Borderlands (catch all)

gravity wrote:
Greg wrote:

Anyone up for co-op Friday at 10pm EST?

I won't be able to play until after the new year unfortunately.

No problem. We will catch you in the new year.

Greg wrote:

Anyone up for co-op Friday at 10pm EST?

Can't make any promises, but I did fire off the install this morning in hopes I'll be able to.

Greg wrote:

Anyone up for co-op Friday at 10pm EST?

Quite possibly! What platform/level/DLC are we thinking?

Atras wrote:
Greg wrote:

Anyone up for co-op Friday at 10pm EST?

Quite possibly! What platform/level/DLC are we thinking?

PC, any level. I have a couple 30 something characters, a 14 level character, and would be willing to start a new character.

I have all of the DLC but only have played the zombie one so far.

Greg wrote:

I am playing some Borderlands. Add me as 'eyeresearcher' in game. Let's do some co-op.

I sent you a GameSpy friend request, I am atras126 on there.

Thanks for the game guys.

We were a little under powered weapons wise.

If anyone wants to run through some DLC, I will be playing at 10pm EST

Greg wrote:

Thanks for the game guys.

We were a little under powered weapons wise.

Having about 20 Badass Scags on top of us hurt.

Atras wrote:
Greg wrote:

Thanks for the game guys.

We were a little under powered weapons wise.

Having about 20 Badass Scags on top of us hurt.

After you left, I stayed in the cave scrounging red weapon chests. I found a shotgun that took care of them pretty quickly. I realized too late that someone was running around argoing all of the bad guys. That made it a lot harder!

Greg wrote:

Thanks for the game guys.

We were a little under powered weapons wise.

Sorry I missed out last night. Got through the intro in SP, then my wife got sick and needed me right as I friended you guys.

Anyone up for co-op tonight at 10pm est? 'eyeresearcher' in game.

I'm not going to be playing for too long tonight, but friend me up on Steam and I'll try to join any Borderland games I can in the future.

I ended up playing a little solo myself tonight. I'm still just getting started in the game though, with only 2 hours in so far. How does it work when pairing with people at different levels?

I tried to log into my GamespyID and it wouldn't let me. Even though that was the same login as the Gamespy/IGN website for the past 3 years at least, and it still worked on their website. Guess I won't be playing BL1 co-op after all....

WipEout wrote:

I tried to log into my GamespyID and it wouldn't let me. Even though that was the same login as the Gamespy/IGN website for the past 3 years at least, and it still worked on their website. Guess I won't be playing BL1 co-op after all....

Just create a new account. There is no verification process. New user Id, same email, it works fine. Did that to change the handle I was using there, and on the Gamespy site, it listed all them link to email.

I think gamespy is now handle thru a new provider that isn't IGN anymore.

EDIT : Not a different provider, but Gamepsy was on the Planet Network, which had merger, and the website to reset the password isn't obvious. You must delog from IGN network. and use that link after : https://login.gamespy.com/lostpasswo...

I've been playing for a bit, and I've run into a problem. It's probably discussed somewhere above here, and if so, a link would be greatly appreciated.

For some reason, the game randomly decides not to save for me. It's happened three or four times now. It's not constant - sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. I'm losing about half of every multiplayer session. Last night I had a session of about two hours which saved. But when I came back from my errand, loaded it up from scratch and played again with the gang, that second bit didn't.

This had happened before, so last night I was alreadying trying the -nohomedir launch option after some research. It seemed dumb, but who knows. I do have the game files installed on another drive, but everything else is default. But that didn't have any effect.

That part that's annoying is it was showing the save icon up to a certain point during that second session - that's why I thought all was well. It should have at least saved that much. But the time on the save file itself shows it wasn't actually writing at all.

Once it's in that state, there's not a thing I can find to force it to save, or any idea as to what the actual issue is. I thought it was due to file permissions or attributes, but that turned out to be a red herring.

