Borderlands

[LTK]

Hey, you know One-Eyed Jack, right? He drops this gun called Madjack. It's got mad damage, mad accuracy, mad firing rate, and mad looks. A bit after I got it I ran straight into the gun of a Badass Bruiser. I emptied two clips in him in panic, and took him out clean. So I had this other revolver, purple rarity, 3x explosive and stats all below the Madjack, so I thought, I won't need that anymore! Sold it. Then I go about using Madjack. It's a great gun, takes out most bandits in one shot, some two, has got a good sight on it, and 95 accuracy with that. The shots even ricochet off surfaces! No problem, right? Problem.

IT DOESN'T SHOOT FUCKING STRAIGHT.

Ohhh, so that's why they call it the Madjack! The bullet swerves around madly in the general direction of your aim, and half the time it bends perfectly around your target. Fuck! What good is 95 accuracy if it doesn't even travel in a straight line? By that time I had gone to another area and the shops had restocked so the other gun is nowhere to be found in the buy-back list. Goddamn it.

(I get real attached to my guns.)

[öde]

Completed!

[Zombiedude]

LTK just got trolled

[glyphic]

I have been playing as a sniper, right?

Well, at this point I'm using a total of 0 guns with scopes. Even my sniper rifle has a blade sight. It is the Elephant Gun. Totally powerful and accurate. My revolver does 56x7 damage and has an almost instantaneous reload speed. My SMG does 25x4 damage and my shotgun does 64x11 with 3 explosive.

I slam.

[öde]

For a while I was just running up to enemies and shooting them point-blank in the face with my sniper rifle.

[McTaggart]

I finally started playing and yeah, I love the way you can snap headshots with the sniper rifle. This 9 clip, 2 shots per second one was my go-to close range weapon for some time (until I got hold of revolvers).

[Sam]

my setup right now is a liquid sniper (i just got the upgraded version in the dahl headlands archeology site where you fight some ghost/alien things), caustic machine gun, explosive shotgun, aaaaaand a static machine gun for shields. oh and i'm using the static longbow grenades.

longbow grenades are so fucking good.

[glyphic]

Personally, I like transfusion grenades the best. They chase enemies and HEAL YOU. How awesome is that? They don't do much in the way of damage, though.

[ackblom12]

So far Longbows and MIRV have been my favorite. There is just something very satisfying about having a Massive Corrosive cloud of green gas break through the enemy ranks.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

Personally, I like transfusion grenades the best. They chase enemies and HEAL YOU. How awesome is that? They don't do much in the way of damage, though.

tell that to my 101 damage Transfusion mod.

Also, I found an awesome combat rifle last night that has forced me to actually use a combat rifle on my Hunter for the first time (all the ones i've encountered up until now have sucked).

it's rate of fire is over 10 and the clip is around 55 and oh yeah it sets shit on fire. it burns through ammo and enemies like nobody's business. makes me glad i have another, shitty combat rifle that regrows ammo, so i just equip that opposite my good one and use it to regrow ammo whenever i'm not shooting at stuff. My combat rifle proficiency went up around 9 levels or so last night.

[Darke]

I really do not enjoy combat rifles at all. Not that as it matters much as I generally talk with my fists, but even as I'm waiting for Berserk to recharge, I'll be hanging back with an SMG or shotgun. I was going to put some points into my Explosives (or whatever it's called) skill tree, but at level 23 I've come across one rocket launcher and it's absolutely terrible, so screw it. I like the idea of my tank/brawler build anyway.

[LTK]

I have a sort of taboo on using guns outside of my class. I rarely even use anything but snipers, repeaters and revolvers. Occasionally I carry around a rocket launcher to use on things like Skagzilla, but SMGs, machine guns and shotguns I always sell. Everything far away perishes at my sniper rifle, everything close up perishes at my revolver, and everything on more than two legs perishes at my caustic repeater. Seriously, it's so much fun to take down swarms of spiderants with that thing. I shoot a couple of rounds at the head, they get Corroded and turn around, leaving the hind body wide open. It works on every Spiderant except the Badass Corrosive ones, but that's no problem since they conveniently lift up their hind bodies to take a revolver shot at. I got the Conveyor of Death challenge slaughtering the lot of them. Lethal Strike is a really useful skill to have for Hunters, too. I never have to waste a single bullet on Scythids, cause they're squishy enough to just hack away at. Although it seems that melee kills, like running things over, gives you much less experience than shooting stuff. I get why you don't get points for vehicular manslaughter, cause every idiot can do that, but I'd like to see some return of investement of those Lethal Strike points.

