Borderlands 2

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Borderlands skin

Have a saved game file from Borderlands to unlock characters skin from the original game.

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Cheap ammunition

If you are running low on money and need ammunition, go to Southern Shelf and buy some there. What used to be over $500 to fill your guns now costs about $100.

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Easy "Challenge Accepted" Achievement

Play through the Story mode all three times then return to Normal mode with your character of choice. Carefully examine all the non-level specific challenges to see what is required to complete level 1 of each. Note: Some of the undiscovered challenges do not unlock until you reach a certain area in the game or with weapons until a particular weapon's level 5 challenge (i.e. "Open Wide!"for the shotgun, completion of which unlocks the previously undiscovered Shotgun Sniper challenge) have been completed, which can be a grind even in Normal mode. The easiest way to complete the level 5 weapons challenges is to spend your time exclusively in Southern Shelf and Southern Shelf - Bay where the lowest level enemies spawn. Additionally, just because a weapon challenge has not unlocked yet does not mean the game is not counting progress towards completion if you sometimes do what that undiscovered challenge asks. Also, it should be noted there are 114 non-DLC and non-level specific challenges that need to be done and at least three of them require two or more players.

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Easy "Thresher Thrashed" Achievement

To easily kill Terramorphous the Invincible, wait to accept the mission "You. Will. Die. (Seriously.)" until you have a level 62 or higher character and your current playthrough is in Ultimate Vault Hunter mode. Then while in Sanctuary in Normal mode, accept the mission from Dr. Tannis inside the Crimson Raiders HQ. Next, travel to Thousand Cuts and follow the mission marker to the entrance to Terramorphous Peak. Pay the 8 Eridium fee to access it and Terramorphous. Finally, summon Terramorphous with the longhorn. Within five minutes you should have Terramorphous killed, and if the profile being used kills him for the first time the achievement or trophy will be earned. Also, at the very least you should gain one Orange (Legendary) item in the form of a "Slayer of Terramorphous Class Mod.

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Easy "Went Five Rounds" achievement

Enter The Fridge and turn left immediately to enter the next zone, "Fink's Slaughterhouse". This is the first arena. Accept the quest from Fink and complete all five rounds earn "Went Five Rounds" and a unique gun. If you have difficulty winning all five rounds, progress in the storyline until you are a higher level and try again.

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Easy Badass ranks

Create a new character and join the game as a guest on controller two. Stand in front of the guest character with your main character and start a duel. Win the duel and repeat the process. Fifty duel victories will result in a gain of 166 Badass ranks. Create a new character and repeat the process as many times as desired.

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Easy money and Eridium

At the beginning of the Southpaw Steam & Power Facility, where you do the "Assassinate The Assassins" mission, is a room of lockers and small boxes. Check all the boxes and lockers, then go to the "Pause" menu. Select "Quit", then "Save And Quit". When the game returns to the title screen, continue your game. You will appear at the begging of Southpaw, and the boxes and lockers will have respawned with new items (weapons, money, ammo, shields, and Eridium). Loot the boxes and lockers again and repeat. The entire process is very fast and you can receive at least one Eridium every four times that the room is cleared. This is a good way to get black market items early in the game.

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Extra Wubs

Press Up(2), Down(2), Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start at the title screen to unlock the "Extra Wubs" option at the "Gameplay" section of the "Options" menu. Note: Extra Wubs has no effect in the game.

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Full Metal Jacket references

One of the rifle challenges is called "This Is My Rifle", which is a reference to one of the movie's more memorable lines. The reanimation station states "You will not die unless you are told" after reviving you, which was also a line in the move.

