Borderlands 2: [BUY A GODDAMN TORGUE GUN]

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edited November 2012 in Games and Technology
Borderlands 2 is here!

http://youtu.be/ERe3wZdIAtc

http://youtu.be/oUu-FzRFYZA

http://youtu.be/nicvyhrmTDs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8GbEvsk3_8

And now, standing on the shoulders of giants,

Borderlands
thread (sweet) SIXTEEN!

(fifteen fourteen thirteen twelve eleven ten nine eight seven six five four three two one)

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Four new classes:
Salvador the Gunzerker -- Dual wields guns (any guns) Salvador's Skills
Maya the Siren -- Phaselock for crowd control, healing, damage Maya's Skills
Axton the Soldier Guy -- Snazzy turret Axton's Skills (Note: Do or Die is a 1 point skill, not 5.)
Zero the Loner -- Sword, sniper, sneaky Zer0's Skills
Gaige the Mechromancer -- Hulking robot summon, ponies Gaige's Skills

How about some gameplay from PAX (August 2012)?

http://youtu.be/BABlz-st7Pk

What else?

It's Steamworks. Very nice.

The original Vault Hunters are all be in game as NPCs, including a 'live' Lilith.

There's a dashing bad guy, Handsome Jack, who has taken over the Hyperion Corporation and built himself a moon base from which he can shoot down robot reinforcements.

Gun manufacturers are way more significant in the new game. Bandit weapons have huge magazines. When you reload a Tediore weapon you chuck it like a grenade and it explodes (the rocket launchers actually shoot a rocket). Maliwan is sexy and elemental. Vladoff weapons you can fire as fast as you can click/pull the trigger. Etc. Non-gun loot (grenades, mods, artifacts, skins, heads, etc.) is also be randomized and way more diverse than BL1. Grenades that create a mob-sucking singularity before exploding in corrosive acid and also giving transfusion health? Yes please!

Main game bank for storing items and transferring items between characters.

New currency: eridium. Can be used to buy inventory, ammo and bank upgrades on the black market.

Lots of new bad guys - mobs and bosses - including some that will evolve Pokemon style into much more dangerous forms if you don't kill them quickly.

Character skins and heads:
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New element: slag! Slagged enemies are more susceptible to damage.

You can move while in Fight For Your Life mode - yay!

New end game raid boss -- Terramorphous the Invincible -- supposed to make Crawmerax look like a sea monkey.

Gearbox has committed to 4 DLC, along the lines of Knoxx in scope they say, by June of 2013. Price is $10 each (or comparable) and there is a season pass to get all 4 for $30.

And, oh yes, midgets on shields...

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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    edited October 2012
    Play Co-op with PAers!

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    PC - STEAM

    Gearbox knows it didn't treat you right with BL1, baby. They want a second chance: a love letter for PC players...
    GBX_AdamF wrote: »

    http://www.borderlands2.com/loveletter

    To our PC Borderlands fans :)

    Oh, you want to play the game and not just tinker with the FoV slider? Steam Group Wangs Without Borders!

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    Want an invitation? Post a link to your steam profile (like this) in the thread.

    Speaking of PC:
    IdolNinja wrote: »
    I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but the Willow Tree guy has updated his Borderlands 4 player difficulty tool to work with Borderlands 2.
    http://www.myborderlands.com/FourPlayers.aspx

    The tool basically runs in the background and can set player count to a higher number. So, if you're bored with normal mode and think it's too easy you can set player count higher (from 2-4) for more spawns and higher enemy health making it much more challenging. It also has the wonderful side effect of making the loot drops much better since it's simulating a 4 player game. I've been using it for the past couple of days and it's turned some of the trivial sidequests into insane and awesome fights. :^:

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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    edited October 2012
    (Farewell Borderlands 1 info!)

    Stuff! Info! Things!

    What does red text on guns mean? Look here.


