Beware "Restart Mission" really resets everything

[Lucky]

As the title says: It really resets everythings! I was in Titans Realm and decided to get the previous maps to 100% with Challenges, Runes, the lot. When all was set and done I continued the campain and noticed that I had skipped a Field Drone. Well, just restart that mission and get it.

Big mistake!

It didnt just reset the progress of that mission it also reset all the previous maps. A few hours of running around lost... gone...

So, do not restart your mission after a long session of going back to old missions - complete that mission first.

[paladin181]

Yeah. General consensus is that you only go get missed items from finished levels. Restarting the mission is a real no-no. Don't know why, either. Also don't know if it's intended, or a bug (and if it is a bug, if it will ever be fixed).

[trase 18cm]

So, to be clear: If I want to find all the stuff I should finish the mission and then just play it again through chapter select?

[Lucky]

Originally posted by trase:

So, to be clear: If I want to find all the stuff I should finish the mission and then just play it again through chapter select?

The problem starts after that. Let's say you are in the middle of Level 4. On your (for example) 3rd checkpoint.
You have a break, close the game, come back - everything will be OK. No Problems there.
Now you decide to go back to Level 1-3 and get them to 100%. You can do that. You can also level up your runes while doing that.
You can close the game and everything will be remebered. Not a single problem there.

Now you want to continue in level 4. Still no problem. You continue where you left with everything you have finished in level 1-3.

However! If you now decide to NOT finish level 4 but instead restart the Level - The game will also reset everything else you have done in level 1-3!!

So, after you have done a lot of going back - Finish your current level first!

[Nicholas Steel]

Originally posted by Lucky:

Originally posted by trase:

So, to be clear: If I want to find all the stuff I should finish the mission and then just play it again through chapter select?

The problem starts after that. Let's say you are in the middle of Level 4. On your (for example) 3rd checkpoint.
You have a break, close the game, come back - everything will be OK. No Problems there.
Now you decide to go back to Level 1-3 and get them to 100%. You can do that. You can also level up your runes while doing that.
You can close the game and everything will be remebered. Not a single problem there.

Now you want to continue in level 4. Still no problem. You continue where you left with everything you have finished in level 1-3.

However! If you now decide to NOT finish level 4 but instead restart the Level - The game will also reset everything else you have done in level 1-3!!

So, after you have done a lot of going back - Finish your current level first!

Both interesting and dumb, how could they have made it work that way -.-

[Slainn]

8 years later. My first time playing doom. On level 7 I decided I liked the game enough to go back and 100% the levels. spent about 3 hours running through the other missions collecting what I missed. Resumed Mission 7. Realized about halfway through I missed something so hit restart mission. LOST EVERYTHING. HOW IN THE ♥♥♥♥ IS THIS A THING? I might not even finish the game. I'm so discouraged by that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Now I see why when you went back and did rune trials it would make you leave the game to do so. ♥♥♥♥ is so poorly coded they couldnt have you leave and come back

[Wiesshund]

I replay missions all the time
never seen this happen in in 8 years