Borderlands 2 Level 72 Character Lost in Digital Space

I purchased an XBox One three months ago and merged XBox 360 Borderlands with XBox One at Level 72 (playing Maya). Everything had been going fine until today. After I saved a session in BL2, quit the game and restarted, Maya came up as a Level 1 new character.
The Level 72 character had disappeared - and pressing the Y button showed only a Level 1. I rebooted the console and started over - same thing happened. So, I tried to restore from the Cloud and it returned the Level 72 that I had originally merged from the
XBox 360, not the current Level 72.

I called XBox One support and they said that probably data corruption occurred in a sync. OK, data can get corrupted. So, I asked if it was possible to get a game file with a time stamp before the event happened. The answer was NO. We can do time-stamped
recovery of files on a PC, why not with a game? As much as I enjoy playing a good game, like Borderlands 2, it's difficult to loop back to three months prior and rebuild this character.

Data persistence and recovery may be an opportunity in the game space.

:)

 

Bordering on greatness?

I had fun with Borderlands 2 but seemed way to similar to the first game to me and I lost interest in it after I reached level 50 with my first character.

 

borderlands2 level hack

hi, my borderlands 2 character was level 55 and it was instantly got levelled to 72 by a hacker. my Xbox live name is and the hackers name was GhostlyFaun83. I am desperate for it to be placed to its original level as I have spent many hours achieving
level 55 and I wish to complete the game by myself and friends. thank you.

 

Hey there, Tecnonix! Borderlands 2 isn't a back compat game. This game was released in The Handsome Collection, and was ported to Xbox One. This is a little different from the backward compatible games, which run on the 360 emulator.

Now, that being said, your issue lies with 2K or Gearbox. The way characters are uploaded is through the game itself, not through the 360 cloud. I suggest
reaching out to Gearbox first and seeing if they may be able to help you recover that character save. You are more than welcome to keep us updated on the situation! Hopefully they can get you that later version
of your level 72 Maya character.

 

Gearbox said that they cannot replace lost character data because they don't have it; nor do they have a record of it. Gearbox character data is saved locally on the HDD (which makes sense).

So, when data corruption glitches happen on an XBox One and blow out characters, players are stuffed. This is an XBox software design issue with respect to Cloud syncing and persistence of data. Gamers are at risk of losing months of time building characters
if there is no solution to these glitches.