Borderlands 2

[Miasma]

For a shooter it has a pretty good story.  Any weaknesses are more than made up for by how awesome and funny some of the charactes are.  Handsome Jack is probably one of the best villians I've ever seen in a game.  I don't literally laugh out loud very often based on what I'm doing in a game but borderlands 2 has made me chuckle quit a few times.  I just finished playing the Torgue add on and while I won't spoil it I found the bad gamer review quest a hilarious moment.

[Teleku]

Now that I'm up in Yuba City though, I made sure I had fantastic A/C and insulation.

Oh you poor sad soul.  God have mercy on you.   

I grew up in Glenn County.

[Rasix]

That gold key exploit makes the early going a lot more tolerable.

[Nija]

Gold key exploit?!

[schild]

Working Cheats

On October, 1st, 2012 (Confirmed working as of 1. of July, 2013) a new exploit was found for PC that lets the player use his gold keys an infinite times. You do this by right clicking on the file Documents\My Games\borderlands 2\willowgame\savedata\(some number)\profile.bin and clicking on "Properties" and setting it to "Read Only".

For Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Borderlands 2/willowgame/savedata/(some number)\profile.bin and click "Get Info" and change to "Read Only"

Then launch the game and use the Golden Keys, quit the game and uncheck the "Read Only" box (This is important, remember to uncheck it after you are done). Then go back to the game and you should still have all your keys and the items. This is because the game saves your golden key info in the profile.bin file and when you set it to read only, it cannot save that you used your keys.

For this to work, you need to completely exit out of the game, not just 'log out' from the character.

Please note that if you receive keys while profile.bin is read-only, these keys will NOT be recorded, but SHIFT will register that you have used the code. Also note that if the character save is set read-only instead of profile.bin your items obtained will not be retained but the use of keys will-you will have completely wasted said keys. Your Badass Ranks and Tokens will also not be recorded, meaning that any challenges you complete whilst using this exploit will be pointless. Be careful.

In short:

    Set profile.bin to Read-Only. Click Apply.
    Enter game, use your keys. Completely exit game when done.
    Re-enter and use keys as many times as you want, completely exiting the game after each time.
    When completely finished, make sure to exit, then uncheck the Read-Only box and hit Apply.
    (You don't have to uncheck the Read Only box after each individual expenditure of keys, only when you are completely done and wish to play the game.)

IMPORTANT: Character swapping and the character shared STASH are tied to this file as well. Thus:

    When profile.bin is locked, if you quit to desktop after manipulating the stash, it will revert to its original content, deleting whatever you placed in it and duplicating anything you've already removed.
    All head and skin unlocks applied while profile.bin is locked, will be lost when quitting to desktop.
    As mentioned above, Badass Ranks and Tokens gained while profile.bin is locked will not be retained, but challenge tiers are still advanced (for example 'Purple Reign' - loot or purchase purple items)
    If you swap characters while the file is locked the game will switch back to your original character when you restart it.

If the above instructions do not work for you, do the following:

    Launch the game and get to the character screen.
    Change the file to read-only.
    Use your keys.
    Exit the game.
    Set the file back to non read-only.

[Rasix]

Gold key exploit?!

There is a hard to see link in my last post descrbing it.  Basically the file that determines how many golden keys you have can be set read only, then you spend all your keys, exit/reload and spend them again.  Just be sure to read the caveats about shared locker and remember to take off the read only flag afterwards.

Naked link: http://orcz.com/Borderlands_2:_Golden_Key#Working_Cheats

Just set the file it mentions to read only.  Loot chest.  Exit out of game.  Repeat.  Set file back to normal when you're all done.  It's pretty easy and I had a nice purple weapons and a shield in very little time.

Made that pain in the ass assassins mission a walk in the park.  Just ran though and shot everything to shit with my overpowered weapons.

[schild]

I hope you had nice purple weapons as the chest only yields purple and above, hahaha.

