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Mikey360
10-23-2012, 07:32 PM
A new virus is a new virus is making its way around the community called Graveyard. The virus does a rather unwelcoming thing of humping your Borderlands 2 save file and then dumps a lot of the data so that once you die you lose your character, stats and everything else, forever. There is no way to recover your data but some modders might be able to cure your save file if you're willing to take a few steps to let them remedy the problem.

The Better Gaming Bureau (and I really like that name. I hope they live up to it!) has done gaming a great service today of announcing that the Graveyard virus is spreading like wildfire. The reports confirm that save files for PC and Xbox 360 are converted to Graveyard.sav files and will ruin your stats for good once you die. So your choice is either to never die or get your save file fixed by a modder. The upside is that PS3 gamers have not encountered this virus, yet.

What is graveyard.sav? What does this have to do with me?

When you get hit by the glitch that turns your save into graveyard.sav, upon entering FFYL and then subsequently dying for whatever reason, you will never respawn. You die and go into a free roam camera. If you try to load another character, dashboard, restart your xbox, etc, your save data is completely gone and there is no hope of recovering it at that point, as it is renamed graveyard.sav and is missing the majority of the data it once had.

What?! How did I get this?

The glitch originated with the modding community and may or may not have been accidental. It spread from there, and it passes from the infected player to all other players in the game with said infected player. At this point, its a terrible chain, and chances are it passed to you through some randoms.

So how can I prevent this, or save my character if it gets effected later?

If you want to prevent this, you have to make sure you're not playing with randoms, and that everybody you play with isn't playing with randoms, AND that it isn't currently effecting anybody in your group. Along with that,

MAKE FREQUENT BACKUPS

, and if you are on 360,

do not backup to the Cloud, as it will sync with your HD saves and your backups will be overwritten

, apparently. Memory card or USB drive is best.

If you get hit by this and recognize it (free roam camera, no respawning, etc), you can salvage your save.

1. Open up gibbed editor,

2. Open your SaveGame.sav

3. Go to the raw tab and locate "IsBadassModeSaveGame"

4. Change the ofset from true to false.

5. Save your SaveGame.sav and replace it into your SaveXXXX.sav, then re hash and resign.

If you salvage your save in this way, and then continue to play, the next time you die, it will happen again, and you must repeat the steps above. I highly recommend following the above steps and then NOT TOUCHING THE SAVE after that. It's a logical assumption that due to how this is done, Gearbox will likely be able to remove the "infection" from any effected files with the patch once they get it out.

Information came from

Here

Video of the infection in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Glm_UL-Iqyg

Anyone caught posting the save on the site will be warned, and possibly banned.

This was posted on TTG by ASmallForest,

Original Thread from TTG http://www.thetechgame.com/Forums/t=4431047/borderlands-2-graveyardsav-infection.html

i just copied and pasted onto here since there was no in depth post about this infection

CROSSxGODofWAR
10-23-2012, 08:29 PM
So can i delete it off my HDD? and will it effect my xbox?

Idlehands88
10-23-2012, 08:36 PM
So can i delete it off my HDD? and will it effect my xbox?

No, it only infects the save that the infected player joins you on.

66synyster
10-23-2012, 10:35 PM
That's scary!! lol but now i am educated.

Thanks.

John Henry Eden
10-23-2012, 10:38 PM
Looks pretty interesting, going to check this out.

CloudStrife7x
10-23-2012, 10:38 PM
im immune to all infections, cause im Cloud Strife :053::021: lol

thegutta
10-23-2012, 11:45 PM
Luckily i haven't have any problems yet but i least now i known what to do if i bump into it thanks :)

DGenerateKane
10-24-2012, 03:08 AM
I thought I heard the new patch fixed it. Or at least prevented new infections.

Kenix
10-24-2012, 03:23 AM
good to know, thanks for the info

Mikey360
10-24-2012, 01:29 PM
I thought I heard the new patch fixed it. Or at least prevented new infections.

The new patch caused it... Because of corrupted data from getting the update in the middle of playing on your character.

Mikey360
10-24-2012, 01:30 PM
So can i delete it off my HDD? and will it effect my xbox?
Yes you can delete the .sav but you will not need to because i will be making a thread to fix this problem soon!

8Ball
10-25-2012, 01:14 AM
or get your save file fixed by a modder So first we caused it and now we are the heroes they need but don't deserve? yeah, no they can fuck off.

reapermech
10-25-2012, 01:38 AM
So first we caused it and now we are the heroes they need but don't deserve? yeah, no they can fuck off.

^^^^^ this right here blame us then beg for our help serves some of the crybabies right

lizzkid89
10-25-2012, 04:33 AM
so basically the best way to be safe for now until the fix comes out is play by your self and not public or play with your friends that dont use mods

DeathWrench
10-25-2012, 05:38 AM
This was most likely done by accident when someone seen the Badass mode and thought it was a good idea to check it, this is about as irresponsible as Zed starting the zombie apocalypse.


For shame. All this time I didn`t know :(
It deleted my save once, but I didn`t know it was a widespread glitch.

Katzu Jiro
10-25-2012, 09:37 PM
A new virus is a new virus is making its way around the community called Graveyard. The virus does a rather unwelcoming thing of humping your Borderlands 2 save file and then dumps a lot of the data so that once you die you lose your character, stats and everything else, forever. There is no way to recover your data but some modders might be able to cure your save file if you're willing to take a few steps to let them remedy the problem.

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I saw this a while ago when I was modding my weapons, it isn't an infection, it's a glitch associated with leveled areas:

http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/borderlands-2-modded-weapons-workshop-updated.798875/page-15#post-5905744

TheKingWalrus
10-27-2012, 03:31 AM
Thanks no more playing with randoms for me!