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ezrast
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For those who are either boycotting Gamespy, or those for whom it doesn't work (me), I can confirm that Game Ranger works for your multi-player needs. I don't really know anything about it, though. I don't know if I'm breaking any rules by using it. Also, I don't care. Huh. Yeah, that site's hella shady in that it has no information whatsoever about who the people are or what the software actually does. I downloaded it anyway. It doesn't require port forwarding. In as ezrast, ID 503677 if anyone wants to mess around with it.
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Azazel
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So, what platform is everyone playing on? Thinking about picking this up off steam.
I have the Steam Version and the 360 version (since my wife's PC can't run it). Playing a bit of Solo on the PC, and a bit more co-op on the 360, which doesn't thumbstick-suck as much as I expected it to. Certainly not unplayable as I'd feared.
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Mrbloodworth
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So, what platform is everyone playing on? Thinking about picking this up off steam.
I have the Steam Version and the 360 version (since my wife's PC can't run it). Playing a bit of Solo on the PC, and a bit more co-op on the 360, which doesn't thumbstick-suck as much as I expected it to. Certainly not unplayable as I'd feared. Can you guys play together?
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Malakili
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So, what platform is everyone playing on? Thinking about picking this up off steam.
I have the Steam Version and the 360 version (since my wife's PC can't run it). Playing a bit of Solo on the PC, and a bit more co-op on the 360, which doesn't thumbstick-suck as much as I expected it to. Certainly not unplayable as I'd feared. You can play co-op split screen on the xbox, but you can't play online over xbox/PC at the same time. So, you can't cross platform multiplayer, if that is your question. Can you guys play together?
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Mrbloodworth
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It was, and I figured as much. Just the way it was originally put ("buying on steam and xbox for the wife") , I thought there was hope.
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Murgos
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I want to finish this game but I have Torchlight and Dragon Age breathing down my neck. I've also only had an hour or two here and there to play lately. I know if I stop to go check out 'teh new shiney' I won't come back. I guess I am going to have to forget the side quests and just burn through the main story line. Maybe in six months (or whenever their DLC hits) I'll come back and do it proper.
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Azazel
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Can you guys play together?
Oh, not cross-platform. 2 xboxes with 2 copies and 2 tvs in the lounge. Also, 2 Steam copies (1 each) - but her PC won't run it, which is why we bought the 360 versions. Sorry was unclear.
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Hayduke
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For those who are either boycotting Gamespy, or those for whom it doesn't work (me), I can confirm that Game Ranger works for your multi-player needs. I don't really know anything about it, though. I don't know if I'm breaking any rules by using it. Also, I don't care. Huh. Yeah, that site's hella shady in that it has no information whatsoever about who the people are or what the software actually does. I downloaded it anyway. It doesn't require port forwarding. In as ezrast, ID 503677 if anyone wants to mess around with it. Gameranger's a pretty popular piece of software, been around for awhile. But it started out for Macs. And when Demigod was released a few months ago it was also the solution to playing online since Stardock couldn't get it right for awhile.
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Mrbloodworth
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Can you guys play together?
Oh, not cross-platform. 2 xboxes with 2 copies and 2 tvs in the lounge. Also, 2 Steam copies (1 each) - but her PC won't run it, which is why we bought the 360 versions. Sorry was unclear. Its not problem, I'm easily confused.
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Slayerik
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Playing it on PC, I had a 7 hour marathon yesterday. Haven't done that in a LONG ass time. Fun game.
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"I have more qualifications than Jesus and earn more than this whole board put together. My ego is huge and my modesty non-existant." -Ironwood
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Venkman
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I got annoyed at whatever thet underground lair is in the teens (something Shack) so took a break, but then cheated on DA last night and played for a lot longer than the intended "eh, lemme just shoot some shit before I hit DA".
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Samwise
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Thanks to TV Tropes, I now have a name for what it is that annoys me about Borderlands. Goddamned Bats.
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schild
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Funny, I didn't think they were that annoying.
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Hayduke
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I didn't mind the bats at all. Just spray a SMG or repeater. And the two bat oriented boss fights were really cool.
Maybe I didn't hype myself up enough for this, but I'm really enjoying this game. I've had no desire to crack open my Dragon Age CE yet. Love the Mordecai and Brick characters. I feel Lilith and Roland are kind of lacking in charm for their voice work in comparison though. I really hope Gearbox can be aggressive in their post release support which is my only worry. I worry they're just going to do horse armor DLC every six months.
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Samwise
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By "goddamned bats" I mean pretty much every mob in the game. The rakks are the least annoying since they at least die quick and don't respawn.
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Sky
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Rename Roland "Lamont" and the game gets much better. Though I wish I could mod in my own VOs "Aww, pops!"
