Borderlands 2 Zero Skins
Autumn Pitz
so as it turns out the heads and skins you get as rewards don't unlock on borderlands 2 cause of some bug or something and i was super disappointed to find that out, so im wondering if anyone has or can get the heads for axton and zero and the skin for zero and drop em' for me. i'd drop some legendary and peral weapons in return.
here is what I dont understand, maybe its my personal preference or maybe i just dont get it at all...I dont see the point in customizing your character in a FPS game, you dont ever see it, yes if you play with friends they can certainly see how bad ass you look, but the point would be for you to admire it while playing, you can only see your character in the menu screen, but that is it. If Borderlands were a 3rd person shooter, ID LOVE to customize the hell out of my character to admire it while kicking serious ass at the same time. maybe its just me. Hopefully someone can help you out on your quest. Im only lv 28 and dont have crap going for me at the moment. =)
Even worse, the challenges that earn you those badass ranks are NOT reset, meaning they can no longer be completed with that character. Skin / head customization unlocks that are earned by beating a certain mission or challenge are also gone forever. The only way to earn rank / skins again is to start all over, and even that doesn't guarantee that you won't be hit with the problem again down the road.
No one currently knows what triggers the glitch either, so you might want to start making backups of your save files if you're on the PC or PS3. It sounds like 360 users are currently screwed, as the game saves are stored on your profile.
@TheDudeOfGaming: I dunno, with how much grinding it takes to unlock some of those heads (the boss drops, mostly), I could see someone being pretty freakin dispirited over having it all wiped for seemingly no reason. That you lose all your badass ranks and bonuses on top of that is just an extra kick in the chest.
Plus the second and third playthoughs are supposed to be rock hard, especially once you hit the level cap of 50, and every enemy in the game is either your level or one or two levels higher. The game was balanced to account for badass rank, and not to have that extra help after the first playthough could make a tough situation even worse.
@SpaceInsomniac: There's a third playthrough? fml... Anyway, I only find a few skins/heads appealing but It would be a bitch to loose them. The badass ranks don't make a huge difference. I've got +7.2% health and shields and it accounts for like 2.5K each which I guess might help you survive a shot or two. The gun damage and critical hit damage on the other hand, those are the only worthy ones, but I've got a relic that increases my sniper damage by 20% and a class mod that increases critical hit damage and sniper damage by around 25% along with bonus skills that further increase critical damage.
I think they're all majorly important. You play this game for 50+ odd hours and heavily invest into your character. To have all that stuff gone with the snap of your fingers would be pretty discouraging.
Sort of. Once you finish the second playthough, EVERYTHING in the game scales to 50 or above--even the first enemies in the first area of the game--and any side quests now feature level 50 or above enemies, and level 50 loot. Because of this, it's suggested that you don't accept any side quests in your second playthough that result in blue or above quest rewards, until you finish the second playthough. Here's a thread about it: =154087
Sort of. Once you finish the second playthough, EVERYTHING in the game scales to 50 or above--even the first enemies in the first area of the game--and any side quests now feature level 50 or above enemies, and level 50 loot. Because of this, it's suggested that you don't do any quests in your second playthough that result in blue or above quest rewards. Here's a thread about it: =154087
Woah! No reason to do that. Keep your character, start ANOTHER character and do the second playthough perfectly the second time around. Hopefully you'd want to try playing as more than one of the four anyhow, right?
That way, you get to keep your first character, and you can trade loot to them using the second character. You'll keep all your badass ranks from both characters, AND you'll have your choice of who to use for the DLC.
@SpaceInsomniac: Thanks for bringing this up dude...although it seems not much can be done. The other thing I learned from this thread was the thing about quests not resetting for 2.5...JUST AFTER I finished True Vault Hunter mode! Hah!
Anyway, I think the difficulty relating to this bug, at least for the 360, is that Borderlands 2 does save some data within gamer profiles - such as Golden Key use and other information - so reverting back to old saves may not even be a solution. I would flip out if I lost my Commando though...I think I have about 125 hours into him already just in the last two weeks ( I got the game about a week early).
So, from reading the thread, I've gathered that the Rank Reset comes from co-op on the same profile. I have a question regarding that. I want to play local co-op with my girlfriend, but this is freaking me the eff out. If I have my profile signed in to one controller, and my girlfriend signs in to her profile on the second controller, are my Badass Ranks safe? I'm on the PS3, and I haven't done co-op so far at all, so I haven't experienced this.
It's not related to co-op on the same file. There are people saying that they've only played single player and still had their game glitch. That's the really awful thing about all of this so far. Nobody knows what causes it to happen, although there's a theory that it's caused by the game somehow improperly loading. Once a glitched load occurs, if you save your game then the glitch is permanent.
Load game, check badass rank, make sure it's not reset to 0, check skins, make sure that they're all there. If all is fine, play the game. When it's time to quit, select save and quit, but don't exit to the main menu (another thing theorized to be causing issues). Just turn your system off, or exit to the dashboard.
As I understand it, if you load the game and see your badass rank is reset to 0, immediately exit to the dashboard before you save what is currently an improperly loaded game. If you pass an auto save point, or if you select save and quit, at that point it's too late, and you're pretty much screwed. Just ask the NPC in this video.
Some people have said that their game glitched and they tried turning it off before saving, but it didn't help. It's hard to tell if that's true, though, or if they only tried resetting their system AFTER they had saved a glitched load.
I think the difficulty relating to this bug, at least for the 360, is that Borderlands 2 does save some data within gamer profiles - such as Golden Key use and other information - so reverting back to old saves may not even be a solution.
You're right, I meant don't exit to title screen. Not even sure if that would help or hinder you, really. Everything is theory at this point, although some have reported that the second they saw their BA rank at zero, turning off before saving allowed them to avoid the glitch being saved to their profile.
Ugh, this really sucks. I don't even want to touch the game until a patch comes in. Reading through the entire thread isn't helping any, but I feel like I need to suck up every bit of info. Isn't so great that this Thanatos guy is being a total prick, too.
Didn't really mean that as an attack, and you didn't really explain the situation so anyone reading would have known you thought your quest might be glitched, which of course would be somewhat relevant to this thread.
Hopefully that means we might be one step closer to finding the cause, and gearbox--if they hadn't figured out how to cause the glitch on their own just yet--might be another step closer to releasing a patch.
Man, this stuff is still happening? I think I might have read something about the Nechromancer class and/or the accompanying patch also bringing bugs into the game or something like that. I think I may just wait out on this one until it's fixed.
I got hit by the glitch. Lost heads, skins, premier club access, badass rank, and golden keys. Basically, everything that is shared from one character to another. Hell, even my Claptrap stash was deleted.
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