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