Official Website
[url]http://www.borderlands2.com/[/url]
What's it for?
Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
So what's in it?
Borderlands 2 has:
- New Characters
- New Skills
- Many new environments
- Weapons, all those delicious weapons.
- A 'deliciously crafted' story.
- Players will reveal secrets, and escalate mysteries of the Borderlands universe as they adventure across the unexplored new areas of Pandora.
- The original cast are now NPCs
- Claptrap is back!
- Currency is now 'Eridium'
- Weapons are being overhauled.
- NPCs are planned to interact with eachother and generally be more alive.
[B]The Story[/B]
Set five years after the events of Borderlands, Handsome Jack, the game's main antagonist, has taken over the Hyperion Corporation, declared himself Dictator of Pandora and taken all of the credit for finding the Vault, going so far to claim responsibility for killing the Destroyer. Jack has also blotted out much of the light on the planet by having a giant orbiting H-shaped base set in front of Pandora's stationary moon. The new team in Borderlands 2 is tasked with killing Jack and returning peace to Pandora.
Borderlands 2 begins with the protagonists on a train to an unspecified location to begin their search for the vault, only for it to turn out as a trap by Handsome Jack to kill all who search for the Vault. The Vault hunters defend themselves only for the train to crash, with them waking up in an arctic wasteland along with Claptrap. The mysterious Guardian Angel then contacts them and explains that Handsome Jack must be killed, directing players to rescue the four original Vault hunters from Hyperion's clutches to accomplish this.
The protagonists are Maya the siren, Axton the Commando, Salvador the Gunzerker and Zer0 The Assassin.
[B]Locations[/B]
Arid Nexus - Blight region.
Caustic Caverns - An area with thick, sometimes hostile, flora and natural bridges spanning corrosive pools of acid.
Eridium Blight - Blight region.
Frostburn Canyon - Arctic region.
The Highlands - Highlands.
Lynchwood
Opportunity - Urban region.
Sanctuary
Sawtooth Cauldron - Blight region.
Thousand Cuts - Highlands.
Three Horns - Arctic region.
Tundra Express - Arctic region.
Wildlife Exploitation Preserve - A nuclear-ravaged area populated with aggressive fauna and Hyperion robots.
Creature Slaughter Dome - GameStop pre-order bonus. An Underdome-style arena that pits players against the toughest monsters in Pandora. Includes Moxxi’s Rocket Launcher as an added bonus. Experience and gear gained in this arena will transfer over to the main game.
[B]Weapon Companies[/B]
New
Bandit brand weapons - Bandits themselves have started making their own weapons. Their weapons sport the largest magazines in the game.
Returning
Jakobs weapons will fire as fast as the trigger is pulled.
Tediore weapons have a different feel for Borderlands 2, having been described as "Cheap, plastic pieces of crap" and "Wal-Mart guns" by Randy Pitchford himself during a demo presentation. Instead of being reloaded, Tediore weapons are thrown away and explode like grenades; the more ammo left in the clip, the bigger the explosion. A fully-loaded gun regenerates in the user's hand after the expended weapon is discarded. Due to their explosive capabilities, there is a chance they will explode in the user's hand before throwing it away.
Vladof continues with their tradition of weapons with extremely high rates-of-fire. . Vladof weapons have variable numbers of minigun-like barrels and feature fire rates that increase as the trigger is held down. The more barrels the weapon has, the faster it will fire.
Torgue weapons will feature Gyrojet ammunition which, similarly to BL1's Carnage, trade area-of-effect damage for low projectile velocity and reduced magazine capacity.
Dahl's guns will focus on stability, precision and burst fire, and feature camouflage coloring. All Dahl guns feature a full auto fire rate without scoping in, while scoped in the gun shoots in bursts.
Hyperion weapons will retain their customary high accuracy, with a "sci-fi" styling , featuring glowing elemental effects and bold stripes. Unlike other weapons, the accuracy of Hyperion weapons will increase the longer the trigger is depressed.
Maliwan weapons will retain their focus on elemental damage.
Not Returning
S&S Munitions is not returning, their company having been replaced by the new Bandit manufacturer.
Atlas will not return in Borderlands 2. The company was put out of business when the original Vault Hunters defeated General Knoxx and the Crimson Lance invasion force during The Secret Armory of General Knoxx storyline.
[B]Misc[/B]
Character customization - New gear, skins, and "heads" will be made available as drops from bosses and certain enemies and as mission, challenge, and levelling rewards, and will feature varying grades of rarity.
E-Tech - A holdover from the original Borderlands' Eridian weapons E-Tech is a barrel modification technique that works with all brands of weapons. [9]
Badass Points - Used for tracking overall ranking. The harder the challenge is, the more Badass Points are racked up.
Optional objectives - There are now objectives that the player can complete that are not required (like keeping an ally above 50% health). Rewards are being tabulated.
Elemental nerfing - Whereas in Borderlands an elemental-based enemy (e.g. a fire skag) could be killed with sheer bullet damage from a similarly based elemental weapon (e.g. a Hellfire SMG), in Borderlands 2 enemies will take significantly less damage from weapons utilizing elements they have a resistance to.
Multiple Choice Quests - Some quests will feature a choice in how they will be completed. For example, after retrieving questionable photos of Moxxi for Marcus, Moxxi makes a counter-offer to deliver the photos to her. These choices are largely for entertainment but Gearbox has hinted that decisions made during some of the quests can significantly affect the storyline. The player will also have choices in mission rewards.
