With the announcement of Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition, Gearbox looked to offer players, both veteran and novice, a new take on an old experience. Indeed, fans are now diving into this remastered version of the original Borderlands and are powering up their characters with loot and levels. However, some may wish to bypass the leveling process entirely, and an infinite XP trick makes that possible very close to the beginning of the game.

How to Reach Max Level Early in Borderlands Remastered

Performing the Borderlands infinite XP trick requires a bit of setup, as players will need to have in the range of 120k to 140k in cash. Fortunately, there is a very simple way to go about collecting endless money quickly at the start of the game.

The process for farming money at the beginning of Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition starts with advancing the story quest to the point where a player is asked to get a power coupling to repair the first med vendor. At any point after receiving this mission, players can fast travel to T-Bone Junction and start to farm for cash.

Once in T-Bone Junction, the starting area from The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC, players should run the route articulated below, collecting money and loot on their path. Ultimately, this route will lead the player to a red chest, and all of the loot collected can be sold for a significant amount of money. When a player has reached the end of the route, they should simply save, quit, log back in, sell everything they have looted, and repeat the process until they have the desired amount of money.

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  1. Open the three lockers in the starting building in T-Bone Junction. Exit and go immediately west to loot four more lockers against the west side of the building.
  2. Go east and then north through an alley to find a bin. Following the stairs down will lead to two safes. Follow the path and jump across the gap to 3.
  3. Drop down to find three lockers. Follow the path to 4.
  4. There is a red chest and several Borderlands remastered lootable containers here. Enter the building to find a safe, and then save quit to begin the route again.

With cash in hand, players can now begin the infinite XP trick, which is a good, early-game alternative to Borderlands remastered's XP farming techniques. This trick can be done any time after the Fix'er Upper quest has been received near the beginning of the game, and it can be executed at any vendor. That said, using the first med vendor in Arid Badlands is recommended because it sells minor healing kit cheaply.

Essentially, this trick abuses the Merchant of Death challenge, which grants 20k XP for selling 1,200 items. Using this method, players can receive this XP reward over and over until they have reached their desired level, and then they can be on their way to claim Borderlands remastered SHiFT codes. The process is as follows:

  1. Buy minor health kits until inventory is full.
  2. Sell minor health kits.
  3. Buy new minor health kits until inventory is full. Do not buy back the ones sold previously, these need to be newly purchased health kits.
  4. Repeat this process until the Merchant of Death challenge is at 1,199 of 1,200 items sold. Be careful not to complete the challenge until reading the following steps.
  5. Now, buy one more health kit and sell it to complete Merchant of Death and receive 20k XP.
  6. Buy this health kit back. This will reset the Merchant of Death counter to 1,199 of 1,200.
  7. Save quit and log back in.
  8. Repeat steps 5-7 for easy XP.

To note, it can take some time to reach 1,199 items sold at the outset, around 5-10 minutes, but the XP trick can be done very quickly thereafter. From there, the game's world is a player's oyster, and they can begin to pursue other goals, like using a Borderlands remastered glitch to farm legendaries.

Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition is out now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.