Borderlands

[rattran]

Companies take a dump on the internet and users ALL THE DAMN TIME.

[Phire]

This is no different than any other street dated PC title with online activation. See Bioshock, Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead, etc.

It sucks but from a business sense of having to satisfy both brick and mortar retailers and the download services it makes sense.

Maybe I will start my 360 version while I wait for the PC unlock...

[Yegolev]

The icon is orange now.

Can you hear the silence of the lambs, Clarice?

[Musashi]

[Shrike]

No liver?

Anyway, my 360 copy showed up today, so ooooooooooohhhh yeah, I"m so playing all (one day) of my weekend. So there.

[Goreschach]

No liver?

Not until monday.

[Shrike]

360 version runs well and looks great. Controls are very good, but...well, it IS a fps, so I suspect the PC version would be somewhat easier even with the aiming assist on the console.

Tried Lilith. Got her to level 9 in one sitting. Not really clicking with the phasewalk thing. Elemental gunplay already seems devastating, though. I think I know what direction I'll be going. Of course, hardly any talent points so far, so it's all speculation. It's beginning to remind me of Diablo progression where you really didn't see a character performing well until about 1/3 or more into their progression. Going to try Roland next--after work, WoW ToC10 raid and sleep...

[apocrypha]

Do we need to make a gameplay thread or should we just fill this one up?

I've now got one of each class to level 10 except Brick and I honestly have to say that I like them all. Lilith's phasewalking utterly rocks at bitchslapping multiple mobs at once, you just have to bunch them up a bit first.

And yeah Shrike, I agree about the aiming, I bet you run out of ammo far less frequently on the PC 

[Yegolev]

This thread is probably OK but then again there were about nine threads for Demon's Souls.

Behold my Borderlandized avatar!

[Xilren's Twin]

I have Mordeci up to lvl 13 currently on the xbox verion; mucho fun.  Chose the hunter b/c generally speaking I suck at console FPS but with sniping, no problem.  Good humor, pace, flows well, loot-a-rific.  Just like certain other games, loot quality goes, white - green - blue - purple.  Found my first purple at level 5 but it actually sucked.

Elemental damage weapons make a huge difference at this point.  Love that the different sniper rifles actually have totally different scopes.  Currently using one massive damage sniper, one sniper that does fire DoT, a repeating pistol also with fire, and when i run out of ammo for those two i can swap in a electro assult rifle.  I'm using my bloodwing alot.  Vehicles are pretty good too.

Only gripes are repetative area running; areas respawn after a certain amount of time so try and get all the quests you can before hitting an area, and the 12 slot inventory.  In a game this loot heavy you quickly run out and have to start playing the "drop the least expensive" game.  Hopefully there's a way to expand that later.

[Hoax]

So, does this come out at 9pm PST on Monday or Sunday?  I'm never sure which that means.

[Amaron]

Only gripes are repetative area running; areas respawn after a certain amount of time so try and get all the quests you can before hitting an area, and the 12 slot inventory.  In a game this loot heavy you quickly run out and have to start playing the "drop the least expensive" game.  Hopefully there's a way to expand that later.

I only rented the 360 version and played it to about lvl 5 so far.  I'm pretty sure though there were way more than 12 slots.  Aren't there multiple 12 slot pages?

So, does this come out at 9pm PST on Monday or Sunday?  I'm never sure which that means.

Where did you get the 9pm bit? My countdown currently says 2 days and 4 hours.  Which pisses me off because it'll definitely be up for sale by this time monday.   Why do I have to wait 4 hours extra for a digital download?  It should unlock at freaking 12am Monday.

[Aez]

loot quality goes, white - green - blue - purple.  Found my first purple at level 5 but it actually sucked.

There is also orange which is better than purple.

[apocrypha]

the 12 slot inventory.  In a game this loot heavy you quickly run out and have to start playing the "drop the least expensive" game.  Hopefully there's a way to expand that later.

There is.

[waffel]

Questions:
Does EVERYONE use guns? Is that the only piece of equipment you ever get/find/upgrade? Also, how is the skill system? I mean if everyone is using guns they really can't do that many different skills can they?

[TheWalrus]

Welcome to the thread.

[AutomaticZen]

loot quality goes, white - green - blue - purple.  Found my first purple at level 5 but it actually sucked.

There is also orange which is better than purple.

