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Borderlands 2 |OT| Opening Pandora's Box (of Guns!)
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Has anyone else had any problems getting the Jackpot challenge in Sanctuary? Don't get me wrong, obviously it should be difficult. But I am at over ten fucking million spent, and this is from beginning of the game to end game (mostly mid-game) so that's probably somewhere around 1500-1700 spins and hours and hours. It's super frustrating.
Also have they said anything about the Pimon spawn being fucked? Pre-release the footage indicated that they would always spawn together, but it seems like almost no one can get Pimon, and getting them both together is fucking ridiculous. I spent 6 motherfucking hours trying to get Pimon to spawn on Sunday, and got about 70 Tumbaas (it's not terribly hard) and I still haven't seen Pimon once. It's kinda fucked, and really frustrating because my last couple of Challenges seem to screwed in one way or another. The other major one I'm missing is the only one that's not-repeatable (for doing something with turrets in Eridium Blight) and so far me and my friends have had no success getting that on any of our playthroughs. We're going to have to waste someone's playthrough 1 character and go in there with the other 3 people at level 50 that we want to get that Challenge on.
Also have they said anything about the Pimon spawn being fucked? Pre-release the footage indicated that they would always spawn together, but it seems like almost no one can get Pimon, and getting them both together is fucking ridiculous. I spent 6 motherfucking hours trying to get Pimon to spawn on Sunday, and got about 70 Tumbaas (it's not terribly hard) and I still haven't seen Pimon once. It's kinda fucked, and really frustrating because my last couple of Challenges seem to screwed in one way or another. The other major one I'm missing is the only one that's not-repeatable (for doing something with turrets in Eridium Blight) and so far me and my friends have had no success getting that on any of our playthroughs. We're going to have to waste someone's playthrough 1 character and go in there with the other 3 people at level 50 that we want to get that Challenge on.
therealminime
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Yeah I have yet to get a Jackpot yet. I've spent 75 hours with the game and have put easily 5-10 million into those damn things and have never gotten the Jackpot.
I think I've been through the area 3 times and they spawned together on two of them (with neither spawning the third).
That's what I'm wondering. While it's great to have more Borderlands, I don't see how they can keep milking this, which I assume they want to do.
They still need to be more innovative than re-skinning guns with new animations, and improving areas that obviously needed it. I'm not a game developer, so I really can't say in what direction they need to head towards, nor what they should do to shake up the formula. I remember that Call of Duty 1/2, while great at the time were just that unique in experience, excellent gameplay, but once Call of Duty 4 came around it really shook not only the industry but how FPS games are viewed today. Now I'm not asking Borderlands to be the next industry smash-hit, but something that shakes it up while still keeping the base formula. What that may be I don't know.
I also want to state that by no means is Borderlands 2 bad, it just feels the same. And I've put over 60 hours in the first one.
There's a lot of room for improvement.
Obvious ones are losing the time sink factors (default backpack is way too small, only two weapon slots from the start makes you force going through menus for the same outcome, let me teleport to town and back, etc) along with better enemy variety and of course saving my progress when I quit during a mission.
The game is amazing when it's great. But there's a lot of filler in between.
Obvious ones are losing the time sink factors (default backpack is way too small, only two weapon slots from the start makes you force going through menus for the same outcome, let me teleport to town and back, etc) along with better enemy variety and of course saving my progress when I quit during a mission.
The game is amazing when it's great. But there's a lot of filler in between.
Removed. Only Salvador has access to ammo regeneration.
Thanks.
Empty Space
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There is one gun with no reloads and infinite ammo though.
Wuthering_Heights
Banned
Tomato, tomahto.
Yep, dropped for me first try. I still use it at level 19.
ColonelSkills
Member
A better question would be "why did they get rid of so many unique effects in all loot types?"
Wish I had an answer.
No new ones, if that's what you're asking. You'll still have access to any uncompleted ones when you beat the Warrior, though.
