BORDERLANDS - like Fallout 3 but with cars and MAXIMUM PWNAGE OMGWTFLOLNEWB FPS combat

I've got a Hunter too, but he isn't seeing much action. My Siren is currently a Tempest after finding a great epic class mod with a huge shock damage boost and an epic Maliwan electric shotgun within minutes of each other.

Zombie Island of Dr. Ned: SUCH FUN. "Oh, come on, don't act like you've never had to wait on a hand-cranked elevator during a zombie outbreak before."

just started playing this today, seems good. the way it looks reminds me of that XIII game from a few years back, which i loved. the gameplay is kinda like STALKER but not as plot heavy (or awesome) and sorta like Fallout3 but way better - you can RUN for a start! and it doesn't have that awful VATS crap, i like how it needs the player to have actual skillz.

is there anything i should be aware of before i get too far into it? im at level 4 but haven't a clue how to level up. i also chose hunter as im a sucker for a sniper rifle, was this a wise choice?

anyone else playing this using mouse and keys? i find it much more accurate - my 360 controller was all over the place, i find it works better to play it like FEAR

can't work out the save function on this. is there anyway of redoing a section without having to pay out $400?

Not sure what you mean- it's like Diablo (and most console games) in that you don't control when your game is saved. It happens whenever you approach certain areas (outposts, those glowy pole things, some vendors and NPCs I think)- your character data, quest status, inventory/cash and so on is saved, and the next time you load the game you respawn at the last New-U station you got close enough to activate.

You can redo pretty much anything except for quest-specific stuff and some of the bosses, though most minor bosses will respawn.

but when i die in a battle it respawns me to the most recent checkpoint and then charges me $412 for the privilege! all the enemies i've been fighting maintain the level of damage so it's generally easier to go back and kill them, but i think i'd rather do it all from scratch and not have to spend that $412

(was a bit meh about this game to start with but i'm slowly starting to love it)

I'm now rocking this game on ps3 if anyone wants to 2p

I just got it yesterday and I chose the big guy, Brick. It looks like I'm going to have a tank/rocket launcher build.
I'm pretty satisfied with my choice of character. Am I the first guy to choose that guy among the ilxors posting here?

Who did you pick antexit?

I'm Mordechai. Enjoying it but really feeling the lack of the heavier weapons. I was cruising around kinda loving this game until I guess I went on a mission that I haven't levelled up enough for and now I'm stuck at a savepoint getting completely smoked and out of money and ammo, trying to tank guys who are five levels above me with my skinny sniper build. Not good.

Mordecai. I'm Mordechai. :P

Great! Now my savegame is corrupted. Well that solves that fucking problem.

oh my god brains quest you can eat a million dicks

Anyone playing or planning to play the Zombie Island expansion: go to the southwest corner of Hallow's End, find the shack with the big Fyrestone sign on it, pick up the Brains quest IMMEDIATELY. All those zombie brains you've been picking up? Yeah, they don't count. They've been vanishing into a tiny black hole in your pocket as soon as you pick them up. And the game won't point you towards the quest, oh no, it's a "secret." Never mind that it's been tossing quest items at you for hours, IT IS A SECRET GOD DAMMIT.

Other than that, though, pretty fun. Some great lines for Dr. Ned, especially during the home stretch. Boss fights still kind of suck and consist entirely (at least for my current Siren/Mercenary build) of pouring a jillion SMG bullets into the big bad's face and hoping he goes down before I do.

how long is this game?

Depends on your level of anal retentive completionism, really- I haven't taken a look at my time played, but I've put quite a lot of time into it to complete all the quests from the main game and Zombie Island except for the Brains grindfest and what I think is the final mission of the regular game (the one that starts with "go into the Vault and find the big obvious villain"; feels like it's the leadup to the end). And that's without getting into the Diablo-like multiple playthroughs, trying out multiplayer or the other characters, etc. Not sure if it's worth full price (or if any game is), but it's a nice solid chunk of entertainment.

Brick is great in multiplayer. There's nothing more satisfying than the noise of him hulking up before he punches people in the head.