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Level and experience

Level	Experience	Experience needed for next level	Skill Points earned
1	0	358	0
2	358	883	0
3	1241	1609	0
4	2850	2526	0
5	5,376	3621	0
6	8997	4869	1
7	13866	6342	2
8	20208	7918	3
9	28126	9672	4
10	37798	11579	5
11	49377	13639	6
12	63016	15845	7
13	78861	18200	8
14	97061	20696	9
15	117757	23335	10
16	141092	26114	11
17	167206	29032	12
18	196238	32084	13
19	228322	35273	14
20	263595	38595	15
21	302190	42048	16
22	344238	45635	17
23	389873	49349	18
24	439222	53192	19
25	492414	57164	20
26	549578	61262	21
27	610840	65485	22
28	676325	69833	23
29	746158	74305	24
30	820463	78900	25
31	899363	83617	26
32	982980	88455	27
33	1071435	93415	28
34	1164850	98493	29
35	1263343	85748	30
36	1349091	126950	31
37	1476041	114442	32
38	1590483	119993	33
39	1710476	104615	34
40	1815091	152491	35
41	1967582	137344	36
42	2104926	143359	37
43	2248285	149487	38
44	2397772	155729	39
45	2553501	162085	40
46	2715586	168553	41
47	2884139	175134	42
48	3059273	181825	43
49	3241098	188630	44
50	3429728		45

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Minecraft reference

Go to Sanctuary Hole after Chapter 9. Jump off a cliff then go to Caustic Caverns. Run northwest to Guardian Ruins then go to the minecarts and turn right. Jump over the rectangular rocks then turn left to find Minecraft dirt. Break though it to reach Minecraft stone, cobblestone, and coal. Break though those to find Creepers, as well as blocks of gold, diamond, iridium and more. Kill the Badass Creeper to unlock Minecraft-themed skins.

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Monopoly reference

During the "Clan War: End of the Rainbow" side mission, once you have followed the Bagman to the Holy Spirits' cash stash underground and are attempting to kill him, he will occasionally teleport. During this time, non-lootable gold coins and paper money resembling the money used for playing the board game "Monopoly" will appear momentarily. This is most easily noticed if you are trying to attack him from close range.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reference

There is a quest Patricia Tannis will give you called "Splinter Group". The first step is to pick up some "bait" from Mad Moxxi. This "bait" is actually pizza and Patricia will say after you pick it up that they love the stuff. You end up going into the sewers, which then is a hideout of the runaway mutants. Leave the pizza on the table and get ready to fight four "brothers" who talk like the four talking turtles. After you defeat them. you will go further and can choose to just leave and forget about the puzzle in the final room, or try to finish the puzzle to turn five red lights into five green lights. Once all lights are green another mutant will will come out of hiding and attack you. All five of these mutants does flips, Rolls, and jumps just like a ninja would do.

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True Vault Hunter mode

Successfully complete Story mode under the Normal difficulty setting.

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Ultimate Vault Hunter mode

Successfully complete the main story in True Vault Hunter mode.

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Various Achievements

Complete the following achievements to unlock Microsoft Gamerscore points.

