Borderlands 2

[Muffled]

Character respecs are practically free, go nuts.

I compulsively haul every item drop back to a shop to sell it so I may have more money to hand than the average bear, but the cost really is minimal.

[Segoris]

It's really not bad at all. The wiki shows the formula

respec cost = 100 * 1.12level

So really pretty minimal especially since it's tied to level and not how much cash you have

[Yegolev]

I have only done it once for two characters.  I don't miss the money.  I piss away more on the slot machines.

[Fabricated]

The slot machines are a fountain of eridium if you're reasonably lucky, and I've been fairly lucky. Not 3 Borderlands symbols or 3 Marcus symbols lucky, but 3 bars is like 15ish Eridium or so.

[Mazakiel]

I love the slot machines, especially in a MP game.  The eridium is shared among everyone, so if you're all gambling, you can get a lot more chances at getting bars without going broke. 

[Megrim]

I love the slot machines, especially in a MP game.  The eridium is shared among everyone, so if you're all gambling, you can get a lot more chances at getting bars without going broke. 

You need to gamble... for Eridium?

[TheWalrus]

You don't need to, but it sure adds up quick if you do.

[Nerf]

The slot machines are a fountain of eridium if you're reasonably lucky, and I've been fairly lucky. Not 3 Borderlands symbols or 3 Marcus symbols lucky, but 3 bars is like 15ish Eridium or so.

I got 3 marcus symbols earlier, got a pretty meh blue weapon.  3 legs netted me a nice purple slag pistol tho.

[kildorn]

The slot machines are also an amazing answer to "I feel like my guns are weak", dumping a few thousand into them I find to be far more effective than ever using the vending machines.

[Yegolev]

I was hoping the slot machine in the Dust would give a higher return, despite the reverse-logic that I could find better stuff in a ruined bandit house than in a civilized town.  Didn't see any difference, though.

[Fabricated]

The slot machines are also an amazing answer to "I feel like my guns are weak", dumping a few thousand into them I find to be far more effective than ever using the vending machines.

I haven't seen anything in the fucking vending machines I've wanted to buy. Like 9/10 times its all bad white-quality guns. The only things I've bought from vending machines so far are shields since I have awful luck finding good ones.

[Yegolev]

When I do find something, it's usually a class mod.  I don't usually find anything, though.  I assume it has to do with level magic, so playing in higher-level areas would be the thing to do.

[Lantyssa]

Vendors just suck.  In BL1 you had a decent chance of seeing rarer items on vendors from a low level.  Now you're lucky to see a green or two.

They're still worth checking if passing by, or to cope with OCD..., but you're better off playing the slots or tipping Moxxi a whole lot.

[Segoris]

Until lvl50 almost all of my mods (including my team health regen mod I still use at times) came from vendors as well as a couple of my grenades so they've been good for those. Guns worth buying have not existed though, sadly.

Though I don't think it has anything to do with level magic for if something is useful or not. When I picked up my health regen mod I was basically just restarting games until I found one I liked (took about 15mins of restarts and checking the health vending machines in Sanc). Was worth it though to find a green with ~200hp/s, +4 to Restoration and +5 to Sweet Release which basically makes me a full on healer while taking DPS skills and fits perfectly with a build that also uses the Terramorphus mod. I also picked up one for my Zero while doing these and passed up many others that would have been good if I played Axton or Salv.

Now if only they'd fix the limited inventory, shit is annoying.

[Yegolev]

They're still worth checking if passing by, or to cope with OCD..., but you're better off playing the slots or tipping Moxxi a whole lot.

I tipped that whore $10,000 and just got an achievement.

[Segoris]

She holds the gun in her hand when you tip her the right amounts, and there's a bit of a delay as she takes it out.

[Yegolev]

Not sure if innuendo.

[Segoris]

I actually erased the original innuendo intentional comment and still couldn't avoid it

[Nerf]

I keep getting this glitch where item and mob textures stop loading, and all of a sudden I just have to run around and swing wildly hoping I hit something to heal myself until I can hit something else.

Ok, so in all fairness, it doesn't actually change gameplay much, but it's still nice to be able to see shit, any idea?

Also, law+order Zero is amaaaaazing.  36 now, still using the L18 Law and 25 Order, and just straight up raping face nonstop.

Now I need to decide if I grab the PT2 law+order as soon as the quests are available, or ignore them until 50 so I can get a level 50 order.
Sigh, why don't the side quests reset for 2.5?  So dumb.

[Pezzle]

About Moxxi guns

[Segoris]

For Moxxi's tip reward weapons, I waited until 50 to do the tipping but have since heard that you can receive them when re-zoning (possibly restarting the game is what is meant, but I've heard re-zoning) by tipping again.

That said, those SMGs have been wonderful as level 50 weapons and cost practically nothing and are my second favorite weapons behind only Conference Call which (as stated earlier) is just stupidly OP with The Bee combination.

