Borderlands 2

[Quinton]

Having far too much fun.  Loving sniper rifles. 

Some little touches of console-itis here and there, but nothing nearly as bad as the first game.

[Lantyssa]

Loving it so far.  My gun drops haven't been great weapons yet, but they've been interesting.  Combat Rifles that shoot missiles.  Pistols that are mini-rocket launchers.  An SMG with two clips.

I'm hoping there's a Chimeric SMG this time around.

It's great how all players share ammo.  I can loot all the chests and Vu doesn't miss out on reloading.  We both win.

[kildorn]

The latter, and it's awesome.

It's awesome but I hate it because I'm a compulsive reloader.  If you reload early you throw away the gun with all the ammo it had in it  .

This is why I hate their guns. I kill someone in 3 shots, compulsively reload. Boom.

edit: I'm also kind of loving the new character depth in the NPCs. Your PC is still kind of nameless and faceless, but the flavor NPCs are usually hilarious and dark as fuck. Tiny Tina makes me question the sanity of both the voice actor and writer (IIRC, they are brother and sister? The Hey Ash folks)

[Lantyssa]

It's Ash that does her voice?  Oh I can't wait to meet Tina.

[schild]

The number of typos in the weapon names is staggering.

[kildorn]

It's Ash that does her voice?  Oh I can't wait to meet Tina.

I have a feeling you're going to absolutely adore her quest line. I was dying laughing and backing away slowly at the same time.

edit: and schild, I assume you mean other than the Bandit brand stuff being shit spelling?

[Yegolev]

The number of typos in the weapon names is staggering.

Are you talking about the Bandit items?  Bandets cant speel.

[Ginaz]

Handsome Jack.

"Butt pony, say hello."

[Segoris]

Good fun so far. I've made it to Sanctuary (one in single player while steam was down one in multiplayer), MP definitely still feels so much nicer. Guns are more fun, the talent trees I'm torn on, though I'm absolutely loving the new siren's support tree and I'm not even that far into it. I was in a game last night, thinking I'd go to level 5 and have some fun. I ended up hitting level 11 while in a group with 3 gunzerkers and my siren providing support. Gunzerkers killing things while in stasis (which heals if the mob in stasis dies) just keeps them chugging along very nicely, can't wait to experiment further with this. It's especially awesome that I can support the front lines like this while I'm sniping from awy back earning my badass points for such long distance kills.

Nitpicks -
Multiplayer - I would to invite people from Steam groups instead of friends only, so some people may be getting more friend invites if I see them in BL2, fair warning :p
I would have liked a confirmation before using my key on the vault in Sanctuary since I wanted to save that for higher level.
Lots of guys shooting me from inside objects, or they're avatar is in one place but they're actually in another (usually happens when using the Siren's action ability or headshotting someone who's moving/rolling)
While playing single player there is a stuttering - this is caused by having the network option not set to LAN or offline as the game


Regarding the grenade-reloading: those are actually really bad for Gunzerkers if they pick up the trait Locked and Loaded (reloading gives a fire rate bonus), I'm not sure how it will work with Auto-Load though (killin an enemy instantly reloads your equipped guns which are not in yours hands, but switching weapons after the reloads take place will then trigger locked and loaded). Will be interesting if killing an enemy while you have some of the Tediore weapons equipped but not in your hands.


Also

Handsome Jack.

"Butt pony, say hello."

^This. I'm loving Handsome Jack. Finding the audio tapes in the beginning was cruel but awesome, I felt guilty for laughing

[Kitsune]

Handsome Jack is definitely channeling some Sterling Archer in his attitude.  Which can only be a compliment.

[Yegolev]

I already want to kill Jack more than anyone I met in the first game.

[kildorn]

I want to kill him in a pretty good way. Dude's a well written character. Also, his horse.

[Lantyssa]

He was a loveable asshole until I got to the tape with Helena Pierce.  I must say they have done a good job of making me detest him.  I like it when a game gets me to actively hate a character.

[Pezzle]

We miss the character callouts when they open loot boxes.  A friend played a soldier and we made up whole stories about his messed up family.  It's like Christmas!  

The wife of a friend had her birthday yesterday.  I called and wished her a Happy Borderlands 2 release day, while singing.

[kildorn]

He was a loveable asshole until I got to the tape with Helena Pierce.  I must say they have done a good job of making me detest him.  I like it when a game gets me to actively hate a character.

Now he's just a rather funny asshole, and pretty much just as bat shit crazy as everyone else in the series. Of all the characters the only one that doesn't "fit" is Roland, who honestly seems to be playing a straight up good guy.