[Darke]

Huh, really? I wonder if that applies to all melee kills, including Brick's punches during Berserk. If so, that is seriously unfair.

[öde]

Make sure to have a weapon that electrocutes enemies when you fight the Crimson Lance because their helmets and flesh pop off and their skulls slowly explode.

[LTK]

No, that happens when you electrocute any human enemy. It's especially fun for midgets, that scream and scream until the top of their head comes off.   

[est]

I am playing as a soldier.  Problem is that I am not finding any decent combat rifles for my level (19).  I've had a really decent one (decent damage, +sets people on fire, +35 clip size) for a while now, but it's getting too weak and I'm not finding anything else decent, so I've been using the multiple goddamn fucking sniper rifles I've been coming across.  It got to the point where I started another game as a sniper last night because I thought maybe it was just the way I was wanting to play, but that guy quickly got a really decent combat rifle and SMG and I found I was trying to play my sniper as a soldier.  Huh.

Having a lot of fun though!

[est]

Figures that as soon as I complain I get a string of awesome combat rifle drops.

[Zombiedude]

Quick, complain about world hunger!

[LTK]

Ever wonder how all those ammo boxes end up in toilet pots? Now you know!

Also, I've recently found this rocket launcher nicknamed 'the Rhino'. When you fire it, it explodes constantly.

[glyphic]

Finally got the internet at my apartment.

Gamertag- BeardedGlyphic

[öde]

When you fire it, it explodes constantly.

Rad

I have a shotgun that fires 6 rockets in anything but a straight line.

[est]

SO like, did anyone beat Mad Mel without dying?  If so, how?  Did you play it super-cautious, drive into the ring slowly, back up to the entry, jump out & over the lip then snipe everything really cheaply?  Because man, I can't fucking control the jeep thing well enough to avoid 2 normal dudes plus an armoured truck firing rockets at me, so after I died the first time I just sniped from the outside of the ring where they couldn't get me.  It felt cheap, but fuck those guys for not being smart enough to get to me.

If this game had a hardcore mode I am not sure how you'd get through that part, or even how you'd go about doing the mission killing the rocket-firing runners.  I didn't die doing those, but there were some very close calls.

[Trollstormur]

I dunno, I joined a group and they magically killed Mel.

[McTaggart]

The runners I killed by driving up and agroing then leading them back to lucky's where I got the hell out of the car and used a combat rifle instead. I did a similar thing for Mad Mel, but only after trying to do it properly and jumping out of my car when I realised it wasn't going to work.

I just finished the last hidden journal quest and I'm really liking the Patricia Tannis character.

[BlahBlah]

SO like, did anyone beat Mad Mel without dying?  If so, how?  Did you play it super-cautious, drive into the ring slowly, back up to the entry, jump out & over the lip then snipe everything really cheaply?  Because man, I can't fucking control the jeep thing well enough to avoid 2 normal dudes plus an armoured truck firing rockets at me, so after I died the first time I just sniped from the outside of the ring where they couldn't get me.  It felt cheap, but fuck those guys for not being smart enough to get to me.

If this game had a hardcore mode I am not sure how you'd get through that part, or even how you'd go about doing the mission killing the rocket-firing runners.  I didn't die doing those, but there were some very close calls.

Standing on the lip is definitely the best way to do it. I've found that almost all of the bosses can be killed in cheap ways like that.

[LTK]

I died two times with Mel too, in co-op with two other people. The worst thing is, when you lose your car, you're done for. When mine blows up I can snipe one of those runners for a second wind, but that's it. No way in hell you can take down Mel on foot. Eventually we pulled it off with two of us dead for the second time, and the third guy - higher level - finished him. I think the biggest mistake was using the rocket launcher. Blowing yourself up is what it does best, and damaging other enemies is only second to that. And you'll miss half the time, too. Maybe using a machine turret would have been easier.

Now that I think of it, I had surprisingly little trouble with the other runners outside of that ring. As far as I can recall, I needed only to get out of the car and shoot them once with my fire sniper. Instant barbecue.

Speaking of cheap ways to kill enemies, how about this guardians? They're fast sonsofbitches, and the first time I got there they danced circles around me while I was emptying my shock revolver, hitting nothing. When I was out of ammo, I ran and melee'd everything that stood in my way. And when I got to the exit, I looked back and saw that they were all already dead. Big surprise. Tried it a second time after they respawned, and it turns out I can take them down with two or three swipes. Lethal Strike FTW.

Oh, I just remembered something. You know what this game could use a lot more of? Music. I mean, in the intro movie we hear a cool song that really sets the mood for the game, but after that we don't hear any more of it. The background music doesn't quite cut it either. When you look at games like Fallout 3 and Bioshock, the radio and music played does a lot for the atmosphere, and I think Borderlands could benefit from that too. You already see radios all over the place, but they're all eerily silent.

