Scooter61686 an hour ago SHARE
Obviously Borderlands 2 has a "way" to get alot of extra keys, are you guys looking into the Key "hack" for adding keys? will you be taking corrective action against players or will you just patch it to leave them to ruin the game for themselves?

DuvalMagic @Scooter61686 22 minutes ago SHARE
Corrective action: Yes.

Also - follow my twitter (@DuvalMagic) as I am likely going to start offering some freebies and other awesome stuff via SHiFT codes in the next week or so.

^Most likely they'll roll back anyone that's done the unlimited keys/items glitch so try to avoid doing it, and just have fun with the game D:

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I was unaware that Borderlands had an always online DRM component included.
Unless they left in the trick and added some anti-cheat code that is tripped, there is really no way for them to "roll back" a single player game.
Now unless they decide to revoke the game keys/steam subscription entirely then... ya.

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Keys are NOT only thing you can edit...

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I did mention this in the other thread. I doubt gearbox or steam will just let this go by.

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Right, "Rollback" all the items and Rares you got with the Key edit when the game is mostly based on single player..

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What are you talking about exactly? For the life of me i cant tell what you said.

Nevermind. I get it now. In-game keys. I thought you mean actual GAME KEYS lol.

12 years ago
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Translation:
Q: Will you do something with people, that edit files to get unlimited keys to gold chest?
A: Yes.

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Thanks for the translation.

12 years ago
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Thanks for the simple translation. I think Torian forgot to English.

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Umm..personally my answer is NO. But thanks for solidifying my faith in humanitarian good.

No but seriously...Unless those keys come from GameGenie™ , I would be OUT.

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wait, now you need a key to open a chest?

12 years ago
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There's a chest in Sanctuary that's only openable by gold keys that you get from Gearbox Shift, or preorder bonuses, etc.

12 years ago
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same thing i thought

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Where was this posted ? Can't find the discussion D:

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Thanks ! :)

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wtf are u talking about? xD

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Not saying i will do this as i want to enjoy the game to its fullest.
They cant rollback peoples items as they cannot tell which items were obtained via glitch or legitimate keys.
They can however fix the way the keys are obtained and prevent the ini hack or encrypt the ini file. (which somebody would just figure out how to edit anyway!)
They also could not prevent people using memory hacking techniques or save editing... Basically they cant fix this issue.
And who really cares about this? The game is supposed to be fun and played the way you want.
It is designed to be cooperative and not competitive... If you don't want to play with modders then simply kick them or just dont't play with them at all.

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I kind of agree. This isn't a competition game with leaderboards and rankings and winning teams. No one is playing against each other, so other players aren't hurt by this.

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+1, play and let play, especially since it's not competitive between players

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Torian's back on the forums!
Also this got on my nerves, I pre-ordered so I can get a bonus that not everyone could get.

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Likewise, I ordered a collectors edition and also standard edition from another company just for the creature slaughter dome dlc.
Both have yet to be delivered. Meanwhile i could have just bought from steam, hacked in the extra content and started playing at midnight :S

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GearBox announced it a limited time pre-order bonus, and it's not like the Mechromancer and Creature Slaughter Dome that will be released to the public at some point.

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The Public already have the slaughter dome if they hack it in or join a player who has it.
Looking at the way they have implemented the pre-order bonuses and the ease at which people can unlock it,
I wouldn't be suprised if the mechromancer was planned as a title update which would only be enabled for those who have the pre-order club. Then they would simply sell none pre-order users an ini file that unlocked it for them. :S

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Hey, I can start playing it in half hour and you are already talking about DLC...

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I didn't mind it. Preorder bonuses are awful and promote uninformed purchases. In this day of awful console ports to computer and bad games in general, everything we can do to promote knowledge about a game beforehand is great.

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+1 all i have to say

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+1

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After all the problems they had with people editing stuff in the first game they make it easier in the second, facepalm !!.

12 years ago
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So they fixed the key exploit, that's good. Does anyone know if they fixed the promotional item exploit as well?

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no they didnt fix the promo item exploit there is no way to fix the promo item exploit without embedding it into the save which would prevent usage to it from the other Chars

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There was a really awesome savegame editor for the first game. Hope it doesn't take too long for this one.

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They can't do anything about it, unless they installed a secret anti-cheat software that we do not know about, then there is no way to punish us for it. :3

Btw, if they did install secret anti-cheat software, then we can sue because it says nowhere in the ToS of them installing it on us.

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Most ToS say something like "We can do whatever the hell we want whenever the hell we want for whatever or no reason." ;P

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Those games also happen to keep characters and data on a server. Borderlands does not. Borderlands is almost entirely client side, which is why this was so easy to do in the first place.

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I don't play it on PC D:

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How do you enter for the shift keys im interested in that

12 years ago
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From the main menu, under extras, you can sign up for a shift account.

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"Corrective action: Yes." means nothing for me...what they can do?Delete my savegame?D:

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Don't go around spreading false information, please.

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You had to say this "Yup - we're fixing the bug and might punish cheaters."
(you can find this quote from the Q&A posted below, scroll down a bit)

But still, HOW they can do that..."lock" the bug and delete my savegame?They can't remove weapons just because "they look like looted from the chest, using exploited keys"...imho, nothing wiil happen (aside of fixing the "bug")

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On September 20, 2012, Gearbox Software patched Borderlands 2 to fix the Gold Key ini file edit Exploit. Editing the ini file to change the amount of keys you have will no longer grant you any additional keys. However, the patch did not remove any keys you have already added using the exploit.
On September 21, 2012, Gearbox Software announced that they will not ban or otherwise punish those who used the cheat.
http://orcz.com/Borderlands_2:_Golden_Key

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Btw, if you use extra-super-9999-caliber-maxi-ultra-weapons online you are a jerk.

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what is a extrasuper9999calibermaxiultra wep?

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Lots of players in the first Borderlands were using hacked weapon that gives massive bonuses even at low leves, thus killing any enemy with one blow and invincible shields. Gearbox couldn't do nothing against this exploits, so most games online were affected by this players.

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A small note here: The special trait of those "hacked weapons" is a stack of components where several pieces were missing, thus rendering the weapon itself an amount of damage only restricted by whichever remaining component was left. The components primarily used were of the "stock" variety.

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Torian? Haven't seen you in a while <3

12 years ago
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Cheating is ruining gaming,if you wanna cheat do it only on single player,and only if you beat the game on normal ;/

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They fixed this exploit in their patch.

12 years ago
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No they didn't, there's still a way to get unlimited of them :P

However i like how all the noobs go crazy because they can't 1337h4x anymore.

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Didn't know about this till now...

I NEED A TIME MACHINE

OR GOLD KEYS!

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You can't stop the cheat train.

Choo choo.

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Closed 12 years ago by Torian.