[Yegolev]

WHAT CHU WAWNT?!

IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE, JERKWAD!

[Segoris]

He was a loveable asshole until I got to the tape with Helena Pierce.  I must say they have done a good job of making me detest him.  I like it when a game gets me to actively hate a character.

Yeah, that is the part where I feel guilty for laughing because it really was awful - though it did a great job of making me finish my laugh by wanting to kill the bad guy more than any villian in a game I can remember.

[rattran]

Not having any intarwebs but the phone, I picked this up retail today, figuring I could at least tether to activate and install. Invalid cd-key, and steam, 2k, and BestBuy all seem to claim it's someone else's issue. Fuckers.

[edit] Fixed. BestBuy gave me a new key. Who'd have thunk it?

[Amaron]

So far some of the gun types have me scratching my head a bit.  The mob hp in a party is crazy.  I'm often left just using a sniper rifle to headshot.  Everything else has horrid accuracy/damage and forces me to get in too close.

[MrHat]

The grenades that blow up into other grenades that blow up into other grenades are my favorite thing ever.

[Segoris]

So far some of the gun types have me scratching my head a bit.  The mob hp in a party is crazy.  I'm often left just using a sniper rifle to headshot.  Everything else has horrid accuracy/damage and forces me to get in too close.

How far in are you? Curious because I've found the party based mobs hp pool to be about right through the first 10 levels or so [only MP experience was my sniper-healer-siren matched with 3 gunzerkers though] and wondering if it get tougher

[Malakili]

Played through Santuary so far.  Seems much faster paced than the first - by which I mean there has been almost 0 down time. I played for an hour and a half or so and barely hcad a chance to breath. Maybe not that I am in Sanctuary and we have a normal base of operations more down time will naturally slip in as we sort through stuff back in town, etc.

[Fabricated]

The Siren's fire cult quest series is hilarious. Been having connection issues with my friends off and on however.

[kildorn]

The Siren's fire cult quest series is hilarious. Been having connection issues with my friends off and on however.

Yes.

[Hawkbit]

He was a loveable asshole until I got to the tape with Helena Pierce.  I must say they have done a good job of making me detest him.  I like it when a game gets me to actively hate a character.

The voice actor made it 100% believable.  I know it's just a game, but that whole bit pissed me off.  I haven't had an emotional interaction with a game like that in a long time.  Especially anger.

[Rendakor]

He was a loveable asshole until I got to the tape with Helena Pierce.  I must say they have done a good job of making me detest him.  I like it when a game gets me to actively hate a character.

I thought that scene was awesome, although I'm an asshole.

[Segoris]

In-Game voice chat fix for those who use headsets for voice and speakers for game sounds

The answer above may affect other programs/apps. You can also fix this for just Borderlands by editing the Willowengine.ini file.

1) Search for Willowengine.ini (on windows 7 mine was found in My Documents/My Games/Borderlands/WillowGame/config)
2) copy the file to make a backup.
3) Edit the file with notepad
4) search for the string "bHasVoiceEnabled=true"
5) change true to FALSE (I used caps)

Start the game and your headphones should now work.

Found that helpful post herehere, the only good one in the thread but figure it's nice to link back to helpful people

[schild]

This game literally has the worst fucking multiplayer known to man.

[schild]

Seriously, this is a single player fucking game. Gearbox can lick my taint.

[Megrim]

Ok, what are you upset about now?

[schild]

1. Loot system is from 1999.
2. Travel notifications are way too fucking small.
3. Players who join don't appear right next to you immediately. Which compounds problem #2.

I'd likely have more complaints if I didn't turn it into a single player game.

[Surlyboi]

Catch a RIIIIIIIIDE!

Scooter, how I missed you.

Shild?  I'm pretty sure Gearbox would gladly lick your taint if it weren't for all the sand there. 

[kildorn]

I'd prefer individual loot, but otherwise the multi doesn't bug me too much.

[Rendakor]

Rerolled as Gunzerker; my Zero playthrough still has a broken quest that locks me out of an entire set of side missions and I don't feel like just blasting through the main story. Hopefully they fix it (or someone figures out console commands for resetting quests); going to try to be careful and avoid it on this toon.

[Quinton]

Dunno, I'm having plenty of fun in single-player and just spent several hours making the run to Sanctuary with a friend which was also a blast.  Gave Gunzerker a shot and it didn't really grab me, but Siren w/ Sniper Rifle and Elemental Fire Pistol is working pretty well for me.