Borderlands 2

[Trippy]

PC.

[amiable]

So they had a deal on Green man gaming where you get the game and a season pass (all the DLC) for 13.50 so I picked it up.  I was really looking forward to playing the mechromancer, but then I discovered that the full dlc package did not include that character class and I would have to spend an additional 10 dollars to get it!!!  I will probably put it to the side until they have a dlc and I can pick it up for 5 bucks or less, but still I am annoyed.

[Rendakor]

The Mechromancer was a pre-order character, so giving her away with the season pass would have been kind of a dick move to pre-order customers.

[amiable]

The Mechromancer was a pre-order character, so giving her away with the season pass would have been kind of a dick move to pre-order customers.

The games been out on the market for 6 months, I think the pre-order customers would care less at this point.

[Yegolev]

Stare at your spellbook like a man!

[Lantyssa]

After slogging through 23 levels with crap guns, I got a fire-dealing Pitchfork (Sniper that shoots a line of five bullets and burst-fires when zoomed) and a nice Eridian plasma caster from the same chest.

I really wish they weren't so stingy with the guns this time around.  "More guns!  (But you never see anything except trash.)"

[apocrypha]

Fired this up earlier to see if it was fun.

Level scaling is still weird and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do to progress. My character is level 53 with mediocre gear. UVHM is incredibly un-fun and I basically cannot progress. TVHM is all scaled to level 50/51 so, despite mobs still being able to kill me in 2-3 hits, I get almost no XP and the loot is all useless.

What am I supposed to do to progress?

[Miasma]

Has anyone played the Psychobandit character? I'm itching to fire this up again, but I'm not sure if I want to use my 50 Sniper or roll a new guy.

That seems to be melee centric, so you would have to like that sort of thing.  I would hate it.

As for ammo just be sure to fully upgrade your capacity with eridium.  If you have enough money and some time to kill you can play the two slot machines im moxxi's over and over to farm eridium.  Some guns use two to four bullets per shot, if you're using those I could see you having a lot of problems.  I imagine gunzerkers can burn ammo pretty good two firing away with two guns.  There were areas in the main plotline that I was really hurting for ammo like that caustic caverns place, just not enough chests to loot and the only vending machines were at the start.  So far in this Tiny Tina pack there are chests everywhere though, lots of ammo.  The small chests that only give money in the main plot can also give ammo here too.

There is a nice cheat I use on PC that doesn't require hacking programs.  I only had one golden key but for some reason after I first used this I had eleven which made it tolerable to exit/restart over and over again.

[Mortriden]

I would also love to hear of this BL2 cheat you describe.  The ones I found involve a lot of hacking together of the save file. 

[Miasma]

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

[Yegolev]

a nice Eridian plasma caster from the same chest.

Oh, by the numbers my plasmacaster is awesome, but in practice it's a completely unusable weapon.  Good luck!

I see the complaints about shit loot and I will agree while also pointing out that this has been a "thing" since the first Diablo.  Yes, 99% of everything is shit, just don't even look at anything below a specific color, based on where you are in your gear.  For my lv45, I try to avoid anything less than blue, and even then most blues are crap.  However they sell pretty well.  Money is used to buy anything good you might find on a vendor, as well as Moxxi's slots (no pun intended).  Just yesterday I got a phone call to log into someone's game and buy a $250k orange rocket launcher from a Sanctuary weapon vendor in a lv33 game, so it's entirely possible to find good shit on a vendor.

The usual rules apply to this game that we learned in ARPGs: open everything (including vending machines) and do boss runs.  I complained about Bunker but he's actually a pretty quick boss run since it's a very short walk from the entrance to his platform.  Get a corrosive shotgun, sniper, SMG, and pistol and you'll be super set for it.  Then there's the Warrior and Terramorphus once Bunker loses his shiny.

FYI some of the chests will reload without you having to restart.  These are at least the piratey-looking ones in Scarlett's DLC.  I didn't stay in one place long enough in Tina's to be sure but I think they do also reload after a zone change.

[Lantyssa]

... it's entirely possible to find good shit on a vendor.

Possibly, but highly unlikely.  I got far more usable guns in BL1 than 2.  When I do find a usable gun, it's orders of magnitude better, too.  You're either golden or fucked.

[Yegolev]

It is definitely bothersome to ride a gun/shield/grenade for ten levels because you haven't found a better one.  At least I don't have to worry about finding shotguns also shooting rockets.  That was stupid.

Lately I've had the opposite problem and I accumulated a pile of shotguns due to not being able to do the mental math while cramming Tiny Tina in my mouth.  I'd take short breaks and manage to mark off a single set, say pistols, then get back to the shooting.  I'd use something marginally better and discover it wasn't as good and go back to the old one.  Example: revolver with a scope rather than a higher damage one with iron sights.  Somehow the shotgun pile was difficult to sort out, and I think I finally gave up and just sold most of them.  I have a similar issue with grenades, especially with trying to pry those transfusion mods out of my girly hands.

