"Badass" Bug Infects and Kills Borderlands 2 Characters 189
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.'"
Re:Ah yes... Non-featured features... (Score:0, Interesting)
Or as most people call them, bugs.
A âoefeatureâ that is not really a feature turns out to be âoebuggyâ! WOW!
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That depends on how deeply you look at this "problem", and from what side, now doesn't it?
From a gamers perspective, it is a bug, or could even be defined as a virus.
However, from Microsoft's perspective, sounds like it's "attacking" (or at least pointing the finger) at the very group they likely want to eradicate; those who mod their consoles.
So, the question is...was this feature really all that undocumented? Hmmm...
Re:You're Missing The Point (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:You're Missing The Point (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Ah yes... Non-featured features... (Score:1, Interesting)
Yes, it's a feature game designers always take out when people start to whine. Stupid majority. Most games would actually be more like games if they would allow permadeath. Or at least severe penalty for dying. Borderlands just started to sound interesting.
Re:It's worse than that (Score:2, Interesting)
Which of those steps was the "seriously stupid shit"?
The part where the game still checks to see if a supposedly disabled setting is on or off, and still has active functions to enforce permadeath?
Im no programmer-- but this isnt difficult. Somewhere there are a series of functions that get called @ death. One of those does the permadeath stuff. That should have been either ripped out, commented out, or neutered prior to release, if they really did not want that mode ingame.