Anybody post one of these yet?
Giveaway at the door at a Gearbox event in Dallas over the weekend.
This is my exact mouse w/ a BL2 skin on it!! I love it.
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Borderlands 2 |OT| Opening Pandora's Box (of Guns!)
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This is my exact mouse w/ a BL2 skin on it!! I love it.
lol. This is the first game I've ever pre-ordered on PC. First time pre-loading on Steam and everything.
I'm not expecting anything more than a solid experience because the main draw of the game is co-op. The quests and loot system is going to have to be massively improved for me to care that much about it, because otherwise I'm just playing a MMO FPS in single player mode like I did with 1.
FloppyDelux
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whoo hoo my Ultimate Loot Chest Limited Edition is shipping soon from amazon 
..this wait is going to be a long one...
..this wait is going to be a long one...I honestly didn't care at all about this game a week ago, I liked the first enough to finish it but didn't really think it was that great (I was solo, so yeah that's probably why). And yet now I'm sucked into the hype, watched all kinds of streams and spent way too much time with the skill calculator. I blame Greenman and those delicious vouchers.
BertleTheTurtle
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Steam releases it at 11PM an hour before the Gamestop midnight release.
Love you Steam.
Love you Steam.
Huh? I got the Premiere Club and I pre-ordered on Steam...
LumpOfCole
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EST or PST?
Midnight eastern.
MrTroubleMaker
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whoo hoo my Ultimate Loot Chest Limited Edition is shipping soon from amazon
Nice! I wanted one, but was to slow
I'm the opposite. I haven't looked forward to a game this much in years. I bought the first one on a whim as part of a buy two get one free package and it became one of my favorite games this gen as my wife and I played it co-op a ton.
LumpOfCole
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Oh baby... Looks like tomorrow night is going to be an event. Time to flex my fingers. I better get Walking Dead Ep 3 finished beforehand or I won't get to it for weeks.
MagicWithEarvin
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Exactly, if he's playing single player I can understand why there's no hype. I've only played 1 with 3 friends, and we've all got BL2 preordered and ready to play tomorrow night. I'm super hyped because it's such a fun experience in co-op, but I could understand why someone who plays solo might not be hyped. I would suggest at least trying to matchmake to find at least one good person to play with.
9:00PM Pacific
Can't wait to game Monday night for a few hours.
11PM Central......yeah!
I'll probably decrypt it and start it up, but no playing until Tuesday after work.
Anybody post one of these yet?
Giveaway at the door at a Gearbox event in Dallas over the weekend.
Git'chu one! I got mine from the community day event. It is pretty nice, though I have a spare g500 I'm using while my Cyborg R.A.T. 7 is being RMAed, so my brother is using the Borderlands 2 mouse.
I think it would have been funny for them to award a replica of their humping squirrels statue from their office as one of the raffle prizes.
Hero_of_the_Day
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Chicago Steam servers are fucking shit at the moment for some reason. I was hitting 0 kbps and topping out at like 10. Just switched to St. Louis and I'm getting almost 2MBps. Fucking weird.
It's almost time.
It's almost time.
Probably, but that's also potentially spoilerly.
I mentioned physical copy for a reason... if you are getting this for the 360 or PS3 in the US, there are only 3 retailers that you get the preorder bonuses from.
Can't decide between Maya and Salvador
Salvador is probably the safe bet (I am a Salvador too) since he is inexplicably the least popular character.
He also has 3 fantastic trees.
madmaxx350
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Can't decide between Maya and Salvador
Play Zero or Axton then. It'll give you more time to think about who to do your 2nd play through with.
jediyoshi
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Can't decide between Maya and Salvador
Always go with the lady.
NoirVisage
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There's a weird invisible gap in the floor leading to the control panel where the dynamite is place, I killed myself with a missle launcher before I placed the dynamite because I thought I could get to the loot boxes behind the barriers and somehow accidentily missed my chance..well after respawning, I realized I could not, and worse, i couldn't get back in to reach the control panel, ran around and fell through the floor, then crouch walled UNDER the floor in one direction, then back, then fell through blackness..then suddenly I was in a room full of lootchests and a timer that wasn't moving. I spent an hour there, looting, dying, selling expensive loot, rinsing and repeating the glitch (easter egg?) I ended up not being able to get back in to actually finish the quest, but I didn't care. I was filthy rich.
How did you confirm that, exactly? I got the game preordered and pre-loaded but there doesn't seem to be an overt mention anywhere that I'll have access to the premiere club content. I've never been part of a promotion like this, so I don't know if it's something that will just be there already when I can first boot the game up, or what.
jediyoshi
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Top right of steam window click on account -> account details. May say something along the lines of 'Borderlands 2 Game and Premier Club DLC WW'. Can depend on where you ordered it for what it says exactly.
