of a scale that I loose about 30% of my hours played is ridiculous to say the least. I only kept on playing because I like the game so much. Please make sure this bug gets fixed, I really love this game.