Stupidly fast leveling? Glitch or game design

[Smidgen]

I recently started a new save as Purna and for whatever reason, before I've even left the first questing hub (lighthouse) I'm at level 19. You may think that sounds great but I'm fighting level 19 zombies with level 2 - 6 weapons, it's stupid. Is this a bug or something that got patched into the game and this is how it's supposed to be?

I have a complete save with Xian so I'm not sure if that is causing it, (it makes no sense but it's all I can think of)

[nosferatuX]

There are several challenges in the game which ,when finished give you great amounts of xp .
No bugs or glitches but when finished they cause you to level up quickly and they can cause problems like you describe .
Happened to me too , had to buy weapons now instead of relying on just finding them and gradually upgrade .
On the plus side you can now get the ability to open all chests and use maximum inventory space so you can make some money out of it too .

[Smidgen]

Hmm, still a little odd, I finished the game as Xian at level 36 and I'm almost at that level right at the start of the game

[nosferatuX]

Go to extras in your menu of DI and look at the challenges , the further you get with these challenges the more xp you will get .
Imagine just starting a new game and then receiving 100000 xp at once .
Better not engage in any fights when that happens :-)

[Smidgen]

Haha, thanks man, finally it makes sense. I just got 50k xp at level 4 for killing 2500 walkers no wonder :D

[nosferatuX]

Enjoy your newly acquired skills but use them wisely :-)

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

Isn't there anything can be done about this?
I just started a fresh game with someone, and he is level 4 and I am now level 12.
I'm sure the challenges are badly glitched, because we both just checked our stats, and the challenge for swinging a melee weapon 1,000 times still says that we have both got 0 swings with a melee weapon.
I have never gotten to the end of act 2, but I have the challenge for getting all collectibles in the game, which gives me 50,000 XP.
Ridiculous.
Isn't there a way to either reset the challenges or turn them off altogether?
Or at least a way to give the guy I am playing with a stack of XP so he can catch me up?
It has kind of ruined the game for us and we were having so much fun

[Smidgen]

From what I can tell you can't turn off challenges or even reset them for a new character.
Apparently they patched the game a while ago to make mobs level as you level so you can play with people higher or lower than yourself but this has just caused even more problems. Sadly I just gave up with game, it is far too frustrating. Sorry man