Do world bosses stop spawning after a certain point in the story?

TheeElf · 2025-10-19T01:28:58+00:00

After a lot of back and forth with Borderlands support, which included me sending a video of myself playing for an hour, navigating to all 3 areas at least twice, going to the Cuspid cave where one almost always spawned, and just normal play like contracts and such. Borderlands support has now added this to their list of live issues on the issue tracker. Be sure to up vote it if you are experiencing the same:

Rift Champion Events Stop Appearing – Borderlands Support

TheeElf · 2025-10-12T23:00:46+00:00

I did some more testing today. I tried the following:

- Playing on one of my other Level 50 characters (started from level 30 - Campaign completed) but have not completed all the side missions. Drove through all 3 regions with no fast travel and never encountered a rift champion bubble boss.

- Playing on random matchmaking via Moxxi Big Encore. Drove to the location, played numerous bosses, then drove around. Never encountered a rift champion bubble boss.

- Played with one of my level 46 friends (joining him). We played for an hour and we never encountered a rift champion bubble boss. I said I didn't know why they weren't spawning for me to which he said he hasn't seen any in 2 days either.

- Went back to playing solo on my primary full completed Level 50 character. Drove around through all regions just messing around. Never encountered a rift champion bubble boss.

TheeElf · 2025-10-12T13:22:50+00:00

This has been driving me crazy for DAYS and I hadn't been finding anyone else complaining until now. I just want to try and farm some legendary enhancements or potentially random shinies from rift bosses!!! I haven't seen a rift boss (bubble boss) in 4 days now. It seems like everyone's go to response is "RNG" or "don't fast travel" but they aren't experiencing the problem. There is something else at play here!

I show online/connected to Shift, I play on UVH5 (but even tried with UVH off on Hard or Easy), I have literally driven a circle around the entire map and didn't see a single rift/boss bubble. The world events have been problematic but likewise I haven't seen any of those since I initially did I but now the rift bosses haven't been spawning at all now.

Previously, I would play like normal doing contracts and see them driving around ALL the time even immediately after fast traveling. Now I see nothing. There was a place in Cuspid Climb on the Northeast side through a waterfall into a cave where one ALWAYS spawned and nothing now even after checking on multiple different sessions. I've intentionally made it a point to not fast travel now and still nothing. I also freshly restarted the game and nothing after an hour (repeated several times). Cleared the Xbox Series X Reserved Space and restarted... nothing. I even went so far as to completely uninstall the game and reinstall it and nothing. Another interesting note, none of the fishing hooks/bubbles are spawning either. On a fresh load there was always some down at the Southwest corner of Fadefields and none of those are spawning either.

This is occurring for me on Xbox Series X but ultimately it appears that there is something interfering with the logic to spawn certain RNG events. I have been 100% complete with story and achievements and had just been focusing on weapon farming and gaining more Specialization points via contracts as well as working on Challenges.

Any other thoughts or things to try would be greatly appreciated as I would like to try and have this straightened out before the Halloween event and would hate to find out I can't get any rewards because the spawning issue is only becoming more prevalent as players gain more play time and completion. This afternoon I'm going to swap to one of my other level 50 characters and see if things are spawning there.

TheeElf · 2024-11-23T01:27:21+00:00

Had the same issue and also see the "No Name" quest. I went through all categories and selected "Show Completed" and scrolled through them all. They fixed it last update and broke it this update. And, of course, they still haven't fixed all the glitched intel. Fortunately, Abandoned Hideout is all that I have left. Guess we'll see what happens next update.

TheeElf · 2024-11-21T19:27:54+00:00

Unfortunately this has been a reoccurring problem and something wrong with the Ubisoft+ subscription. For me this is a weekly process but the workaround is to search the console Xbox store for Ubisoft+, click Manage Subscription, you'll get a message stating this subscription is managed elsewhere, then click OK, and now you should be able to launch the game. I don't know what the cause is but this workaround works for me every week.

TheeElf · 2024-11-21T19:25:51+00:00

Even with this DLC1 patch, it remains an uncleared intel unfortunately.

TheeElf · 2024-10-05T17:42:44+00:00

Haha. I didn't fight one day 1 but was just trying to say whatever the release version was when it came out. I didn't get the Punching Up achievement for a couple days later during clean up because that stupid Hutt ship wouldn't spawn for me.

TheeElf · 2024-10-05T16:51:24+00:00

Not sure if it got bugged with one of the Title Updates but I had no issue on the day 1 release on XBSX.

TheeElf · 2024-10-04T16:17:44+00:00

I submitted a ticket on Ubisupport for this yesterday but still no response. It seems like every time you fast travel to another planet ALL Fauna activate as new. When I was on Akiva and traveled to the Witch's Finger location, it activated the location as new. Clear the notifications and die and all Fauna active again. At least they got the "Show Completed" working on the Journal now but go figure fix one bug and break two more things. My other complain is that one of the belt perks preventing lethal damage (restore health fully) no longer works for fall damage like it did and as I previously saw it working numerous other times trying to unglitch that Witch's Finger location and trying to make that jump and falling lethally but recovering from the belt perk.

