Ohboy Ohboy Ohboy..... a few more minutes and.... BOOM! Headshot!!! :-() :-() >:D
Congratulations Jim on the Job!!! That's great! :-X :) Don't worry leaving us with the thugs in Pandora, we'll keep them busy while you're absent :-D
I was surprised that my retail version was activated through Steam again, making it a "Steam-account-related-exclusive" game. Not that I worry about that since for me everything is working out fine through Steam, I just hope it won't be a downer for others :-\\
This game has its first plus already: The retail pack design is simple, recognizable and promising 8)
Can't wait to read your impressions! :-X
Just a heads up.
When you buy the first release of the game, you get a code called Premiere Club, it contains a number of things, the guns are pretty good apparently, but there is a KEY.
It opens a very distinctive treasure chest. From what I can gather, the stuff in the chest will level up with your character as long as you dont open it, once you open it, the items stay at that level.
So, if you want some decent stuff later on, its probably best to wait.
I dont know this for certain, but I have read of people upset that they opened it too early (low level), so it's something worth looking into, if its of concern to you.
cheers Fiach, I'll keep that in mind :-X :)
Thanx for the tip Fiach. I'll be patient :-()
Had my first bit of headshot-fun in this bay sir Hammerlot sends you to do stuff.
I chose the sword-guy called Zero, he seems most the same as the Mordecai in BD1. He's a nice character. Fast, good with sniping, guns and melee.
Most creatures seem faster this time, so no time to lock and aim much, just straight action. I like that ;D
Story is simple: There happened to be another vault, with new treasures. And of course we are sent in to take the stuff before the bad guys (Handsome Jack?? And his robotic army??) take over :-X :)
I completely forgot the time looking for nice weapons. I was very satisfied with my first sniper rifle that Sir Hammerlot gave me. It's accurate and gives nice 'criticals' all the time ;)
Nice :) Can't wait to get my grubby greedy mitts on that title >:D
Any chance of getting a few screenshots, mate?
I only played one quest for Sir H, clear the pond and the place with the electrical barricade. I got a nice Fire element revolver from the yeti type creatures, which made short w@&k of anything I encountered after that.
To me the monsters seem more "in your face", aggressive than before and the gfx seem more..."realistic" or "solid" looking while still cartoonish.
Binn, did you get the premiere club guns, (not the chest ones) and whats the other stuff like Vault Hunter's Relic, Gearbox Gunpack, and new Mechromancer class?
Euhhh... :-[... did not check that out yet Fiach.
I have to additional pieces of paper with my retail package that contain a code behind a scratch-bar. I guess I'll have to unlock them through steam, but yesterday I was too excited to take time and do that stuff. And in fact, today it's kind of the same. I HAVE TO produce some CRITICALS before doing anything else :-D
I totally agree on the 'in your face' monsters and your notes on the gfx quality. I'm nicely surprised with the visual quality :-X 8)
Cheers Binn - all is going well and at least I can keep abreast of what you all discover in the meantime.
Talking of which, has anyone got the Hyperion Energizing Bane yet?
What the f@#k, Borderlands? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oUKjv9Afck#ws)
Reminds me of the Timesplitters unlockable cheat option to give kiddies' warplay sounds for all weapons (peow, peow.) Borderlands 2 has taken that a fine step forward though. So watch out for it online, you are warned ;)
omfg :laugh:
"Reload!" :laugh:
Sounds like a war party of Apaches on the attack :laugh:
Oh man, What a great game!!
I've come to sanctuary and there I assigned to a few side missions and followed the main story. One side mission in particular was amazing, the one where you have to kill the "Assassins" to relief Sanctuary of their threat. You get the mission through the job-board inside Sanctuary. Roland tells you to go to their hideout, what looks like an old factory. In there, you'll meet 4 or five assassins; one at a time. They all have special abilities, like for example they are very good at close range fighting with shotguns. An extra side-achievement then is to kill the guy with a shotgun. Another guy is very good at melee attacks; and yes, you are asked to do the job using melee as well ;D
You get some nice weapons from the fallen assassins and if I remember it right you'll also find some Eridium inside the factory. Eridium is good for the, sort of, upgrade shop. Remember the wasted guy in the scrapjard with the bad temper? I'm not sure what's his name again but he made it up to a fine upgrade shop in Sanctuary where you can buy the stuff you usually would get when repairing / saving a hurt Claptrap.
