Borderlands 2

[Trippy]

Warning to 360 users, DLC may wipe some of your progress like badass points.

[Lantyssa]

My Tin Gaige is awesome.

[rattran]

Gaige is interesting, the Anarchy thing is either awesomely terrible or totally awesome, but I'm not sure which yet.

[Lantyssa]

It's going to require close-in weapons with high rates of fire.  Shotguns, SMGs, and Assault Rifles.  With 5 points in the ricochet skill, it should drastically help with the accuracy penalties.

For now I'm sticking with the BFF tree, but Vu is going Ordered Chaos.

[rattran]

I'm level 15 with it, and heavy damage pistols, smg and assault seem best. I had problems with low accuracy (~16) shotguns missing at point blank with 250 Anarchy points going. Missing big things even, like large bots and nomads.

[01101010]

Waiting for this to go on sale. Just bought the game... no sense spending another $10 for another class right now.  

[Bunk]

I'm seeing real potential love for the Mechro. HP regen on a tier one talent? Yes, thank you. They said in the preview that the Anarchy tree was to try to make up for the easy mode of the first tree, and I see what they meant. Didn't get far enough to activate the second main ability (boost accuracy and fire rate when you reload early, cancel by reloading again), but it looks like it could make for a hilarious juggling act. Crank Anarchy to 250, switch to Rocket Launcher or Sniper, reload, and BOOM!

[Fabricated]

I need to finish the game on my first character before I make another one. I really like shooting the helmets off goliaths and letting them maul everyone else, hopefully Deathclap is the same kind of fun.

[01101010]

I need to finish the game on my first character before I make another one. I really like shooting the helmets off goliaths and letting them maul everyone else, hopefully Deathclap is the same kind of fun.

This x100. I have taken to logging in and darting off to Tundra and clipping the loot Goliath and the others then just running off to Tina to farm the random stuff along the way, then check back with the outcome. I been getting lucky with having the remaining goliath having a skull icon by his name. I then make a mad dash for the reinforcements valve and flee again - sitting outside the train station and listening to the hilarity. I also noticed that if you get those goliaths to their highest levels in the train station, you don't actually have to do anything to kill them yourself, just lead them into the oncoming train and collect the loot. 

Serious lulz with those guys... The lines are priceless and the tone of the voice giving them just makes delicious.

[Fabricated]

The midget goliaths are even funnier.

[Yegolev]

^^^

Hard to make out the taunting most of the time with goliaths.  I do think it is funny that the nomads call me a midget-lover, and I'm worse than a midget.

[Bunk]

Ok, Gaige's commentary when I hit 99 Anarchy was awesome. (I remapped my reload key to the other side of the keyboard)

[Yegolev]

She gently punctures the fourth wall in pleasing ways.

[rattran]

It does suck on Gaige to get killed or reload and lose a few hundred anarchy, really makes playflow come to a grinding halt. I've moved reload to 7 so it's in reach but not accidently hittable.

[Yegolev]

I'm avoiding that whole mess.  Had a triple-mechro game going last night with two people doing Anarchy while I'm using the middle set.  We were very impressed to find that Deathtrap looks different based on the skills you choose.  Mine looks cooler.

[Segoris]

First DLC announced and it is Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty which is due on Oct 16th. MSNBC had a little more info saying it is a pirate themed add-on accessible to anyone at any level, has a new currency called Seraph Crystals, and has a new desert vehicle

[kildorn]

Anarchy Gaige is a ton of fun, and focuses heavily on forcing me into new playstyles. I'm inaccurate as all hell, but still lethal in close combat. I think so far at ~17 I've destroyed every encounter faster than any of my other characters just due to how much damage you can put out at point blank range. A few later game encounters are going to suck though. Deathtrap is also the destroyer of Buzzards.

As for reloading burning anarchy: that's actually kind of the flow of the spec. You gain abilities that increase anarchy gain and spend anarchy for health regen or more damage. It's not supposed to be "hit 250+ anarchy, rock out", it's "hit 200 anarchy and spend it for bonuses"

Her in combat yells are also hilarious. "I won't hit ANYTHIIIIIING!"

[Furiously]

I hit 50 with my Gaige last night. (Thanks nerf)

[Bunk]

When you aim at a wall that's twenty feet away with a sniper rifle, and the bullet hits the ceiling ten feet in front of you, you know the accuracy penalty is real. I'm pretty certain I've fired shotgun blasts completely around some guys without hitting them.

[Nerf]

I hit 50 with my Gaige last night. (Thanks nerf)

If my friends game isn't bugged and he can get the quest to get my Gaige to 50 tonight too, we're going to do a storyline speed-run if you want to join.

I can't wait to hit 50 on my Gaige, I'm doing the 1st skill tree and the shared shield thing should be amazing, I've got a legendary absorb shield with 80% abs, should make my robot pretty much indestructible.