And just now it happened to me in the singleplayer game for the very first time as well. I had logged in to check some edits to my keybindings on my gamepad before I head off to redo those quests by myself so I can catch up with the gang, and when I determined they weren't right and hit exit, it told me it couldn't save and asked me again if I wanted to quit. Same error. Bother!

It's only happening to me - not to the other three people in the group. Needless to say, this is annoying to them.

If anyone has any suggestions as to how they handled this, I'd greatly appreciate them. My googling around has shown that this apparently also happens in Borderlands 2, and I'd really love to get it resolved before we try playing that.

Yea, I haven't gotten back to trying to play more of BL1, but the gamespy system definitely is BassAckwards! I'm still only like an hour in, but having a tough time going back to the game without co-op to compel me. Is it worth it to push through solo or try to hit up people to play some co-op? Haven't had much time to have a *dedicated* session, but still would love to try it out with some peeps

momgamer wrote:

I've been playing for a bit, and I've run into a problem. It's probably discussed somewhere above here, and if so, a link would be greatly appreciated.

For some reason, the game randomly decides not to save for me. It's happened three or four times now. It's not constant - sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. I'm losing about half of every multiplayer session. Last night I had a session of about two hours which saved. But when I came back from my errand, loaded it up from scratch and played again with the gang, that second bit didn't.

This had happened before, so last night I was alreadying trying the -nohomedir launch option after some research. It seemed dumb, but who knows. I do have the game files installed on another drive, but everything else is default. But that didn't have any effect.

That part that's annoying is it was showing the save icon up to a certain point during that second session - that's why I thought all was well. It should have at least saved that much. But the time on the save file itself shows it wasn't actually writing at all.

Once it's in that state, there's not a thing I can find to force it to save, or any idea as to what the actual issue is. I thought it was due to file permissions or attributes, but that turned out to be a red herring.

And just now it happened to me in the singleplayer game for the very first time as well. I had logged in to check some edits to my keybindings on my gamepad before I head off to redo those quests by myself so I can catch up with the gang, and when I determined they weren't right and hit exit, it told me it couldn't save and asked me again if I wanted to quit. Same error. Bother!

It's only happening to me - not to the other three people in the group. Needless to say, this is annoying to them.

If anyone has any suggestions as to how they handled this, I'd greatly appreciate them. My googling around has shown that this apparently also happens in Borderlands 2, and I'd really love to get it resolved before we try playing that.

If I had to guess, it's probably due to having the game installed on a different drive. I know that up until recently having a game installed to a different drive than Steam was installed to could cause problems, but they're in the process of fixing it. I don't know if Borderlands is one of those that have already been fixed.

Stengah wrote:
momgamer wrote:

I've been playing for a bit, and I've run into a problem. It's probably discussed somewhere above here, and if so, a link would be greatly appreciated.

For some reason, the game randomly decides not to save for me. It's happened three or four times now. It's not constant - sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. I'm losing about half of every multiplayer session. Last night I had a session of about two hours which saved. But when I came back from my errand, loaded it up from scratch and played again with the gang, that second bit didn't.

This had happened before, so last night I was alreadying trying the -nohomedir launch option after some research. It seemed dumb, but who knows. I do have the game files installed on another drive, but everything else is default. But that didn't have any effect.

That part that's annoying is it was showing the save icon up to a certain point during that second session - that's why I thought all was well. It should have at least saved that much. But the time on the save file itself shows it wasn't actually writing at all.

Once it's in that state, there's not a thing I can find to force it to save, or any idea as to what the actual issue is. I thought it was due to file permissions or attributes, but that turned out to be a red herring.

And just now it happened to me in the singleplayer game for the very first time as well. I had logged in to check some edits to my keybindings on my gamepad before I head off to redo those quests by myself so I can catch up with the gang, and when I determined they weren't right and hit exit, it told me it couldn't save and asked me again if I wanted to quit. Same error. Bother!

It's only happening to me - not to the other three people in the group. Needless to say, this is annoying to them.

If anyone has any suggestions as to how they handled this, I'd greatly appreciate them. My googling around has shown that this apparently also happens in Borderlands 2, and I'd really love to get it resolved before we try playing that.