It use the WoW color scheme of greatness?  Odd.

[Amaron]

Questions:
Does EVERYONE use guns? Is that the only piece of equipment you ever get/find/upgrade?

There's also shields and so far I saw deck upgrades to ammo capacity.   I assume there are a few more deck upgrade types I didn't see since I stopped playing after a while to save myself up for the PC version.

[Kageh]

So I went to my local austrian equivalent of Fry's today and they had literally *heaps* of Borderlands for the PC lying around. Thorough study of the box didn't mention Steam activation anywhere, it just read "Gamespy is required for internet play". Is there some special version that doesn't require Steam around? Or was just the box layouter uninformed? Or maybe I should get my eyesight checked?

In case this doesn't require Steam for starting up (maybe it is an EU thing?) I'll just get out and buy a PC copy.

[bhodi]

If you buy the PC copy, it won't allow you to install until Monday, just like the steam version.. It also has securrom. The steam version does not.

[schild]

I, as a lover of boxes, can not see a reason to buy any game boxed anymore if it's available on Steam.

1. Always up to date.
2. Tends to only have Steam DRM.
3. Unlimited Downloads.
4. I can taunt Bhodi and NiX.

[Kageh]

I'm a digital downloader by choice as well, however sometimes I still buy boxed because of weird pricing decisions: digital downloads are *exactly* MSRP priced on Steam, with boxes often being available significantly cheaper (Borderlands on Amazon.uk is about EUR 33, Steam price is EUR 49 or 45 preorder-discounted). With Borderlands, I decided the box inconveniences are worth saving $18.

Thanks for clearing my unlocking confusion up. I always thought it required activation via Steam even if you buy the box (a la Dawn of War 2).

[Azazel]

Unless a game is ...required early, (And less and less of them are these days since the backlog is bigger and bigger.) I still prefer boxed unless Steam is significantly cheaper.

For Steamworks games, the box is less relevent. And I know I can always wait until it's got a 50% off sale on Steam.

[Hoax]

So, does this come out at 9pm PST on Monday or Sunday?  I'm never sure which that means.

Where did you get the 9pm bit? My countdown currently says 2 days and 4 hours.  Which pisses me off because it'll definitely be up for sale by this time monday.   Why do I have to wait 4 hours extra for a digital download?  It should unlock at freaking 12am Monday.

Countdown?  I'm going off that quote earlier where they said midnight EST Monday, but I've never been sure what midnight X day means.

[Furiously]

My only fear of steam is someone hacking my account and me losing access/vac access.

[Musashi]

That happened to me, and they were good about giving it back.

[Modern Angel]

I'm hearing 3pm Eastern on Monday. Which is almost (ALMOST) enough to make me go get the box instead of Steam. But I'm really lazy.

[Hoax]

Yup Steam is screwing us out of 12 hours.  Its 9pm tonight PST for retail and 9am PST tomorrow for Steam.

[Ragnoros]

Let us all pray for the day when brick and mortar stores are dead and digial download reigns king. Or; When Steam doesn't have to play second fiddle to fucking wal-mart.

[MisterNoisy]

And yeah Shrike, I agree about the aiming, I bet you run out of ammo far less frequently on the PC  

I've been using the FragFX on the PS3 version and while there's changes I'd make to it, it's a hell of a lot better than using a gamepad.

The loot really gets good in the 20's:


(Edited for spoiler tags)

[Sky]

Let us all pray for the day when brick and mortar stores are dead and digial download reigns king. Or; When Steam doesn't have to play second fiddle to fucking wal-mart.

Or go ahead and replace 'brick and mortar' with 'consoles' and 'digital download' with 'pcs'. You know, when the pc release doesn't have to play second fiddle to the console release.

Or: WGAF. Monday night will be fun. Go get laid tonight or clean the fridge or something.

[fuser]

stuff

I'd spoiler that or take it out or you run the risk of catching on fire 

[Trippy]

schild is too busy playing Torchlight to notice...for now

[apocrypha]

You EU timezone Mister Noisy? Wanna do some co-op if you are?

I've just got my Roland to level 22 and you seem to have far better  than me! I'm not having ammo problems any more though, my aiming's got a lot better very quickly 

[fuser]

Not to beat a dead horse but there's a pirate copy floating around of PC now. It's not the release media but oh well.

Edit:

gearbox forums have melted down