Just listen to it already.

[glyphic]

I didn't have a problem with Mad Mel. I took him out on foot with my SMG. Of course, it was the SMG that shoots four bullets at once.

[öde]

You know what this game could use a lot more of? Music.

Yeah, I think my favourite area is skag gully because of the combination of the background music and scenery, and the music that plays when a shitload of skags come after you.

The game feels like it needs a lot more detail to make it more in-depth and awesome. One thing that especially annoyed me was that the characters supposedly had backstories, but I heard absolutely nothing about them in-game.

[Trollstormur]

more importantly, how did you kill Mothrakk?

I cheesed it.

[öde]

First time I tried I didn't even see the bastard, I just exploded. Second time I'd leveled up a bit so I ran away from the flames and sniped it when it stopped trying to set me on fire. You have to cheese it tactically.

[Chesire Cat]

Trollstormur that is possibly the most disgusting avatar I have ever seen.

[Melodic]

I killed Mothrakk with a group of friends -- three soldiers and a hunter, we took turns dropping medi-turrets and hiding underneath a garage.

[Trollstormur]

Trollstormur that is possibly the most disgusting avatar I have ever seen.

funfact: you're still sporting an avatar from my brainslug meme.

[Chesire Cat]

I enjoyed that meme. It was kind of a forum/community solidarity thing.

[LTK]

The first time against Mothrakk I used the car with a machine gun, made distance, switched to gunner, shot it until it came close, and repeated. I got killed hard. Then someone told me that when you're alone in a car, you can use the space bar to lock on to targets. Then it's just a matter of driving circles and holding down RMB.

I'm kind of bummed that most of those bosses are so easy to kill, using either a lot of firepower or a trick. Krom, for example, took me zero effort. I was playing alongside another hunter, and I was at the start of the big canyon where he holes up in. I took my fire sniper, took aim at his turret - no idea it was him sitting in it - and blew it up in three shots. (The guy has a completely bitchin' repeater, btw) There's no satisfaction in that! I'd rather fight a boss that kills everyone twice before the one who gets him survives with barely any health left than this. Just like that little Scythid that the bandits worshipped. Bullets had no effect, so I minced it with my machete, and it was done. Come ooooon.

Man, this game sure gets in your head. I complain about the lack of nicer music in here, and then Patricia Tannis radios me to tell me how she thinks music is stupid and a waste of time.

Something fun happened today, too: I was in the Middle of Nowhere, browsing through the Steam usergroup without any active menus in-game, when Mordecai suddenly says "Why, yes, now that you mention it, I DO like to stand around doing NOTHING!" I laughed my head off. What kind of idle messages do the other characters have?

[Blue Kitty]

[Storm Rider]

Wow, those guys want to be Penny Arcade really, really badly.

[Surgoshan]

Between Tycho's words and Gabe's art, they would have gotten all that done in three panels.


Still, well done comic.  It just took a little too long to say what it wanted to say.

[est]

Yeah, I actually started out thinking it was a special PA comic they made for Gearbox, like their Dragon Age stuff or something.

[ackblom12]

Zombie DLC coming Nov. 24

http://kotaku.com/5400556/borderlands-undead-dlc-coming-nov-24

[LTK]

Not just zombies, but were-Skags too, huh?

[Reed]

Holy shit, my rommate and I have made it up to level 28 (it took a Saturday of playing 9 beer and pizza fueled hours of work) and we just bought the game last Thursday. I really can't imagine playing this game by myself, it's so much better with a friend!!

[Professor Snuggles]

Just started a berserker. Berserkers are fucking awesome

[Dimmukane]

Just wait until you can light people on fire with your fists

[Surgoshan]

I punch people so hard that they explode.

[öde]

Just wait until you can light people on fire with your fists

I punch people so hard that they explode.

light people on fire with your fists!

punch people so hard that they explode!

I was going to trade this in but now I'm rethinking.

[Darke]

Seriously, the Berserker is so much fun. And if fire isn't your thing, maybe you'd like to shoot lightning bolts from your knuckles.

[FIXDIX]

I love playing with a friend and seeing my Siren looking like a firey angel from hell after I kill shit.

[Reed]

Man, what the fuck? My roommate and I got to level 30 when our god damn saves were corrupted! Same thing that happened to me right before the killer croc battle in Arkham Asylum.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

Start menu: Exit

do that whenever you quit; it will autosave. Seems to be a pretty common problem which I believe stems from turning off the console, or otherwise exiting the game, without actually Quitting.