Borderlands (catch all)

Luggage wrote:

There are save editors that allow resetting your quest status, but that means you are in your 60s and the enemies start at level 1 or 30 depending on the playthrough.

That probably wouldn't bother me much. I'll do some searching.

Willowtree is the best and most comfortable I've found so far. It even allows you to take say your Hunter, turn him into a Siren with the same loadout and quest status, saving the character under a new name and continue playing the campaign with a new class.

If you do mod, be sure to only play single player because it is extremely easy to break your teammates saves.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

If you do mod, be sure to only play single player because it is extremely easy to break your teammates saves.

That would be rather ungentlemanly of me, wouldn't it? I'll stay in the SP pool.

Tyrian wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

If you do mod, be sure to only play single player because it is extremely easy to break your teammates saves.

That would be rather ungentlemanly of me, wouldn't it? I'll stay in the SP pool.

Heheh. Yeah, it happened to me once. I lost many hours of progress. Fortunately, I had some good people on my friends list who power leveled me back up. You lose a few things, but it made the overall loss less painful. I learned to backup my saves regularly after that. Did you figure out how to start a second playthrough?

tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Tyrian wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

If you do mod, be sure to only play single player because it is extremely easy to break your teammates saves.

That would be rather ungentlemanly of me, wouldn't it? I'll stay in the SP pool.

Heheh. Yeah, it happened to me once. I lost many hours of progress. Fortunately, I had some good people on my friends list who power leveled me back up. You lose a few things, but it made the overall loss less painful. I learned to backup my saves regularly after that. Did you figure out how to start a second playthrough?

Yeah, I was actually looking for a way to start a "playthrough 3" type thing.

Luggage pointed me towards WillowTree# which looks like it could reset all the quests, but I'd have to do it individually. Somewhat tedious.

Tyrian wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Tyrian wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

If you do mod, be sure to only play single player because it is extremely easy to break your teammates saves.

That would be rather ungentlemanly of me, wouldn't it? I'll stay in the SP pool.

Heheh. Yeah, it happened to me once. I lost many hours of progress. Fortunately, I had some good people on my friends list who power leveled me back up. You lose a few things, but it made the overall loss less painful. I learned to backup my saves regularly after that. Did you figure out how to start a second playthrough?

Yeah, I was actually looking for a way to start a "playthrough 3" type thing.

Luggage pointed me towards WillowTree# which looks like it could reset all the quests, but I'd have to do it individually. Somewhat tedious.

I've found that the only real interesting thing to do is farm Crawmerax when you get to level 69. That's probably the best way to get pearl weapons. Even doing that, it's hard. I've only ever seen one drop.

Try not to get too attached to Combat Rifles as a Soldier. Even as an Assault Rifle specialist, Roland has class skills applicable with most guns and weapons and can second or third most any gun. Of all the classes, Soldier is most likely to be able to just take any gun and run with it.

Combat Rifle, in addition, is a really narrow niche of weapon, being especially suitable for neither short range nor long range, but strictly for medium range work. A really, really good Combat Rifle is pretty much an all-around all-purpose weapon, but a bad one is practically useless.

Of all the Rifle types, Stompers are most likely to appear in good form early. They'll do a ridiculous amount of damage for their level, but their low bullet velocity means that they're no good long range; or require a lot of leading and skill to work out. Watch out for Blue Stompers at levels 10 to 20+ at Marcus. Those can come in handy on your first toon. Cobras are good for distance work, but they generally appear at levels 20+.

The most common weapon I find myself favoring as Roland is the Support Machine Guns - generally Havocs and Massacres. An Atlas Havoc is a rare find and generally good for way beyond its rated level, and borderline broken if you hand it to a level-appropriate toon on single player. A Havoc is a high fire rate/high damage gun that's reined in by its relatively low ammo capacity on other classes. Roland wants to use this gun because he has a special skill that adds loads of ammo, allowing him to bypass the only thing holding the gun back from murdering everything; and Metal Storm jacks up the RoF even further!

A good Havoc plays a bit like a submachine gun on a Siren, only you can fire a pretty long time, and it hits hard without relying on elemental weaknesses.

Roland's Metal Storm and extra ammo skill also allow you to switch out and use a sniper rifle well when your Havoc is a little out of its depth in terms of range.