You can also obtain magazine upgrades, so that you an carry more firepower >:D
New to this game is 'the bank'. A place where you can store guns, shields or other useful stuff you usually carry round in your backpack. Here you can store up to 8, maybe more items in a safe in Roland's house. And there's also a claptrap that offers you another 'bank' that has inter-character-playthrough functionality. You can store stuff there being Nero, and on another playthrough where you deside to be the Gunserker you can get what Nero stored away for you ^-^ :-X
Nice out of the box thinking, all in favour of many hours of pure joy :-X :)
What's also new is that, being in a vehicle, you can grab the loot that falls of fallen enemies and out of these dusty waste piles of various animals you fight. That is a great advantage. Weapons and shields, however, still require you to come ouyt of your ride, since they occupy space in your inventory; maybe you didn't want to pick them up ;)
Besides cool new features this game is so good because of what's the same as in BD1. I am so happy that there's still the same type of story: Vault > hunters > bad guys > fights. That's it. No bullshit, just straight fun. And that's the same when we speak of gameplay, hud options, upgrade systems etc. etc. It gives you that nice feeling of coming back home in Pandora the way you left it; it feels natural from the first moment on. Of course there have been some minor changes, like a new way of upgrading your new character and weapons have different functionalities, there's also a new way of frustrating your enemies besides corrosive, electric and flammable effects; now there's Slag. It sticks to your enemy and works like mud; they're temporarily busy with getting the dirt off their faces. It has a bit of the same effect as waht some spiderants use to spit at you. By the way, the spiderants have evolved into some nasty enemies. Man I had a good fight with them!!! I was glad that I could lead them into a "raging mutant" or two from a nearby stronghold, so that they were busy with each other. Otherwise it would have been a certain death form me :o
I'm totally into the game allready and hope to read about other's adventures. Oh, and as soon as you fire up the PC version, we should try to meet in a coop game ;) I guess sharing the fun makes the game even better :-X ^-^
So...the games a bit crap then?..... :laugh:
Y'know I read on some forums where people say stuff like " Borderlands...yeah I tried that, it was boring, you just run around killing stuff..." It always gives me a wtf? moment :)
Glad you're having a blast mate :)
good one, Fiach, that "a bit crap" bit made me chuckle :-X :-()
Nice first impressions, Binnatics. You describe what I want to see: keeping beloved principles and sticking to basics known from BL1 and only add to that in a fitting way. And they seem to have taken care of little nuisances. By the way, "the Bank" was introduced with one of the DLCs for BL1 and it is good to know that they made it part of the vanilla game now. :) Man, I will have to wait a few more days until I get my version. And I am really excited already :)
I'm still excited about getting my copy of the game. Soon. Any time now. Could be tomorrow.. could be next week.. who knows.. :'( The guy who's supposed to have my copy has fallen ill and not yet recovered.
Your mate is playing it and just pretending to be ill, crikey Art, you are so gullible, ask him to get you a copy of the My Little Pony game and I bet you get it the next day :D
>:D :angel: :laugh:
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I talked to him today. I was about to tell him that I'd beat him up so hard that his offspring would be born with two black eyes if he didn't get well soon but it wasn't necessary, he'll be back this Thursday. :)
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I talked to him today. I was about to tell him that I'd beat him up so hard that his offspring would be born with two black eyes if he didn't get well soon but it wasn't necessary, he'll be back this Thursday. :)
Better hope there is no DLC released on thursday...just sayin' >:D
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:laugh: :-X
Oh dear....poor Art..... :'(
http://www.destructoid.com/review-borderlands-2-captain-scarlett-dlc-236782.phtml (http://www.destructoid.com/review-borderlands-2-captain-scarlett-dlc-236782.phtml)
>:D :laugh:
not only a DLC released yesterday, they even named a Character after me:
Quotethe eponymous booty belongs to one Captain Blade
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:laugh: :-X
So, I went to d/l the pirate pack and there was also another d/l (free) available.
It was the Mechromancer "character".
now, I already had downloaded the Mechromancer "pack" which I got for free with my preorder, Anyone know the difference between these packs?
I havent played the game, so I dont know if the mech character was already available to play before this new 87mb character that I got this morning.
Any shedding of light would be appreciated. :)
The mechromancer was released first, about a week ago was when I downloaded it. Haven't played her yet but her skill tree looks very, erm . . . cerebral :o
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I got my copy today and I had to auto-patch to v1.1.2. Along with the retail version I got some pre-order boni. I got the golden key, some golden weapons, due to BL1 savegame some bonus skin I believe, some other DLC, the mechromancer girl was available, I remember I've got the prime club or so DLC.. no idea what they do, actually. No real descriptions available.
However, the game installed some other crap like NET framework distributable and visual basic 2004 or some such nonsense which required reboots. After that a few crashes, windows firewall inceptions and exceptions to make and finally.. it worked.
By the way, the retail disc I got basically is just a cover. It started steam and made me download roughly 6 gigs. Why was it retail again, with jewel case and disc?