Achievement	How to unlock
A Road Less Traveled (20 points)	Completed the mission "The Road To Sanctuary".
Always Improving (25 points)	Reached level 25.
An Angel's Wish (25 points)	Completed the mission "Where Angels Fear To Tread".
An Old Flame (20 points)	Completed the mission "Hunting The Firehawk".
Arctic Explorer (15 points)	Discovered all named locations in Three Horns, Tundra Express, and Frostburn Canyon.
Been There (45 points)	Discovered all named locations in Hammerlock's Hunt.
Better Than Money (15 points)	Purchased 5 items from the black market.
Better Than You Were (10 points)	Reached level 10.
Blight Explorer (15 points)	Discovered all named locations in Eridium Blight, Arid Nexus, and Sawtooth Cauldron.
Bombs Away (20 points)	Completed the mission "Toil And Trouble".
Bounty Hunter (25 points)	Completed 20 side missions.
Build Buster (20 points)	Killed a Constructor without it ever building another bot.
Can See My House From Here (20 points)	Completed the mission "Bright Lights, Flying City".
Capped Out (50 points)	Reached level 50.
Challenge Accepted (30 points)	Completed level 1 of all non-level-specific challenges with a single character.
Completionist (25 points)	Completed all Pirate's Booty side missions.
Cool Story, Bro (30 points)	Defeated Jack.
Cute Loot (15 points)	Killed a Chubby.
Dang Girl You Ace At This Game (30 points)	Won the most challenging round in Murderlin's Temple.
Decked Out (25 points)	Had Purple-rated gear or better equipped in every slot.
Definitely An Italian Plumber (15 points)	Killed Donkey Mong.
Did It All (40 points)	Completed all side missions.
Done That (40 points)	Completed all Hammerlock's Hunt side missions.
Dragon Slayer (20 points)	Completed the mission "Best Minion Ever".
Explosive (40 points)	Completed the mission "Long Way To The Top".
Face Off (40 points)	Completed the mission "The Fall of Nakayama".
Farewell, Old Girl (20 points)	Completed the mission "Wildlife Preservation".
Feels Like The First Time (10 points)	Opened the chest at the bus stop in Fyrestone.
First One's Free (10 points)	Completed the mission "My First Gun".
Friendship Rules (10 points)	Revived someone from "Fight for Your Life!" that is on your friends list.
Gadabout (25 points)	Discovered all named locations in Oasis and the surrounding Pirate's Booty zones.
Girl's Gotta Eat (15 points)	Fed thy noble queen 3 times during one visit to her quarters.
Goliath, Meet David (15 points)	Allowed a Goliath to level up four times before killing him.
Got The Band Back Together (20 points)	Completed the mission "The Once and Future Slab".
High-Flying Hurler (10 points)	Killed a flying enemy with a thrown Tediore weapon.
Highlands Explorer (15 points)	Discovered all named locations in The Highlands, Thousand Cuts, and Wildlife Exploitation Preserve.
Hmmmmm (15 points)	Wielded the Mysterious Amulet.
How Do I Look? (25 points)	Unlocked 10 customization items.
I Totes Planned That Boss (10 points)	Slew Mister Boney Pants Guy.
Identity Theft (20 points)	Completed the mission "The Man Who Would Be Jack".
It's Like That One Video (10 points)	Showed thine worst enemy, the abomination known as "The Darkness," who is the nerdiest of them all.
Keep Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' (15 points)	Demonstrated your skill, or lack thereof, at rolling the magical treasure orb of many sides.
Knowing Is Half The Battle (20 points)	Completed the mission "Data Mining".
Make it Raaaaaid (50 points)	Vanquished the Ancient Dragons of Destruction.
Motorhead (40 points)	Completed all Campaign of Carnage side missions.
New In Town (20 points)	Completed the mission "Plan B".
No Man Left Behind (20 points)	Completed the mission "A Dam Fine Rescue".
Not Quite Dead (5 points)	Reached level 5.
Obsessed (45 points)	Collected 10 pictures of Moxxi in Campaign of Carnage.
Phased and Confused (20 points)	Phaselocked 100 enemies.
Sabre Rattler (20 points)	Killed 100 enemies with the Sabre turret.
Shorty, You So Best (60 points)	Completed thy quest by rescuing yonder queen.
Sky's The Limit (20 points)	Completed the mission "Rising Action".
So Much Blood! (20 points)	Gunzerked continuously for 90 seconds.
Sugar Daddy (10 points)	Tipped Moxxi $10,000.
They Was All "Hey That's Mine" (20 points)	Unsheathed 5 swords from Immortal Skeletaurs without leaving the area.
Thresher Thrashed (30 points)	Defeated Terramorphous the Invincible.
Token Gesture (20 points)	Redeemed 25 tokens.
Treasure Hunter (75 points)	Completed the mission "X Marks the Spot".
Tribute To A Vault Hunter (15 points)	Got an item from Michael Mamaril.
Unseen Predator (20 points)	Remained in Zero's Deception mode for ten seconds straight.
Up High, Down Low (15 points)	Gave Claptrap a high five.
Urban Explorer (15 points)	Discovered all named locations in Sanctuary, Opportunity, and Lynchwood.
Well That Was Easy (10 points)	Completed the mission "Shoot This Guy in the Face".
Went Five Rounds (25 points)	Completed Round 5 of any Circle of Slaughter.
What does it mean? (15 points)	I can't even capture it on my camera.
Wilhelm Screamed (20 points)	Completed the mission "A Train To Catch".
World Traveler (50 points)	Discovered all named locations.
Yaaaaaay (25 points)	Introduced thyself to the White Knight.