Of all the gun classes, Submachine Guns are most likely to not shine on Roland, on account of Machine Guns performing much, much better in his hands, along pretty much the same niche. Of course, a Combustion Hellfire still works like magic. That thing is OP on anyone.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I've found that the only real interesting thing to do is farm Crawmerax when you get to level 69. That's probably the best way to get pearl weapons. Even doing that, it's hard. I've only ever seen one drop.

I've never actually seen Crawermax. I suppose I ought to venture in there at some point.

It's arguably better to farm the Armory using the Armory Glitch. I got several Pealescent Weapons this way from the Armory; they're generally more curious than useful, though. All the super-useful stuff is at orange level.

Example: I've been collecting Pearl Cyclopses as a Sniper. Their unique attribute is that their scope magnifies up to 5x the base magnification on a sniper scope. This magnification is so massive that you can headshot a target from clear across a "true" sniping distance, generally greatly exceeding enemy spawn distance.

LarryC wrote:

It's arguably better to farm the Armory using the Armory Glitch. I got several Pealescent Weapons this way from the Armory; they're generally more curious than useful, though. All the super-useful stuff is at orange level.

Example: I've been collecting Pearl Cyclopses as a Sniper. Their unique attribute is that their scope magnifies up to 5x the base magnification on a sniper scope. This magnification is so massive that you can headshot a target from clear across a "true" sniping distance, generally greatly exceeding enemy spawn distance.

Yeah, the problem with that is, the weapons tend to be too low of level to be useful to a level 69 character. I'm glad they never fixed that glitch, though. I remember how fast the word of mouth got around when that DLC was released. It was fun to be "in the know" and show other people. Since Crawmerax is level 75 or something, it tends to drop much higher level weaponry.

You have to do Playthrough 2.5. After that, the loot in the Armory becomes level appropriate.

Does Borderlands feature region specific MP? I have a rather full armory and I don't know that I'm going to use much of the lower level oranges anymore. I'll be glad to offload a few Pestilent Defilers or Combustion Hellfires to new players.

LarryC wrote:

You have to do Playthrough 2.5. After that, the loot in the Armory becomes level appropriate.

Does Borderlands feature region specific MP? I have a rather full armory and I don't know that I'm going to use much of the lower level oranges anymore. I'll be glad to offload a few Pestilent Defilers or Combustion Hellfires to new players.

Hrmmm... I remember things still seeming underwhelming at the armory during playthrough 2.5. It would definitely be your best chance to actually find pearls at least.

I'm not familiar with the level trigger anymore, but I think you need to actually finish Playthrough 2.5 and then kill Knoxx to unlock the level cap on the Armory. Even then the level wonks out when you multi with a guy who hasn't finished up PT 2.5 or isn't level 69.

In general, you don't get a whole lot of useful weapons per run, but I was able to collect a bunch of useful oranges this way, including a nice Bastard, a bunch of Dracos and some few Skullmashers and Penetrators. Love me some Penetrators.

Btw, for those who want to play with coop on GameSpy, I changed my ID, it is now ManachGWJ.

Atlas does make some damn nice guns for a Soldier. My first character is a level 62 soldier, and he's still carrying the same gun from the last 20? or so levels. An AR20 Glorious Ogre, a level 37 version, absolutely destroys things at short and medium ranges. If you get the good fortune to have an Ogre drop, save it, you will make some soldier's day with it.

Manach wrote:

Btw, for those who want to play with coop on GameSpy, I changed my ID, it is now ManachGWJ.

And I want to play tonight, this sunday 12 of august! 10EST PM, maybe 1-2 hours. I'm close to the end, at level 32, but can help others get there.

Manach wrote:
Manach wrote:

Btw, for those who want to play with coop on GameSpy, I changed my ID, it is now ManachGWJ.

And I want to play tonight, this sunday 12 of august! 10EST PM, maybe 1-2 hours. I'm close to the end, at level 32, but can help others get there.

Level 36, made my first playthru.. Guess the DLCs are now on the table.

Thanks Tuffalo.

Manach wrote:

Level 36, made my first playthru.. Guess the DLCs are now on the table.

Did you do all the side quests? I am trying to judge how far I am from the finish without spoiling it.

Greg wrote:
Manach wrote:

Level 36, made my first playthru.. Guess the DLCs are now on the table.

Did you do all the side quests? I am trying to judge how far I am from the finish without spoiling it.

I did all the side quests too, finished the game around 37/38 I think.

