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Borderlands 2 |OT| Opening Pandora's Box (of Guns!)
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DanielJr82
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I get snipers that OHKO with Salvador and a better 'get out of jail free' card imo.
Glad I picked someone with HP and ammo regen. That's for sure.
That place is optional.
If I'm remembering correctly, right outside the entrance to Fink's Slaughterhouse is a large blast door you can open. There should be a valve on the wall next to it.
Dead Prince
Banned
throwing turret and shot gunning everyone in sight.
iNvid02
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same, decided to scrap the melee route i had planned. tried close up shotgun but that didnt work either.
getting ok results with the sniper but its still early and its kind of a chore, i think im gonna restart
Zero's class ability just seems friggin useless. What good is getting off a single higher damage shot every 15 seconds? With Mirana's stun, you can get like 5+ sniper headshots while the enemy is frozen, which is far more useful.
soxinthebox
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How's the PC online this time around? Still Gamespy?
Bit cautious because the PC version became a wasteland pretty damn quickly.
Bit cautious because the PC version became a wasteland pretty damn quickly.
fluffydelusions
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No steamworks and it works great
Having a ton of fun with the game so far and really like a lot of the changes and improvements made to the game.
Only thing that is annoying, is if you join someone's game and they are just finishing a quest, that quest also get's finished for you even if you want to experience it yourself. (this happened early on my file during a story mission, so I just reset my game in order to get the full experience) I really wish that they would give you the option on whether or not you wish to do missions that you finished in co-op, a second time in single player.
Also I have to make a quick mention of the Splinter Group mission which put a big huge grin on my face when I figured out what was going on.
Only thing that is annoying, is if you join someone's game and they are just finishing a quest, that quest also get's finished for you even if you want to experience it yourself. (this happened early on my file during a story mission, so I just reset my game in order to get the full experience) I really wish that they would give you the option on whether or not you wish to do missions that you finished in co-op, a second time in single player.
Also I have to make a quick mention of the Splinter Group mission which put a big huge grin on my face when I figured out what was going on.
PC is fuckin awesome so far. Steamworks for everything and plenty of graphical options to tweak.
It's a proper PC game and not a port.
Not nearly as viable as melee/shotgun, I'd guess.
I don't really get it either. My friend and I started on the PS3 version and he immediately fell in love with the character. I don't really understand the point of doing one single powerful shot. Most enemies die quickly anyways. I think he just likes the ability to get the heck out of dodge when stuff starts flying and things start spawning around us (which seems to happen a lot more this time around).
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Anyways, I just made a critical story juncture. At that exact moment, I had a revelation on how to do a really cool axton build, but I want to keep playing this one to see what happens with the story. Not sure how I feel right now, guess I'll just keep going. I assume it can't be much longer until the end.
Sitting at level 38? Now. The new game + is pretty challenging. Basically forcing you to use weapon combinations and slag unless you have some godly guns. Even then lots of ammo is used up.
Jakobs sniper that crits for 19k is my best friend. ALL I NEED.
Zerkin still better imo, but I'm starting a Zero now. Maybe I should go with Maya instead as that was my original planned go to.
Unskippable cutscenes suck.
Jakobs sniper that crits for 19k is my best friend. ALL I NEED.
You have it on a much shorter cooldown which is a bonus and can end it early to have it even faster.
Zerkin still better imo, but I'm starting a Zero now. Maybe I should go with Maya instead as that was my original planned go to.
Unskippable cutscenes suck.
I gained like 4 levels there to hit 21 iirc? Shit is great. If you don't have ammo regen you are probably boned though.
Yeah I'm having a blast with Zer0, right now, although I do agree that he is probably the worst class in the game until you have a decent pool of skills to improve his cloaking.
Only real qualm I have about his action skill is that invisibility doesn't equal intangibility, so I always have to be careful where I run because I don't want to take bullets to the face.
Only real qualm I have about his action skill is that invisibility doesn't equal intangibility, so I always have to be careful where I run because I don't want to take bullets to the face.
It'll walk you through most of what you need to know. Go at your own pace and read the text in the quest log (Tab) when you need to.