    How about unique quest rewards for those seeking to maximize their PT2.5:
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    Here's a list of all (?) the unique quest rewards (an their associated quests) that you probably want to avoid on PT2 so you can get their level 50 version on PT2.5.

    Warning: SPOILERS
    http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=150790
    Following is a list of all unique quest rewards thanks to TedioreCEO

    Pistols:

    Teapot - Quest reward from Tiny Tina "You are cordially invited"(unique)
    Judge - Drops from Assassin Oney in Southpaw Steam and Power(Unique)
    Rubi - Quest reward from Moxxi "Rakkaholic Anonymous" (Unique)
    Fibber - Quest reward from "A Real Boy" (Unique)
    Veritas - Quest reward from "Clan Wars: Wakey Wakey" (Unique)
    Flint's Tinderbox - Drops from Captain Flint (Unique)
    Gwen's Head - Found in a box near the Buzzard camp in The Dust (Unique)
    Lady Fist - Quest reward from Una Mailbox in "Uncle Teddy" (Unique)
    Dahlminator - Quest reward from "The Lost Treasure" (Unique)

    Shotguns:

    Thre Dog - Drop from Assassin Rouf in Southpaw Steam and Power (Unique)
    Triquetra - Quest reward from "Clan Wars: End of the Rainbow" (Unique)
    Moxxi's Heartbreaker - Quest reward from "Safe and Sound" (Unique)
    Shotgun 1340 - Quest reward from Marcus during "Out of Body Experience (Unique)
    Sunny Blockhead - Drops from Badass Creepers (Unique)
    Octo - Quest reward from "Slap Happy" (Unique)
    Roksalt - Quest reward from "Splinter Group" (Unique)
    Landscaper - Quest reward from "Family Fued: Dueling Banjos and Fiddles" (Unique)
    Tidal Wave - Quest reward from Hyperion Mailbox in "Uncle Teddy" (Unique)
    Teeth of Terramorphous - Drops from Terramorphous

    Assault Rifles:

    Scorpio - Quest reward from "Bearer of Bad News" (Unique)
    Evil Smasher - Quest reward from "The Chosen One" (Unique)
    Hail - Quest reward from "Bandit Slaughter: Round 5" (Unique)
    Stomper - Quest reward from "Hungery Like the Skag" (Unique)

    Sniper Rifles:

    Buffalo - Quest reward from "Demon Hunter" (Unique)
    Fremington's Edge - Drops from Assassin Reeth (Unique)
    Trespasser - Quest reward from "Animal Rights" (Unique)
    Sloth - Quest reward from Mordecai in "Rakkoholics Anonymous" (Unique)
    Morning Star - Quest reward from "Hyperion Contract #873" (Unique)
    Chère-amie - Quest reward from "Hyperion Slaughter: Round 5" (Unique)

    Rocket Launchers:

    Roaster - Quest reward from "Note to Self-Person" (Unique)
    Creamer - Quest reward from "Creature Slaughter: Round 5" (Unique)
    The Hive - Saturn, Arid Nexus (Unique)

    SMGs:

    Bane - Quest reward from "The Bane" (Unique) - WELL, MAYBE NOT THIS ONE :P
    Miss Moxxi's Good/Bad Touch - Both rewards from tipping Moxxi, no set amount, can be got constantly (Unique)
    Lascaux - Found in a pond in the caves in Frostburn Cavern, respawns (Unique)
    Chulainn - Quest reward from "Clan Wars" (Unique)
    Commerce - Drops from Assassin Wot in Southpaw Steam and Power (Unique)
    Bone Shredder - Drops from Bonehead 2.0 in Arid Nexus (Unique)

    Shields:

