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"Badass" Bug Infects and Kills Borderlands 2 Characters

Posted by Unknown on from the it's-a-feature dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BBC News claims that a feature in Borderlands 2 that can only be activated in modded XBox 360s has a bug that can cause characters to be permanently deleted when they die- even if they weren't the ones who activated the feature. 'The hidden option within the game, known as "badass" or "hardcore", is turned off by default but can be enabled by those that have modified or hacked their console. [..] When a player with an unmodded console joins a Borderlands 2 multiplayer game in which there is a character running in badass mode it too gets kicked into that mode. [..] Gamers who play alongside people who have modded their console "contract" the bug which deletes their character if they die during play.'"

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  1. Ah yes... Non-featured features... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or as most people call them, bugs.

    A âoefeatureâ that is not really a feature turns out to be âoebuggyâ! WOW!
    News at 11, 10 Easternâ¦

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    1. Re:Ah yes... Non-featured features... by hairyfeet · · Score: 1, Funny

      Uhhh...what idiots are putting their HACKED X360s on XBL? Seems like a good way to be banhammered to me. But on a positive note, just one more plus for us PC gamers, yay us!

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  2. Re:XBox 360 is a virus?! I knew it! by EGSonikku · · Score: 1, Funny

    As an Xbox 360 owner I have to ask, how is your Skyrim DLC going? ;-)

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  3. Re:Why does this happen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Why in this millennium would anyone ever trust data stored on a client without validating it first? Isn't this 2012?

    Which part of "Microsoft product" did you not understand?

  4. Re:but it's hitting unmoded boxes by mwvdlee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Right. Which is exactly the sort of thing that engenders ill-will towards modders. "What? My character died permanently? And this could have been avoided if the modder were in jail instead of playing Borderlands? I'm going to write my Congressman!"

    Only by people who are really, really stupid.
    I see your point.

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