Cos,
I'll give a little more info. Yes, it was incredibly weird. I sent an update to the folks at EA who were helping me troubleshoot the issue and they were fairly stumped. Basically I was playing 2142 like normal. I look at my pts and I am 30 pts over the next rank. So, I go to unlock. No unlock, no next rank. So I do log out/log in thing. Switch servers, etc. No promotion. So I figure what the heck... I'll keep playing the promo will catch up with me. Well I got several hundred pts past the promo spot and then there was a map switch and boom, couldn't load the map. It would get to the 50% mark and hang. So I say screw this... I'll go back to BF2. I start playing and before you know it I am 100 pts past the promotion mark. No new rank, no new unlock. Long story short I did everything... reload game, reload drivers, etc. No success. I updated punkbuster, it only showed an update for 2142 and then bang... all these promotions, awards and unlocks come rolling in. My suggestion to EA was to make it an FAQ b/c I have a feeling (after reading all the different forum posts) that I am not the only one. Very weird issue but hopefully it will help some people. I'm just glad I did not loose all the unlocks... EA's response was that there were "intermittent" rank issues with "select players". Hope this helps someone else! I guess we need to add "update Punkbuster" to the "When BF doesn't work" suggestions. Thx Cos...! -MonkezUncle
