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[BORDERLANDS] The Vault Hunter: Hero or Thrill Killer?

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  • TheGerbilTheGerbil Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Yeah when steam says 15 hours left they really aren't going to be like "HAI GUYS FOOLED YOU! We're totally releasing it at midnight!"

  • ZetxZetx Fixer, Lurker Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    TheGerbil wrote: »
    Yeah when steam says 15 hours left they really aren't going to be like "HAI GUYS FOOLED YOU! We're totally releasing it at midnight!"

    If only Valve-time meant earlier and not later. :P

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  • Lionel-RichieLionel-Richie Registered User
    edited October 2009
    Well it's a weekend. I'm betting Gearbox wants to be at work in case things go in the crapper and they have to do emergency work on the game.

  • gunwarriorgunwarrior Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    gah, the wait is killing me. Still pre-loading

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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Terroric wrote: »
    I went in on the bundle with three other friends. The earliest the four of us can sit down and play, is Wednesday. Ugh. The temptation to play tomorrow evening is going to be so great! Maybe I'll just cruise around the menus, look over the characters, drooling until Wednesday.

    !

    You could always start a character early and start a new one when you can all play together.

  • Mosby's RangerMosby's Ranger Registered User
    edited October 2009
    This game is ridiculously entertaining, perhaps illegally so. I played it on a buddy's 360, and have pre-loaded it on Steam. I'd love an invite to that Steam group.

    Account name - TriboniousFlex
    http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970619847

    Also, I'm moving to Australia in the morning so it may be a few days before I can hop in on a game.

  • JubehJubeh Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    We have buy two get the third game free at my best buy so these three dudes came in and split it so they each got a copy of borderlands for 40 bucks.

    And we still have like 10 copies left on the 360 if anyone around houston still needs one.

  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Why did I read IGN comments about the PC version not being out yet?

  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 And when she knooooows, what she wants, from her ty-y-ype Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    -Loki- wrote: »
    Why did I read IGN comments?

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  • nlawalkernlawalker Registered User
    edited October 2009
    So I've got an explosive artifact in my backpack, and when I use it, I get the "you can't use this now" error. My explosive elemental on my turret is at level 2 - can it not go any higher or is there something else I'm missing? It's not a minimum level requirement problem.

    -SPI- wrote: »
    Not enough facepalm in the world for the cavalcade of fuckmuppetry this game's launch has been.
  • darunia106darunia106 J-bob in games. Death Mountain.Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Got in on a 4-pack after a friend's reccomendation. Can I get an invite to the PA group?

    http://steamcommunity.com/id/Jbob

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 And when she knooooows, what she wants, from her ty-y-ype Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    nlawalker wrote: »
    So I've got an explosive artifact in my backpack, and when I use it, I get the "you can't use this now" error. My explosive elemental on my turret is at level 2 - can it not go any higher or is there something else I'm missing? It's not a minimum level requirement problem.


    Have you tried going to the skill tree menu and equipping it there?

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  • AegeriAegeri Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    They have levels and more powerful artifacts increase it. Lower level ones don't do anything. Essentially a higher level artifact is needed than what you already have, so you should just sell it.

  • nlawalkernlawalker Registered User
    edited October 2009
    nlawalker wrote: »
    So I've got an explosive artifact in my backpack, and when I use it, I get the "you can't use this now" error. My explosive elemental on my turret is at level 2 - can it not go any higher or is there something else I'm missing? It's not a minimum level requirement problem.


    Have you tried going to the skill tree menu and equipping it there?

    Well it's still in my inventory - I've already used a handful of these things, I know that you use the item in your inventory and it disappears and then you can equip it on the skill screen. But when I go to use this one from my inventory, it doesn't work.

    EDIT: Ohhh I bet I know what it is. It's probably like the ammo type storage deck upgrades - once you use one of a certain color, you can't use another one, you have to get one of a higher grade. I was thinking that elemental artifacts are all the same and applying more copies levels it up (the artifact in question is explosive elemental, of which I have lvl 2), but they're probably like the SDU's. If that's the case, I believe the level is indicated by the color of the artifact. Like with the SDUs, first you find white ones in the ammo machines, and then green ones.

    If someone wants it, let me know.

    -SPI- wrote: »
    Not enough facepalm in the world for the cavalcade of fuckmuppetry this game's launch has been.
  • Grizzly_AddamsGrizzly_Addams Registered User, ClubPA
    edited October 2009
    Ok I've played the siren to level 10 on a friends 360. I don't own a 360, and have to get it for PC, even though I would prefer the console. So I have a couple questions:

    I can get a discount on the retail version. Is there any reason I would want to forego said discount (15%) to get it on steam?

