Borderlands 2

[schild]

I will hang myself from my own tomstone / If within you, I cannot put my bone

[rattran]

Donkey Mong had me laughing. As did a "fibber" pistol with 4199 damage listed. And a magazine capacity of 1201.

[Amaron]

I lost it on "What does it mean".  I had never seen the meme but Jack was just hilarious when he did it.

[apocrypha]

Man this game is fun! Picked it up on Thursday, had a day of photo processing work to do yesterday, thought I'd have a quick after-breakfast checking out of Borderlands first to wake me up a bit.... All of a sudden it's 2pm and I've done fuck all work! Doh!

I dunno about you guys, but I'm having a hellishly slow texture streaming issue where I'll open a box and be presented with three identical grey blurs until I wait for at least a second for the blurs to turn into ammo.  I found a possible fix here on the Gearbox forum that I haven't had the chance to try yet as I'm at work, but throwing it up here in case it's helpful for others.

^^ Those tweaks work wonders for me, the texture streaming was totally obnoxious before, but almost completely gone after doing what it says in that link. Very glad I was able to get this one on the PC rather than the PS3 this time round.

Did a couple of hours of 4-player multiplayer with friends last night and found it really frustrating. I very much prefer to take it slowly and cautiously, not running out of ammo, and if that means some sneaking around while the Sabre turret comes off cooldown then so be it! Not so in a 4 player game, all far too much rushing about for me. I think I'll save multi for when I'm at level cap and farming for guns 

[apocrypha]

Just killed a huge guy with a weapons crate on his back, and when he died I got to open the crate! 

Also, I am generally terrible with shotguns in games, but this baby is rocking my world at level 11:

[kildorn]

There are also One Armed Bandits, who have slot machines on their backs <3

I love those so much more than the midgets that pop out of loot containers.

[Nonentity]

Torgue shotguns.

If you are impatient, get a Torgue shotgun.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/921242003849148818/40670E9873CFC4DEA48D76A5F291703C0233865B/

Explosive damage. Specifically, go for one that shoots 13 or more projectiles.

You can just jump at someone and aim down at their head, and it will generally melt almost anything in one or two shots. Great second wind weapons.

[Kageru]

Rolling three bandits on the slot machine... that was cool.

Started spending my badass points. Basically going for some of everything (since it has diminishing returns) and then focusing on big numbers that will gain from a percentage boost (health, shield, damage) or small numbers that several classes can't easily boost (accuracy, elemental chance). Anyone doing it differently?

It was interesting how dull Caustic caverns was, bandits are just much more amusing.  It also needs the ability to go back and listen to old audio logs. Multiple times audio logs have been cut off by claptrap or random mob verbiage.

That said it is happily stealing my time.

[TheWalrus]

Agreed on the audio logs. As someone who likes to explore and find every bit of story, this bothers me.

[Amaron]

Mob HP is a real problem on the second play through.  I'm constantly looking for ammo in crates.  I'm tempted to reroll as the fatty just so I can wear the ammo class mods.

[Segoris]

Here's a thread with info about quest resetting in playthrough 2 and 2.5. The summary is to only do the story quests and certain side quests if you want the blue+ rewards to be level 50. If a quest is on the list in the first post then skip them until playthrough 2.5 if you do want them as top level items

http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=154087

[Fabricated]

I've gotten in the habit of killing myself to get back to the quick travel station because this game is retarded and doesn't have something like a town portal item.

I have been enjoying it a bit more since I had some alright gun luck and got a few nice guns. I got an even better explosive shotgun than I had before, a homing-singularity-slag nade mod, a decent bandit rifle, and a surprisingly powerful Dahl scoped pistol that shoots 2 bullets per trigger-pull. Explosive shotguns are pretty ridiculously good.

[Ingmar]

I am currently using an assault rifle that instead of being an assault rifle shoots bouncing grenades. And has rapid-fire on zoom. 3 bullets = 1 grenade ammo-wise. It is  .

[Evildrider]

I've gotten in the habit of killing myself to get back to the quick travel station because this game is retarded and doesn't have something like a town portal item.

I have been enjoying it a bit more since I had some alright gun luck and got a few nice guns. I got an even better explosive shotgun than I had before, a homing-singularity-slag nade mod, a decent bandit rifle, and a surprisingly powerful Dahl scoped pistol that shoots 2 bullets per trigger-pull. Explosive shotguns are pretty ridiculously good.

Don't kill yourself, just quit/save and then continue the game.

[Nonentity]

On Playthrough 2, just get used to dying a lot. You have 'story progression' mode, and 'farming' mode. One you are making money, the other you are dying a lot to mobs with a dramatically large health pool.

