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Edited by Erijian: 7/2/2016 5:58:22 PM
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I'll take a guess at what's going on: Game failed to connect to Bungie's servers giving you a black screen, you backed out to character selection BUT because your game couldn't gather your data, you're presented with the character selection screen. That's because the game now thinks you have no characters, which makes sense since your progress wasn't downloaded, and if you proceed into the character selection IN ANY WAY, your character will be overwritten with the new one (If you did the creation fully) or outright deleted (If you chose a Class and backed out at any point before the former) once the game catches up. The game would probably recognize it as a manual character deletion too, which Bungie doesn't offer recovery services for. There's no proof of it deleting your characters yet or not, so it's just conjecture.
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  • Edited by xKCz: 7/5/2016 6:27:24 PM
    So can this only happen if you have 3 characters? Would having an extra slot available, negate any possible consequences?

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  • I was legit just thinking of this. Since all game data is stored on the servers, if it cant connect it doesnt know you have characters. So when people freak out and make a new character, they overwrite there previous character.

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  • This is definitely the best explanation I've seen so far

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  • Just a guess tho right??

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  • Edited by Erijian: 7/3/2016 10:06:36 PM
    Yeah lol. I'm just basing it on something that happened to GTA:O a long time ago, where it couldn't gather your characters from the Cloud and if you made a new one in the same slot you'd end up losing that character.

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  • [quote]Just a guess tho right??[/quote] That's definitely a guess.

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  • That's why I said possibly, someone in another thread said his character was deleted through this bug

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  • This guy.

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  • [quote]I'll take a guess at what's going on: Game failed to connect to Bungie's servers giving you a black screen, you backed out to character selection BUT because your game couldn't gather your data, you're presented with the character selection screen. That's because the game now thinks you have no characters, which makes sense since your progress wasn't downloaded, and if you proceed into the character selection IN ANY WAY, your character will be overwritten with the new one (If you did the creation fully) or outright deleted (If you chose a Class and backed out at any point before the former) once the game catches up. The game would probably recognize it as a manual character deletion too, which Bungie doesn't offer recovery services for.[/quote] ?!?!?! Well this sounds like a plausible explanation.

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  • considering it actually makes sense from a coding perspective... IF the game and bungle failed to read the character code when it backed out and IF you continue to create a new character rather then exiting and restarting your system immediately then yes. the game code will recognize the new character game code as a new character and it will overwrite the existing character because it is a fundamental code or a base code for the game mechanics

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