There's one new quest you unlock after you beat the game, but that's meant to be done in TVHM.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
Gotten the eridian jackpot twice, never the gun jackpot, only level 30 but spent about the same.
I've gotten the eridian jackpot once at about lvl 35. No gun jackpot.
What's the bee trick? I'm gonna farm a level 50 one soon.
therealminime
Member
Yeah I've gotten the eridium jackpot probably 5 times, never the weapon one (triple vault hunter symbol things).
TricksterLoki
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The Bee paired with pretty much any shotgun, preferably the Conference Call, makes farming a breeze with massive damage output.
Thanks, redeemed on PC.
PixyJunket
Member
Two hours from right now, but they seem to be ready to "go live," and start offering bigger, more open rewards outside of these stress tests very soon.
I wouldn't sweat it if you can't get in on it right now.
MoonLightWave
Member
Do we have any info on the upcomming campaign dlc? Yeah, I finished the game quite fast.
Buckethead
Banned
Gold key get!
The best way to farm the last boss is to get a character that hasnt pushed the button yet and keep a copy of that save. Then just load the save and push the button, and replace the save everytime. You should get a legendary 9 out of 10 times. You need a friend to hold the loot since your replacing your save.
Victory Red
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Got a 360 code. Two purple grenades in chest. One does 47489 x10.
Not bad.
Not bad.
PixyJunket
Member
All this talk of farming bosses and crap is kind of souring me on the game a little bit.
I'll probably finish up my siren campaign, do my online co-op run when mechromancer comes out and then let it rest until the DLC starts flowing in.
I'll probably finish up my siren campaign, do my online co-op run when mechromancer comes out and then let it rest until the DLC starts flowing in.
Yeah I played way too much but it's dawned on me that there's no reason to co-op in this game atm or really do anything in the end game. Once you get a bee and CC there's no real upgrades and the only reason to get loot is just to collect it. And for that matter why co-op when you can farm the same amount of loot and keep it to yourself versus having to scramble and come to a magic resolution as to who gets what loot with 4 players.
MrTroubleMaker
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thanks!
razgriz417
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welp I'm officially stuck at playthrough 2. I'm lvl 38 in the Highlands and everything is 40+, that thresher boss is taking me out with 2 shots on my assassin. I remember reading in this thread that its best to save all the side quests until lvl 50 so I've skipped nearly all of them. Is it normal to have to grind mobs if you do so? I'm picking up guns that are a level or 2 above my own so that doesn't really help, should I just go back to the Tundra and Fridge and farm lower level enemies?
PixyJunket
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Well I have eight keys now, haha.
I even used my lunch break to come home and redeem the afternoon one today, which I can't decide was resourceful or just creepy.
I no longer feel bad about throwing my preorder key away (and not even getting to keep the items from it).
I even used my lunch break to come home and redeem the afternoon one today, which I can't decide was resourceful or just creepy.
I no longer feel bad about throwing my preorder key away (and not even getting to keep the items from it).
It will be active for another 85 minutes or so, no rush.
sneakypete
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Thank you sir! Helped out a couple of my buddies who just picked up the game
PhoenixSFT
Member
Only save the side quests with blue or better gun/shield rewards for loot scaled to your level. Go do all the other sidequests.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Need help
Getting error code 55 when trying to boot this up. Already tried doing what the support page says and still doesn't get past the 1% verification of cache and final install. It started when I went to play the game just now and my default profile wasn't loaded. I thought it was weird but then was able to load my default profile but when I did that the game crashed and stopped working. I verified cache with 1 file missing and what I mentioned earlier in this post happened.
Getting error code 55 when trying to boot this up. Already tried doing what the support page says and still doesn't get past the 1% verification of cache and final install. It started when I went to play the game just now and my default profile wasn't loaded. I thought it was weird but then was able to load my default profile but when I did that the game crashed and stopped working. I verified cache with 1 file missing and what I mentioned earlier in this post happened.
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