Trading Interface - A trading system will allow players to formally trade or sell items. Players can also wager items to be dueled for.
Traps - Some normally loot-dropping items (chests, plant pods, etc.) will contain traps (monsters jumping out, corrosive goo spraying, etc.).
Adaptive Shields - Some shields will grant the elemental resistance of whatever damage type they were last struck by.
One Point Wonders - "Game changer" skills that can change available options and gameplay style but only require a small investment to unlock at a basic level.
Eridium - A new element that can be used to augment other elemental powers. [10] It is also a currency that can be used to buy the most powerful weapons and upgrade backpack space capacity and weapon ammo capacity. Enemies can use their own Eridium, this can be shot out of their hands before use.
[B]NPC's[/B]
Brick
Claptrap
Dr. Zed
Ellie
Lilith
Mad Moxxi
Marcus Kincaid
Mordecai
Patricia Tannis
Roland
Scooter
Sir Hammerlock
Tiny Tina
Crazy Earl
[B]Vehicles[/B]
Bandit Technical
Buzzard
Party Truck
Runner
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Let me know if there is anything I should add to the OP, I haven't had much time myself to play it as I'm busy but I'm fine with a few minor spoilers.
Also here is the Wiki for those who want to know even more
[url]http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Borderlands_Wiki[/url]
[B]Easiest way to power level IMHO[/B]
[sp] Beat the game on both play throughs but only do it with 1 character, on the 2nd playthrough do NOT do the tiny tina mission where you lure fleshstick to her cave, just skip it completely.
Then go ahead and beat the game by killing the warrior, after you kill the warrior all quests you didnt finish now become level 50. go back and do the tiny tina mission but instead of luring fleshstick back, just kill him and then go talk to tina and keep doing this and you'll be level 50 in literally no time.
Note: If you have someone talk to her right after you kill him, you have to wait about 2 seconds before you talk to her each time after you kill him, otherwise it'll glitch out and you'll have to reload the game. [/sp]
It's here!
wow, thinest OP ever?
Wooo! And nearly a week after release, I still can't play this game :(
Yeah sadly I haven't had much time to play it so I basically just added the little details I had from the last thread.
Such a creative title!
And a deep OP!
If youve barely played it you should have left new thread to someone willing to put effort in
Fresh thread smell...
What happens if you join a game where someone is further in the storyline than you?
you should add something more about guns
I'm willing to put the effort in I just need to get some game time in. I'll be playing later today so I'll gather some more info and put it in the OP unless you have some for me.
Maybe that the game has guns
Now we've got to wait another hundred or so pages until we get a good title :(
or no wait the fact that it has even more guns!
[editline]27th September 2012[/editline]
SO MANY GUNS
[editline]27th September 2012[/editline]
WE SHOULD BUILD MARCUS A SHRINE, MAYBE HE'D GIVE US MORE GUNS!
[quote]Update v1.0.3
(Released 9/27/2012)
• Fixed an issue regarding the ‘Ignore’ feature in the mission log.[/quote]
Cool update.
Someone buy these fucking pistols
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I swear theres something wrong with my loot system i only find rare pistols
Anyone test out Salvador with a Vladof Infinity yet?
I know it works with Zer0 according to a youtube test I saw last night. His One Sh0t One Kill skill provides a flat 60% damage bonus to all shots fired with the Infinity when it's at 5/5. I want to dual wield these babies, though!
[QUOTE=Bora;37820429]Someone buy these fucking pistols I swear theres something wrong with my loot system i only find rare pistols[/QUOTE]I noticed that pistols seam have a far higher drop rate then most other guns, especially within the first hour of the game. Seriously it took me 2 hours before I found a non-pistol gun that didn't suck balls.
Hm. Saves can be transferred between users, right? If that's the case, it's entirely possible to get the special edition skins.
I really wish i could find a good elemental gun that wasnt eotech. I just dont like eotech guns that much
I wish most skins didn't look so ridiculous. 90% of the colour oriented ones suck. I only really like the default skins and the manufacturer ones.
Is it just me or weapons in Borderlands 2 look much more awesome than Borderlands 1?
On my second try playing the slots.
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Nice.
I wish there was a color picker skin.
Also, have traphawk.
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So I've just finished the game and my buddy and I wanted to do playthrough 2 but he kinda regrets his decision to go as zer0. My question is if it's possible to start playthrough 2 with a different character ? IIRC he wanted to play as Maya but doesn't want to play the entire game again just to get her to my level.
[QUOTE=allon;37821193]So I've just finished the game and my buddy and I wanted to do playthrough 2 but he kinda regrets his decision to go as zer0. My question is if it's possible to start playthrough 2 with a different character ? IIRC he wanted to play as Maya but doesn't want to play the entire game again just to get her to my level.[/QUOTE]
Both of you start a new game with a different character?
I recorded all the co-op gameplay I've had from playing this game so far. I've edited one part down, but I'm not sure if it's worth posting it here. Would anyone here want to watch it?
Anyway, this game is so damn fun. I can see many hours going to this game.
I'm not sure if I made my question clear. We both played together through the entire game and finished the game about half an hour ago and it told us that we both unlocked "True vault hunter mode" or something similair. We both want to play that but he doesn't want to continue as Zer0 but as Maya. Instead of him playing the entire game again, just to unlock it, can't he simply "switch" to Maya while still maintaining the same level + playthrough ?
Agh, used my golden key as Salvador, got 2 pistols.
When do I start finding Machine Guns dammit!
cant wait to get home and finish the game
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