    Order - Quest reward from "BFFs" (Unique)
    Love Thumper - Quest reward from "Best Mother's Day Ever" (Unique)
    Deadly Bloom - Quest reward from "Helping Out Overlook" (Unique)
    Aequitas - Quest reward from "Clan Wars: Wakey Wakey" (Unique)
    1340 Shield - Quest reward from Dr. Zed in "Out of Body Experience" (Unique)
    Pot o' Gold - Quest Reward from "Clan Wars: End of the Rainbow" (Unique)
    Flame of the Firehawk - Quest reward from Lilith's Cult Mission (Unique)

    Grenades:

    Kiss of Death - Quest reward from "Hell Hath No Fury" (Unique)
    Fuster Cluck - Quest reward from "The Pretty Good Train Robbery" (Unique)
    Sky Rocket - Unlocked with Special Editions of BL2
    Breath of Terramorphous - Drops from Terramorphous

    Relics:

    Sheriff's Badge - Drops from Sheriff of Lynchwood (Unique)
    Deputy's Badge - Quest reward from "Showdown" (Unique)

    List of Farmable Legendaries by weapon type (SPOILERS abound):

    http://www.reddit.com/r/Borderlands/comments/114dve/complete_guide_for_legendary_drop_locations_with/

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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    edited October 2012
    well folks, here we are! many thanks to iolo for running the BL thread all these years!

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  • VicktorVicktor Infidel Castro Rancho ChupacabraRegistered User regular
    Yay! Curly to the rescue. And thanks to iolo for keeping the dream alive fro so long. When we finally succeed in making all lands Borderlands, we will carve his name in the a Vault right before we blow it up.

    Iolo, we all pitched in to buy you a Butt Stallion-riding Bonerfart for retirement, but apparently giving a bullymong a living diamond statue to throw at things was a 'bad' idea.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    What did you do Curly? That thread had a family... nah screw that thread!

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  • DomhnallDomhnall Minty D. Vision! ScotlandRegistered User regular
    edited October 2012
    So I got gaige up to level 22, all in the BFF tree. Don't have the great shield recover beam because DT likes to heal enemies with it, no biggie, because he's got an Hulk-esque thunderclap that kills everything. Its really impressive just how long he can last when you're in a semi-populated enemy area. Usually he dies after we go on a 40+ kill streak (with each kill giving him a melee damage increase of 4%) and not because of the timer. I can't wait until he can share my shield. DT is ridicously OP and I love it. LOVE IT.

    Wildlife Exploitation Preserve boss spoiler:
    He even flies off into the sky to hunt down Bloodwing as he flies around. No where is safe from no clipping, thunder clapping, sci-fi Wolverine claw wielding, 150%+ extra damage hitting, laser eye Death-Trap!

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  • farbekriegfarbekrieg Registered User regular
    this was probably covered in the last thread but now i dont have gaige because my pre-order from getting a video card doesnt count as a real pre-order and my season pass doesnt cover it?

  • GanluanGanluan Registered User regular
    At the end of the last thread, milk ducks was asking about powerlevelling a character solo.

    Someone else here was telling me that you can load another character from the same profile in splitscreen, but I haven't tried it myself. I had a friend who was farming the final boss in TVHM and let me tag along, took 40 or so kills of him to level up Zero to 31. Also completed a bunch of badass challenges by looting stuff.

  • mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    farbekrieg wrote: »
    this was probably covered in the last thread but now i dont have gaige because my pre-order from getting a video card doesnt count as a real pre-order and my season pass doesnt cover it?

    yup, free video card was not the premiere club version with gaige

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Wait does he really heal enemy shields?

    I thought that skill might be useful in tvhm but lord that sounds like a liability until they fix it.

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  • RadiosityRadiosity Registered User regular
    edited October 2012
    Ganluan wrote: »
    At the end of the last thread, milk ducks was asking about powerlevelling a character solo.

    Someone else here was telling me that you can load another character from the same profile in splitscreen, but I haven't tried it myself. I had a friend who was farming the final boss in TVHM and let me tag along, took 40 or so kills of him to level up Zero to 31. Also completed a bunch of badass challenges by looting stuff.