    Also, should I be concerned about performance on the PC version? I'm not worried about my machines muscle, so I wouldn't even bother with specs, but what I'm saying is, I play games like COD, Oblivion, Burnout Paradise, Arkham, SFIV, DoW2, etc, with settings either maxed or maybe a couple down a notch or 2, and the games run like a console game. But a few gems in my collection, such as Sacred 2, just aren't up to par. Suffer from crippling performance issues up to and including frequent crashing. I'm on Win7RC.

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  • RandomKitRandomKit Registered User
    edited October 2009
    Fuuuuck almost the 30th. God I hope my store get's it in early.

  • Giga GopherGiga Gopher Registered User
    edited October 2009
    I reeeeeeeeeeeeally want a new sniper rifle and revolver. I've been using the same Jakobs rifle and revolver for the past 15 levels or so, and I'm level 31 now!

    Surely something better has to come along soon.

    My friend's band - Go on, have a listen
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  • MikeManMikeMan Registered User
    edited October 2009
    okay, i'm COMPLETELY lost. is this quest bugged?

    Dahl spoilers:
    Spoiler:

    HOW DO YOU FUCK UP BAGELS. YOU BOIL THE WATER. PUT IN THE NOODLES
  • mynameisguidomynameisguido Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Haven't worked for like two weeks (more like three if you consider the move) and they decide to start me two hours after this game comes out. At least I have Tuesday off so I can play it all day then.

    I am a bit worried about how my system will do though. I'm fine on RAM, but my CPU is single core and I recently had to (hopefully temporarily) downgrade from a 8800GT to a 7100GS (I'm hoping my DVI cable is messed up and not the card itself). I'm getting a new DVI cable from Monoprice soon, so maybe that problem will get fixed soon

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  • nlawalkernlawalker Registered User
    edited October 2009
    MikeMan wrote: »
    okay, i'm COMPLETELY lost. is this quest bugged?

    Dahl spoilers:
    Spoiler:

    People have mentioned previously that for these scavenger quests, the map is bugged and that the objective dot only points to the pieces correctly if you pick them up in the order the map wants you to.

    I have found this to be untrue - I was doing the revolver quest myself and picked up the piece right on the dot, and the dot didn't move. Edit for clarity: The quest dot just shows you the vicinity. Unlike other quests, for the "find the pieces" quests you have to find them on your own.
    Spoiler:

    -SPI- wrote: »
    Not enough facepalm in the world for the cavalcade of fuckmuppetry this game's launch has been.
  • AegeriAegeri Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    nlawalker wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    okay, i'm COMPLETELY lost. is this quest bugged?

    Dahl spoilers:
    Spoiler:

    People have mentioned previously that for these scavenger quests, the map is bugged and that the objective dot only points to the pieces correctly if you pick them up in the order the map wants you to.

    I have found this to be untrue - I was doing the revolver quest myself and picked up the piece right on the dot, and the dot didn't move.
    Spoiler:

    There is no bug at all with these quests and people are simply wrong. In scavenger quests the map marker does NOT point you to the pieces individually, the entire point of these is that you have to figure out where they are based on the general location.
    Spoiler:

  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    -Loki- wrote: »
    Why did I read IGN comments?

    Touche.

  • TerroricTerroric Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    -Loki- wrote: »
    Terroric wrote: »
    I went in on the bundle with three other friends. The earliest the four of us can sit down and play, is Wednesday. Ugh. The temptation to play tomorrow evening is going to be so great! Maybe I'll just cruise around the menus, look over the characters, drooling until Wednesday.

    !

    You could always start a character early and start a new one when you can all play together.



    True, but we all want to experience the game at the same time. They are long time gaming friends, and when one of us pre-plays a game, it just isn't the same. You know, "Oh wait, watch this, this is going to be awesome." It just ruins it in some ways.

  • MikeManMikeMan Registered User
    edited October 2009
    Aegeri wrote: »
    nlawalker wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    okay, i'm COMPLETELY lost. is this quest bugged?

    Dahl spoilers:
    Spoiler:

    People have mentioned previously that for these scavenger quests, the map is bugged and that the objective dot only points to the pieces correctly if you pick them up in the order the map wants you to.

    I have found this to be untrue - I was doing the revolver quest myself and picked up the piece right on the dot, and the dot didn't move.
    Spoiler:

    There is no bug at all with these quests and people are simply wrong. In scavenger quests the map marker does NOT point you to the pieces individually, the entire point of these is that you have to figure out where they are based on the general location.
    Spoiler:
    that would be great if every marker for every other gun piece didn't point to exactly where it was

    so uh

    no.

    and i'll check where you said. thanks anyway

    HOW DO YOU FUCK UP BAGELS. YOU BOIL THE WATER. PUT IN THE NOODLES
  • AegeriAegeri Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    MikeMan wrote: »
    okay, i'm COMPLETELY lost. is this quest bugged?

