Borderlands 2 Catch-All

Thin_J wrote:

Are there any other potentially great guns, or more specifically sniper rifles, that you can get in relatively simple ways like good/bad touch just for tipping Moxxi?

I really want a better sniper rifle. The one I have does like 700 something damage but it's not all fancy-like. Zero wants the fancy.

Doak and I found a quest reward one that's around 950 damage, no elemental property. The catch is that it has iron sights, no scope. The counter-catch is that it's still pretty easy to aim with the iron sights, and its ridiculously accurate non-scoped. Iirc, it was a reward for the quest to kill Dukino's mom.

Counter-catch. WHO IS THIS GUY?

Ghostship wrote:
juv3nal wrote:
nel e nel wrote:

Assassins: what are you folks putting points into? I feel like going for sniper, but then that feels like it's completely ignoring his special ability. Buuuut, I'm not a big melee guy and he's very squishy close up. Would like to hear your thoughts on builds and tactics.

I'm only level 13, but going sniper. I know that going the melee route gives you bonuses to health so you get less squishy, but squishiness is only part of the reason I don't like melee. The other part is that the closer they get, the more difficult it is for me to keep track of dudes when they start moving laterally and/or behind me. I still use the decoy a lot though, just because of the way enemy spawns are set up where sometimes you'll need to cross an invisible threshold before guys show up; so I'll run in, pop the decoy to take aggro and run away like a coward so I can use my sniper rifle effectively.

I'm going the sniper route also. The delayed spawns are a bit of a gripe for me as well, but hey, I understand it's not a sniper game.
For the same reasons, I don't particularly like mele. I actually respec'd for entirely sniper and crits. Shamefully, this is exactly how I played the first game.

I too was looking for an assault rifle. I ended finding rifle which fires sniper rounds. I thought it was an assault rifle at first. It's does fire damage and shoots sniper rounds like a semi auto. I just need the increased sniper ammo upgrade now.

Yeah, I've been looking at going with a full cunning tree to get the kunai and marking abilities, and complementing it with the few top levels of the sniping tree.

I was, however, messing around with what I call my Shotgun Infiltrator style yesterday. Basically using Decepti0n as a means to get up close and personal and then blasting fools with the shotgun. Found that to be more effective than melee.

I just think that - for me personally - having melee be the right analog stick button is a bit clumsy, and it might have been better to have had a dedicated melee button for Zer0.

Dyni wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

Are there any other potentially great guns, or more specifically sniper rifles, that you can get in relatively simple ways like good/bad touch just for tipping Moxxi?

I really want a better sniper rifle. The one I have does like 700 something damage but it's not all fancy-like. Zero wants the fancy.

Doak and I found a quest reward one that's around 950 damage, no elemental property. The catch is that it has iron sights, no scope. The counter-catch is that it's still pretty easy to aim with the iron sights, and its ridiculously accurate non-scoped. Iirc, it was a reward for the quest to kill Dukino's mom.

There is a blue Jacobs given as a quest reward for completing 5 rounds in the arena in The Fridge. It's high power, low fire rate. The easiest and fastest way to get one would probably be to ask some other players for their throwaways.

Yeah, I don't remember any that were super easy to get like the Moxxi gun.

I will definitely look into both of those. Thanks

carrotpanic wrote:

Counter-catch. WHO IS THIS GUY?

Just throwing some curve balls to keep you on your toes.

nel e nel wrote:

I just think that - for me personally - having melee be the right analog stick button is a bit clumsy, and it might have been better to have had a dedicated melee button for Zer0.

For Salvador, I remapped melee to RB, grenade/brake to B, and crouch/trade/leave vehicle to right stick click.

Also found it helpful for playing my Zero up to level 9.

Really wish I could have decoupled the usage, because I still want brake to be RB and leave vehicle to be B, but oh well.

Dyni wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

Are there any other potentially great guns, or more specifically sniper rifles, that you can get in relatively simple ways like good/bad touch just for tipping Moxxi?

I really want a better sniper rifle. The one I have does like 700 something damage but it's not all fancy-like. Zero wants the fancy.