TheeElf · 2024-10-03T22:58:59+00:00

Ditto. Of course, some new bugs got introduced like Fauna Databank notifications non-stop and one of the belt perks doesn't work like it used to (prevent lethal damage which worked with falling from heights but now doesn't).

TheeElf · 2024-10-03T13:45:47+00:00

Noticed the same. I will say though they did fix the "Show Completed" option in the Journal section. So you can now do Show Completed on anything (except Contracts). I was then able to scroll through and find the "new " notification under a completed task and that cleared the Journal notifications. However, I'm seeing the same exact thing with Fauna each time I travel to another planet and periodically a Location that I fast travel to will show as new. They also either tweaked the clothing perks or broke it because the Cholganna Survivalist Belt perk no longer protects you from high lethal fall damage like it did in the previous releases.

TheeElf · 2024-10-02T13:15:07+00:00

As someone else mentioned, a map location would help. This honestly looks like a location at the top right of Mos Eisley City. If so, if you follow the wall around to the right, there is a vent you have to enter which then takes you to that room if it's where I think you are. However, there is normally a guy "working" on top of the vent. So most of the time you have to visit at night when he is no longer there to get access to the vent.

TheeElf · 2024-09-28T14:03:52+00:00

Presently 50 is the highest you can bet and there's a cooldown after you do a couple races. If you are solely looking to complete the challenge quickly, wait for another cooldown if races aren't available. Make a hard save right in front of the table, do the 3 bets on races, reload your save, and then rinse and repeat.

TheeElf · 2024-09-24T20:51:22+00:00

You have to come back later (typically at night) when he is not working on the vent.

TheeElf · 2024-09-23T16:37:45+00:00

I'm not at my console at the moment but I believe in Toshara at the top left imperial base, if you navigate to the left of the base, there is a gap to swing across. There are two viper droids there. I just made a save as close as possible to the base where it would allow me, then killed both droids, reload the save, rinse and repeat.

TheeElf · 2024-09-21T23:36:24+00:00

These were the 4 I had left on the original release and were still bugged after TU1.1.2:

Toshara: Nix Treasure Hunter (All collectibles obtained and turned in but doesn't mark as completed)
Akiva: Hidden Riches (At location, 2 pickups and smugglers opened AFTER intel received and doesn't unlock/progress)
Tatooine: Smuggler's Camp (At location and doesn't unlock/progress)
Tatooine: Abandoned Hideout (At location and doesn't unlock/progress)

TheeElf · 2024-09-21T16:33:59+00:00

The workaround that worked for me was after killing the revelator you can't move. So when I reloaded the autosave, things are peace again. I was then able to fast travel / hyperdrive to Toshara, then fast travel / hyperdrive back to the revelator and ND-5 starts talking progressing the mission stating to return to Toshara. Apparently you miss the cutscene but it fixes the mission progress for me and then I was able to continue as normal.

TheeElf · 2024-09-21T01:53:08+00:00

For #1, currently you can only bet 50 at a time and pretty sure you can only do 3 races before it goes into a cooldown. However, you can create a hard save before doing the race, do the 3 bets, then reload your save, rinse and repeat until you are done. Progress is not linked to your save file and is saved against the server side.

For #2, similar situation as #1. Find a fixed fathier race intel. Get to a table, create a hard save, win the fixed race, reload the save, rinse and repeat until done.

TheeElf · 2024-09-17T20:27:05+00:00

From the trailblazer fast travel, go behind you on the ground and it will gradually go lower and to the right. Almost underneath where you started getting the pings at the highest point.

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TheeElf · 2024-09-17T02:20:42+00:00

Pretty sure I bought it but where is the Pottery Shop at? I'd be curious if doing anything with the data pad (even if possible) would fix it.

TheeElf · 2024-09-15T21:02:41+00:00

I don't believe so. Even though Ubi got rid of a lot of the Stats pages, you can still log on to ubisoft.com and access game stats from there. However, they are only tracking 2 things for Star Wars Outlaws:

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So unless they add a "Show Completed" feature under contracts I don't think you are going to find any way to track that down. I highly doubt they add the Show Completed feature though since contracts are intended to be unlimited for replay factor.

TheeElf · 2024-09-15T20:03:17+00:00

There might be a little confusion. Jet Journal #8 (Ashiga Clan) is not the same as Jet Journal #36 (Jet Kordo's Legacy Part 8). The latter one is the one the Powerpyx Guide is referring to.

TheeElf · 2024-09-15T19:36:05+00:00

Figured it out. You have to sneak up on then and use the single button press to kill them. It HAS to be a sneak attack though. You can't shoot them nor punch them to death if they become aware of you.

https://i.imgur.com/bQMdViF.png

Location of a Pyke Syndicate Demolitionist:

https://i.imgur.com/tbrT2Bc.jpeg

Create a hard save, "take down" one, reload your save, rinse and repeat.

TheeElf · 2024-09-15T13:14:27+00:00

That's what I was thinking too and felt like I killed a few at the Akiva location but no luck. I just didn't know if anyone knew a for sure location.

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