This was the best part of the game. I don't even consider it a glitch because 99% of the stuff you get in knoxx is crap anyways. It takes at least a few runs before you even get anything decent. I wish they just let you do this in the new game too.
The whole first game was about getting to knoxx! It's all about the armory so you could set yourself up for round 2! We generally skipped out on the last 1/4 of the regular world and just jumped to Knoxx for the good stuff. Best DLC ever. Period.
mickcenary
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Mengs, how exactly does the co-op work? And will I have a shit one if I opt to not co-op?
I have maybe 30-40 friends on Live and of the 3 that are actually my friends, 0 will play this game. I never partake in the co-op aspects of any game; it just isn't my bag. I'm afraid that the very nature of this game means that it somewhat relies on the whole, 'teaming up with your best bros and having a riot of a time' thing. Is it engaging enough for a pure, unadulterated LONER approach?
I have maybe 30-40 friends on Live and of the 3 that are actually my friends, 0 will play this game. I never partake in the co-op aspects of any game; it just isn't my bag. I'm afraid that the very nature of this game means that it somewhat relies on the whole, 'teaming up with your best bros and having a riot of a time' thing. Is it engaging enough for a pure, unadulterated LONER approach?
jediyoshi
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Where'd you preorder? If it was from either GMG or Steam, you're golden.
It was directly from Steam, so I'm not too terribly concerned yet, but I've seen people posting other screens and stuff with much more overt acknowledgment that they were receiving the premiere content, so the utter lack of that after the purchase has me scratching my head a little.
It literally says on the Steam page you get the content.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/49520/
Afaik about the only PC DD preorders that aren't premiere club are the Nvidia vouchers.
I'm gonna get in a quick play of the game tomorrow before B2 is ready to DL. I'm beyond hyped now.
fluffydelusions
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Maya seems really awesome and a great support character for grouping. Long range revives and those health bullets come to mind
Haha, I'm reminded of when I left Borderlands running overnight during the MINAC boss battle so I could farm the Claptrap collectibles -- when I returned to the game 10 or so hours later, it was running at 10~15fps and had no sound. I got my collectibles, though!
SomeOneInaHat
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Turn physX on high and toss a singularity grenade in.
The downside to this is I will probably only use grenades that have awesome PhysX happen.
You can just close the VPN connection after loading the game.
Coalition-PezRadar
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Just a few personal tips/notes before you embark on your final 24 hours!
I know lots of people want to play and just skip through the story as the story may not have been a huge role in the first game, but I highly encourage you listen to the dialogue. There isn't much mission text anymore and you won't need to sit there and read a page of text before going onto the next mission. That is all now presented to you in spoken dialogue. This brings up the new feature where you can move away from NPCs and they will pop up to your Echo box and continue on with what they are saying wherever you go, but make sure to listen, as the story is amazing. Anthony Burch, writer for Borderlands 2, knocked it out of the park. You guys will laugh as this is Borderlands and humor is always present in this universe but there are some very tense and serious moments as well.
So if you play co-op, take your time. It isn't a race and make sure to let your friends know that as well as some may attempt to speed through and interrupt dialogue with others as they run around hitting ever NPC. Don't let them. The world is huge, explore all the nooks and crannies. The level design team did an amazing job in making sure to hide some fun things for you guys. Hit up all the side quests as you guys will get a freaking kick out of those.
Try to stay away from the spoilers on the internet. Make sure to enjoy it all and enjoy the moments you will experience.
Gearbox is the most passionate group of people I have ever worked with and I'm stoked that BL2 is finally coming out . We have barely scratched the surface with all the stuff we've shown to the press. You are in for a wild ride. Have fun
I know lots of people want to play and just skip through the story as the story may not have been a huge role in the first game, but I highly encourage you listen to the dialogue. There isn't much mission text anymore and you won't need to sit there and read a page of text before going onto the next mission. That is all now presented to you in spoken dialogue. This brings up the new feature where you can move away from NPCs and they will pop up to your Echo box and continue on with what they are saying wherever you go, but make sure to listen, as the story is amazing. Anthony Burch, writer for Borderlands 2, knocked it out of the park. You guys will laugh as this is Borderlands and humor is always present in this universe but there are some very tense and serious moments as well.
So if you play co-op, take your time. It isn't a race and make sure to let your friends know that as well as some may attempt to speed through and interrupt dialogue with others as they run around hitting ever NPC. Don't let them
. The world is huge, explore all the nooks and crannies. The level design team did an amazing job in making sure to hide some fun things for you guys. Hit up all the side quests as you guys will get a freaking kick out of those. Try to stay away from the spoilers on the internet. Make sure to enjoy it all and enjoy the moments you will experience.
Gearbox is the most passionate group of people I have ever worked with and I'm stoked that BL2 is finally coming out . We have barely scratched the surface with all the stuff we've shown to the press. You are in for a wild ride. Have fun
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