    Dahl spoilers:
    Spoiler:

    The four pieces are:

    1: Right near the map marker.
    Spoiler:

    2. 2 elevated pieces.

    2a:
    Spoiler:

    2b:
    Spoiler:

    3: Near the road actually and not near the buildings.
    Spoiler:
    MikeMan wrote:
    that would be great if every marker for every other gun piece didn't point to exactly where it was

    It has never done that for me once in any of those quests actually and I've basically been playing the game twice back to back (SP and Co-op with my flatmate).

  • HooverFanHooverFan Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Can I get an invite to the Steam group, same username as here

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  • MikeManMikeMan Registered User
    edited October 2009
    Aegeri wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    okay, i'm COMPLETELY lost. is this quest bugged?

    Dahl spoilers:
    Spoiler:

    The four pieces are:

    1: Right near the map marker.
    Spoiler:

    2. 2 elevated pieces.

    2a:
    Spoiler:

    2b:
    Spoiler:
    i followed each marker to find the items. i didn't even know where they were.

    i even checked that last place and didn't see it, but i will check again

    HOW DO YOU FUCK UP BAGELS. YOU BOIL THE WATER. PUT IN THE NOODLES
  • ZetxZetx Fixer, Lurker Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Yeah, for the sniper rifle scavenger mission (first scavenger hunt mission, i think) there was a part that was pretty far from the marker.

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  • zilozilo Registered User
    edited October 2009
    Man, Brick's berserk is not to be missed. I haven't tried any other characters but seeing a dozen guys, followed by a red haze and SCENE MISSING, and then there's a dozen corpses in various states of dismemberment... glorious.

  • MikeManMikeMan Registered User
    edited October 2009
    it's kinda sad that my most powerful and accurate "sniper rifle" is an elephant gun with no scope

    HOW DO YOU FUCK UP BAGELS. YOU BOIL THE WATER. PUT IN THE NOODLES
  • AegeriAegeri Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    MikeMan wrote: »
    i even checked that last place and didn't see it, but i will check again

    It is buried right in the front part of it. Jump up on it and look down everywhere on it until you see the green light. I've never noticed the marker for any of those items move or even change position. They've always sent me to a general location but never the pieces themselves. I've done all of them twice and never observed this, the first ones are really easy though. It could just be I have awful luck, but I don't believe so.

  • borkbork Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Invite to the steam wangs, please? http://steamcommunity.com/id/bork/

  • SmashismSmashism Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Damnit, I wish I bought an early retail copy instead. 12 hour wait is agonizing. I'm gonna give my 360 copy to a friend I think. Once you go PC you never go back.

  • WoodroezWoodroez Registered User
    edited October 2009
    MikeMan wrote: »
    it's kinda sad that my most powerful and accurate "sniper rifle" is an elephant gun with no scope

    It'll make you feel like a man, though.

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  • ArikadoArikado Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I like Brick's Berserk. I'm leveling him up as a tank for some reason but I'm thinking maybe I should switch to all out Berserker.

    3DS: 5112-3515-8441 | LoL: Arikado PA | XBL: Arikado PA | Steam | Twitter
  • SokpuppetSokpuppet Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    3/4ths of the way through my second playthrough. Still kicking ass and chewing gum...

    This really is a strange game. It is SO INCREDIBLY AWESOME...
    but there are rather a lot of areas where it could have used more refinement.
    i.e. the final boss, and various minor interface woes.
    I just don't really get it...
    woefully incompetent playtesters or what?

  • Giga GopherGiga Gopher Registered User
    edited October 2009
    I can't believe the only orange gun I've found so far was a terrible repeater.

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  • MikeManMikeMan Registered User
    edited October 2009
    the interface is abysmal

    very counter-intuitive. and yet so many parts of the game are so polished

    strange dichotomy

    HOW DO YOU FUCK UP BAGELS. YOU BOIL THE WATER. PUT IN THE NOODLES
  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    MikeMan wrote: »
    the interface is abysmal

    very counter-intuitive. and yet so many parts of the game are so polished

    strange dichotomy

    Yeah, I had to take a while to figure out how to control the inventory/map/etc pages and vendor lists. I wouldn't call it abysmal, but yeah, it was counter intuitive.

  • ArikadoArikado Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I can't believe the only orange gun I've found so far was a terrible repeater.

    The first one I found was a repeater around level 19 with unlimited ammo and a clip size of 20. No other bonuses and it had crap damage.

    3DS: 5112-3515-8441 | LoL: Arikado PA | XBL: Arikado PA | Steam | Twitter
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