Still, copy the whole folder somewhere to another drive, and do it regularly. From that number it calculated how many BAR tokens you have to allocate. When you load a character, the game will work out your BAR from the save file. There is a sticky topic at the top that has SHIFT codes for more keys.Ī fresh Profile.bin being created because the earlier one was corrupted, means that the game has no record of any characters, BAR etc so assumes you are starting from the beginning, so get the 11 keys. Your very first character will get the extra 10, usually because of the starter package you bought has a 10 key bonus. Z00t says players can get 11 keys in the beginning if its a new profile.bin, but we only have 1, why?Įvery character shares the number of keys so not an easy way to get an endless supply of them :) Originally posted by Nakos:Character and Profile are two different things.īut still don't understand why that 10 key's message after I already played 24 hours then show up, and my friend still don't have that 10 keys. Do that often, especially if you're playing a lot. Now, while you're down there looking at your save folder, I strongly recommend making a backup of the entire thing, to some remote location ideally (like a thumb drive). sav.bak version (you'll have to manually strip the. sav file gets corrupted, you can sometimes recover it by using the. These are the previous version of each associated. The Profile.bin file is where the following are stored:īAR can be turned on, or off on individual characters, but they're still an account unlock that is (by default) applied to all your characters.įinally, looking in your save folder again, you'll see some files that are tagged as. The Profile.bin file applies to your account, NOT your individual characters. sav suffix.Īlso in your save folder, you'll find an additional file called Profile.bin. Your Characters are each separate save files with the.

After i saw that system message, I realized that I still have 10 yet, then why he only got 1?Ĭharacter and Profile are two different things.

You mean every charator creat, game will send 11 golden key to player? or just when the profile.bin broken and rebuild?īy the way, my friend and I are in the same chapter, just played maybe 24 hours together, but he only have one golden key. It's a new charactor, the second charactor i've made, so it's a new one. My Documents / My Games / Borderlands 2 / WillowGame / SaveData /

This is where the save file folder lives : Profile.bin is an important file so it is a good idea to backup your entire save file folder to a thumb drive / another drive regularly, especially if you co-op. And you will also lose any heads/skins you had unlocked, the content of Clappy's stash, gold keys etc. When the profile.bin is created the game will give you 11 gold keys. Go to the challenges tab and see if all of your BAR bonus settings are gone, and you have a bunch of unallocated tokens. Originally posted by z00t:It likely means that the profile.bin file was corrupted and the game has created a new one.

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