Borderlands 2

One last complaint about the weather. Sudden warming of the planet wouldn't lower the ocean level, it would raise it. As the planet cools, more water becomes locked in the polar ice caps, lowering the amount of liquid water elsewhere on the planet. As a result, the oceans would shrink and reveal more land. Then, when the planet warms up again, the ice caps start to melt and the increase in water raises the ocean levels and pushes the coastlines back inland. Logically speaking, it should have been an in-land desert when they first arrived, and then became a tropical coastline when the planet warmed up and the original coastline sank beneath the surface, not the other way around.

So, recently back into Borderlands 2, since I felt like a break from Diablo 3 and have done my 100% completion of Transistor.

Started into UVHM, currently 55 (the Bee I was using at 50 has been keeping me in surprising good stead when combined with my level 50 Hornet, outside of my very unfortunate encounter with Bloodwing that cost me tons of money).

Is there a way to farm XP in UVHM? I want to keep Talon of God and all the one-off chest spawn areas for level 72. Does Badass Crater (seems like the most logical one to me, given it's nature) have something that I can keep farming till 72?

D-D-D-D-D-D-Double-post!

These went on sale recently. Bought one already, (and one unit is 3% of the stock) since it goes with the Hyperion hoodie that I bought off him last year.

News for Tales of the Borderlands, and a new comic, the Fall of Fyrestone. The latter article also has a Pre-Sequel gameplay video.

Huh. Odd choice of story for the comic, since Nine Toes is the first storyline quest...

I'm pretty keen to see more of Tales. Is there a release date?

Just bought the Borderlands 2 GOTY edition so I can play through it again and enjoy all the DLC content I missed out in preparation for the inevitable joy-puking of the Pre-Sequel IN SPACE!

I'm gonna wait for the GOTY version of the Pre Sequel.

I still need to get to OP 8 with Gaige.

Since there was a sale on Steam and I had credit from the trading cards, I decided to finally get the DLC characters. I reinstalled the game for the first time in months and decided to give Krieg a try.

Jesus Christ, I forgot how god-awful terrible I am at this game. I can't even kill Midgemong, the first damn side quest boss. Died over a dozen times on it so far.

edited 23rd Aug '14 11:45:48 AM by Rotpar

Don't worry, Midgemong is a pain in the ass, it's not just you. What character are you playing as? If it's Axton, staying up near the vending machines and tossing grenades and turrets works. If it's Gaige, Deathtrap and maybe Close Enough. I can't remember if phaselock works on Midgemong, so Maya might have an easy time, and Salvador can do the old slag/rocket launcher gunzerking trick. Krieg is completely broken if you're high enough level to have Unleash the Beast, but the worst if you're not. And Zero is a pain here because Midgemong jumps around too much for reliable crits.

Playing Krieg. Unleash the Beast? I'm level 5. I'm probably going to uninstall again since this is hopeless and it's only the first boss in the game.

I'm actually realizing for the first time how I never would have completed the game without a co-op friend carrying me through it. I'm in the back sucking and being useless with a sniper rifle while he's charging everything without aiming.

edited 24th Aug '14 12:17:18 AM by Rotpar

OK, if you're play style was "hang back and snipe" Krieg is the WRONG guy to use. Try Gaige and stick with here BFF tree, let Deathtrap do most of the work.

And yeah, it's not just you, Midgemong is a pain in the dick.

No, that was on Maya.

So going through all the DLC with Axton and then kill Jack. Rather than go into the True Vault Hunter modes I was thinking of just making another character.

Any recommendations? I've made enough Zer0 builds to last a lifetime so we can forget about him.

In honor of the imminent release of the Pre-Sequel, here's some more shift codes, probably the last we'll ever see.

• Xbox 360: K35TJ-6395F-TXFBX-56TJB-ZZ33S
• Play Station 3: K35TJ-6399B-XZBCT-93WJB-ZZ35K
• PC/Mac: CJKT3-WRK9S-6TJ33-JJJJJ-5XJZZ

edited 10th Oct '14 3:11:39 PM by Yinyang107

Remind me what a 'shift code' is, it's been a while and my brain sometimes loses things.

They give you golden keys.

And those are used with... what, again?

The loot chest in Sanctuary, next to the Fast Travel station.

There will be golden keys in the Pre-Sequel.

The question is whether or not the keys carry over.

Trying to decide how I want to play my mechromancer. I've never had much luck with playing a precision game in Borderlands, taking time to aim and make shots count gets me shredded while charging in spraying bullets clears entire rooms. Been dying constantly since I entered the Highlands and did the same when playing siren the same way a year ago.

My current build was Little Big Trouble, using a shock revolver and a slag sniper primarily. Thinking of re-speccing into Ordered Chaos and just getting whatever fires the fastest.

edited 5th Jan '15 11:31:33 AM by Rotpar

I stuck with the BFF tree and let Deathtrap do all the work; things work out pretty well when you send him in and just back him up. I don't know if he just automatically draws aggro, but it always seems to me that, when you activate him, even in mid-combat, EVERYONE ignores you. They automatically go from "KILL THE LITTLE BITCH WITH THE ROBOT ARM!" to "KILL THE FLYING ROBOT THE LITTLE BITCH JUST SUMMONED!" Even bosses.

Maybe it's me.

I'm about half and half on Little Big Trouble and Ordered Chaos. I find that I can still nail headshots with my sniper rifle up to about 80 anarchy stacks (up to 50, I find the accuracy effects almost unnoticeable when scoped). At about 120 stacks, it doesn't matter where I hit, though past about 180, it's more like a shotgun. Of course, before then, I usually switch to an SMG or assault rifle before then. However, the sniper rifle is where I kinda drew my accuracy metrics. It might not be optimal, but it works for me. Especially since I got Discord. Now if I could just get a good shock gun. I've got good fire, acid, and slag guns, but el zilcho for shock.

The robot's main job is drawing fire when I need to recharge my shields.

edited 5th Jan '15 9:01:13 PM by Balmung

So, can anyone explicitly tell me, in their view, what makes Borderlands 2's story miles better than the first game's?

Well, it has a story, for one thing. Borderlands was very bare-bones. Basically, you show up on the planet, Angel tells you to find a Vault, you mess around for about twenty hours and then Angel tells you where the Vault is. Oh, don't get me wrong, there's a lot of fun in between, and the gameplay is a blast, it's just...bare.

What's interesting, however, is that they actually did a lot of worldbuilding in the background, and the hints of that scattered around make the game more fun than it would normally be. The nature of the Sirens and the Eridians, the various corporations and other planets...the first game feels like an empty and dying but very real world.

The story is definitely longer and it has you meet more people. It's plot is also a tad more developed then the "random [Treasure Hunter]s find the Giant Space Flea from Nowhere instead of treasure and take down Evil, Inc. while they're at it" plot the first one had. Although by more developed I mean, "take down Evil, Inc. and prevent The End of the World as We Know It via Giant Space Flea from Nowhere".

I think people like how in BL2 you're preventing the evil corp from dictating how everyone on Pandora gets to live. Granted, life on Pandora is hard, but it's free, and that's what most of the people prefer. Honestly, the entire Borderlands franchise can be summed up as a Space Western.

Edit: The details where something they got right in the first game, fortunately, they continued that it seems. Echo logs are a thing of beauty, and I wish we could replay them like we could in the first game.

edited 9th Jan '15 8:51:13 AM by ObsidianFire