Level progress not saving in Halo 2 Anniversary. Help.

I'm selecting save and quit but my progress isn't saving.

When I load it again, it sends me back to the last cutscene. I'm on Delta Halo and I got near the end of the level but I had to stop playing. I quickly loaded my game again to make sure it saved correctly but it sent me right back to the cutscene where Master Chief is listening to the Prophet's hologram talking about the "great journey".

It's so annoying. It happened yesterday, too. I got to the part where the Warthog first gets delivered on Delta Halo and saved. Then when I loaded it today it sent me back to the beginning of the level cutscene.

Is there any way to fix this? Do you think it's a problem with the game or my console?

The game is buggy both in SP and MP.

I'll post a list. I'm surprised people are still not understanding the game has issues. I have my copy unopened as I'm waiting for the bugs to be fixed before I open it.

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New Halo developer 343 apologized for the many Master Chief Collection bugs and issues.

I posted a list of some Singleplayer and Multiplayer problems found so far in the collection. I'll repost for you TC:

Game Specific Bugs & Single Player:

Halo CE:

- Audio in Single Player is flawed. Loops sometimes forever/overlapping/different tracks playing at the same time/wrong sounds (More..).

- Completed Single Player games sometimes don't save.

- When playing co-op campaign, it seems impossible to finish a mission. The game is always disrupted with disconnects (More...).

H2A:

- Campaign seems to randomly crash when attempting to start a mission.

- Campaign progress won't save.

- Campaign glitch preventing the story from being completed.

H3:

- One user reports that he can't play Halo 3 at all. No single or multiplayer. Game freezes at the loading screen. As this happens only with one user so far we need more people confirming this here...

Mixed:

- Cross game singleplayer playlist skips mission (specifically Mission 6 on "Normal")

- The Master Chief Collection sometimes responds poorly to snapping. This behavior has exhibited crashing, freezing, and persistent significant frame drops.

- These are only a few things that happened to me and the players I played with last night. Please add more.

Matchmaking bugs:

- If you switch between the playlists you lose your party most of the time. You can't take your party and often don't get asked if you want to.

- Sometimes the teams get shuffled during the loading screen. E.g If you are with friends in the "red" team while voting for the map it doesn't mean you are in the same team when the game starts. "Team formulation" seems very broken (More...).

- Colors/Emblems, etc. is not available in Matchmaking and you just get a generic/random emblem.

- It doesn't give priority to your party when creating the teams. I've played about 10 Team Slayer games and most of the time was in the opposite team of my friend.

- Big Team Battle description says it's 8vs8, but it's only 6vs6.

- Rank up bug that let's you get the highest rank via a Matchmaking/Custom Game bug. Details: http://redd.it/2lyo3c

Custom Game bugs:

- Team colours shuffle after each game. And because changing team colours is now a 4-5 step process this is very annoying.

- Settings shuffle if you make some changes after the game and you have to setup everything again.

- You can't join a game after it started. It always says it's full, even if it isn't.

- The game gives the host randomly to players depending on the game. We played a few H2A games with a perfect and lag-free host. When we switched to H2C with the same players the game was suddenly unplayable, because it gave the host to someone else.

Other problems / missing features:

- Game chat randomly doesn't work for some players. Many people meet in parties.

- Players randomly disconnect from the game.

- The game freezes sometimes during the loading screen. Often after a game ends.

- You can't see the ping in matchmaking or custom game. In any game. This is really important.

- Changing the team colour is now a 4-5 step process. We were able to press "x" and could right away change the team. Now you have to press "X" to open the roster. Scroll to your gamertag and select it with "A". Then choose "Change Color" from four different options with "A". Then select the colour and leave the menu again.

- Loading times for maps seem extremely long. It also doesn't seem to preload the map like it always did.

- The roster doesn't work right. It often doesn't show anyone or only a few of the people that are online and sometimes you can't invite players. Sometimes the game get's unresponsive/freezes after using the roster or a snapped app.

- You can't see anymore who's talking in game. This used to be an important feature in previous games. Now you are in matchmaking with new players and just have to "guess".

- You can't see who is wearing a mic unless they speak.

- Less customization options for game type settings in custom games.

- There should be an option to turn off (or at least lower the volume of) the menu music. It used to be only in the main menu in the past, but now it's everywhere and just far too loud.

- The roster always shows 1/16 players for every group/friend, even if they play with more people,

Thanks for posting that but my issue isn't listed with H2A. Perhaps it's not that common? My game isn't crashing, it just isn't saving.

The bug list isn't finished. It's not definitive and was created a few days ago. Your issues could be added in fact.

In other words, there are problems and bugs with the game that have yet to be discovered, like you are finding out.

I wish I could be more help, but I can tell you 343 has apologized for the SP and MP bugs and they are working on a fix. Rumor is next week for some fixes.

I haven't even opened my copy, I'm going to just wait for the patches before I bother.

So you got the game after all, eh? ; ) I didn't think you were going to, since you didn't seem really excited about it since it's not a 'new' game.

But yeah, the game is buggy. It's disappointing. I was working my way through halo CE Anniversary, and I saved after completing Attack on the Control Room. For whatever reason, the game decided to completely skip over 343 Guilty Spark and save me at the beginning of the next level, The Library.

I stopped the ongoing file I was working on to go back and play 343 Guilty Spark, and I almost made it through the level but had to stop and save, so now hopefully when I play again it will actually save at the checkpoint where I saved it.

At first I thought issues were limited to Multiplayer, but apparently there are more problems than just that. 343 needs to do some serious patching from top to bottom for this game to be what it should.

Correctamundo. :)

I knew when I posted that someone might remember my stance.

I wouldn't spend more than $25 on it since it's a collection of games I already own, which meant maybe next year I would have been a buyer...but this is the season of giving and my friend hooked me up. I didn't have the heart to tell him how I felt about HD remakes. Don't look a gifthorse in the mouth and all that.

He was visiting and I got some other gaming and non-gaming goodies as a result of his trip to my crib as well. We haven't seen each other in years and it was nice. He brought the wife, he had dinners, it was good times.

MCC and COD was from him. I don't even like COD either, so he's 0/2 on games I wanted, but 2014 was the year of bugs, glitches, and HD ports so I don't blame him. I'm his gamer friend and he was trying to be nice. He's a toy collector though, so I hooked him up with some sweet expensive models/toys in the past.

I am going to open it up later when the fixes come along. I just don't want to deal with the aggravation I've read playing glitchy versions of games I have memorized.

I took a picture for a different reason earlier, but I can use it here to show some new games I got over the last month.

Could be worth a post in the November pick up thread Solid.

Back on topic, I am unsure of how to solve your game save bug sadly. However it has been reported a patch should be out this week that is solving some common issues (or attempting to solve them at any rate) with the Halo collection so hopefully the new patch will fix this issue for you. If not, and you find no joy here, I suggest going to the 343 or Xbox.com feedback boards to see if anybody else has a suggestion (plus official eyes may see it and may have a suggestion).

@Garfield360UK: Way of ahead of you, I actually went in and inserted that picture earlier in that thread.

Maybe I should have made a new post, but I had a post in that thread already and simply edited that picture in my post to save space. I gotcha covered. :)