

You can return to Sanctuary as many times as you want for a sizable number of free weapons, but Michael will move around constantly within the city. Every time you find and speak with him, he’ll hand you a rare item (blue or better). He is named after a Borderlands fan who passed away, and he even has his own achievement. There is a non-player character in Sanctuary named Michael Mamaril. Your friend will revive you, and you can repeat the process for both players until everyone has the challenge maxed. Now shoot once and then hit reload to throw the gun and down yourself from the explosion. Instead, you can only down yourself with grenades (slow and costly) or Tediore weapons, which are chucked instead of being reloaded and explode on impact.Īs soon as you get a Tediore weapon, remove your shield and stand in a corner with your friend next to you (Borderlands 2 has no friendly fire, so he won’t receive damage). Since you can’t take damage from falling, you can’t repeatedly jump to your doom and have your friends waiting for you at the bottom. Of course, the game has a challenge for this (“This Is No Time for Lazy!”), but it would take forever through normal play (especially if your team doesn’t suck). Whenever a fellow player is downed, you may hold X to revive him if you’re feeling generous. It’s best to get these done as fast as possible and move on. Note that winning a duel doesn’t technically count as a “kill,” so you can’t grind any of the kill challenges this way, and shooting the other player is just a waste of ammo. If you want to be nice, you can then take 50 losses so your friend can get their wins, too. Once the duel begins, melee the other player and you’ll defeat them in a single swipe. Then initiate a duel with a second player by using melee attacks against each other. Now whenever you lose a duel, you’ll only have a sliver of health remaining. First, both players should remove their shield (if they have one). However, like with trading, you can do this quickly at the beginning of the game. To complete all the levels for the Duel challenge, you need to win 50 duels. That means, if you were so inclined, you could keep creating new characters, max the trading challenge (among others) out in a couple of minutes, and repeat for tons of Badass Rank and tokens.

The beauty of this is that both players complete the challenges at the same time, unlike the Duel challenge (see below).īONUS: Badass tokens and the permanent stat increases you get for them are saved across all your characters, but challenges are not. To expedite the process, both players select “Trade” and you’re done. That player holds B to accept the trade and then you’ll both enter the trade interface. To initiate a trade, hold B for a second while facing a nearby player. You can do this at the very beginning of the game and receive sizable permanent stat boost thanks to the 15-plus tokens you’ll receive, all in a matter of minutes. You must complete 50 trades with another player to finish level five of the “Psst, Hey Buddy…” challenge. However, you can knock out a few challenges early on with a little game exploitation and get a lot of tokens well before the game’s designers intended for you to have just one.įirst up is trading. The higher the challenge level you complete, the more Badass Rank you gain and the more points you unlock for a total of 166 points per challenge: Most challenges have five levels, with a higher goal at each level (10 sniper kills, 100, 500, and so on). Some of these challenges can take multiple playthroughs to finish across dozens of hours, while some of the specific challenges can be pretty difficult for a number of reasons. Earn enough Badass Rank and you’ll get a token that allows you to permanently increase a bonus stat across all of your characters. As with the first Borderlands, the sequel has tons of in-game challenges that you can now complete for Badass Rank.