Still enjoying blowin stuff up. The second arena battle quest is bugging out on me a lot. I can't seem to find a decent spot to set up for the third round and my shields are getting shredded too fast. It's a good practice for tactics, but even with decent gear and being a couple levels high for the quest (I think it's a 28 or 29 and I'm 31) I keep dying. And then the game bugs out, locking me in the arena, but not spawning any more mobs or letting me finish the quest.
So I played some solitaire. I blame W7 for putting it on the start menu. I also blame OSX for not having a good solitaire widget, I've missed my Vegas style - single draw, once through the deck for money, persistent score.
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I didn't mind the bats at all. Just spray a SMG or repeater. And the two bat oriented boss fights were really cool.
Maybe I didn't hype myself up enough for this, but I'm really enjoying this game. I've had no desire to crack open my Dragon Age CE yet. Love the Mordecai and Brick characters. I feel Lilith and Roland are kind of lacking in charm for their voice work in comparison though. I really hope Gearbox can be aggressive in their post release support which is my only worry. I worry they're just going to do horse armor DLC every six months.
oh now see... I think Lilith's voice work is frickin hilarious. Her laugh is just addictive. Roland, yeah I agree... almost too cliche. Mord... I kinda hoped his voice and speeches would reflect more like that of Bishop in the UT series; more "philosophical and borderline religious" with a gritty, raspy voice and less "new york thug-like." I haven't played around with Brick yet - found some alien weapons yesterday on my Siren and having too much god damn fun with it to reroll at this point. Oh yeah, fuck bats. I think they are a great annoyance mob, and the boss bats bombing runs are hard as hell if you don't have cover... but I love hating bats in any game.
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Murgos
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Rename Roland "Lamont" and the game gets much better. Though I wish I could mod in my own VOs "Aww, pops!"
Still enjoying blowin stuff up. The second arena battle quest is bugging out on me a lot. I can't seem to find a decent spot to set up for the third round and my shields are getting shredded too fast. It's a good practice for tactics, but even with decent gear and being a couple levels high for the quest (I think it's a 28 or 29 and I'm 31) I keep dying. And then the game bugs out, locking me in the arena, but not spawning any more mobs or letting me finish the quest.
I've had similar problems with that quest. On the last wave after I have gone through several waves one of the baddies (I've watched this happen) falls through the floor causing the last wave not to trigger because it's not dead. After three tries and probably 8 or 9 deaths (I'm 29) I've given up on it.
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Draegan
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I thought the bats were easy xp.
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Kageh
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I find both the bats and the ground critters spawning around me really annoying with the standard FOV.
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Malakili
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I find both the bats and the ground critters spawning around me really annoying with the standard FOV.
Yeah, I changed my FOV last night, and it made me SOOO much happier when playing this game. While I was having fun with the game I was getting headaches, and finally changing this helped a lot. I don't know what the default FOV is, 75 or less I'd guess, but its stupidly low.
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Sky
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Yeah, the ini tweaks were necessary for me to enjoy the game.
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Samwise
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Still enjoying blowin stuff up. The second arena battle quest is bugging out on me a lot. I can't seem to find a decent spot to set up for the third round and my shields are getting shredded too fast. It's a good practice for tactics, but even with decent gear and being a couple levels high for the quest (I think it's a 28 or 29 and I'm 31) I keep dying. And then the game bugs out, locking me in the arena, but not spawning any more mobs or letting me finish the quest.
I had that happen to me just yesterday. Wait. After a while the arena will open back up; go out and go back in and it'll spawn one last wave of guys and you'll be done. Yeah, the difficulty on that thing is all fucked up. Too many guys coming from too many directions with practically instakill weapons.
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Lantyssa
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oh now see... I think Lilith's voice work is frickin hilarious. Her laugh is just addictive.
I love her laugh. I shoot things in the head just so I can hear it. I also like turning things to goo. Vu thinks I'm sadistic because I have SO much fun killing things in this game and then I start laughing with Lilith. Got WeeWee's shield in the second run through. I need to do more testing, but I don't think I can actually die with it on without trying. At 46 my shield and health are around 875, both regen like crazy, and it's definately boosting my elemental resistances.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Samwise
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Is there any way to get quest items like WeeWee's shield back if you've sold them? I got the shield more or less by accident at an early level (during a random online game) and sold it because it looked like junk and my backpack was small. I haven't seen the quest reappear, so I'm guessing it's gone forever now?
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Yegolev
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I have decided that the enemies don't drop enough guns.
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apocrypha
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I love her laugh. I shoot things in the head just so I can hear it. I also like turning things to goo. Vu thinks I'm sadistic because I have SO much fun killing things in this game and then I start laughing with Lilith.
