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  • My respect level for Epic Games has fallen so low ever since they did this. If it happens again, I'm boycotting any game made by them.

  • thank you

  • what do you mean about previous video? - It only says you have uploaded one >_>

  • @shakurlover2 The previous video was set to private, so you can't see it without the link. This one is public.

  • Thanks a lot. Really helpful. :)

  • Do you think changing your character or skin instead of playing a match would save your backup?

  • Well thank you. I was wondering how to do this and I quit after it told me the memory was non-transferable.

  • Great video, thanks for this. I'm one of the lucky ones who haven't been reset, hopefully this will stop my player data from being erased as it was on GOW 2.

  • Thanks for this, had a dream last night that I lost my data and woke up terrified that it was real.

  • Good video mate. Very helpful :)

  • At the end where you said play a game on the cloud storage and you will get your rank back. Do you have to keep doing it like in updates, or when you get reset do you play on cloud and you will get your rank back?

  • How do you back up gears of war 2?

  • @8bitKronik I don't think you can.

  • your gamerdata is 68kb mine 64kb , ive done this 2 times i m still level 1 (i was level 50 green.)

  • @AwesomeSoccerSkills Did you do the steps in this video BEFORE you were reset? This method won't get your data back unless you had already made a backup.

  • You Hacked all your Medals didn't you And Rank.. Other thank that Good Video,

  • @TheEmThirty Nope, just time and effort. I assume you think I hacked my rank because I have gold wings. But if you look at the date on the video you can see it was made well before the re-up system was introduced. I'm a green level 71 now.

  • @xSuperLuckyx Not the rank, im talking about the Medals, u have war hero , thats like 30 onyx medals, i highly doubt u got them all in a non Hack, Glitch way.

  • @TheEmThirty I just play a lot. I currently have 34 onyx medals. I have all the beast and campaign medals, and almost all of the horde medals. All the rest are multiplayer medals. I have been playing Gears since Gears 1 so I'm quite good, and I estimate I have probably spent at least 400 hours on this game so far. So it's not unusual to have that many medals. I'm always working towards getting onyx medals, and I'm just about to unlock about 4 more. So, no hacking. Just hard work.

  • @TheEmThirty to be honest buddy I have 50 onyx medals legit so yeah...

  • I have a question. If you were to get de ranked would you just delete the player data or would you also delete the saved campaign.

    Thank You

  • @GearsKingMurderer Just the player data.

  • Thanks for the tutorial. I've now made my backup. :)

    Hopefully Epic can solve the issue, though.

  • what is the white weapon skin on lancer?

  • @soccerkid143 I believe that was Chrome.

  • @soccerkid143 Yes, it is the chrome lancer.

  • thank you now i dont need to worry about being reset from 76 to level 1 ever if only they had cloud during the gears 2 era i got reset 5 times on gears 2

  • Sisko = Sister in Finnish

  • i got reset like a month ago level 100 now am level 46 can i get me lvl 100 bk are not

  • @joemeredith1993 There is no way to get your level 100 back, unless you made a backup before it happened.

  • Awesome info my friend. Thanks so much!

  • thanks for making this vid, ive seen a bunch of people getting reset 4 no reason so now im scared i will too, i will go try this in a few so i will be prepared if it happens to me, and thanks again, if i hav any probs. can i contact u again an will u reply.

  • Nice one - this may prove to be very handy, cheers.

  • Us Australians eh? Oh wait sorry, I'm English. I'm always getting confused. Nice video BTW!

  • how can i back up my beta data?

  • @gavinburnett91 Your beta items become linked to your player data. So if you do the backup method shown in the video, then your beta items will get backed up too. I got reset but I had a backup, so when I used my backup all my beta stuff is still there.

  • Thanks, SuperLucky! 

  • could you please post a link to the video you mentioned on how to back up to usb please

    i can only seem to move my save games and not copy them

    thanks :)

  • @jonohugo I have just done it, all you need to do is select your usb memory (instead of the cloud, as on the video) when the game starts up, then play your short game to confirm it all

  • @JRHipkin Thanks for answering this question. I have been having computer trouble so I haven't been online.