If I had to guess, it's probably due to having the game installed on a different drive. I know that up until recently having a game installed to a different drive than Steam was installed to could cause problems, but they're in the process of fixing it. I don't know if Borderlands is one of those that have already been fixed.

This problem has been extensively documented since the game launched. And it happens on all venues of the PC version - the full retail disks, not just downloads. It's not a symptom of what you're talking about. Though I've run into that one a couple times on other games, too. For some reason Cogs had a fit about it.

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!

So, before I switch to the PS4 and Destiny in September, I thought I'd pick up a few PS3 games that I'd missed first time round.

First up Borderlands (to be followed by 'Spec Ops: The Line', 'Borderlands 2' and 'The Last of Us') and I'm pleasantly suprised at how good the game looks and how much fun it is to play 5 years after it's release.

I like the fact that my shooting is rubbish at the moment as I haven't levelled up my ability to use certain weapons. It's making every shootout a life and death affair... without necessarily feeling like one.

Question - Will I be monstering most enemies as a progress or will they level with me and keep the challenge as finely balanced as it currently is?

And - although I've been caught out by it several times - I like the fact that I have to pay as much attention to the enemy indicators in the HUD as to the enemies on the screen.

And I'm really liking the preposterous amounts of loot that I 'earn' from even the simplest encounter (picking of skags).

The only thing that does worry me is that I'll quickly tire of fetch quests; there are an awful lot of them in the early game for understandable reasons.

Question - What's the mission variety like?

I've defeated the first boss, Nine Toes, but I suspect I'm still going through the Tutorial as I haven't used a vehicle yet. I'm playing as Siren and I'd welcome any tips from those who can remember this far back.

Honestly, while Borderlands 2 has erased much of my 1 memories...I don't ever remember not having fun killing things and getting loot. I thought there's no way Borderlands 2 could top my 114 hours into 1 (i have...489 hours into 2...but there's SO much DLC and so many more Goodjers to play with since I myself came to 1 after many Goodjers had stopped playing.) By the time I got Borderlands, it pretty much came with its DLC...and that was all quite fun as well, as I recall.

I have no idea how you shoot well using a controller. I'm sure many, many people know. I am not one...good luck with the aiming.

You have so much fun to look forward to. I think I played at least 3 different character types up to high levels in 1, and replaying was still quite fun (well, maybe one DLC wasn't that great to replay...but that's escaping me now as well.)

I thoroughly enjoyed Borderlands. I still recall my time with it fondly, both on PS3 and later on PC. It was so good I played it twice, well, more like once and two-thirds. I never quite took to Borderlands 2 and I cannot pinpoint the reason. Perhaps it was too much of the same. Perhaps it was not taking to my choice of character at all in the sequel. I was so bummed that I couldn't get into a grove with Borderlands 2 as the original was one of my favorite games of that era. I envy you getting to experience it fresh for the first time.

Just re-played through Borderlands with my daughter, and was playing Borderlands 2 with friends last night. I've dabbled a bit in the Xbox version when it first came out, but I've been playing PC.

Monsters and bosses scale to you, so yes, they keep pace. In the beginning the missions are limited because of the limited area around Fyrestone. As you play the game, you get more and more room to move, and you're pretty much free to go back and forth and deal with things how you want to. I can't think of a mission that makes it so you can't get back to somewhere in Borderlands (there is one in Borderlands2, but it's only for a while).

Mission variety is pretty nice. Some of the DLC has a theme that can shape the type of missions, so those can seem all of a piece. But by the time you get there the whole game is all open and if you get bored you can just go somewhere else and do something else. And there are nooks and crannies everywhere.

I love B2, even if I'm not following the story, running through the Fridge with my fiery sniper rifle always makes me smile. A quick 15-30 minutes brightens me up any time.

Back to it on the PC, mix with the second one as well. Was going thru the second and telling all the lore to a friend who never played the first game...

They remove GameSpy, and added steamwork for the online stuff. Rather fast stuff.

We are level 14 ATM, If anyone want to join the fun.