BORDERLANDS 2 THREAD

[Joe Molotov]

You wanna hear this new dubstep song I wrote? Wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub DROP! wub wub wub wub wub

[Eric P]

I am gonna make a new character and take it through the opening bits, then reserve it, if anyone else wants to start fresh and play through the whole game co-op (not at once, just keep a character on reserve for that purpose) let me know.

I wouldn't mind doing that, I was already thinking of starting a new playthrough with Zero.

I'd be down for that as well.  I was having fun with Zero backing up Eel when we played.

[fistfulofmetal]

lynchwood just drained like half of my money 

don't go there until you're round lvl 24

2 hours later i come out tougher and stronger.

[Tucah]

Stumbled upon the (easter egg spoiler)

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Minecraft section today.

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This game fucking rocks.

[Cerveza mas fina]

The humour is pretty cool, unlike everything companies like Blizzard try to pass for humour nowadays.

[Eel O'Brian]

man, don't fucking tell me a mission is "normal" and then throw a fucking quartet of badass nomads and taskmasters at me, shitheads

[Stoney Mason]

Game is really good. A big improvement over the first which dragged a lot more.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Has anyone beaten the game yet?  I know some of you people have been putting in some heavy hours according to the Steam timeclock.  If so, how long did it take you?

[Great Rumbler]

A friend of mine said it took him about 32 hours to beat, so maybe a little bit longer than the first game.

[Eel O'Brian]

besides my main gunzerker, i have a commando sitting in reserve at level 8 right now, if anyone wants to co-op around that level ping me on steam and i will switch over to join you

[Himu]

Does this game have actual variety unlike the first game?

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Oh man, I had to quit.  I was Level 11 going up against a Level 14 Mad Mike who would launch fire and kill me instantly.  The amount of money I had was cut in half from trying to fight him.

 

[Eel O'Brian]

Does this game have actual variety unlike the first game?

yeah, it's more varied in both settings and enemies

[Stoney Mason]

I've played all 4 classes for varying amounts of time now.

I think the Siren is the most fun. Followed up by the commando guy although Zero is pretty close and neat in his own ways. My least favorite is the gun zerker. The dual wielding thing is probably fun if you have two really bad ass weapons but overall I find that character kind of boring. 

On a general note the game is funnier than I expected. I know they made a big deal of Anthony Burch writing most of it but I find Hey Ash watcha playing over-rated so I was skeptical coming into this. But there are some legit funny moments. I say this after not thinking a single thing in the original Borderlands was funny.

[demi]

Siren is a fun class from the get-go due to Phaselock.

Gunzerker and Zero are classes that pay off in the later game when the skill tree is more fleshed out. Early on it's kinda... wut?

Commando is kind of the missionary boring class, imo. Turrets... man

[drew]

watched someone play borderlands ps3 on a 70" sharp tv, couldn't tell if it was the ps3, the blown up res or what but shit looked washed out and depressing, i was begging him to just get borderlands 2

[Eel O'Brian]

sometimes this game just isn't very much fun, like when you work your way to the top of a mountain, die, then respawn halfway across the map and have to slog all the way back - and they charge you $400+ dollars on top of it

[Shaka Khan]

I haven't jumped in yet, but can everyone cite which platform they're playing this on? If it's a console how good is the port and if it's the PC version how demanding are the reqs? Kthxbye

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

sometimes this game just isn't very much fun, like when you work your way to the top of a mountain, die, then respawn halfway across the map and have to slog all the way back - and they charge you $400+ dollars on top of it

This game is brutal.  It seems like you need to be at least a couple levels higher than the recommended level as "normal."  I got a lot of lucky second winds thanks to guns that deal elemental damage that take out an enemy in the nick of time.  Also, being good at sniping gives you a false impression that you're making great progress when you should really hang back a bit and grind for a while.

[Groogrux]

Also, being good at sniping gives you a false impression that you're making great progress when you should really hang back a bit and grind for a while.

No freaking doubt.  There have been so many times where I've said to myself, "They must all be dead now!" and run in only to get killed by a fucking nomad...

