I Have the Retaliation Glitch Again *Update* Fixed by Mgamerz

Start offline. Tab out of the game after main menu shows and enable online mode. Should be able to select MP at that point.

It's done that to me for so long I don't even bother trying to start the game in online mode any more.

Right, and the last time I played (no glitch) I tripped a bunch of challenges in one night.  One of which is Headshots One...  Combat Mastery takes forever to redo to get back to HS 1.


Yeah I know about the work around.  It is annoying.  Sadly the various DLC check "mods" don't help this problem.

The challenge part I have heard about, what do you mean by friends loading?

One of the old theories had to do with closing the game (or it crashing) when you had completed a challenge.  This certainly did not happen to me the last session that worked.  However the one notable thing was that the host did drop her internet connection in one game, and that forced a drawn out migration (which ended up on me, with one other not able to connect).  I don't really know how they keep track of challenges, I wouldn't have thought the host would matter for these.

Retaliation added challenges. The scroll bar on the title screen shows accomplishments and challenges your friends did. The game loads your whole friends list and their challenges to display the info for that ticker. When offline, that ticker doesn't load. When going online by pressing MP, that ticker doesn't load as it kicks right into MP. Some data being parsed crashes the game which is why going offline works as it never reads. Eventually the server data is updated and works again.

YMMV as I may have just got lucky. When I had the issue, I removed the dlc and played some mp then reinstalled the dlc and things worked.

I have it for the second time for the past 8 months, so have to start offline. Otherwise, no problem. First time, it fixed itself after about two weeks. Now, nothing seems to work. I have not resorted to cleaning the friend list though which might very well be the case.

It was around a month or so for me the last couple times I got it IIRC.  But 2014 was the most recent time for me.

remember when i used to have it all the time a few years ago ?
Well it completely disappeared. Been almost a year now .
i dismiss the fact i have no friends accomplishing anything anymore.

Take 800mg ibuprofen and drink lots water.
Military cure all

Seems odd we all have it atm

It unfixed itself.

Just got this bug myself last Saturday or late Friday. Didn't know what it was at first, tried Origin Repair, Origin reinstall, windows rollback, and was almost about to reinstall windows before deciding to google title screen crash. Then it hit me, the Retaliation glitch, of course. It was a good run avoiding this bug for about 3000 hours across various platforms.

If what MGamerz here says is true (which seems legit), then think docsteely have me this bug (no hard feelings) since he's the only one in title screen feed these days. Instead of removing him briefly from FL, thinking if docsteely can recall what challenges he completed late Friday and Saturday, and that if he gets them done again...