[Paul_T]

Just a heads up - thankfully I'm not telling you this because it's happened to me.

I'm reading on another forum that the update to Gears 2 that gives the online ranks, stores your rank within the update - meaning it's stored in the cache.

So guess what will happen if you clear your cache? Yup - you clear your rank.

The cache also stores your progress bars towards achievements in the journal apparently.



Consider yourself warned...

[Crovon]

'Something broken in Gears of War 2 shocker!!'


I wouldnt be in the least bit surprised if this was the case.

[Sniper Ash6]

i have cleared the cache many times and not had the problem

On the technical side of things thats not where the rank and achievement progress will be held, the cache only stores the last 5 (i believe its 5 anyway) game patches so say you play five games you will have the update for all of those but then if you play a sixth it will lob the update out of the cache to hold the sixth game so only hold 2-6 (incl.)
I believe achievement progress and rank is partly to do with your save and partly on your GT

The reason people have been losing their achievements and rank is when you load the game up and you are not signed in it loads all the default values (achievement progress all 0s and the rank at 0/1), then if you are uncareful and sign in it overwrites your actual progress with the default values

[garts76]

i cleared my cache then loaded gears and it signed me out of xbox live and didnt give me the option to update i didnt think nowt of it and went straight to multiplayer and it reset my rank back to 1 from 52 so i asume its because i didnt do the update.EPIC SUCK ASS.

[Shin Akuma]

I sent mine to get repaired so I guess I can kiss my rank 54 goodbye then hein.

[Ico.]

I'd hate to have to rank up again... I've still not made it past 30 but then I don't play as much as I used to!

[Shin Akuma]

I have recieved my repaired xbox and thanks God ranks are safe.

[MChatterley]

I lost my rank and the achievement counters, thankfully I was only rank 5 Found out last night though that my Insane save still functions and lets me play so I dont have to play the damn story twice now