Thanks for your input. By now, it'd really be good to atleast hear from Epic that progress is indeed being kept track of so that it'll be visible once the issue has been resolved.
u/M_House_Epic any chance you could confirm this?
Hi, u/Mr_LiX. Thank you for the tag.
We're investigating reports that players are not seeing their Account Level progress for Task 5.
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