I really enjoy this game. I have a lot of trouble settling on what weapons to carry, though. Who wants to MP with me on PS3 sometime? (he said pathetically)

loving this game more and more. im playing the hunter as i can't imagine playing without a sniper rifle. my guy has a bloodwing bird that flies off and hits people, what do the other characters have instead?

i was worried that this game would suffer from a bad case of the fallout3s in that it starts off pretty difficult and incredibly gripping but as soon as you progress a few levels it becomes a boring easy slog through the same old stuff. however ive just done the kromor caverns quests and that was fairly tough (though not quite as hard as the first few quests) so glad to see i'm not likely to get bored too soon.

are the DLCs worth playing at this point or shall i finish the main game? i'm playing through every last little mission (can't imagine anyone not doing) and im noticing that every new quest i find is one or two levels, sometimes more, below my own so i'm only ever getting 'trivial' or 'normal' quests, haven't seen a 'hard' or 'tough' one in ages. any other advice on how to get the best out of this game?

Island of Dr Ned. is amazing to play at any time. I'm pretty sure the level of the zombies are linked to yr character level or story progression so it should always roughly be at your level whenever you go in. You will level up multiple times while playing it though, i did it when i hit level 15 and the entirety of the first region was just a joke when i came out so it might be a good idea to wait until you do start getting non-trivial quests again (there's always been a pretty large level spike for me when i move to a new region).

I don't have the other DLC but i've read abt it and it's arena based and apparently v. difficult to solo so probably skip that unless yr multiplayering.

My favourite specials are Brick's who screams and turns massive and punches people about the head really hard and the soldier who sticks down a big turret that can be specced to heal yr party or just used as cover while you regen shields and peep out and snipe folks. I love bloodwing but i think his pathfinding can be pretty awful sometimes which annoys the hell out of me.

I'm finding this game really hard! Are people grinding up their levels to take on the missions that are classed slightly harder? Because I'm not-- level 16 now playing level 17-18 missions and I'm just finding them incredibly punishing.

I'm the soldier these days, though I regret it a bit because I use sniper rifles most, and SMG/assault rifles/shotguns I just use to dump ammo into bigger guys and then go run behind cover. The little shield thing I'm not finding incredibly useful since I'm playing solo and don't need the party-healing functions, and as a cover it doesn't work great because most of the smarter enemies just charge right through it and bop you on the snoot. Its turret function is OK.

im up to level 29 now and it's kinda levelling out in that it's not insanely hard like it was in the very beginning and that im getting a few fairly challenging missions at around the same level or one or 2 below. not sure how far into the game i am, or how many levels i can progress through. antexit, you should just choose to do the all the trivial/normal missions until you build up a good shield and a set of weapons you're happy with. maybe the soldier character is different though, his special skills don't sound very useful to me

thanks toastmodernist, i'll check out that ned island dlc when i've finished the main game. i had the same problem as you with fallout3 - i played the hillbilly hick island DLC fairly early on into my game and it was incredibly difficult to play through (but mad satisfying at the same time) and when i got back to the main game proper it was just a breeze, a boring much-too-easy breeze. think i'll avoid the arena DLC - i don't much like them in the main game. i don't much like the one-on-one boss battles either, where you're stuck facing a massive enemy, all i can do is run around panicking and jumping and firing off the odd shot.

I use Brick and I still like to Snipe. Except I use the sniping gun with explosive damage and boy it's fun watching guys explode

Playing the rest of the way through this, and holy fuck, what a great game!

Been playing this on PC, definitely liking the atmosphere and tone of the game. Had fun so far taking Brick to lvl 10 - the punching skill is really amusing. Tried a Soldier character for online, and while the game is admittedly more fun with more people (simply because you're constantly in the thick of action with more monsters per player, vs the single player experience we're you're often training monsters and running away a lot) playing with randoms kinda sucks because a)the mic support is kinda crap - no push to talk, no real options to set, so my mic doesn't work and b) people basically treat it as an MMO and everybody just rushes ahead and does missions without even pausing, not to mention the looting issues. Also, for an FPS on PC, the mouse/keyboard controls aren't great, but using a 360 pad emulator made the game feel more natural, even the weird click-in-left-thumbstick to run. Still, enjoying this overall. Anyone who wants to play, hit me up on Steam!

hey, this is great!