[Miasma]

If you like game of thrones stuff keep smacking Prince Jeffery until he runs out of things to say.

[Nija]

I just picked this up from GMG as well.

I'm on the f13 steam group if anyone wants to play some PC. I'm like level 10ish but I'm down to group with lower level dudes. Just send me a tell - Nijasan on steam. I'm not sure if you need some other account info on the BL side of things.

[Yegolev]

Getting our asses stomped, I somehow marked most of my inventory for sale and now have three things other than my equipment.  It's a bit unnerving even though I don't miss anything.

The inside of Dragon Keep is a hot box of murder.  I think I'm lv47 and I'm getting stomped with the mechro, which is actually pretty cool.

[Yegolev]

For a few more hours : $9.99 for XBL version.
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Borderlands-2/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025454087c?DownloadType=Game#LiveZone?cid=majornelson&partner

[Mortriden]

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

Thanks.  Saw this one, was wondering if there was another mystical trick that was out there. 

[schild]

I've opened about 400 gold chests trying to get an Infinity with unlimited ammo / no reload but no luck.

If anyone has one so I can power level my dudes, that would be rad.

[Trippy]

I got mine as a legit drop early on but why don't you just edit your saved game and give yourself one?

Or I can dup mine in a game with you if you can't figure that out.

[schild]

I've gotten them before, just not one with both specs needed.

[Miasma]

Never heard of that weapon.  How it would help powerlevel, does it scale with your level?

[schild]

I'll pick it up from you tonight Trippy! =D

Miasma, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JctMJ9f90bo

[Trippy]

Assuming I can get back online. My router melted from the heat in my house yesterday

[schild]

A/C go out?

[Trippy]

I have no AC. I live in a crappy tract house built in the 50s with no insulation and single panel windows. During this heat wave the internal temperature of the house has been 95 - 100 degrees during the hottest time periods.

[Ingmar]

Yeah AC is not a ubiquitous feature in the Bay Area. We don't have it either, during heat waves our apartment gets pretty intolerable in the evenings, but it's usually just a couple weeks a year.

[Kitsune]

The youtube comments claim that that leveling glitch was patched recently.

[Miasma]

I have yet to see any orange items, I assumed they only dropped past level 50 in the ultimate mode.  Guess I've just been unlucky.

[schild]

The youtube comments claim that that leveling glitch was patched recently.

Doesn't seem like it.

[Nija]

This game needs level scaling. I see people online but they are +/- 20 levels of me. Dumb.

[Quinton]

Yeah AC is not a ubiquitous feature in the Bay Area. We don't have it either, during heat waves our apartment gets pretty intolerable in the evenings, but it's usually just a couple weeks a year.

I lived in the Bay Area for 8ish years before breaking down and buying a standalone AC unit -- primarily because I was at work, sick as hell, and decided to go home and crash out, but realized that it was going to be 90+ indoors, so I stopped at Fry's on my way home.  It was handy for those handful of miserably hot weeks every year.

Hell, most of the places I rented out here didn't even have central heat, just those awful in-wall units, usually setup to heat the livingroom and hallway and good luck with the bedrooms.

Happy to finally have actual central heat and AC (this is a 50's tract ranch, but was remodelled a few years ago and upgraded with luxuries like double pane windows, modern climate control, grounded outlets, and all that good stuff).  Don't need the AC much, but for weeks like this one it's nice.

[Nija]

Maybe it's because I was east bay, but I've had A/C at every spot I've lived at in the past ~12 years.

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

Yuba City, CA (elevation: 46 ft): Clear, 107.3F/41.8C (Feels Like 108F/41.8C), humidity: 20%, wind: From the WSW at 4.0 MPH Gusting to 7.0 MPH.

90F before 10am, 90F at 11pm.

[Goldenmean]

Lot of bay area people in this thread. For what it's worth, I can only remember one out of my eight east bay apartments having air conditioning (nine if you count the UC Berkeley residence halls).

Anyway, actually on topic, I picked BL2 up again. Haven't played since beating the game, but the D&D theme on the new one was enough to make me finally crack open the expansion packs I've been collecting from the season pass. Currently messing around with a level 25ish commando, but I've got some other characters at lower level and a siren at 30 something if people want to play. I'm Goldenmean on Steam as well. Off to a party now, but I'll be around most of the long weekend most likely.

And Nija, it gets a lot easier to get people in the same level range once you get to True Vault Hunter mode. Which is convenient, because the game takes a big step up in lethality around then =/

[Surlyboi]

My place in Palo Alto has central AC, being from NYC, that was a given.

The wife's from the Fresno area where it's pushing 96F at 9PM. She didn't fight the AC idea.

As for the Tiny Tina show. Despite BL2 not being nearly as awesome weaponwise, is the best bit of story across both games.