The game itself runs smoothly and is visually stunning even on an old rig such as mine and you feel immediately at home if you played BL1. You do get what you want and expected, NICE :) :-X Oh, and for the first time.. I saw the gore :-D
Of course I met Binnatics just while I learned to walk around in the game and we teamed up for some real co-op game. You do play the SP mission with a friend, up to 4 players in the same game, which is nice. In my case I was lvl 1 and he was lvl35. Kind of fun.. ^-^
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Quote from: Art Blade on October 18, 2012, 04:44:32 PM
By the way, the retail disc I got basically is just a cover. It started steam and made me download roughly 6 gigs. Why was it retail again, with jewel case and disc?
That's absolutely ridiculous; what if someone had a connection like fragger (sorry fragger, no disrespect intended)!
Even though my Internet connection is quite fast now, I'd still balk at 6 gb. I hope they advertised that fact on the "jewel" case. Perhaps it should be renamed to a "coal" case
Steam, spit, yada yada yada. :)
hehe, Fiach ;D
Well, if it actually was/is on the jewel case they used a fine print of perhaps 0.5 font size and black letters on black background. On the other hand, the whole installation including DLCs and NET and VB plus the first crashes (firewall caused it) only took 30 minutes.
My connection usually allows downloads with 1.6 mb/sec max, but with steam I had an average of 1.7 with a top of 2.0 mb/s. Not bad, not much of a bother. :)
I had to read through quite a bit and to get back to the question weather the mecromancer was available with the pre-order pack already, I'd say yes. I started to find case mods for the girl (is it a girl??) in my SP progress after the first patch arrived. Yes, a patch, because there were some issues. One I've been experiencing myself pretty much in fact. There's a mission you get in Sanctuary, given by the lady Tannis, that won't swap to "turn in" when you complete it. So. basically, it remains in your status as an uncompleted mission while all there's left to do is turning it in. After that patch I could finally turn it in as promised and could go on with a few more side missions.
Due to the fact that Steam just updates what it wants and downloads the latter, I have no idea when all got available and what was first or second. I just paid attention to the game itself, and let steam do what it is good at: Downloading and installing gigabytes whenever it thinks it's necessary. I'm blessed with a damn fast connection (60Mb/sec) but I feel sorry for the guys who don't. The installation went smooth and without hiccups of any kind.
Seeing Art's first impressions reminds me of the fact that I had promised to post some screenies. I'll do that in a bit, since I do have a small collection already. What I don't like about steam is the way they store screenies on your PC. It's so damn hard to find them that it is sometimes hard to enthusiasm myself to start sharing them :-[
As promised, a first slideshow:
I love the game. I love Claptrap. I love his wife ^-^
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I love the game: Loot, money, how charming the view (if only it were more bucks in that chest) ::)
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The game starts in the cold. Here's a nice, icy view.
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More treasure chests, oh boy, oh boy ::)
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These gambling machines are nice.....
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Because of this!!! Eridium gives you good ammo upgrades and backpack space, which makes it worth a bet ;)
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Sit back and enjoy the show ^-^
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Nice change of environment:
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Cartoonish, yes. Repetitive patterns in the water, yes. But it still is a nice view!!!!!!
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Oh, why was I here? for promotional purposes of course :-D :-D :-()
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Binnatics: take a look (http://www.openworldgames.org/owg/forums/index.php?topic=1537.msg54931#msg54931) ^-^
Today we had some more fun together and later another friend joined us.
The golden key.. I didn't realise I was going to use it (at lvl11) and when I did it was too late. I only got two grenade mods, one of which mysteriously disappeared. Binnatics decided to use his, too, and with lvl35 he got one very impressive rocket launcher.
Else, it is always possible to join a friend's game or to invite friends and it doesn't matter which level they are or how far they are in the story. I joined Binnatics in his current game and my shots dealt 1, yes ONE, damage while he dealt like 500+ damage :laugh: However, I gathered quite a lot of XP and other gear, so it was beneficial for my then lvl7 character. I levelled up 5 times due to the co-op game.
Binnatics then decided to create a 2nd character and used the Mechromancer girl :)
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Whats the Mech like to play?
So far, Fiach, I didn't get the difference with Zero. But when I check the Skill Tree I see differences. She seems to be pretty good with elemental influences and I bought a nice upgrade that makes me regenerate health once my gun magazine is full :)
Quote from: Binnatics on October 20, 2012, 07:43:05 AM
So far, Fiach, I didn't get the difference with Zero. But when I check the Skill Tree I see differences. She seems to be pretty good with elemental influences and I bought a nice upgrade that makes me regenerate health once my gun magazine is full :)
Thats cool, I like elemental stuff with the siren, cheers :)
When I come to think of it, I admit that the elemental stuff is what I use most (i.e. the most powerful weapons all have elemental damage). Sniping is cool but in the end I need elemental damage. I have a few cool shields that react to melee attacks: if someone touches me, the shields shoot spikes into the attacker. I have three shields with either corrosive, explosive or burning spikes. It is extremely useful in CQC (close quarters combat) when reloading while under attack or when being attacked by multiple enemies, especially when attacked from behind. The weapons (including those spikes) that deal "long lasting" elemental effects such as fire or acid are what I like best: The enemies keep taking damage for a while which often means they run for cover and out of sight after they got hit but hey, they croak around the corner anyway while I'm sitting in a safe spot :-()
I might try her, too (after my current Zero career) :)
Quote from: PZ on October 18, 2012, 11:13:58 PM
That's absolutely ridiculous; what if someone had a connection like fragger (sorry fragger, no disrespect intended)!
