Perks Stopped Leveling Up and Reset [Spoilers]

[DudeCmonMan]

So I've played this game up until the assassination missions begin (when you unlock the enigma), and it has just occurred to me that none of my perks are leveling up, and in fact they have all been reset to zero. This causes problems because it makes the game very difficult on later levels on either "I am Death Incarnate" or "I am Terror-Billy" difficulties. I restarted my game on another save slot and the problem still persists. It was working normally earlier, but all my perk progression deleted itself for no reason. Also when loading a save, I get an error telling me about message cannot be defined or something of the sort. I was wondering if there was a way to fix this without reinstalling the game on steam or deleting all my saves :(.

NOTE: This might have happened after I switched the difficulty from "I am Death Incarnate" to "I am Terror-Billy", but I'm not exactly sure. When the perk messages stopped showing up, I just assumed that I maxed the perk.

[fix]

Having exactly the same issue. Don't really want to play anymore until it's fixed.

[ArtificialRaven]

I'm pretty sure (about 70%) switching to a lower difficulty messes up the perks. I haven't experimented enough with it yet but as I was messing around I went from I am Death Incarnate and switched it all the way down to can I play daddy mid-game and perks stopped leveling too. In my 2nd save slot, (you know out of the main 3 from the menu) I chose "Bring it On! and haven't changed the difficulty there and the perks still work.

[hh34]

Had the same issue and I had no idea my difficulty was changed to a lower one. Must've accidentally changed it or it did itself somehow.

[ArtificialRaven]

Originally posted by hh34:

Had the same issue and I had no idea my difficulty was changed to a lower one. Must've accidentally changed it or it did itself somehow.

I'm not 100% sure. There could have been some other factor that I didn't notice. More people need to come forward and confirm if this is really what's causing it to happen or not.

[Mackel]

You have the delete everything inside of "base" folder which is located in c/users/yourname/savedgames/machinegames/wolfenstein II.

This will delete all of your saves and config files so you're going to have to start a new game. This bug is caused by a corrupted user profile. Your game probably crashed at one point or you got a BSOD during gameplay, but I'm not sure if that's the cause.

Either way it fixed it for me and perks now track properly. Luckily I didn't get too far in the game before noticing the bug.

[Kenshiro3]

I'm playing on the PS4 and can confirm perks are breaking/broken/not working. I first noticed after leveling up my grenades a couple times... only to find out I could still only hold the starting amount of two. even after leveling it up twice it still said the next level would give me 3. It seems like dying resets flags for progress and breaks a lot of stuff in doing so. After going back I also realized my other perks weren't working as well.

And no this is not caused by a crash. The game has not crashed on me once,

[DudeCmonMan]

Welp, I fixed this, but it was the worst way to do so. If you go to Users/Saved/Games/MachineGames and delete your Wolfenstein The New Colossus folder, you will delete all your saves and your perks will work again. I replayed the game and made sure it was the same difficulty throughout and I've had no problems ever since. It does suck that I needed to restart.