Pretty nice haul so far, shield dropped from Zarpedon, other two were random drop/vendor bought. The SMG is like having a nuclear hand grenade, since the throwing explosion is amplified the more bullets you have left. So fire one shot, throw, repeat. Stuff just gets obliterated (I was lvl 21 when I killed Zarpedon @ 25, easily). First I thought that Fire Leech was bugged with its pitiful damage, but apparently Leech was a legendary grenade in BL2 already - heals you instantly as it damages, instead of generating those little healing streams that fly toward you from the target.
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Borderlands the Pre-Sequel! |OT| GENDER EQUALITY!
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Pretty nice haul so far, shield dropped from Zarpedon, other two were random drop/vendor bought. The SMG is like having a nuclear hand grenade, since the throwing explosion is amplified the more bullets you have left. So fire one shot, throw, repeat. Stuff just gets obliterated (I was lvl 21 when I killed Zarpedon @ 25, easily). First I thought that Fire Leech was bugged with its pitiful damage, but apparently Leech was a legendary grenade in BL2 already - heals you instantly as it damages, instead of generating those little healing streams that fly toward you from the target.
I'm in bed now but I'll take a pic of my skill tree setup tomorrow. I was able to easily solo the (ever so disappointing) raid boss. No sweat at all. Didn't even have to fight for my life once. That's how easy it was. Should have had fraps on. Might do it again tomorrow too. Hmmmm...
MrTroubleMaker
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It's running great for me. I think its running better then BL2, but that ran well for me too.
Well that's good to hear.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
PhysX effects on Ultra is so amazing to look at in motion
Serpens007
Member
7DollarHagane
Banned
Are the physx less glitchy than borderlands 2?
They caused awful frame drops on PC for me. At launch of bl2 at least.
They caused awful frame drops on PC for me. At launch of bl2 at least.
Ok so turns out I had some sort of glitch. Googled it but couldn't find anything. Youtube helped me realize I had a glitch in the end. 2 Hours wasted on this bah! Hopefully this info might help someone else.
Mild spoilers but this is what is supposed to happen:
Red & Belly split into two and you can't damage Belly until you beat Red who is basically a floating Head.
I died in the fight re-spawned at the save point, ran back in the room to continue the fight but only Belly was in there. Shooting him did absolutely nothing because you need to kill Red who should have been floating around at this point. Rinse and repeat he was nowhere to be found? Without Red you can't continue.
Solution:
'Save and Quiting' the game then hitting 'Continue' meant I had a fair bit of back tracking to do, but the fight reset and I was able to finish this mission.
This fight glitched for me although in a much less gamebreaking way. It decided that since belly was dead it ought to go into the aftermath story stuff but meanwhile red was alive and it was spawning infinite scavs.
Had a lotta little glitches throughout.
BouncyFrag
Member
How are the loot drops?
Drop rates seem similar to BL2, but scaling has been fixed somewhat, so your lvl 20 epic won't instantly be outclassed by a lvl 22 blue. So stuff's still rare, but it'll last longer.
BouncyFrag
Member
Excellent!
I've been running with physx on medium with a AMD card and a 2600K with constant locked 60fps.
Edit:With physx on medium in a 4 player game the fps drops to around 40 in intense battles. Much better performance than BL2.
A lot more legendaries to be found in vending machines though.
From watching videos it does seem like Claptrap is one of the the only funny characters; but I've only played as Athena so.
Celcius
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I started to pick him but now I'm glad I went with Athena. She's a fun character and in the other games I always picked the character with the turrent (Roland / Axton).
Machine Messiah
Member
Does anyone have a good build for Athena? Is the melee tree really all that worth it?
I'm only like lvl 9 so I'm not that far but I'm going down left and right tree.
Which I think is the elemental and the shield tree.
If you're a fan of melee I guess it could be worth it but I'd rather get better damage and have the shield attack multiple enemies.
Excellent. This was the biggest bummer of BL2 coming from BL1. The vending machines were totally crap.
Edag Plata
Banned
So none of those PC deals still work, right?
Someone on r/borderlands supposedly found a room with chests and vending machines that can be farmed by save/exit->continue. I didn't get there yet so I can't confirm (nor I know how efficient it is).
Here it is (spoilers)
What I really miss is New Haven farming from BL1 (before they nerfed the chests' loot table). Those were the days.
Agreed but the ultra preset is very taxing, my 780 can't keep a locked 60fps.
High is perfectly smooth.
tangmaster96
Member
Anyone got a luneshine weapon that adds a chance for loot to be rarer, or do they even exist?
bodine1231
Member
Yes! I cant stand having to hold X arbitrarily for ammo and money,just give it to me automatically.
Nyteshade517
Member
Feels great freezing an enemy in ice mid-air then jumping up to smash them with a melee attack
Agreed. I can understand their logic when we are playing in a group but when playing solo it should be easier. Iirc, you do pick up some of it when you sprint.
I find the all the characters boring in a character development way besides Nisha. Which sucks since I'm enjoying Athena right now.
Lanrutcon
Member
Nisha is a psycho. Like, completely deranged. Makes all the other VHs look positively friendly in comparison.
Yes, even Krieg,
If you get homing ones they're generally the most productive of grenades or just a mirv and carpet bomb everything.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
You need 2500 badass points to pull the Excalibastard...
You know, playing Borderlands again (directly after playing a bunch of Destiny) makes Destiny's bullshit stick out even more, making me realize how chintzy it is. In just two play-sessions with Borderlands, I've already come across a handful of hilarious characters, almost a hundred varied guns (half of which are great), a bunch of noticeable power-ups, leveled up 7 times, and had some crazy firefights. While Destiny looks and plays nice, Borderlands is so much more generous with the swag, that it makes you feel like you're accomplishing something and actually getting somewhere, with no real lull in between missions.
Alcoholikaust
Member
kn0wsk1lls
Member
can someone give me the button layout for the 360 controller please? trying to use a pad on my pc using xpadder, but dont know where to put everything.
Alcoholikaust
Member
It works but the loot is terrible, whites and greens only.
And you're actually doing stuff from a mission to mission stand-point. Destiny's gunplay and graphics are a bit better, but BL is a much better game.
Both are effective solo but Nisha has the edge with her skill tree and the correct weapons. Athena is still very capable though.
I'm using Nisha, and while her perk is great, her melee attack is terrible. I'm comparing her to Maya in B2, where I recall her melee did some damage, but in B3, Nisha's whip doesn't seem to hurt even the weakest enemies much, if at all. Not sure if other characters have a stronger melee or not.