    Yep, you can split-screen power level but apparently it seems only on the PS3, for some reason it appears the 360 version doesn't allow you to load up your main profile more than once. On PS3 I just activate second pad, hit X and load my profile again (RadiosityJP) and it dumps the second player in under my profile so he can load any of my saves from it, in-game it just appears as RadiosityJP (1).

    edit: like so:

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  • jonxpjonxp [E] PC Security Registered User regular
    Wait does he really heal enemy shields?

    I thought that skill might be useful in tvhm but lord that sounds like a liability until they fix it.

    Yeah it was quite annoying playing with that last night. Worst part is that healing takes quite a bit of time, and he'll wait till that enemy is full up before deploying claws.

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  • JihadJesusJihadJesus Registered User regular
    jonxp wrote: »
    Wait does he really heal enemy shields?

    I thought that skill might be useful in tvhm but lord that sounds like a liability until they fix it.

    Yeah it was quite annoying playing with that last night. Worst part is that healing takes quite a bit of time, and he'll wait till that enemy is full up before deploying claws.
    Well, that saves me a point.

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    JihadJesus wrote: »
    jonxp wrote: »
    Wait does he really heal enemy shields?

    I thought that skill might be useful in tvhm but lord that sounds like a liability until they fix it.

    Yeah it was quite annoying playing with that last night. Worst part is that healing takes quite a bit of time, and he'll wait till that enemy is full up before deploying claws.
    Well, that saves me a point.

    Off to the respec place for me too then.

  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Ok so I'm looking at Gaige's trees, and I'm really drawn to her middle tree, Little Big Trouble. The idea of a shock based character is appealing to me, but I'm curious, what kind of gun would I want to pair with this tree? Should I be looking for a Maliwan electric SMG? Or do I want some sort of hard hitting pistol or Assault Rifle? I don't have much experience with shock weapons in general so I don't know what I want to be doing with this tree.

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Foomy wrote: »


    WOO GO GAIGE GO

  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Also on the topic of the middle tree, if I take the "Close Enough" talent for the bullet ricochet, do ricocheted bullets continue to carry any elemental properties? Like if I'm heavy Shock spec, will my ricochets have shock on the bounce?

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    [I figured that's how she got that arm

    I love that tonal shift there with her Dad.

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  • VicktorVicktor Infidel Castro Rancho ChupacabraRegistered User regular
    OK, to break down the DLC (from what I know):
    -DLC Season pass includes the 4 major planned DLCs at a discount, nothing more (it's not named well). I think they're planned to be campaign DLCs like the non-Moxxi BL1 DLCs.
    -Premier club 'DLC' was included with every BL2 preorder. It includes Mechromancer, initial starting equipment (relic plus some starting guns), and a golden key.
    -Creature Dome DLC thing was a preorder bonus from gamestop and I don't know if you can buy it separate yet or what the deal is with that.
    -possibly more pre-order bonus things that I don't know about that might be released later for $$.

    Pitchford has said that depending on the reception of the various types of DLCs and elements in the game, they may offer more areana/character/gun dlcs as separate DLCs (non season pass DLCs). Gaige the Mechromancer is an example of a non-story DLC (separate from season pass) and I'm guessing that there may be more characters coming in the future because players really seem to love her. I hope they'll eventually release more Moxxi-style DLC arenas that have the random rules and bosses all in one place like in BL1, but with appropriately good loot and maybe experience gains included.

    Apparently the Nvidia BL2 promotion keys don't count as pre-orders and don't get the Premier Club DLC; which is a bummer for some people because they said it initially registered as a pre-order, but the DLC was retroactively removed from their account after.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    Is the badass rank menu showing undiscovered a thing added in the Mechromancer update or just a playthrough 2 thing?

    Either way, looks like getting all the shotgun and rocket launcher challenges could take a while, what with having to get specific ones beat at level to unlock a hidden challenge.

