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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:
--- Quote from: est on 07 Nov 2009, 20:34 ---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.
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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:
--- Quote from: LTK on 08 Nov 2009, 05:37 ---You know what this game could use a lot more of? Music.
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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.
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