"Badass" Bug Infects and Kills Borderlands 2 Characters

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @04:03PM 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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It's worse than that by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-30 16:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

It hits anyone who is in a game with anyone who has ever been exposed to it. So if player A enables it, plays with player B, and player B plays with player C, and I play with player C, I'm infected, and anyone that plays with me is also infected and a carrier.
Re:Ah yes... Non-featured features... by Selfbain · 2012-10-30 17:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'd say the ability to permanently kill an opponent in multiplayer is more than a simple bug.

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Well, it has never been successfully tested.