[Hawkbit]

Poor early weapons is one of the reasons I never completed the campaign.  I'm playing again now to get to the new DLC, but the early weapons are just unfun.

[Rasix]

I hope you had nice purple weapons as the chest only yields purple and above, hahaha.

Never saw any "above".  Perhaps it's too early.  

Plasma caster goes through held nomad shields.  That's nice.

[schild]

You won't see things higher than purple til later, correct.

[Yegolev]

The Cheaty McCheatersons are funny.  I remember when I edited saves in DII that I stopped having fun, so it's not for me.  I am, however, having fun completing missions in playthrough one with my lv48 mechro.  Also accruing badass ranks.

Completed Tina's game and it was a great DLC.  Haven't done all the sidequests yet.

[Fabricated]

I'm not a real big fan of the "unbeatable superboss" angle they like to keep putting into the DLCs on the side.

[Yegolev]

I did run into a Super Badass Constructor yesterday, but I beat him the second time.

[Rendakor]

I'm not a real big fan of the "unbeatable superboss" angle they like to keep putting into the DLCs on the side.

Me neither; I couldn't kill the first one solo or duo and don't really play in larger groups than that. Never bothered attempting the others.

[Goldenmean]

Me neither; I couldn't kill the first one solo or duo and don't really play in larger groups than that. Never bothered attempting the others.

It wouldn't bother me if I actually had more friends playing, but most of mine wandered off after finishing the main story and haven't come back. Any chance of putting together an f13 group to go raid boss hunting at some point?

I'm not there yet, personally. Just in the early stages of TVHM with my second character.

[Reborne]

The invincibles are for people that like challenges at max level and grinding for specific gear.
They are really easy to ignore and you don't need the things they drop.

That being said, if lag isn't horrible for being on the other side of the world, I have a 52 zero that is build like a glass cannon and I'm happy to group to try to take these things down.

He's my only legit character, all the others have all the skills and I'm having a silly amount of fun rampaging through the game as Kreig 

[Fabricated]

I'm running through the DLCs in normal on my 40 Commando. The pirate one was pretty eh. Torgue is kinda amusing so far.

[Goldenmean]

I'm running through the DLCs in normal on my 40 Commando. The pirate one was pretty eh. Torgue is kinda amusing so far.

I was doing all of the DLCs in normal mode, but I got sick of everything being 6-7 levels below me, and never getting a weapon upgrade. Got through the pirate one and torgue before I switched to TVHM. It's nice actually getting xp off of things again.

I agree with you, the pirate one was ... fine. The Torgue DLC was amusing just because Mr Torgue is amusing. He's a one joke character, but at least his joke is pretty amusing in all of its variations. Barely poked around in the Hammerlock DLC, but have done a good chunk of The D&D one, which is the best of the bunch (probably because Tiny Tina is great, and the setting is hilarious)

[Fabricated]

I heard the Hammerlock one is horrid.

[Soulflame]

Hammerlock is not that great, if you ask me.  Pirates I did like.  Torgue is amusing, but I am not a fan of arena fighting.  I just started Tina's, and it's good so far.

[Miasma]

I liked the main villian in Hammerlock's, he's a miserable Jack wannabe who starts freaking out once he realizes you're going to kill him.  The rest of it did pretty much suck though.  Most of the quests and zones were bland.

[Job601]

I don't understand why the level scaling is so screwed up in this game.  I just got this on sale a month or so ago.  I made the mistake of doing the pirate dlc right when I hit level 14, which ruined the next three areas of side quests because I was so overleveled.  But people are also complaining that if you save the dlc for after the main campaign, you're so high level that it's not fun.  When are you supposed to play the dlc?

[Fabricated]

I think the curve is balanced around a single near contiguous playthrough of the main campaign, then the DLCs in order.

The problem comes when you start/stop a bunch, because everything respawns. If you do one quest in an area, then quit for the night, everything is respawned when you go back the next day to do another so you get into this loop where you kill tons of mobs over and over and unintentionally grind out more levels than the level curve is designed for.