That's exactly how I found Lilith.... hilariously funny to play. Roland was easier, but Lilith is more fun. Is there any way to get quest items like WeeWee's shield back if you've sold them? I got the shield more or less by accident at an early level (during a random online game) and sold it because it looked like junk and my backpack was small. I haven't seen the quest reappear, so I'm guessing it's gone forever now?
If WeeWee doesn't respawn in a new game (not sure if he does or not) then you could make a new character and do the quest and pass the shield over, but that's the only way I can think of. Oh, or help someone do the quest co-op to get access to him again?
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Samwise
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I have decided that the enemies don't drop enough guns.
They drop plenty of guns, they're just almost all vendor trash. 
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Murgos
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Is there any way to get quest items like WeeWee's shield back if you've sold them? I got the shield more or less by accident at an early level (during a random online game) and sold it because it looked like junk and my backpack was small. I haven't seen the quest reappear, so I'm guessing it's gone forever now?
If WeeWee doesn't respawn in a new game (not sure if he does or not) then you could make a new character and do the quest and pass the shield over, but that's the only way I can think of. Oh, or help someone do the quest co-op to get access to him again? From what I've seen the boss mob respawns even if you don't have the quest. You should be able to go back, kill him again and get it.
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Slayerik
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I have decided that the enemies don't drop enough guns.
This. I used to love boss fights knowing that some sexy shit was gonna drop. I got a Yellow Combat Rifle. What were people saying about hidden abilities? It doesn't show much but seems to be pretty bad-ass. Overall Ive been pretty lucky on weapon drops....lots of good purps and blues
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Samwise
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Is there any way to get quest items like WeeWee's shield back if you've sold them? I got the shield more or less by accident at an early level (during a random online game) and sold it because it looked like junk and my backpack was small. I haven't seen the quest reappear, so I'm guessing it's gone forever now?
If WeeWee doesn't respawn in a new game (not sure if he does or not) then you could make a new character and do the quest and pass the shield over, but that's the only way I can think of. Oh, or help someone do the quest co-op to get access to him again? From what I've seen the boss mob respawns even if you don't have the quest. You should be able to go back, kill him again and get it. Seems like some bosses respawn and some don't -- the skag and rakk bosses do, but I know for a fact Mad Mel is gone for good. Anyone know where Wee Wee lives? I had no idea where I was the first time around.
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Sky
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I finally got off the weewee, got a decent shield with decent regen and +60% health. Since I got the weewee at a fairly low level (1st playthrough), it's just way too gimpy of a shield (I keep it to regen health after combat).
He's located in the Tetanus Warren off New Haven.
Hidden abilities, they seem to be two flavors. One, like wee wee's shield is truly hidden, the item looks totally gimpy. The other is the text bug (feature) where the game only displays 4 lines of stat text in the item box (moddable to 5 lines, which is the limit but apparently there can be more than 5 stats on an item). Both drive me nuts. I recently got a sniper rifle that looked dominating when compared to my favorite Pele-loving sniper, but was utterly gimpy. Some nice crits but the average hits were bleh (my guess is due to Pele not favoring it). Gotta test 'em out. I've also taken to using Krom's Sidearm because it seems pretty good for some unknown reason, I've got a good white (the better than orange kind) cold thanatos that doesn't quite stack up to it. Odd.
And frustrating as a combat rifle specialist that I can't find a good combat rifle to save my life. I've got great weapons in every category but combat rifle and launcher.
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fuser
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DLC for xbox and ps3 on nov 24th, pc patch might be announced/released this week.. hopefully.
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ezrast
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And frustrating as a combat rifle specialist that I can't find a good combat rifle to save my life. I've got great weapons in every category but combat rifle and launcher.
Yup. My rifleman-specced Roland finished playthrough 2 carrying around no less than 5 sniper rifles purple and above because I just couldn't decide between all the awesomeness, but I don't think I found an assault rifle above blue in the entire playthrough (at least not the burst-fire kind, there were plenty of machine guns but who cares about those). So now I'm leveling a Mordecai who is just going to use snipers for everything, including close combat.
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Hayduke
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The alien weapons are utterly disappointing. So are rocket launchers. And it seems the game will throw you 20 awesome revolvers or SMGs for every halfway decent weapon of another type. I loved being a sniper on my Mordecai, but gunslinger is just so much more efficient and you can actually find usable guns. The mods you can get on pistols and SMGs just blow away anything snipers have it seems.
Also the second arena quest? I had trouble on the last round as well. I kept coming back to it while I was leveling and doing other side quests and eventually I got it. If you're having a problem with it bugging out, well if you follow the left wall from when you enter there's a little nook that you can walk into and it resets the event and opens the gate so you can walk out and try again. I found it by accident while looking for a nice place to get some cover. I had a similar thing happen the first time I went to fight Mad Mel. Killed all the trash, but Mel never appeared.
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