# Lost Character Progression

**URL:** <https://forum.norestforthewicked.com/t/lost-character-progression/23520>\
**Category:** Wicked Bug Reporting\
**Tags:** technical-issues, realm\
**Created:** [February 2, 2026, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.norestforthewicked.com/t/lost-character-progression/23520 "2026-02-02T06:00:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Austin\_Reves](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.norestforthewicked.com/austin_reves/32/14308_2.png) [@Austin\_Reves](https://forum.norestforthewicked.com/u/Austin_Reves)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.norestforthewicked.com/t/lost-character-progression/23520/1 "2026-02-02T06:00:53Z")

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I don’t think this can be fixed, but I wanted to document it here. Game started being quite riddled with rubber banding while playing tonight. Decided to close the app and reopen in hopes of fixing it. Game froze on trying to exit to desktop. Had to force quit.

When I fired it back up, my character had lost hours of progression. All the MATs I used were gone, my gear was all 2 levels back and I had lost a rune ability I had slotted into my weapon previously

Playing on Steam Deck, if that matters.

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**Author:** ![Silas-Inservio-Pax](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.norestforthewicked.com/silas-inservio-pax/32/10458_2.png) [@Silas-Inservio-Pax](https://forum.norestforthewicked.com/u/Silas-Inservio-Pax)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.norestforthewicked.com/t/lost-character-progression/23520/2 "2026-02-03T14:10:13Z")

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Hey Austin, thanks for the report!

Did you have Blink equipped per chance?

I will try to find solutions for this.

Silas