[Eel O'Brian]

the problem with not rushing in is that i'm playing a gunzerker, and his abilities are built around rushing in

[maxy]

I haven't jumped in yet, but can everyone cite which platform they're playing this on? If it's a console how good is the port and if it's the PC version how demanding are the reqs? Kthxbye

Read
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-borderlands-2-face-off

[Joe Molotov]

I haven't jumped in yet, but can everyone cite which platform they're playing this on? If it's a console how good is the port and if it's the PC version how demanding are the reqs? Kthxbye

It's UE3, so the PC version doesn't take a lot of horsepower.

[benjipwns]

Yeah, PC is mostly the same as the first game, it's just the extra fancy stuff on top.

[demi]

This game is brutal.  It seems like you need to be at least a couple levels higher than the recommended level as "normal."  I got a lot of lucky second winds thanks to guns that deal elemental damage that take out an enemy in the nick of time.  Also, being good at sniping gives you a false impression that you're making great progress when you should really hang back a bit and grind for a while.

No, being good at sniping means enemies die in one shot, and you laugh from afar. Headshots = Critical

You can also take chunks of boss health this way.

Assassin

[Stoney Mason]

the problem with not rushing in is that i'm playing a gunzerker, and his abilities are built around rushing in

The gunzerker doesn't have an easy bailout get out of danger card to play like the other classes.

Lock, turret, and stealth are all a way to retreat if used correctly by comparison.

I'll be honest and say in general I don't see how people play this game singleplayer. Even in comparison to the other loot games, this one seems like it begs for co-op. So many mechanics are built into it that encourage it. I would recommend everybody really play it that way if at all possible.

[benjipwns]

I'll be honest and say in general I don't see how people play this game singleplayer.

I played the first one multiple times solo because everyone I know is shitty in co-op. (L4D, Saints Row, this, etc. they're terrible!)

And to be fair I kinda like solo. I loved in the first game when it sometimes offered "isolation" and that I was alone in this hostile world.

[Eel O'Brian]

just got a ridiculously overpowered corrosive sniper, bitch-slapping increased by 100%

[Eel O'Brian]

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luring flesh stick back to tina is the most annoying goddamned mission yet, i want to slap someone at gearbox for making it

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[Brehvolution]

I started a new game with Zer0 and I like him a lot more than Axton. I love the pistols that buff the melee. Anything stupid enough to run at you loses its head with one swipe. It's also pretty gratifying meleeing a boss to its death using the deception power. One thing I learned from watching one of the dev diaries about the assassin is that the first shot/melee attack in deception deals the most damage.
I used the Bad Hair day quest to get a nice sniper rifle. It's almost twice as good as the one you start with.

I had fun playing with you mojo.

[Joe Molotov]

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luring flesh stick back to tina is the most annoying goddamned mission yet, i want to slap someone at gearbox for making it

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How was that mission hard? Just kill everyone but him and then run back to cave, and if he starts to fall behind shoot at him a few times.

[Great Rumbler]

I messed that up the first time because I accidentally killed Flesh-Stick right away, but when I went back to do the mission again, it was just him there and no one else. After that, it's simple as can be to get him back to the cave.

[Eel O'Brian]

he takes damage too easily and all i had were weapons that killed him in a couple of shots, i ended up crippling him and just letting him hit me to keep him focused

[Great Rumbler]

You don't actually have to shoot him to keep his attention, just shoot TOWARDS him.

[Eel O'Brian]

i know that now

[fistfulofmetal]

this isn't the best gun i have but it's definitely the coolest looking gun i have

[Brehvolution]

I got my first purple last night. It's an AR with a 250 round clip.

[fistfulofmetal]

There's a story twist that occurs late in the game that i found pretty good and well done:

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You find out Angel isn't an AI, but Jack's daughter and she's also a Siren. You kill her and Jack kidnaps Lilith. Then you start seeing super high-res IRL videos of Lilith instead of Angel.

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[Stoney Mason]

I'm kind of addicted to the game in a way I wasn't to the original or for that matter Diablo 3 or Mass Effect 3. I didn't bother to play any of the other classes in those games for example but I've played all four in Borderlands 2 for a good amount of time.