  • @jonohugo You do it exactly the same way as this video, but choose a USB instead of the cloud. If you really want to see the other video, the link is in the forum thread in the video description.

  • Great video, really helped me out, favourited and subbed, thanks a million :D

  • @StalwartArab your a kiwi arnt u lol

  • what if your file has already been corrupted?

  • @DrooPy5101 Sorry for the late reply, I was having computer trouble for the last week. You can't get your data back if you have already been reset. The only thing you can do is make a backup to prevent it from happening again.

  • Hell yeah.

    Being green level 56, I definitely took advantage of this.

    I'd kill if I would have lost my shit before I did this!!!

  • What does the 'Saved Campaigns' file specifically include? And what file are campaign related stats (such as collectibles or medals) stored?

    I'm guessing that 'Saved Campaigns' is so that you can continue from a previous checkpoint, and that the medals/collectibles go under the 'player data' file... am I right?

  • @VrSword Sorry for the late reply, I was having computer trouble for a week or so. The saved campaigns file contains your collectibles, current checkpoint, and all the data on which chapters you have completed and on what difficulty. So if your saved campaigns file is reset, it will look like you have never played campaign before. Except, ALL medal info is stored in the player data file. So you will retain all campaign/arcade related medas.

  • @xSuperLuckyx *medals

  • Wow this is a really smart yet simple way to do this. Good thinking!

  • when i started the game with cloud i was still level 1.

  • @MrChickenwizard Sorry for the late reply. Did you do the steps in this video BEFORE you were reset? This method won't restore your data if you didn't already have a backup.

  • @xSuperLuckyx .....fuck

  • thank u so much man! this a life saver! especially since i dont have to lose everything if i get reset like i did last week :( but cheers man and God bless!

  • thanks for making the vid, love the accent :)

  • Thank you for making this!

  • Thanks you so much for make this video

  • Leave it to americans to be unable to distinguish an aussie accent from a brit one.

    Blame it on american actors and films for skewing the differences. But also on the english and austrailians for being unable to speak correctly.

  • Awesome video, thank you so much for this.

  • Thank You

  • thanks for making this just backed up dAtuh

  • how can i get back all my lvl and onyx medals and everything iff i dint do a back up :( wass lvl 100 and engament lvl 23 whit 28 onyx medal now i have nothing

  • @patatesur You can try deleting your player data file from your gears of war 3 save and then recovering your gamertag. This only works about 1% of the time though. Usually, once you have been reset then everything is gone unless you have a backup :(

  • Do you have to back up your save game every time you're done playing or does it keep updating the cloud save file once you've initiated the process?

  • @Harperlarp The cloud file doesn't update automatically. You have to load up from the cloud and then play one game to update the file.

  • @StalwartArab Why do Americans confuse Australians' accents with English ones? They sound nothing alike lol.

  • You fucking genius.

  • @StalwartArab I'm not British......

  • @xSuperLuckyx Aussie?

  • @xSuperLuckyx that comment that person made is ignorance at its "finest"

  • @xSuperLuckyx your accent is cool sorry most americans think english in a non american accent has to be british im guessin australian?

  • You are brilliant :) Thank you very much :)

  • Thanks a lot for this! I haven't been deranked yet but I so glad I found a link to this on the Gears forums.

  • I know the new DLC allows you to reset your level by your own choice.

    However, after downloading the DLC, I have gotten reset to level 1! Not a green number 1 which would indicate I had reset my level by my own free will: plain white number 1.

    Has this happened to anybody else?! I was level 97!

  • @NextEevolution There are several people on the forums who had this happen. In fact, every single time they have released DLC a few people complain of having been reset after downloading it. You can get everything back if you made a backup before being reset. If not, you can try deleting your player data file from your gears of war 3 save, and then recovering your gamertag. This only works about 1% of the time though.

  • @xSuperLuckyx Yeah, unfortunately I have the worst possible luck so I can kiss my rank goodbye.... I've visited the forums at Epic and will ask that I be added to the "Fallen Stars" list of reset ranks.