[kildorn]

They're still worth checking if passing by, or to cope with OCD..., but you're better off playing the slots or tipping Moxxi a whole lot.

I tipped that whore $10,000 and just got an achievement.

Spam tip until the prompt goes away (you can't over tip) and she'll give you a gun. It's unrelated to the 10k achievement and seems relatively random as to how much it takes.

[apocrypha]

While levelling I've got 2 of her SMGs and they've been scaled to my level each time. I think the first one cost me about $20k (level 15 or so) and the 2nd one (level 24) cost me $50k. I got Bad Touch (corrosive) the 1st time and Good Touch (fire) the 2nd.

Level 30 now and have just hit a "my weapons are shit" point :/

[Soulflame]

Hit a slot machine!

[Fabricated]

Okay, I'm now of the opinion that 90% of the side-quests are dumb boring and retarded since after literally having to get drunk to feel like slogging through the shitty side-quests I had piled up I hit the story again and played straight for like 3 hours.

This game has a wildly inconsistent tone too, which is actually kinda offputting and makes it hard to get into the story. Is this a wacky sci-fi Mad Max gun romp where I melt thousands of people with acid, fire, and electricity and giggle at the goofy ass Nicki Minaj pre-teen explosives expert and the alcoholic sniper whose bird is more famous than him? Or is this a relatively serious sci-fi mad max gun romp where I find audio logs of previous game characters being executed, current characters being tortured horribly (which is why they're so "hilariously" goofy presently), and main characters flat out being executed?

[01101010]

Finally picked this up. The Goliaths are too fun. Pop there heads off in a crowded area and watch and listen to the awesome. I haven't laughed as hard at a video game line than I have at their lines.

 

[Fabricated]

I'M GONNA GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT!

I've let like a million of these fuckers completely level up and I never get the achievement for some reason.

[Jimbo]

I had to take a crazy midget today and chain him to a boat and set him on fire     It is the quest for when a cult sprang up around the Lilith.  Her comments were great too.

I'm liking this way more than D3 or PS2.

My only beef is that it takes a long time to level, but you can set down and play for hours and it rocks.   

[Segoris]

I'M GONNA GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT!

I've let like a million of these fuckers completely level up and I never get the achievement for some reason.

Are you leveling them until they become God-Liaths? That is the achievement level, even though the level before (super badass or something?) has a skull next to their level that isn't the right rank.

If you are then I don't know what's wrong as I got that achievement a couple days ago. If not then IMO do it in the Frozen Tundra and pull the alarm in the base, plenty of enemies for them to level on

[Nerf]

Hit 50 last night, I've been playing with my brother (commando), and constantly feeling somewhere between incredibly fragile glass cannon and godlike superhero with my level 16 Law and 25 Order (1200 shields means it's pretty common to chain like 8 second wins, getting 1-shot immediately after I stand up.)

Right after we dropped warrior, and I got the same fucking orange sniper rifle I got the first time I killed him, I went and did the L50 versions of the Law&Order quest.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.  I am a god.  I am an unstoppable killing machine that can anally rape Badass Constructor 2.0s solo, with a +43% melee and +4 killing blow green class mod, once something hit's 10 or 15% health and the "low" kicks in, they're pretty much dead in a hit.  Highest hit I've actually seen land is a bit over 1.9M, but he wasn't slagged and I don't think I was stealthed.

Terramorphus farming tonight, killed Warrior about 6 times last night, but never got any oranges past the first kill.  No purple ninja mods yet, but maybe terra will be nice and drop an orange one for me.

Everyone should play a Zer0 alt with the melee spec, clearing the field in ~15 seconds and never breaking stealth is just 

[Phred]

Best review ever. I eagerly await his panning the new X-Com game as a terrible RTS.

First comment in comment section :)

Do the world a favor and stop writing reviews for video games. It’s obvious that you do not have the patience to play anything beyond the simple-minded games like CoD and therefore are incapable of providing a thoughtful review or opinion in the matter.

[Trippy]

Mechromancer releases today, a week early.

Edit: warning to 360 users, the DLC may wipe some of your progress like badass points

[Lantyssa]

Coming to post that, too.

[Kitsune]

I'm getting to a point with our new Siren where I'm finally starting to feel pretty good about her.  This required two things: The upgrade to phaselock to make it pull in nearby enemies, and a teleporting sticky MIRV grenade.  Phaselock something big, stick a grenade on it, watch as everything around him gets pulled close just in time for the grenade to spew ten mini-grenades all around it and then EVERYTHING EXPLODES.  My entire FOV on a widescreen monitor is nothing but explosions when that thing goes off, I love it like you wouldn't believe.

And of course just as soon as I'm starting to like the new Siren, they release Mechromancer early.

[Segoris]

So...who wants to try and exchange some power leveling (either Fleshstick, warrior, or Terra farming) to level up some Gaiges?