I had completed the main campaign long before any of the DLC came out so I was just dinking around killing everything in the last area + the warrior over and over. So now when I got the DLC, everything is 5+ levels under me.

[Yegolev]

I think it's more than that. There's a ton of quests even in the main game and it's easy to level to 30+ by finishing the main story and hitting a few sidequests.  Which is fine, otherwise people would complain about having to grind.

The downside, of course, is that if you are the sort that wants to do everything, you'll end up outleveling something along the way.  Fab's method seems like the best route: do the main story on Normal then the rest, but I'd say do them on TVH since all of my playtime there has given me enemies that are approximately my level.  I'd say inside plus-or-minus three levels.  I assume the DLC is the same way.  I did the Dungeon Keep in TVH at lv46-48 and the enemies were about in that range, so if anyone else did it differently we should be able to see if it scales or not.

Actually when we did a three-way and the host was lv53, I and my friend at lv46-47 were getting boned hard by lv50+ enemies.

[Miasma]

I imagine they thought people would play the dlc in true/ultimate mode which would scale higher than 35 and make it much tougher.

I like romping through in near God mode so being overleveled was fine by me.

[Fabricated]

The power-curve of enemies or their resistances to stuff is pretty huge. Enemies that are 3-4 levels above you will take clips from even ridiculous unique weapons to kill while stuff that's about your level will disintegrate if you're well armed.

[Miasma]

Yeah it's ridiculous and also means that awesome purple you get at level 10 is a piece of shit by level 13.  Item inflation ruins your whole gear set every few levels.  At some point I tried to find out if there was a way to turn of xp gain, there isn't.

[Fabricated]

Basically another ARPG where "the real game" starts at cap.

[Bunk]

I dunno if I agree with that. Generally, guns have about a five level window, which once you hit the twenties is actually a fairly substantial time period unless you are truly powerleveling. A Really good gun lasts a fair while. Got a Kerblaster Rifle at level six (that spawns grenades when the rocket hits) that was effective in to the mid teens. My first play through I had an Infinity TMP that was about level 14, that I still carried in the high twenties.

Partly, I think we've been spoiled by the golden keys. Don't use those and you might only get a few purples that were usable per play through, and you'd still be using them ten levels ahead.

The game works without hitting "cap". I'm almost 200 hours invested, and my highest level character is 39th.

[Yegolev]

I haven't used golden keys except once, so that might be part of why I'm having fun.  Got a pile of shit out of that box, pistols IIRC.  Or SMGs, but in any case I have about sixty keys (obtained legitimately) and I'll wait until max level before I use them.

On the other hand, the RNG can be cruel at times.  I'd really advise not passing over a on-level white weapon if you mostly use a shitty lower level one, but I suppose everyone looks for green arrows instead of rarity or level.  Everyone should do that, at least.

I'm not really worried about being on-level for quests, either, but I can see where that is a problem for some.  If you are over-leveled, proceed along the main story until it gets hard again or you can start TVH.

Also you just lose money on death, and money is hardly ever useful as well as being easy enough to get, so just die and don't cry.

[Rasix]

Cheating helped get me back to where I was last time I stopped playing.  So, lets see if I can get past it. 

I honestly just kind of like being over powered and mowing through the shit, although it's funny that two yellow weapons are what I used for a majority of the robot section of the dam.   Nothing quite like a huge damage bazooka to just let you skip the boss.

[Miasma]

I was hugely happy cheating.  If it wasn't for the joy of exploits and cheating I would have stopped playing this game before level ten.  The gameplay itself is shitty shit shitty, the only fun is unlocking the next quest's echo communication.

[Yegolev]

I like big colored numbers, explosions, fire, yelling, silly dialogue, and loot spraying everywhere.  I don't get that anywhere else.

[Rasix]

Tiny Tina is making me happy I made it this far.  I had not heard "badonkadonk" in a while.

[Segoris]

Best. Tea party. Ever.