Lego 2K Drive already will delete your save data if you go offline-Michael Beckwith-Entertainment – Metro

Lego 2K Drive – everything is not awesome (pic: 2K)

Just a couple days ahead of launch and Lego 2K Drive players are learning that a sudden Internet disconnection can wipe hours of progress.

Although it’s technically not out until this Friday, May 19, anyone who bought Lego 2K Drive’s Awesome or Awesome Rivals Edition has already begun playing it via early access.

Unfortunately for 2K, word of mouth is alerting prospective players to a rather nasty oversight; one that serves as another reminder why always online games are a terrible idea.

Apparently, should you ever disconnect from the internet while playing the game, intentionally or otherwise, you risk losing any and all save data.

Games journalist Chris Scullion, in a series of now deleted tweets, says he lost roughly 10 hours’ worth of progress after putting his PlayStation 5 in rest mode.

Whereas most online games alert you if you’ve been disconnected from their servers, Lego 2K Drive apparently doesn’t do that. So, after racking up 10 hours of playtime over the course of multiple sessions (with him putting the console on rest mode every time in-between), Scullion decided to try and spend some of the in-game currency he accrued.

‘I quit back to the main menu for the first time since starting and at the bottom it said ‘2K Offline’, and the shop was greyed out,’ he writes.

Realising it was because he resumed from rest mode, Scullion reconnected to the servers, but the last time the game had saved was when he first put the console on rest mode… after just two races.

Lego 2K Drive – not the greatest of first impressions (pic: Lego)

‘Without any warning, or any prompt, my game progress rolled back from 65% to 1%,’ he continues. ‘What’s more, there’s no real way around this, because you have to connect to the server to use the shop, or the season pass stuff, meaning if you’ve been playing offline without realising there’ll come a point where you basically have to roll back your save.’

Scullion’s not the only one to have been affected. At least two others have shared similar stories over on the Lego 2K Drive subreddit.

‘I was playing for about three hours, quit back to the menu, and saw I wasn’t connected to the internet in game (my system was connected, just not the game),’ writes Jomahawk2694.

‘When I told it to reconnect, all my progress was gone, and I was back to level 1 with less than 250 in-game dollars instead of the 4K I had earned.’

Another user, ja682, can only bemoan that the same thing happened to them, with no real solution other than just starting over.

Even if this has only impacted a small number of players it’s still a problem 2K needs to address. Especially since it can potentially affect anyone.

2K has not issued any sort of comment on the matter so it remains to be seen if this is something the publisher will alert players off ahead of Lego 2K Drive’s launch.

Lego 2K Drive launches for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC on Friday, May 19.

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