@marcis With a guess, I believe the answer to your question is: Checkpoints in Badland 2 only work after seeing a pop up/video ad. In other words, turn on your Wi-Fi.
Hey Marcis, Thanks for your feedback. The checkpoints are activated by ads and thus require you to be online for them to work. If you unlock the premium version, the checkpoints work also offline.
BADLAND has been designed to be played as a premium/paid experience without ads but we wanted to give players also a possibility to play the game on Android for free with ads. You can at any time upgrade to premium with a single In-App Purchase and enjoy the ad-free experience like the game was designed.
After today's update the ads kind of came back again and premium vanished? And it seems to be bugged. Apparently, I have no internet connection which is not true. Tapping the unlock button crashes the game. Play Games is not indicating the synchronisation anymore and I don't know if the progress will be backed up. I expect a fast bugfix update today.
Hey guys, seems that the last Android build is bugged. A patch is coming today/tomorrow to resolve it.
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