    I saw you post there!

    Although it's too late to save my rank of 97 with 8 onyx medals, I will remember to save a back up thanks to you!

    Awesome explanation and I appreciate what you're doing to keep people aware of how to preserve their stats!

  • @NextEevolution Thanks for the support. I wish there was more that I could do. Unfortunately most people don't visit the forums, and so they don't know you need to make backups. Then once you have been reset it's already too late :(

  • @xSuperLuckyx Do what you can! ;D

  • Yeah sorry disabling I meant. Or you have to keep it enable,

  • @Febrezay You can disable it. Go into your system storage and then press the Y button on the cloud and that will give you the option to disable it. When it asks you if you want the content stored there to be available on other consoles say yes. You will have to re-enable the cloud every time you want to update your backup or use it to recover your rank though.

  • does this mean that when i download fenix rising.. and get auto set to 1 from level 80 :/ i can then put my cloud saves back on.. and only be 20 levels off re-upping?

    either way awesome guide!

  • @gibbo045 You don't get automatially set to level 1 when you download Fenix Rising. You choose whether you want to re-up or not when you get to level 100.

  • @xSuperLuckyx ohh wow really?! that means im only 20 lvls off my first re-up.. ahh thank you :) gunna download it now i know that.. thank youuu for the vid and post :)

  • awesome video

  • Can you enable the cloud storage?

  • @Febrezay It shows how to enable it in the first minute of the video. Do you mean disable it?

  • Good work bud.

  • Can it be done with a usb

  • @BlackCookkie Yes, or a memory card.

  • @xSuperLuckyx Yea i did thanks now i willl re rup with out being worried

  • You're awesome!!! FUCK MICROSOFT AND THE HORSE THEY RODE IN ON.

  • Very helpful video. Thanks for the heads up, I'll be doing this now.

  • I got reset while on my friends xbox. I'm still not at my house where my xbox is, and I'm sure that my original save is there. I only put 1 save file, I think my campaign part, into the cloud save. If I go back home, and turn on my xbox, will I get my l100 again?

  • @Darkshadow222 Yes, you should.

  • Thanks for making this vid. I just made a cloud and a USB backup to be safe. I was wondering if you could answer something for me though. Would I have to backup my dlc as well or is that saved to my player data? I don't want to lose my Characters and Skins.

  • @aaronawesome66 DLC is not affected by a reset, because it is linked to your gamertag instead of your player data. You don't really need to back them up, but they can be copied to another storage device if you feel like it.

  • hey, please reply!!!!! alright so i was reset today...i understand what this video is about and will be using cloud from now on but i need advice on how to recover my rank. so earlier today i went on and i noticed my rank went to 1. the second that happened i turned off my xbox and removed the game lol. i am yet to put it back in and if i go into my player data it comes up as corrupt.flm. i heard somwhere i can recover my gt but with this new layout i dont know what im doing. please help.

  • @GOW3rankreset I believe you delete the gamertag first, and then download it. Here is the official xbox support page relating to downloading your gamertag: support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-36­0/settings-and-initial-setup/p­rofile-move-delete. Delete your player data file from your hard drive first and then recover your gamertag. Keep in mind that this only works a VERY small amount of the time. Usually once you have been reset your data is all gone unless you had a backup.

  • EPIC! Thank you for quite the informative video. Just backed up all of my data, just incase.

  • You are awesome.

  • Thanks a lot, my game has been freezing on me sometimes when i join quick matches so i got hesitant when i play but i haven't got reset yet thankfully

  • Thanks, I just did this. I haven't been reset but I don't want it to happen either.

  • Can this maybe work for gears 2 as well? I got reset a long time ago, and this might actually make me feel safe to touch its campaign again.

  • @5133pp1z Player data for Gears 2 is not backed up to any online servers, so this wouldn't work.