None taken :-D
Geez, I nearly had a fit when I read about that 6 gig Steam DL. What's the point of buying a flipping disk? :-\\
I nearly picked up BL2 the other day when I was in the shop (even though I've never played BL). Maybe I'm glad I didn't - that DL would have taken me about twelve hours to get down...
Nice screenies, Binn and AB :-X Every time I see a BL cap I think of
Heavy Metal comics :-() I'm sure they must have been an inspiration for the look of the graphics in these games.
Glad to see there are so many Assassins in the mix :-X
I'm now at level 26 and about to enter the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve for the first time, and feeling pretty confident about how things are going. I've got a pretty good loadout, and the skill tree is developing nicely as well :-X Overall, I think Gearbox hit this one out of the park! The game is improved in nearly every way, and I'm astonished by the amount of content there is to sift through - so many missions, challenges, guns, and a full DLC out already (they finished the game so ahead of schedule that they started working on the first DLC before the game itself had even released), I'm gonna be playing this thing for years!!! The snarky, juvenile humor, wacky characters, fart noises, etc. have all successfully made the jump and overall Pandora feels much more alive, diverse, and fleshed-out this time around. And while the LOL moments are even more abundant, the combat is still solid and very satisfying.
I'm finding that drive I had from the first game to keep grinding, level up one more time and open one more chest is back. One of the things I'm chasing the hardest are the alternate heads and skins, which I'm having a lot of fun with :-X And PS - Zero is one of the coolest guys ever, in case anyone was wondering. I've built him into a meat-eating super-killer with a stabby mean streak that just won't quit, and there's nothing more fun then hacking down a buffed goliath with a swift and accurate sword-strike in the back >:D I've also started a second character, using Zero to power-level a Salvador build to lvl 13 in one sitting, while my daughter (yes, my 5 year old, who is become frighteningly adept at FPS's) is working up a Maya build with some co-op help from her dear old dad ;)
kind of a very "early adopter," your kiddo :) The game is rated PG18 here.. 8-X
Yeah, she doesn't care . . . ^-^
Cracks me up watching her run around phase-locking stuff, she loves her some Maya :laugh:
heh, phase-locking kiddo :-() Well, as long as you're always around when she plays that game I think it's OK. :)
4 years later; still playing on PC, 360 and xbone. Oh, and I still hate rabid stalkers :D
see you in four. :-()
Quote from: Art Blade on August 17, 2016, 01:48:56 PM
see you in four. :-()
:-X Hopefully playing Borderlands 3 ;)
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:-X ^-^
Well done, KingRat :-X :) It's nice to get your money's worth out of a game, isn't it? 8)
BL2 is one of the best games I've played since I joined OWG. I somehow got distracted from it, by other games if I remember correctly, but I have CRITICAL memories on the gameplay which are hard to forget :-D
I'm hoping for a BL4 or whatever that will drag my attention again ;)
GTA V probably distracted you the most ;) :-()
I'd second that :-D
Well, GTA V distracted me from all the distractions, to be honest :-D
I think what stopped me playing BL2 was DayZ, Oh, hey wait: I found out something funny! :)
You can arrange your games by purchase date in Steam! Now I know what distracted me from BL2 before GTA V distracted me from ANY other distractions: :-D :-D
It was Sniper Elite V2 and shortly after that, Batman Arkham Origins.
From those, I got distracted by DayZ, Arma III and Max Payne 3, and even LA Noire for a short while.
And FarCry 3 was somewhere in between there a couple of times, actually, lol 8)
Hmm, now I find out the list isn't totally accurate; it's based on your last download. So If I now decided to re-download BL2 (it's currently not installed since my last system rebuild) it would be on top of the list.
However, on april 2015 all distractions got banned to the past when GTA V came out... so I think you could say you're right, Fragger ;)
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It is funny to look back at one's gaming history :-D
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Yes, it is :) Although there's a couple I would rather forget about.
I forgot which ones I wanted to forget.
I forgot what we were talking about.
I think I might even forget to
What are you guys talking about?
Oh, man sometimes I get so Raged when I can't follow what's going on... 8-X
forget it :-()