Sutton Dagger
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Weird, in the BPM info it says BL2 unlocks on the 19th, on the store page it says the 20th?
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Borderlands 2 |OT| Opening Pandora's Box (of Guns!)
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Only do Moxxi's if you want to torture yourself and 3 others for achievements/trophies.
- I don't know about that, but if you complete a later mission on your friends game, then when you come back to your game it will ask you if you want to skip or replay that mission.
- Yes you do. Unlike the first game, skills that are effected by class mods are highlighted for you.
Maya
Then Gaige.
MrTroubleMaker
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thanks
Salvador is going to be the least played of all for sure and Axton the most, if you want to go different go Sal.
Yes. It will ask you if you want to skip or replay it.
really? Axton looks the most generic to me. I thought Salvador would be the most played followed by maya because she is a hot babe. then maybe zero and axton last.
The character that is almost exactly the same from BL1 will be the most played? I had no idea everybody hated variety.
I ordered on August 3rd as well, no key as of yet. I'm not really concerned as long as I get it before Tuesday. I don't want no, you didn't preorder so don't get the premiere club items shenanigans. Really stupid how they dole out keys though, people ordering today get them immediately.
Rodney McKay
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Soldier classes are very popular. I know that in Mass Effect 2+3 (probably 1, but can't say for sure) the soldier was the most played class by a large percentage.
I can see Salvador being popular too. People seem to love their 'gun shootin' classes. Him and Axton have very easy to understand and use abilities for a lot of people. I haven't seen enough of Maya's to tell if it will be as fun, and Zer0's seems to be more complicated than the others (targeting crit areas, back strikes, sniping, etc.) so I can see that working against him for some people.
I'm honestly excited to play all of them to find out which I like most, and I can't wait for the Mechromancer to come out. I REALLY hope they plan on coming out with even more in the future. 2 or more new classes would be SUCH an amazing incentive to go back and play (not that I need another one, haha).
Soldier is the most played class in Mass Effect by a lot, people like picking the 'safe' option. I'm expecting a lot of Zer0 also just based off appearance.
Can't wait to make my sniping zero.
I believe it's guns 1&2 and guns 3&4 in your menu for both sets.
MagicWithEarvin
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Wha... Roland was the most played? Had no idea...
Looks like Zer0 is the popular choice from posts I've seen.
I took the plunge and preordered the game, got it pre-loaded and all already, although it means that tomorrow I have to take another plunge and buy a new graphics card, the one I already use cries even when running the first BL on crumbcake settings. I'm still mostly a PC newbie when it comes to gaming so getting that installed and working may be an adventure all its own.
What I'm mainly trying to figure out right now is, like most people, which character I want to start out the game with. I have a group of two others who've already kind of committed themselves to Axton and Salvador respectively, so mostly I'm debating between Maya and Zer0. Style wise I'd probably rather use Zer0 because I like the concept of his action still as well as his design a bit better, but none of his skill trees really seem to mesh terribly well with what I'd consider my preferred style of play for him. He leans so heavily towards either sniping or melee with two trees, where I'd much rather go for a "shotgun ninja" sort of build if that's even possible. Has anyone else figured out a decent way to accomplish that? I really took to pistols and shotguns in the first BL but if I can't get Zer0 to play well with that style, then I might go instead to a "red mage" Maya build that I was toying around with on the class-tree site last night.
What I'm mainly trying to figure out right now is, like most people, which character I want to start out the game with. I have a group of two others who've already kind of committed themselves to Axton and Salvador respectively, so mostly I'm debating between Maya and Zer0. Style wise I'd probably rather use Zer0 because I like the concept of his action still as well as his design a bit better, but none of his skill trees really seem to mesh terribly well with what I'd consider my preferred style of play for him. He leans so heavily towards either sniping or melee with two trees, where I'd much rather go for a "shotgun ninja" sort of build if that's even possible. Has anyone else figured out a decent way to accomplish that? I really took to pistols and shotguns in the first BL but if I can't get Zer0 to play well with that style, then I might go instead to a "red mage" Maya build that I was toying around with on the class-tree site last night.
Yeah 4 expansions I think.
HP_Wuvcraft
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You should have just bought the card that comes with the BL2 coupon.
Themacabre
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Not sure how I like this GMG key thing so far.
Perhaps, were it not for the fact that most of the cards with that offer wouldn't be supported on my current system and, by and large, landed out of my price range. Plus that wouldn't help me figure out which character to use, which was the main point of my post.
MrTroubleMaker
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So after I pre-load, I go and check out the usual install directory to see whats there, and nothing! Where is it hiding? Found it, currently its just a depotcache file.
I've never had any problems with them until now.
Just because you're melee focused doesn't mean you won't be using guns. The melee is gravy, gravy you'll be able to cut someone's head off once you close in or they get too close to you. Melee focused builds will probably use high damage, low accuracy weapons like SMGs or shotguns.
Ultimadrago
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Yeah, 4 future DLC episodes (no relation to preorder bonuses).
LumpOfCole
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EDIT: Whelp, question answered right before I posted. Here's an image of Earl Sinclair instead.
XeroSauce
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Whatever is in your second slot will be chosen. I think it's semi-highlighted on tour weapon screen as well.
jaundicejuice
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Pre-loading,.
Don't know who I'm going to play as. I played through about a third of Borderlands as Mordecai, switched over to Brick and never looked back.
Zero looks like he's a weird mash-up of Brick (the melee-centric Bloodshed tree) and Mordecai. I loved playing as Brick, I made a melee-centric (committed to the far left tree) version of Brick and had a blast literally punching my way through Pandora. So in that regard Zero looks kind of appealing.
Salvador looks like a gun-centric version of Brick. Gunzerking's got the same health boost on trigger and Salvador's got some awesome looking damage and tanking capabilities. The idea of dual-wielding shotguns and rocket launchers is pretty appealing.
Axton appeals to my inner TF2 engineer. I just love the idea of throwing down two turrets, affixing them to multiple surfaces, creating defensive areas for teammates to hide in. Or causing a nuclear explosion on turret deploy.
I think Salvador's gonna win out. At least for the first play-through. I do wanna try every character.
Don't know who I'm going to play as. I played through about a third of Borderlands as Mordecai, switched over to Brick and never looked back.
Zero looks like he's a weird mash-up of Brick (the melee-centric Bloodshed tree) and Mordecai. I loved playing as Brick, I made a melee-centric (committed to the far left tree) version of Brick and had a blast literally punching my way through Pandora. So in that regard Zero looks kind of appealing.
Salvador looks like a gun-centric version of Brick. Gunzerking's got the same health boost on trigger and Salvador's got some awesome looking damage and tanking capabilities. The idea of dual-wielding shotguns and rocket launchers is pretty appealing.
Axton appeals to my inner TF2 engineer. I just love the idea of throwing down two turrets, affixing them to multiple surfaces, creating defensive areas for teammates to hide in. Or causing a nuclear explosion on turret deploy.
I think Salvador's gonna win out. At least for the first play-through. I do wanna try every character.
MagicWithEarvin
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Ain't no rest for the wicked
Money don't grow on trees
Money don't grow on trees
HP_Wuvcraft
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You guyses are all makin' me want to spend lots of money and pre-load.
Perfect Cha0s
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I dunno. I'm picking Zer0 just because going into stealth and getting crazy melee kills sounds like a fun alternative to shooting. If I get bored of it I just respec for Sniper.
MagicWithEarvin
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Haha, damn it GMG! WHERE DEM KEYS AT?!
XeroSauce
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Wait there's two?
Themacabre
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This. Some of us actually NEED to preload.
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