  • Thanks VERY MUCH for this video. Though my stats were never reset, downloading my profile from the servers fixed my frozen profile!!! I haven't been able to play gears since before Dec!!! YEAAAA IM SO EXCITED TO PLAY AGAIN!!!! DLC!!!! OH MY GOD YES

  • Thanks much for this video! Do you know when epic will fix this glitch? I'm still scared I'll lose my stuff even if I backed up my saves :(

  • @TheTorrevolution I'm hoping that the next DLC pack will come with a title update that will fix this problem. I'm going to keep making backups until it is confirmed though!

  • how do you get that silver skin? 3:49

  • @SandyyBreasts That is the Chrome weapon skin. You unlock the Chrome skins for having achievements in the previous Gears of War games. Chrome Lancer - Earn the Don't Hate the Player Achievement in Gears 1. Chrome Hammerburst - Earn the Dirty Dirty Horde Achievement in Gears 2. Chrome Retro Lancer - Earn the Domination Achievement in Gears 1. Chrome Gnasher - Complete the Gears 1, 2 and 3 campaigns (Any difficulty) Chrome Sawed-off - Earn any Achievement in Gears of War for the PC.

  • @SandyyBreasts thats chrome? oh lol gotcha

  • Thanks a Million My son just got reset again today he was a Level 93,He came crying to me about it as i knew there was no remedy for it. But after some reassuring words of Courage i showed him your Vid "He did it along with his Brothers doing the some to their Console. My Boys are NOW Confident in playing this game again" So Thank you again

  • wow thanks you :D i havent got any reset, but ill make one cause im afraid it might happen, thanks ^^

  • Has it happened too you before?

  • @ReaperCaz1 Yes, but I already had a backup so I got everything back.

  • Awesome video! Just backed up my data to the cloud. Hopefully it won't happen, but if it does I'll be prepared!

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  • I just got reset losing 42 onyx medals one week after backing up my data. Thank fuck for your video and thank you for saving me from writing terrorist threats to EPIC :)

    EPIC are the most disgraceful company I have ever played a game from. This is the last game I ever buy from them!

  • Brilliant! I Favorited this video and am going to do this right now just in case I get reset.

  • Does is still work?

  • @MrFuturisticFunk Yes it does

  • thank u so much. i even added this to my favorites.

  • Epic failed.

  • can I do it the opposite way? Like back it up to the hard drive when I normally play on the cloud?

  • @travisbrummett Absolutely. It can be done using any storage device.

  • wow thank you :) big help!!!!!!!!

  • would this work to restore a game that has just been rank reset to zero?

  • @rtousley1 Backupsonly work if you made them before you were reset. If you have just been reset and don't have a backup you can try deleting your player data from your hard drive and recovering your gamertag, and then start up the game and see if your data comes back. If that doesn't work then your data will be all gone :(

  • I love you Bernie. Add me and lets play :D gt = PhizzilliO

  • You kinda sound like Bernie :)

  • nice vid it helped me alot. just a little tip i use a camera and i use a camera stand, but if you dont, just get sum boxes or books to get the camera steady and not moving. still a nice video brah

  • @THECRIMSONWARRIOR1 Yeah, I don't have a camera stand so I was just holding it. I tried to use a ladder to put the camera on, but my tv is up quite high and it's only a short ladder so it wasn't tall enough. Boxes would have been a great idea, or I could put some books on top of the ladder to make it a bit taller next time. Thanks :)

  • thanks for info back up every time try and at least rank up twice in one session.

  • Thanks man. I haven't been reset yet but i wanted to be safe. thanks again!

  • You saved me from getting deranked from 100 to 1 again, thanks a lot!

  • awesome, level 100.. so now did my back up so no need to worry about losing it :D

  • I think it's better that you cannot "Copy" your data to the cloud because if you were reset or corrupted, it would upload that save the second you went to the dashboard to the cloud.

  • so it can overwrite itself when you select the cloud storage again?

  • @yungswagg347 Yes. To update your backup, load up the game select the cloud and play 1 game of anything. When it's finished back out to the main menu and dashboard and you are all done. Then you can load up from your hard drive and play normally.

  • After backing up, instead of going all the way to dashboard, just press start, options & change your storage location back to the HD.