Doak and I found a quest reward one that's around 950 damage, no elemental property. The catch is that it has iron sights, no scope. The counter-catch is that it's still pretty easy to aim with the iron sights, and its ridiculously accurate non-scoped. Iirc, it was a reward for the quest to kill Dukino's mom.

1950... not 950

Tuffalo = skag death.

Golden key code for today. I used in on the 360 about fifteen minutes ago.

X360 Borderlands 2 SHiFT code with 10k redemptions for a Golden Key:

5JKJ3-6TWSJ-BRXBX-K6JJJ-FXXWB

Randy Pitchford just tweeted codes for all three systems actually.

PC code: KBCJ3-KX9B6-XTBJT-TT33B-C9ZR3

I just used it and it still works for now.

Nice!

I'll be happily joining all of you in borderlands 2 soon. Lots of good reviews from you guys and the gaming media and a great deal at Greenmangaming.com (its currently marked down 10% to $53.99 and there's an additional 20% coupon code on the site making it less than $45 USD) made it an easy call for me. It also uses steam DRM so no need to download any other software.

If there's a steamgroup please shoot me an invite, and if anyone wants to play please friend me up.

Crud, it's going to be a few hours before I get home. I imagine they will all be used up by then.

Edit: Looks like I'm gonna have to load BL2 up on my laptop and start bringing it in to work.

Thin_J wrote:

Randy Pitchford just tweeted codes for all three systems actually.

PC code: KBCJ3-KX9B6-XTBJT-TT33B-C9ZR3

I just used it and it still works for now.

Code still works as of this post, just used it as well.

X360 code already used up

Getting "Enter a valid code" error when I try it.

McIrishJihad wrote:

X360 code already used up

Getting "Enter a valid code" error when I try it.

Balls to that. Balls, I say!

McIrishJihad wrote:

X360 code already used up

Getting "Enter a valid code" error when I try it.

Others are reporting it still works. Sorry if this sounds pedantic, but did you use caps?

Mere Anarchy wrote:
McIrishJihad wrote:

X360 code already used up

Getting "Enter a valid code" error when I try it.

Others are reporting it still works. Sorry if this sounds pedantic, but did you use caps?

To clarify, these are SHiFT codes, NOT XBL codes. They need to be entered into the SHiFT menu from in-game.

PC code still worked just a second ago. And I got an extra gold key for signing up to the SHIFT thing. Bonus!

stevenmack wrote:

PC code still worked just a second ago. And I got an extra gold key for signing up to the SHIFT thing. Bonus!

Yup. For folks signing up to use the code, make sure you sign up in the game to get the other bonus key for signing up. I don't know that it would work from outside, but in-game it definitely works.

nel e nel wrote:
Mere Anarchy wrote:
McIrishJihad wrote:

X360 code already used up

Getting "Enter a valid code" error when I try it.

Others are reporting it still works. Sorry if this sounds pedantic, but did you use caps?

To clarify, these are SHiFT codes, NOT XBL codes. They need to be entered into the SHiFT menu from in-game.

Thanks. I should have been more clear about that.

AnimeJ wrote:
stevenmack wrote:

PC code still worked just a second ago. And I got an extra gold key for signing up to the SHIFT thing. Bonus!

Yup. For folks signing up to use the code, make sure you sign up in the game to get the other bonus key for signing up. I don't know that it would work from outside, but in-game it definitely works.

Did just that and received 2 keys. Thanks! Also, the pc code is still working as of 5 minutes ago.

PC code still worked a second ago. Go Go Go!

Xbox code just worked as of 7:09pm EST

PC code worked for me too. Thanks for the heads up.

PC key is still working for me too.

I'll stay away since I still have 250+ golden keys sitting around from the .ini file trick. I've only used 2 so far in since I'd prefer to keep the game interesting.

Also, it looks like Gearbox is encouraging modding, but will not be releasing a SDK any time soon. http://us.kotaku.com/5924241/feel-fr...

I was hoping for some ability to create custom maps and make the AI smarter and more aggressive.

I can only hope that the response here is a sign that hardly anyone got the game on ps3 and that the code will still work in ~2.5 hours time.

PC key still working.

Michael Mamaril just gave me this:

IMAGE(http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540687498844542557/DC683418CD28EBEE214864533C8D90A509A9C947/)

What a swell guy!