Wifi loss equals Item loss?

Support and Bug Reports
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Device: Xbox One

Hello,

I noticed a very frustrating and critical bugg.

I tried to play GZ today in offline mode since the Wifi in DE is useless today.

When the Game loaded my DLC Items were nowhere to be found and Weapons like the new Shotgun disappeared from my Storage and Player inventory.

I then restarted my game with online functions and looked again…

My DLC items in the Box reappeared.
The ones in the player inventory did not.
Now the Game ate my augmented DLC Weapons in my inventory (Golden)

To say I am beyond pissed is an understatement.
(sorry for my language but I think you can feel for me here)

I tested it again with items i put in my inventory from the box and tried again with disconnecting and reconnecting… … They got eaten again.

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Just a quick question. Are you “game sharing” on your Xbox by any chance?

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Yes with the console of my Brother but he doesnt have the Game installed.

Also what I noticed is, that every DLC Weapon that had Augmentations is gone and didnt reappear but those without did appear.
120 Uranium wasted… :pensive:

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I think this is largely down to game sharing.

When you switch the ‘home’ console of your account to your brother’s Xbox it basically removes the ability for you to play your digital purchases offline on your Xbox.

If you’re connected to Xbox live everything will work fine, but offline it can’t check if you have the right to use it and so digital purchases often won’t work at all.

Because your brother’s Xbox is the home console, you’d be fine playing it offline there but on your conis offline it doesn’t think you own the DLC; even if it’s installed your account doesn’t have the right to play it.

That’s the drawback of game sharing; offline you lose access to your own digital purchases (but have the rights to play the digital purchases of whoever you’re sharing with.)

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There have been many topics featuring an issue where players didn’t have access to the installed dlc-contents.

I guess, this must have been the reason to many of these issues, but it’s the first time I read this possible explanation for that. (Which in fact doesn’t just affect GZ!)

:+1:

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“Game sharing” is a quirk of the way MS allow you to designate a “primary” or “home” console for your account that is often used outside of it’s intended use case.

Each Xbox account has the ability to set a ‘home’ console, so any Xbox you log in to you can mark as yours. This means that any one can sign in to that Xbox (with their own accounts) and access all of your digital purchases, regardless of you being signed in or having an internet connection.

The downside to this is that it means that for you to be able you play your own purchases on a console that is NOT set as your ‘home / primary’ console you need an internet connection for it to do a license check on your account. No internet on a console that’s not set as your home? Only physical games and no DLC.

(Unless you’re sharing with another account that has your Xbox set as their home, and then you have access to all of their digital games, but not your own)

It was only ever meant for people that live in the same house and sharing a single Xbox but it gets used remotely all of the time. I used to share my account with my father remotely so he could play my games.

I’m guessing when it comes to GZ that if you don’t have access to the DLC and are carrying items you technically no longer own they’re omitted from your inventory when the game saves.

Then when you reload the save, with access to the DLC, they’re simply gone because you technically didn’t ‘own’ them when it last saved.

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Hmm well my Console is set as his Homeconsole and also his Console as mine but that the Game only forgets augmented DLC Weapons and not other DLC items
(it gave the unaugmented Items and Weapons back after reconnecting/reloading)
Is very wierd… Maybe it modifies the Item Id’s
when augmenting and the “bringing back items”
function doesnt count them in?