  • @brnmbrns This is strongly discouraged, because changing storage devices in game is one of the ways that your player data can become corrupted. So you can get reset, or end up with a corrupted backup by doing it that way. It is much safer to return to the dashboard and load the game back up to switch storage locations.

  • So if I did do this and got reset how would I get my rank back?

  • @VideoFletcher That is explained at the end of the video. You would delete the corrupted player data file from your hard drive and then load up the game and select your backup drive and all your stuff will be back. Play 1 game to restore your data on the servers, then you can dashboard and load up from your hard drive. Everything should be back to normal after that.

  • @xSuperLuckyx After you do this and wanna play some gears online with people, do you choose from you're main menu you're hard drive or cloud?

    And thanks!

  • Is it confirmed that you can update your data by overwriting without deleting on the cloud storage? Does it work?

  • @oGridlocko Yep. It works.

  • @xSuperLuckyx do you lose your pre order skins or anything like thaat?

  • @DADDYF4TS4CK No, those are linked to your gamertag. Not your save files.

  • Everyone who plays gears of war 3 SHOULD do this. I have been reset twice at level 100 and it absolutely sucks! I wish they had this before it happened to me :(

  • If you enable cloud storage and save it on there and then disable it, when you re-enable it will it still be there?

  • @bowser5295 It should be. When you disable it, it will ask if you want the content to still be available on other consoles. Say yes. You will need to re-enable the cloud to update your backup, or use it if you get reset.

  • Hello xSuperLuckyx, I experienced a reset and I was a level 100 with 20 onyx medals. All my stats were erased including stats from horde and beast. I am wondering if there is a way to get my old stats back. Also, I've been playing recently and now I am a level 24 and I was wondering if playing and earning new stats would ruin my old stats. PLEASE help me out because I am very upset and I do not know what to do anymore. Thanks.

  • @Ravens7771 I'm very sorry to say that there is no way that you can get your old data back. Once you have been reset, the only way you can get your stuff back is using a backup if you made one beforehand. You can make a backup to prevent it from happening again, but that's all you can do.

  • Hi. i appreciate this video a lot! I was wondering if i have to keep the cloud storage enabled in order to keep my back ups saved? also if when i want to save to cloud again do i delete what was there previously and download stats again?

  • @dragondinner I think you can disable the cloud if you want, but you will have to re-enable it to update your backup. When you want to update your backup you don't need to delete the old files. Just load the game up and choose cloud, then play 1 game and it will overwrite your old files with all your new data. You should do this every couple of days, so it's probably easier to leave cloud enabled.

  • Thanks

  • I understand using the cloud but one thing I don't get, when I have it set up do I use the cloud when I play or my HD? does it matter either way?

  • @Barricade2091 You should use your hard drive when you play. Only use the cloud if you are updating your backup or recovering your rank.

  • Thank you for doing this

  • Hi xSuperLuckyx will this work with two profiles? If i get reset won't it just give me my brothers save file since he has a better rank? And will this work for the campaign if you get reset can i get my campaign save stats back?

  • @8droopy No, all of the save files are linked to your gamertag. You would not be able to get any data from your brothers save files.

  • by the way, lost all my campaign levels that i beaten all on insane and all collectables :((

    but kept my skins which and level, which im very glad for. gonna go back up now! :)

  • thanks a million for this info!

    im lv98 atm and afraid of reset!:( goonna go do this now!

  • WHAT IS DADA?

  • @Flexifyy Data use your brain

  • So, if this were to happen to me, everything would be reset am I right? Like, campaign file, multiplayer AND even weapon skins/dlc? Since I just made a new backup, would that mean I would have to re-download all the other weapon skins/dlc?

  • @Stigmatic93 Campaign data is stored seperate. You either lose your rank/medals, OR your campaign progress/collectibles. Your DLC should be fine, and your weapon skins will be safe as long as you have a backup file. You can copy your DLC items to your backup drive if you are worried, but nothing should really happen to them.

  • can we ever get our things back, i got reset didnt know that you could do this, can i ever get my things back?

  • @1234DETH Unfortunately no. Epic have said they will not be restoring anyone's data.