Can't quite put my finger on why I like the game so much especially since I was a bit luke warm on the first. It's just an accumulation of small things that add up to make me really like it.

And the story and characters are a huge step up. Really helps with the motivation in these sorts of titles which can often feel repetitive.

[Brehvolution]

It's gotten to a point with my assassin that I don't bother shooting guys that run up on me. One hit melee rules and snipe the heads off the bigger guys from afar.

Zer0

[Brehvolution]

Got the Minecraft gun last night. Its pretty awesome.

Is that what you were talking to me about last night? I thought you were saying you wanted to play minecraft. I've been sick for 2 days so I'm a little out of it.

[Momo]

Game just got delivered along with One Piece

[Joe Molotov]

Borderlands 2 >>>>>> One Piece

[Eel O'Brian]

Either Steam or this game has been acting weird lately, I keep losing my connection while playing.

[fistfulofmetal]

i've had a few crashes here and there. none since the weekend. but when i join greatrumblers game?

one crash and then a bluescreen 10 minutes later.

never playing with him again!

[Great Rumbler]

Found a pretty awesome pistol:



The trick is that you only get 4k damage on ricochete, so it takes a little practice to use.

[fistfulofmetal]

I kind of like what they do with the Handsome Jack character. He goes from a dick character to a real fucking asshole who is also a dick.

[Great Rumbler]

Found my first totally awesome weapon that's worth a ton of money and does many damages:

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

sometimes this game just isn't very much fun, like when you work your way to the top of a mountain, die, then respawn halfway across the map and have to slog all the way back - and they charge you $400+ dollars on top of it

This game is brutal.  It seems like you need to be at least a couple levels higher than the recommended level as "normal."  I got a lot of lucky second winds thanks to guns that deal elemental damage that take out an enemy in the nick of time.  Also, being good at sniping gives you a false impression that you're making great progress when you should really hang back a bit and grind for a while.

Turns out I skipped about a dozen missions.  Now I'm going back through, got all my money back and then some, and in a better position to kick some more ass.

[fistfulofmetal]

here's my current loadout. i used to use only shotguns but as the game got tougher i found i needed something with range.



the pistol has homing bullets 

[Great Rumbler]

BOOM. Just beat the first playthrough, took 35 hours.

[Stoney Mason]

I'm close to beating it with my siren. Maybe tomorrow.

[drew]

set my xbl prefs to public and nobody is joining

level 18...so ronery

[Momo]

Borderlands 2 >>>>>> One Piece

Hence me playing One Piece during the week and giving Borderlands 2 premium weekend time

[Stoney Mason]

Finished first playthrough at level 32 or 33 can't remember. I'll check the hours later. Very enjoyable and funny game. Certainly there are areas I could nit pick it on but ultimately a really fun game I enjoyed all the way throughout.

[fistfulofmetal]

I finished it this morning. Last boss was super easy. Great game. It's a much better designed Borderlands with more varied and interesting loot combinations, same with the locations you go to. It's funny for the most part.

I started NG+ and played until I got to Sanctuary so I could use one of my gold keys. I got a shotgun thats not as good as the one I already had and a sniper rifle

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

God damn this game can be fucking infuriating.  I'm at the part with the gluttonous thresher.  The attacks can be annoying but even worse is its instant shield regeneration.

[Momo]

Im at the place where you have to find the rebel leader (trying to be spoiler free) i tried getting him out that robo but they disappeared. Bugged quest?

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Im at the place where you have to find the rebel leader (trying to be spoiler free) i tried getting him out that robo but they disappeared. Bugged quest?

No, they disappeared to a different part of the world.  You have the use the fast travel to find where they are.

Oh and I watched playthrough videos fighting that one boss and I got highly discouraged that they were all wielding powerful weapons in spite of being the same level or lower.  I've had such shitty gun loot in this game that I'm still depending on weaponry that is several levels lower than I am (19) because I can't find anything that even matches those weapons.

[Eric P]

I found what feels like a game breaking gun at lvl 9.  it's an autofire pistol w/ infinite ammo which does 67 points of damage per round.  innacurate as hell but when you're capping bosses super easily it doesn't feel like it much matters