  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Foomy wrote: »


    WOO GO GAIGE GO

    Heck yeah.
    Sadly she mentions that DT only got third place in-game.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Foomy wrote: »


    WOO GO GAIGE GO

    God I love these, and the tone shift with her dad was great. Now I have to wonder if we'll get a DLC to take down Marcy. Also sadly we know she doesn't win the science fair :(

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited October 2012
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Also on the topic of the middle tree, if I take the "Close Enough" talent for the bullet ricochet, do ricocheted bullets continue to carry any elemental properties? Like if I'm heavy Shock spec, will my ricochets have shock on the bounce?

    I've only tried it with Torgue weapons so far, but it works fine with those.

    Also it's hilarious to shoot behind a Spiderant to get crits on its thorax. (Butt)

    EDIT: and that challenge thing was patched in I think.

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  • VicktorVicktor Infidel Castro Rancho ChupacabraRegistered User regular
    GO MARCY!!!
    Now THAT is how science/engineering is done in the real world... seriously. Sadly. Marcy will be CEO of her own R&D facility in no time with that type of gumption.

    Gaige's dad had a tonal shift, but he's been supportive of her all along. When she was getting loud, he didn't tell her to stop, he asked her to quiet down. When she was working in her workshop he didn't go in to interfere or change things, he just offered her some encouraging cocoa. And HE didn't threaten to do something about Marcy, he just made sure Gaige was going to handle it on her own.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I'm loving Gaige's look in the game (she looks like a Gorillaz character) and her exclimations are great. My personal favorite are the challenge ones and "NBD".

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    You think you're tough?
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    You're not so tough.
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    Also, it's great how you can consistently get an amazing SMG at a certain point.
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  • CadeCade Eppur si muove.Registered User regular
    edited October 2012
    Gaige is still a blast. DT is truly named proper.

    Also her father is awesome.

    Plus you know who her last subscriber is going to be right.

    Cade on
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    What I like is if I'm about to go down I pop DT, because I know he'll get me a second wind.

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  • RadiosityRadiosity Registered User regular
    edited October 2012
    Peewi wrote: »
    Is the badass rank menu showing undiscovered a thing added in the Mechromancer update or just a playthrough 2 thing?

    Either way, looks like getting all the shotgun and rocket launcher challenges could take a while, what with having to get specific ones beat at level to unlock a hidden challenge.

    Eh, they're not that bad. One word: Varkids. Just go farm the hell out of Tundra or Caustic and you'll have them in no time.

    Radiosity on
  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    Dear lord, DT versus Captain Flynt wasn't even a fair fight. It utterly murdered him. Same with the Boom's. Hid behind cover, DT killed the cannon and both of them and everything within a mile radius.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    It took me awhile to get her "Show me the green arrows" line.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I like how when you are comparing guns "Math math math"

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Gaige definitely talks more than Axton so far.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I think Zero talks the most hilariously enough, if only because his Haiku's are longer than most of the others lines.

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  • eobeteobet 8-bit childhood SwedenRegistered User regular
    Hmm... we fed a Goliath pretty much everyone in that Slab initiation mission thing. Still no Fatal.

    Also, if you shoot the wing off an adult Varkid, you get the badass one, but how do you get the next stage? Can't seem to find anything more to shoot off.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    I dunno, my Axton talks pretty goddamn often.

    Have you met my girlfriend? Autoguns wrecking face! Newsflash, turrets kill! You get a bullet, and you get a bullet, everybody gets a bullet!

    And so on and so forth, throughout the entire fight.

  • mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    my favorite axton line is still Cool story bro
    nothing will top blasting a psycho in teh face witha shotty and hearing that

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  • BroncbusterBroncbuster Registered User regular
    Beat it last night.

    Sarcastic spoilers:
    NO IDEA WHAT WE'LL BE DOING IN THE NEXT GAME

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    Poor Hyperion grunt I'll take care of your comics.

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