My game is all wacky after playing the zombie expansion. I am too high level to do anything, but I am still locked out of a bunch of stuff. Lame.

Really enjoying this still; put in a 14 hour play session yesterday. Somewhere in the sweet spot between bioshock and fallout.

yeah this is a pretty great game as long as you are really unconcerned with character/plot centricity. which is not a criticism really, its much more of the old school FPS vibe where yeah sure yer fighting demons from hell but its just an excuse to shoot the hell out of some stuff. also i fucking LOVE the way it looks. coulda left the car stuff completely out tho, its a pretty huge waste of time and drives like a brick.

yeah, i just hoof it from place to place rather than fucking with the car. Yet to play multiplayer though. Is it fun?

ha my only attempts to play multiplayer were such EPIC FAIL (hey mordy whats up) that i never bothered to try again. I think the problem is that it only really works well with similarly leveled players - if yer like 10 levels apart low level dude gets mercilessly pwned.

The enemy leveling on the single player however is really impressive - only gets brutal every so often, but never gets to be a cakewalke either. also if you go on a quest above yer paygrade u are in for a world of hurt, which is kinda how it should be.

It feels different though. Not only are there WAY more enemies around when you add more players, but the whole mechanic that you can be healed/revived by other players when your health goes to zero makes the action a lot faster and more exciting. Not that I don't already really like the single player, but everything feels like an even crazier meatgrinder online, like there isn't even time to stand around and look at your new gun stats because GO GO GOOOOOO which kinda sucks

the level separation thing is a bit of a problem though. I played a game a little while ago with two others, all three of us were the same level since we started a fresh game from level 0. Then a guy joins who is a single level above us, and the game got so much harder - hate to imagine how bad it is on later levels

I bought this for $25 a few days ago (pretty much solely on the basis of this thread, I didn't read any reviews) and DAAAAAMN thanking u for this recommendation. Soooo addictive. I'm playing as Mordecai and digging the sniping and hawkin' people to death.

my multiplayer concerns are actually a lot less now, especially since i beat the game in single player, now i'm one of the jerks trying to grind out the missions as fast as possible online. also i realized the enemy levels and quests are completely determined by the host, regardless of the other player levels, so it's not as big an issue as i thought.

really burned out on this, maybe it's time to play online.

Any idea why Level 61 players, who have theoretically gone through the expansions and leveled to the cap, keep joining Playthrough 1 games? Do they get anything out of it besides sleepwalking through the game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-40GeUd3hGY

http://themacgamer.com/2010/11/18/borderlands-game-of-the-year-edition-to-mac-on-december-3/

Huh. It's cool that it's getting a port, but considering the iffy mic/pad support it had out of the box, and the probable lack of 360 pad support (not to mention it'll likely be really cheap on Steam sometime this season) I'll stick to the Windows version.

Really would be great if my existing Steam version gets upgraded to a Win/Mac version, but I'm probably out of luck.

Yeah, unfortunately that usually happens when the same publisher/developer is doing the Mac version that did the Windows version, usually indies. The one exception I can think of is Civ 4 (Take Two/Aspyr). Don't think Feral Interactive has put any Mac titles up on Steam.

Trying this out now.

Okay, I got the online component to work. Anybody wanna play a game?

what are you playing on?

Steam/gamespy?

nice, hit me up on steam sometime
http://steamcommunity.com/id/nhex/

ok, on there

friended, though i can't play tonight

uh.... ?

gg kingfish - let's play again next weekend

Not sure when we were cut off before, but to finish my thought - I think the other characters are definitely worth playing as (well, maybe not Soldier, he's pretty boring), I'm not sure about doing extra runthroughs with them unless you really want to get the better gear. But after beating the game in SP, it's only really worth it to still play the game in MP, it's a lot more exciting with the multiplied spawn rates, reviving, better drops, etc. The single player content is nice but pretty much exhausts itself after one playthrough.

u guys are playing on steam, right? i'm always up for a game over the 360. i never beat it (and don't remember what level i was at) but i'd be willing to start from the beginning with someone. and i recently got a sweet microphone for the 360 so we could chill!

NG+ in general is so much better than the first go thru, mostly because it's insanely hard. i didn't finish it again in SP or MP but got a good chunk of the way thru on both and it was a ton of fun.