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#1 Mon, 10/22/2012 - 16:14
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Graveyard.sav viral infection (aka Badass Mode)

There is a nasty viral gamesave bug going around.  Apparently Gearbox intended to have a hardcore mode in BL2 where you only have 1 life.  Somehow after the Booty DLC was released, this feature got out in the wild.  Not sure if the timing was coincidence or if gamesave hacking was ground zero.


At any rate, the fastest way to get this mode turned on is if you play with randoms, or play with a friend who plays with randoms.  If you go into a room with someone else who has the hardcore flag set to ON, it'll turn it on in your game save as well.  Once it's on, if you die, your gamesave is renamed to 'graveyard.sav' and all the character data of the one that died is basically gone.

 

Here is the best FAQ i've been able to find on the matter

http://orcz.com/Borderlands_2:_Graveyard.sav_Viral_Infection

 

 

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Mon, 10/22/2012 - 16:57
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Thanks for the info. I just made a backup and will make frequent backups. I will not let this happen for as much time as I've put in the game :)

Mon, 10/22/2012 - 17:37
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Thanks tank... Good info. Glad me n most folks here don't play with randoms.
Mon, 10/22/2012 - 17:38
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Thanks for the heads up Tank. Reposted this to the Westies Forum.

http:///www.youtube.com/L0KI619

Mon, 10/22/2012 - 19:33
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no, no no... no thank you

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Mon, 10/22/2012 - 20:12
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Fuck that. I'm glad I don't jump in random rooms. I'd be done if al my stuff got deleted after a death. I get pissed enough at how much cash I lose.

Tue, 10/23/2012 - 04:06
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Basically you'll know if you're affected if you end your Fight For Your Life mode without getting a kill and instead of respawning at the most recent New-U station the camera will pan above your character and you'll be able to look around freely. Your only options are to hit X to give up or hit Start and Quit. In both situations your game will kick you out to the title screen and your character will not be saved. It's at this point that your save file is effectively in the "Graveyard.sav" state. If you turn off your console, go to the dashboard, load another character, or anything other than select Continue your character will be lost. It's at this point you need to Select continue and immediately hit Start and select Quit in order to save your character and keep it playable.

At this point your character is affected by the bug and every time you die you'll have to repeat the above steps or lose your character. You can retire that character if you want and wait for Gearbox to patch it and hopefully fix the issue or you can fix it yourself.

 

If it happens to you, you're not completely boned. But you know what they say, when you loot whore with randoms you're loot whoring with every random that random has ever loot whored with.

Tue, 10/23/2012 - 11:35 (Reply to #7)
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KamakazeTaco wrote:

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Basically you'll know if you're affected if you end your Fight For Your Life mode without getting a kill and instead of respawning at the most recent New-U station the camera will pan above your character and you'll be able to look around freely. Your only options are to hit X to give up or hit Start and Quit. In both situations your game will kick you out to the title screen and your character will not be saved. It's at this point that your save file is effectively in the "Graveyard.sav" state. If you turn off your console, go to the dashboard, load another character, or anything other than select Continue your character will be lost. It's at this point you need to Select continue and immediately hit Start and select Quit in order to save your character and keep it playable.

At this point your character is affected by the bug and every time you die you'll have to repeat the above steps or lose your character. You can retire that character if you want and wait for Gearbox to patch it and hopefully fix the issue or you can fix it yourself.

 

If it happens to you, you're not completely boned. But you know what they say, when you loot whore with randoms you're loot whoring with every random that random has ever loot whored with.

Wiser words were never spoken!

Tue, 10/23/2012 - 05:49
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I've never played with randoms either.

Tue, 10/23/2012 - 23:31
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Recently a few users have begun violating the Xbox Live Code of Conduct by using an external application to maliciously disrupt the experience and sabotage characters of legitimate Borderlands 2 players on Xbox 360. Fortunately it’s easy to avoid this scenario.

While we work to resolve this as quickly as possible with our partners, concerned Xbox 360 players of Borderlands 2 should consider playing online with trusted individuals in non-public sessions. This does not affect players on PC or PlayStation 3.

We also advise that before ceasing play, users always select "Save and Quit" from within the pause menu while their character is alive. If after the death of their character players find themselves at the main menu of Borderlands 2 instead of respawning in-game, be sure to immediately select "Continue" to resume playing as that character.

We ask that players report any suspicious behavior in Borderlands 2 to spotted@gearboxsoftware.com and provide as much details and documentation of their disrupted experience as possible to assist us in our investigation.

 

For what it is worth. Sounds pretty vague to me but at leat they formally acknowledged there is a problem. HERE is a link to the forum post:

http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?p=3056075#post3056075

 

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 11:43
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Ya turns out modders found the flag to turn this feature 'on'  but because of a 4 year old bug that existed in BL1 that gearbox neglected to fix, it's able to spread.  coop game corruption was a problem in BL1  as well sothere's no excuse why that wasn't fixed in BL2.   So both sides share the blame on this one as far as i'm concerned.

Fri, 10/26/2012 - 16:46
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Update from Joystiq

 

Update: Gearbox has informed us that a patch to exterminate the exploit has been submitted to Microsoft for approval and will be released "as soon as possible."

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