I just wanted to share what I've figured out trying to get these two achievements in the last month or so. I know there are a couple of other threads, but I'd rather get all the information out in one place. I've definitely been extremely frustrated wondering if I was actually wasting dozens of hours trying to get these. There's clearly two issues:
1. Deathmatch/race/team results
sometimes not showing up on the leaderboard
2. Money/rank
sometimes not saving after exiting the game
From what I've read, these both appear to be related to an issue with Microsoft's TrueSkill ranking system that is used by GTAIV (and a number of other games). A number of those games are also being affected regarding saving online progress. This has been identified by other members of this community since September 2018 (
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/xba_gapp/lead...).
I thought it would be helpful to point out some facts and tips that allowed me to still get both of these achievements, even with this issue:
1. Deathmatch/race/team results are not directly related to the money/rank system2. Deathmatch/race/team results will only save to the leaderboard for matches that are five minutes or less.3. Money/rank will only save for matches that are five minutes or lessAfter getting these two achievements, I spent about an hour with different times seeing which would save and which wouldn't. Six minute match - no go. Four minute match - ok! In fact, five minutes was the exact cutoff.
What the first point means, is that if you are going for Auf Wiedersehen Petrovic, you can't rely on your money total to determine how many events you've completed. This might have been true at one time, but the two are not related anymore. More importantly though, actually
winning a deathmatch/race/team event is stored somewhere else (probably your own account with nothing to do with Rockstar or Microsoft to be honest).
The second point means, all of those races (such as many of the Cannonball races) that are over five minutes will not show up on the leaderboard. From the first point, this does
not mean that you haven't successfully won them. You just can't rely on the leaderboards either to determine which events you've completed. The only way to do this is to keep track of
everything on your own. Pen and paper.
When Auf Wiedersehen Petrovic popped for me, about 1/3 of all my events weren't on the leaderboard and probably the same in money/rank were not saved. I was positive that I was going to have to redo so many races. But by writing everything down, it popped
exactly when it was supposed to.
The last point is the most self-explanatory. If you finish a match (like Hangman's NOOSE) in five minutes or less, the money/rank will save. If you boost for an hour, it will not. The important thing is that it won't
save,
not that you'll immediately lose it or anything. That is, if you leave the game and come back, it will be whatever it was before. You simply have to
stay in multiplayer until you get this.