[MrHat]

I hit 50 with my Gaige last night. (Thanks nerf)

If my friends game isn't bugged and he can get the quest to get my Gaige to 50 tonight too, we're going to do a storyline speed-run if you want to join.

I can't wait to hit 50 on my Gaige, I'm doing the 1st skill tree and the shared shield thing should be amazing, I've got a legendary absorb shield with 80% abs, should make my robot pretty much indestructible.

What quest fast tracks you to 50?

[Soulflame]

I hit 50 with my Gaige last night. (Thanks nerf)

If my friends game isn't bugged and he can get the quest to get my Gaige to 50 tonight too, we're going to do a storyline speed-run if you want to join.

I can't wait to hit 50 on my Gaige, I'm doing the 1st skill tree and the shared shield thing should be amazing, I've got a legendary absorb shield with 80% abs, should make my robot pretty much indestructible.

What quest fast tracks you to 50?

Spoilering:

[Segoris]

I hit 50 with my Gaige last night. (Thanks nerf)

If my friends game isn't bugged and he can get the quest to get my Gaige to 50 tonight too, we're going to do a storyline speed-run if you want to join.

I can't wait to hit 50 on my Gaige, I'm doing the 1st skill tree and the shared shield thing should be amazing, I've got a legendary absorb shield with 80% abs, should make my robot pretty much indestructible.

What quest fast tracks you to 50?

Spoilering:

There's also
Speaking of which, I'm up for trading levels with people

[Yegolev]

I very much dislike that the health penalty on Pangolin shields is now hidden.  I don't understand the point.

[Nerf]

I hit 50 with my Gaige last night. (Thanks nerf)

If my friends game isn't bugged and he can get the quest to get my Gaige to 50 tonight too, we're going to do a storyline speed-run if you want to join.

I can't wait to hit 50 on my Gaige, I'm doing the 1st skill tree and the shared shield thing should be amazing, I've got a legendary absorb shield with 80% abs, should make my robot pretty much indestructible.

What quest fast tracks you to 50?

Spoilering:

There's also
Speaking of which, I'm up for trading levels with people

Spoiler farming is waaaaaaay slower.  We were farming Terra (with Bee's, conf call) for 1-2 hours before we did , and got both noobs from ~12-14 to ~23-25.  It took under 1.5hrs to get from there to 50, and in kats case, from like 13 to 50, and 30-40 minutes of that was spent fucking around with goliaths.  Not sure if it's just the loot god-liaths, but the whole "you get triple all the xp they got" thing is bullshit, at least for a loot-liath.  We let him farm for a good 10-15mins, and he easily got 25+ kills *after* mutating to god-liath.  Gave each noob 1 level in the mid 20s.

Also:

Also also:
The bee shield sucks balls for anything other than terra farming.  My assassin absolutely destroys everything in melee spec with L50 Law+order, with the bee all it takes is 1 stray bullet and you're a gimp until your shield recharges.

[Segoris]

[Lantyssa]

You level 50s doing farming probably won't care, but I got an orange drop from Midge-Mong on Gaige.  For newbie levels this thing is godly.  With 150 stacks of Anarchy, it's beyond that.  Auto-fire, a really fast rocket, and the rocket leaves a bouncing betty behind.  With newb-archy, it was doing about 900 explosive with a secondary explosion of 4-500.

Nasty KerBlaster

The only downside to it is firing right in front of myself and getting splashed with the explosion.  But if I'm downed to melee, it'll get me back up immediately.

[Yegolev]

I learned last night that I can be hurt by my own electrical storms as Gaige.  This is pretty bad.

[Fabricated]

There aren't diminishing returns on drops if you farm The Warrior by just quitting and reloading the game at his vault after killing him right?

Also: I didn't check- Does the conference call ONLY drop from Jack?

[Jimbo]

Lanty where did you find that sweet rifle?

If anyone wants to join me on Xbox Live I'm PBRsupercool as my xbox gamertag.  Oh, and after getting the all the downloads we didn't loose any badass ranks thank goodness, so they must have fixed it now for Xbox.

[Lantyssa]

Lanty where did you find that sweet rifle?

Midge-Mong.  It makes me hope I can find an equivalent later in the game, as it is just plain fun.

[Yegolev]

PBRsupercool

I'd friend you just based on the awesome gamertag.

[Segoris]

There aren't diminishing returns on drops if you farm The Warrior by just quitting and reloading the game at his vault after killing him right?

Also: I didn't check- Does the conference call ONLY drop from Jack?

Conf Call is from the Warrior, but the chance of loot dropping is fucking awful in multiplayer and even worse in single player if just farming him. There is a way to farm him (or any quest boss) with higher orange chance though

PBRsupercool

I'd friend you just based on the awesome gamertag.

^this, if I had xbox

[Fabricated]

Thank you.

Also it'd be cool if the warrior didn't just splatter his loot everywhere so I had to spend like 5 minutes picking around trying to make sure any good stuff didn't get stuck under the ground or in the fucking lava or something.

[Azazel]

I... don't get it?