Question for Borderlands 2 players. Did I do something wrong? If not, WTH?

[Turborama]

OK, so I am playing this awesome game after reading a few of the gamers here raving about but I've just had an incident that makes me want to give up.

Don't get me wrong, I've had a lot of fun over several hours learning this and that and have become an excellent marksman with the uncommon sniper rifle I collected after Sir Hammerlock's bad hair day.

However, after getting past Boom and Bewm and multiple hordes of psychos/bandits etc I got to the boss fight with Captain Flynt and, as by then it was time to crash, I clicked on "save and quit" fully expecting to resume where I left off. Trouble is, when I started it just now after loading up the game and clicking on "Continue" I have ended up back at Liars Berg on the Southern Shelf!



The thought of having to fight all the way back to where I spent a few hours getting to (and the chance that something like this could happen later on in the game, too) is making me feel like giving up and playing something that knows what "save" means.

Is this normal, or a glitch? If this is normal, any tips on cheats anyone knows about?

[Ohio Joe]

1. Yeah... You kind of have to be mindful of how saving works...

For the most part, location gets saved when you enter a new area (I believe there are a few exceptions where an area has more then one location save point). You battled all the way to the end but since you did not go to the next area, your location save was still in Liars Burg. When you saved and quit, you saved character and story line up to that point but the location save point was the same. Consoles save programming... Nuff said.

[Skeeter Barnes]

2. AFAIK, it will always start you off back in Liar's Berg.

Unless you go through the door into the area where Midge Mong is. I've had the game start me out on either side of that door after saving previously. It's not as bad about that after you move on from Southern Shelf, which is more of a tutorial area.

What character are you using? After you get some decent gear, you will tear through enemies on your way to Captain Flynt so don't get discouraged, Minion.

Snipers are very powerful at levels 1-50 but you can't carry much ammo even with sniper ammo capacity maxed out. Torgue shotguns like the Ravager or Hulk are very effective at close range, especially in the first playthrough. Grenades are also very powerful in levels 1-50 and you find lots of them in ammo lockers so don't bother trying to conserve them.

On rare occasions, Boom Bewm drops the legendary "Bonus Package" grenade mod, which is insanely powerful. Look for the orange light in their loot piles.