Zerkin is p. good. Getting those bonuses up.
Moving 75% faster with + 75% fire rate is pretty hilarious.
How can you miss headshots on PC? Get a good acc. sniper.
MagicWithEarvin
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Yep.
You can also use the SMAA injector if you don't like FXAA. It's just a quick swap of files and you've got a cleaner looking game.
So what seems to be the class popularity you guys have seen so far between the 4 vault hunters. I've seen a Zer0 the most but can't judge the others since I have played very little online for the moment. Of course, it seems many people are now ditching Zer0 anyways so who knows 
Just follow the quests you come across. Check each gun for their stats, compare for DPS, but mostly, just try some out and get a feel for everything. You will find a kind you like and get a groove for.
Aka: Kill enemies and loot lots of stuff for bigger better guns while following the green diamond on your map.
jediyoshi
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Pretty broken on my end, haven't been able to join any friends' games/friends aren't able to join mine and for some reason only a tiny amount of games pop up on match browser
Dog Problems
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Yeah, I felt bad about that, too. Then I got pissed off at the other characters in the game lol
When the enemies are moving/fighting, their heads can sway around quite unpredictably.
Poor excuses.
Crit is way better on pistols imo since most Snipers OHKO already when you need to. Also fantastic on shotguns.
Crit doesn't have to be sniper.
What is your build like so far?
Then play Salvador and pick up a Jakobs and never run out of ammo ever.But I like snipers.
Popping Zerker gives you 60 sniper ammo
MagicWithEarvin
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You leave Maya alone, jerk. =(
Maybe you didn't use one? That shouldn't happen.
But I like snipers.
Then play Salvador and pick up a Jakobs and never run out of ammo ever.
Popping Zerker gives you 60 sniper ammo
I second this if you are going to play snipers only. There are way too many parts later in the game where I had to seriously zerk 10+ times in the middle of a single battle because I was running out of sniper ammo. I can't see it being conceivable with another class unless you run 2 or more weapon types.
no, on lvl 7 I had 3. he had 4. probably a bug or he was talking about badass tokens..
I'm only up to level 15 but so far have been speccing towards the phaselock revive to help in co-op. I was planning on filling this tree and going halfway down motion to get the group pull and additional phaselock duration.
The Cataclysm tree seems nuts but I've been doing fine just sniping people as they're levitated, so I'm focusing more on helping everyone else instead of becoming walking death. Though I can always respec for that.
I got boned in there when the very last enemy of the final wave bugged into the wall. I could hit him with grenades, but he was a badass with a million hp or something.
After my friend came back though we burned through 3 rounds no problem. TONS of exp and I got a freakishly good Dahl sniper rifle, so no complaints. Got kinda sick of it after that though.
Anyways dual shotgun Brawn Salvador is really working for me. I have 7/5 in that thing which makes you run/reload fast when being shot, so I'm basically the Doomguy at this point. Also I look like Oddjob.
soulassssns
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I'm loving the game but it keeps crashing on me. I verified my game cache and it came up with 1 file error and it redownloaded it. Unfortunetly the game stopped working completely at that point so now I am redownloading the whole game again.
MagicWithEarvin
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I'm only up to level 15 but so far have been speccing towards the phaselock revive to help in co-op. I was planning on filling this tree and going halfway down motion to get the group pull and additional phaselock duration.
The Cataclysm tree seems nuts but I've been doing fine just sniping people as they're levitated, so I'm focusing more on helping everyone else instead of becoming walking death. Though I can always respec for that.
The Cata tree seems week aside from Flicker, IMO. I would just go with Motion and Harmony.
Dead Prince
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you're not using big picture mode are you?
I think a full tree in cataclysm and half into motion would be good, the group pull on top of the elemental effects it would cause would be pretty nuts.
Then again I have a class mod that does corrosion and guns always help with the other elements. Harmony is good stuff so far, atleast. 5 health orbs off ANYTHING, so I can just lift a wimp to oneshot and heal my group up.
Yeah, I started specing towards motion, to get the bullet deflection. I'm going to work towards health next.
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