A glitch (?) in MW2's multiplayer

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So this afternoon I got home and started up Modern Warfare 2. After a number of very successful rounds where I maxed out Sleight of Hand, got two headshots with one bullet, and detonated an EMP for the first time, I'd collected a number of exciting titles, emblems and had leveled myself to 46.

So, with about 3 hours of gameplay under my belt for the day, I decided to quit the multiplayer and watch a movie.

Afterwards, in the evening, I was hankering for more Modern Warfare, so I booted up my 360 and put MW2 back in. My first suprise came when I noticed my rank was 45 again. My second surprise came when I saw I still had about 70 more kills until I'd maxed out Sleight of Hand. My third surprise came when I noticed that the title I'd gotten for headshotting two players with one bullet was locked again. My fourth surprise was when I saw that my total playtime was back to 21 hours - whereas it was about 24 when I'd left it earlier in the afternoon.

In short, MW2 forgot that I'd been playing earlier this afternoon, and regressed my progression to where it was yesterday.

I'm left wondering how this has happened, and am incredibly frustrated by it. I know I'll eventually level up beyond rank 46, but what I'm more pissed at is how I've lost 3 hours to MW2 and have nothing to show for it.

Has this happened to you, or do you know of this already?

 

[El Poncho]

Not that i've noticed, that sucks though, also I didn't think you could get any achievement on the multiplayer, although I didn't check I was just told and believed them.

 

[Davey Woo]

Happened to me in CoD4.
Did you leave the last game too early? It often doesn't save things like ranking up and unlocking new attachments until you start another game.

 

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Not that i've noticed, that sucks though, also I didn't think you could get any achievement on the multiplayer, although I didn't check I was just told and believed them.

Nah, you don't get achievments on the multiplayer, but there's a whole heap of things to unlock; titles and emblems are just things that sit next to your name in the Killcam or in the lobby, but I just feel cheated because I got a total beast that I was going to use for bragging rights, but now there's no way to prove I ever had it.

Like I said, it's like I wasted my afternoon.

 

[Distorted Stu]

Happened to me when i ranked up. I got to level 54, looks at the challenges and then went back tot he homescreen and i was 53.

 

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Happened to me in CoD4.
Did you leave the last game too early? It often doesn't save things like ranking up and unlocking new attachments until you start another game.

I'm pretty sure I spent maybe 10 minutes after my last match just looking through all the stuff I'd unlocked - but even so, I'd have expected the multiplayer to quick-save it or something.

But still, I don't see why I should loose 3 hours of progress if it saves before the next game, did it just delete all your progress like that when that happened to you?

 

[El Poncho]

Not that i've noticed, that sucks though, also I didn't think you could get any achievement on the multiplayer, although I didn't check I was just told and believed them.

Nah, you don't get achievments on the multiplayer, but there's a whole heap of things to unlock; titles and emblems are just things that sit next to your name in the Killcam or in the lobby, but I just feel cheated because I got a total beast that I was going to use for bragging rights, but now there's no way to prove I ever had it.

Like I said, it's like I wasted my afternoon.

I use the Omnipotence title for bragging rights which is something like kill everyone in the other team without dieing, none of my friends have it so i'm keeping it

 

[dmase]

That happens to me when my Internet blips or signs out on my ps3 for a few seconds it lets me keep playing but i end up losing all the experience and stuff i gained... that's usually one game but three whole hours... wow.

 

[Davey Woo]

I'm pretty sure I spent maybe 10 minutes after my last match just looking through all the stuff I'd unlocked - but even so, I'd have expected the multiplayer to quick-save it or something.

But still, I don't see why I should loose 3 hours of progress if it saves before the next game, did it just delete all your progress like that when that happened to you?

Yea I think you have to finish another game after that.
It was a glitch in CoD4, if you prestiged, as long as you didn't finish the next game, it wouldn't save the fact that you'd prestiged.
I think that's what's happened with you, it shouldn't happen, but it does occasionally.

 

[plastic_window]

I use the Omnipotence title for bragging rights which is something like kill everyone in the other team without dieing, none of my friends have it so i'm keeping it

I don't think I've actually ever seen that one before. Sounds awesome, though.

I was really annoyed for a while because I didn't have any unique titles or anything, but my friends had awesome ones like Skeet Shooter which I have no idea how to get. Wierdly, I have that one now, anyway...

The one I use is Cloak and Dagger - I've no idea exactly how I got it, but the match I got it from involved maybe 10 knife kills in total, 5 of which at least were in a streak.

Besides, the picture is a magic wand and a bunny in a top hat. I've never seen anything quite as awesome as that yet.

 

[plastic_window]

Yea I think you have to finish another game after that.
It was a glitch in CoD4, if you prestiged, as long as you didn't finish the next game, it wouldn't save the fact that you'd prestiged.
I think that's what's happened with you, it shouldn't happen, but it does occasionally.

Argh. That sucks. Well, at least that answers my question

 

[Mr.Black]

Pretty sure that's just a console thing.

Anyways, I found a glitch last night in a FFA on Terminal. This one guy was using a Javelin and that's it, and every time he died, his Javelin would blow up. From what I gathered from killcams he took the pin off a regular grenade then quickly switched to his Javelin, so the Javelin acted as a live grenade, but didn't have a timer and only went off when he died.

Pretty hilarious.