Lego 2K Drive may delete your progress if you play offline then reconnect
Lego 2K Drive can potentially remove players’ progress if they play the game offline, VGC can report.
The game is currently available in early access for pre-order customers, and some players are already starting to report that some of their progress has been rolled back when they’ve reconnected to the 2K servers.
VGC can corroborate these reports, because the same thing happened to this writer while playing the game for review, erasing 10 hours of progress.
In a statement to VGC, a 2K spokesperson said: “We understand some players are experiencing a loss of game progress with Lego 2K Drive on PS5. We are investigating and will share additional updates as soon as they’re available.”
In our situation, we played two races in the game’s Career Mode before turning off the PS5, putting it in Rest Mode.
When we turned on the console again later and resumed the suspended game, it had been disconnected from 2K’s servers.
Usually when this happens with a game that has a persistent online connection, the player is given a message upon resuming the suspended game that they have been disconnected from the servers. This gives them the opportunity to connect at that point.
Instead, Lego 2K Drive continues as normal with no indication that the connection has been lost, meaning the player can potentially continue playing Career Mode with no indication that they are now offline.
After playing the game for 10 hours, we went back to the game’s menu to try the in-game shop, but noticed it had been greyed out and that we were not connected to the 2K servers.
Upon connecting to the servers, the game briefly displayed a message that it was syncing with the ‘cloud save’ then instantly rolled back our progress to the last time we were online, which was
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