Greg wrote:
Manach wrote:

Level 36, made my first playthru.. Guess the DLCs are now on the table.

Did you do all the side quests? I am trying to judge how far I am from the finish without spoiling it.

Got like 6-8 side quests to go.

In the Xbox, I was level 32 when I was running to the last boss. The last stretch give you LOTS of xps.

Manach wrote:
Greg wrote:
Manach wrote:

Level 36, made my first playthru.. Guess the DLCs are now on the table.

Did you do all the side quests? I am trying to judge how far I am from the finish without spoiling it.

Got like 6-8 side quests to go.

In the Xbox, I was level 32 when I was running to the last boss. The last stretch give you LOTS of xps.

That was fun. Yeah, the last bit will level you up extremely quickly. Side quests aren't really worth while doing if you're trying to level up quickly. The fastest way to level is to plow through main content as quickly as possible. I hardly did any side quests and am about half a level behind Manach.

That being said, you need to do all the Claptrap rescues to get Backpack SDUs. You also find artifacts on a couple. Even playing through Mad Moxxi's gives you up to 4 skill points (2 for playthrough 1 and 2 for playthrough 2). So, side missions do end up being necessary if you want your dude to be as maxed out as possible.

Tuffalo, we still need to repair the claptrap in old haven.

Manach wrote:

Tuffalo, we still need to repair the claptrap in old haven.

Yes. Yes we do. I should be around during the evenings this week to do some side missions and DLC.

I fired this up after not playing it for ages and man am I really rusty. I ran with my 19 hawk guy and I was having a lot of trouble finding a good feel for the weapons I had on hand. After about 30 minutes I had started to loot some decent stuff with a good punch.

I recall having some really good revolvers on my siren that were a lot of fun. I went looted a few useless ones on the hawk guy before I found a devastating pistol. It lacked a scope but tore through shields and hp with lots of criticals.

I am not used to the FOV at all anymore. It has been so long since I've played in first person. I can't say that I've missed it.

I am sure starting from the beginning in BL2 will help rather than jumping midway through the campaign cold. I still have no idea what my first character is going to be and my foray into BL1 hasn't helped that at all.

I once found a Desert Anaconda (enhanced damage and accuracy) with something like a x2 Lightning elemental multiplier. That thing made me feel like freaking Zeus raining lightning wrath down on my enemies. That was one of the most powerful pistols I'd ever found, superseded only by a Brutal Equalizer (unlimited ammo) with the same modifier; same accuracy and slightly higher damage; it was a higher level gun, of course.

fangblackbone wrote:

I fired this up after not playing it for ages and man am I really rusty. I ran with my 19 hawk guy and I was having a lot of trouble finding a good feel for the weapons I had on hand. After about 30 minutes I had started to loot some decent stuff with a good punch.

I recall having some really good revolvers on my siren that were a lot of fun. I went looted a few useless ones on the hawk guy before I found a devastating pistol. It lacked a scope but tore through shields and hp with lots of criticals.

I am not used to the FOV at all anymore. It has been so long since I've played in first person. I can't say that I've missed it.

I am sure starting from the beginning in BL2 will help rather than jumping midway through the campaign cold. I still have no idea what my first character is going to be and my foray into BL1 hasn't helped that at all.

If you get the Borderlands Advanced Config editor, you can change the FOV. On PC at least.

Luggage wrote:
fangblackbone wrote:

I fired this up after not playing it for ages and man am I really rusty. I ran with my 19 hawk guy and I was having a lot of trouble finding a good feel for the weapons I had on hand. After about 30 minutes I had started to loot some decent stuff with a good punch.

I recall having some really good revolvers on my siren that were a lot of fun. I went looted a few useless ones on the hawk guy before I found a devastating pistol. It lacked a scope but tore through shields and hp with lots of criticals.

I am not used to the FOV at all anymore. It has been so long since I've played in first person. I can't say that I've missed it.

I am sure starting from the beginning in BL2 will help rather than jumping midway through the campaign cold. I still have no idea what my first character is going to be and my foray into BL1 hasn't helped that at all.

If you get the Borderlands Advanced Config editor, you can change the FOV. On PC at least.

I recall the FOV resetting every time you get into a car or when you run.

No, they "fixed" that. But it will every time you quit the game. The above mentioned editor allows you to bind the "set FOV to xx" to a key, so you only need to hit F10 once when jumping back into the game.

I am getting used to it... slowly ;P