Enjoy the fighting the Constructor 2.0.

[Yegolev]

Works like the first one, then.  What happened in the first was once you are in 2.5, everything is slightly above your level no matter where you are.  So, look out for that.   You are definitely forced to get better at the game in that situation.

I had the grenade launcher for a bit with Zer0, but it didn't suit my playstyle.  I get a lot of mileage out of flame pistols, which seem to be plentiful as well, with a backup explosive pistol for that fire cult.

About Badass points, I'm mostly putting them into things that increase my ability to kill things.  Gun damage, accuracy, elemental damage/chance, etc.  It really, really wants me to pick up some of the shield bonuses since they appear in the list every damn time now.

[Nonentity]

I found that with the badass points, once I brought the severely ignored stats into line with the rest of the stats, then the damage increasing ones would start to appear. I basically am sitting at around 7% on everything across the board now.

[Yegolev]

I'm sure they will but now it is a contest of wills.

[Evildrider]

Yeah I got my gun damage to like 4.3% then it never showed for like another 40 pts.

[Fabricated]

Face McShooty's quest made me laugh like a retard.

[Nonentity]

Alright, I think I've pretty much beaten this game into the ground.

Being able to stomp Terramorphus with the broken combination of The Bee (the +56k damage per shot as long as you don't get hit shield) + Conference Call (shotgun that spreads out and generates more pellets over a distance) allows you to solo the "raid" boss in about 10 seconds.

[apocrypha]

Level 24 Commando and I can *not* find a decent Assault Rifle. I'm starting to suspect that the Commando's skills don't actually improve AR's as much as just make them suck less. So my playstyle is turret & sniper, which works nicely, especially since maxing out my sniper ammo capacity :)

Going to get one of each class to Sanctuary so I can bequeath them gear too, only got the Gunzerker left to get there.

[Nonentity]

Giant pile of Terramorphus loot:


So full of possibilites!

[apocrypha]

Just realised that something's missing from Borderlands 1 - the death animations.

WTF happened to the corrosive dissolving & screaming? The fire screaming and more screaming and burning to ash? And my favourite, the shock death which ends with the burned skull and spine popping out of the electrified body, with, of course, more screaming?

Not enough time to develop? Sanitized for certificate compliance? Scared of tabloid opprobrium? Whatever it is it's very disappointing.

[Fabricated]

I think the death animations were stripped out for Australia or something like that.

[Amaron]

I think the death animations were stripped out for Australia or something like that.

Germany

[Rishathra]

I've only gotten fire weapons so far, but I've definitely seen death animations for them.

[lamaros]

I think the death animations were stripped out for Australia or something like that.

Aus has a big kid rating system coming in soon, no longer will we be the cause of games being cut back.

[Amaron]

I've only gotten fire weapons so far, but I've definitely seen death animations for them.

They're super weak compared to the first one.  You could dismember people and all sorts of other fun stuff.  If you electrocuted someone their head would shrink then pop for instance.

[Pezzle]

Dear gods, the HP of things in the second play through.  My sniper rifle is just under 2k damage and I have to put 3 shots into bandit heads.  Not sure how I survived Flynt, running out of ammo might start to be an issue soon..

[kildorn]

It gets better ish again. My complaint with the loot system is that every 5 levels the loot "tiers" and lacking gear from the correct tier will completely fuck you. Like an 11 gun will do half the damage of a 16 gun, same with a 31 gun vs a 36 gun. But it's not a direct line, so a 34 is fine compared to a 35, but a 35 is shit compared to a 36.

Every time I've gotten annoyed at this game it's because I was a level under a gun tier, or hadn't gotten any drops I wanted.

[Lantyssa]

Yeah.  I really wish they'd smooth those levels out.  I feel bad-ass for a few levels then go back to feeling weak as hell.

[Segoris]

I didn't notice the 5 level loot tiers until the move into level 46 weapons, that was a large jump - possibly just odd/bad weapon rolls for my loot though.

Beyond that, proper use of elemental types has saved me all sorts of ammo. I think part of the issue is that people weren't as used to needing to use the right elements (I know I barely bothered) on pt1, where on pt2 it became the difference between emptying a decent size clip into a mob vs using only a couple rounds of appropriate ammo.

[Yegolev]

Yes, elements matter quite a bit now.  I have a fire pistol/SMG on me at all times since lots of things are fleshy, and lots of other things are armored but I have a hard time finding corrosive weapons.

[Jimbo]

 Is the character re-specs that expensive? I'm torn on my  commando from going w/the nuke or the slag turret.  The siren looks awesome,    I want to try her for multi player games.  Heal & slag sounds great.