SkinnyBin Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Hello, I read a few posts myself about backing up your Gears data and kinda thought, "Na, that won't happen to me". Well it did! My game crashed yesterday and upon reloading, I was reset to rank 1 and lost ALL my medals, ribbons and unlocks. I was weeks a away from seriously, this is all I had left: Explosives: 4343/6000 Skunker: 1158/2500 Lancer: 2266/6000 Hammerburst: 4125/6000 Gnasher: 2872/6000 CTL: 1249/3000 KOTH: 1175/3000 Warzone: 2921/3000 TDM: 1013/3000 Wingman: 1505/3000 Hard Target: 2024/3000 Shock Trooper: 1797/3000 Horder: 1107/2000 Architect: 229/300 Big money: 2.84/5mil I had played over 700 hours, in just over 2 months, which included a lot of idle boosting. All that has been lost! Basically, your stats are stored on the servers, but the main file, the file the servers actually make a copy of is stored locally on your xbox, called "Player Data". If your game crashes and you have NOT backed up your data, you can delete the "player data" file from your hard drive, and then when you click start on the main menu, it will load a copy of your most recent server back up. After my crash, when I reloaded and pressed start on the menu, I effectively told the servers to make a copy of my corrupted "player data" which had no ranks, medals, ribbons etc. This is the point of no return, as I found out yesterday. Here's a detailed thread on how to back up your data: http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/839290-BACKUP-YOUR-DATA-NOW!!!-Worried-about-getting-rank-reset-Backup-your-data!!!! For anyone who's interested, I've decided that Seriously 3.0 and Epic's shit system will not beat me, so I have started the long slog of getting this achievement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PreludeToHatred Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Damn man, sorry again. You gonna use the Cloud device to back your stuff up from now on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgEnT STARZz Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Damn man, sorry again. You gonna use the Cloud device to back your stuff up from now on? How do you do that? or is it be being lazy and its on the link provided Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinnyBin Posted December 15, 2011 Author Share Posted December 15, 2011 Damn man, sorry again. You gonna use the Cloud device to back your stuff up from now on? Na Im using a USB. If you use cloud and your connection drops while you are backing it up then you lose it, a guy did it yesterday, it seems to risky for me. Every night now I'm going to create a back up file. I think it's shocking that a company as big as EPIC can let this happen tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xTGMx INF3RNO Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 surely all that is stored on epic's's server? Rank and medals wont be on hdd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinnyBin Posted December 15, 2011 Author Share Posted December 15, 2011 surely all that is stored on epic's's server? Rank and medals wont be on hdd. They are. It's only a small file, just has stats required on it. The servers just make a back up of that file. Therefore, if you hdd file gets wiped, if you connect and let the servers back it up, then it overwrite your old file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigiLuigi Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 surely all that is stored on epic's's server? Rank and medals wont be on hdd.Then how would the game know what rank you are if you play offline? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xTGMx INF3RNO Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I wont count the offline. But e.g Im level 50 im playing at my house then i go to my mates house and recover my tag when i go on gears i will be level 50 without my save. So your stats being wiped looks like and epic fail ( see what i did there ) rather than HDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinnyBin Posted December 15, 2011 Author Share Posted December 15, 2011 I wont count the offline. But e.g Im level 50 im playing at my house then i go to my mates house and recover my tag when i go on gears i will be level 50 without my save. So your stats being wiped looks like and epic fail ( see what i did there ) rather than HDD. Nah when you recover the gamertag, as you sign in on the menu, the game connects to the epic server, and downloads the "player data" file onto the local hard drive. When you carry on the playing that file is saved locally, but is also backed up to the server at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xTGMx INF3RNO Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Yeah. What im saying is it should have at least your rank still saved. There server has been overwritten or something which damn i am gutted for you!. This happened to me with halo twice! But i kept everything even my campaign data because its all on a server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigiLuigi Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 It's stored both locally and on the servers. When you start up gears, it updates whichever one isn't up to date. The corrupted data overwrites your stats. I'm guessing the local data is the faulty one, but that's not the issue here. If you have a backup, you should be able to use it to overwrite the corrupted data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xTGMx INF3RNO Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 It should work the other way around really. That sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blerbman Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 It blows my mind that Epic allows this to happen. The fact that they haven't said anything about it shows how much they don't care about it. They probably think it'll affect their precious sales so they've shut up about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeberus Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Do you guys know how to be able to choose memory devices on the starting screen? It seems to just load my from Harddrive as a default without ever having to choose from any other devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abusive Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 OMG that sucks! i hope you only played for a fraction of that 700 hrs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PreludeToHatred Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Do you guys know how to be able to choose memory devices on the starting screen? It seems to just load my from Harddrive as a default without ever having to choose from any other devices. It only does this if you have 1 storage device, it'll ask you to save on that (usually your HDD) the first time then remember it so it'll automatically save to it every time. Now if you activate Cloud or add a USB Stick at the dashboard, then boot up the game, after you press start at the main start menu the prompt will pop up asking which device you want to save it to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeberus Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 It only does this if you have 1 storage device, it'll ask you to save on that (usually your HDD) the first time then remember it so it'll automatically save to it every time. Now if you activate Cloud or add a USB Stick at the dashboard, then boot up the game, after you press start at the main start menu the prompt will pop up asking which device you want to save it to. Thanks so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinnyBin Posted December 17, 2011 Author Share Posted December 17, 2011 OMG that sucks! i hope you only played for a fraction of that 700 hrs. I wish. I estimate that I put easily 350-400 hours in of that myself! I'm going for it again though, currently sitting on 15% and I'm not going to let the reset stop me. I wrote this thread though to make everyone aware that this could happen to you at any point, so please, please back up your data! It only takes 2 mins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevander Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I shouldn't have to backup data that should be stored on EPIC's servers completely. Total BS imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgorsi Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 can you back up data on the same hardrive?? Also I have my current save on my 250gb hdd, can i back it up on the 4gb that xbox comes in?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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