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The Official Borderlands 2 Thread

MavericK96 said:
Also, just got to the area with the Varkids and started getting MAJOR slowdown, like lower than 30 FPS range for a lot of that area. Even when not a lot was going on, but especially when there was a lot happening. Oddly enough it did not lag at all really on my GF's machine (lower spec but lower res as well).
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That would be Physx in action.
 
MavericK96 said:
FINALLY just found a decent assault rifle at level 17...well, a few actually. One I found did like 68 explosive damage...shot really slow at first but "spins up" and starts raining explosive death. Then I got a quest reward blue Jakobs that does 215 damage w/ explosive and fires quickly.

Used one Golden Key and I got a couple of grenades...one was 700 something damage with Longbow which is pretty cool...the other one did Slag but the damage was total shit, like 90 or something awful like that.

Also, just got to the area with the Varkids and started getting MAJOR slowdown, like lower than 30 FPS range for a lot of that area. Even when not a lot was going on, but especially when there was a lot happening. Oddly enough it did not lag at all really on my GF's machine (lower spec but lower res as well).
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the slag one is more for the debuff. Slag causes enemies to take alot mroe damage from your guns. Awesome for bosses and such. I also have a slag pistol in my equipment just for that.
 
Deluded said:
That would be Physx in action.
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Except she is running PhysX on the GPU as well, and she has a 570 versus my 680.

Is there a huge difference between Medium and High PhysX, both in terms of quality and framerate?

Ragenrok said:
the slag one is more for the debuff. Slag causes enemies to take alot mroe damage from your guns. Awesome for bosses and such. I also have a slag pistol in my equipment just for that.
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Yeah, I kept it in my bank so I may give it a try...even the high damage grenades aren't that amazing in action it seems, so slag might be more useful overall.
 
The current Shift codes are sort of a stress-test thing so the system might break a few times.

I managed to use that code a bit earlier on both PCs here.
 
BottomsUp said:
question: how does XP work? sometimes I kill the same enemy but with a different gun and the XP is different.
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it changes depending on your level vs the enemies level and if you are in a vehicle it is significantly lower.
 
My only problem with weapon management is that the game doesn't just show me what the overall DPS of an weapon is. Due to the way how stats are randomly rolled - I could have a level 20 Green that is actually better then a level 20 blue. It sucks sitting there attempting to figure out what the better weapon is as sometimes you also have to account in reload time and all this other shit.

And is it just me or does it seem like shotguns are awarded and drop way more then any other weapon type? It pisses me off. I hardly ever find sniper rifles, but I find rare shotguns and get awarded them out of the ass.

Although there are some really good shotguns. I've been using that named shotgun you get for killing old slappy. Only has a 2 round magazine with wicked damage, but the spread of the blast stays super small even out to long distances. So it's like a sniper rifle almost.
 
Yeah, I find a ton of shotguns and SMGs it seems like...and of course, a conucopia of shitty pistols. Hardly any ARs and sniper rifles, though.

I will say, though, that I just found an extremely badass E-tech sniper rifle that does ~300 damage (at level 18) and slags enemies. Fast-firing, reloads fast and not that burst shit, either. Gonna give that to my Siren GF, since I mostly go AR - Shotgun - Pistol.

Also, a performance tip: If you guys are getting performance issues on the "vista" levels (where you can see a long way) try turning View Distance down to High instead of Ultra High. There's very little difference in image quality (basically you just can't see tiny boxes and stuff from a mile away, big whoop) and I got a good performance boost from it. At least, until they fix performance on nVidia cards.
 
I found a purple level 20 pistol off a chubby mob. The thing is badass as it shoots 2 bullets per shot. (Doesn't just consume) Also has amazing accuracy for a pistol and has a little scope on it. More powerful then my sniper rifle up until long ranges as the accuracy of the 2 rounds being fired at the same time drops off.

And yeah, the burst sniper rifles piss me off. I've found so many sniper rifles that would have ruled but then I realize they have the worthless burst 'bonus'. Three round burst on a six round clip. Worthless.
 
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Slag becomes very imporant in PL2. The difference between 50k and 100k hits adds up very quickly against high hp enemies.

I keep a 25k slag rocket launcher in a slot and my grenades are transfusion slag, useful for sticky swarm situations too.
 
The hidden tributes of weapons is starting to drive me crazy. Keep finding guns that do things that arnt in the description. Found a purp shot gun at lv 17. 135x16 damage, explosive shot but fails to mention it takes 6 ammo per shot. One shot kills almost all enemies but chews ammo like crazy.
 
You can interrupt the burst fire of a sniper by unzooming as soon as you fire. Still not very useful unless you can one-hit-crit kill the enemy, or line up the shot so you get one body shot and the recoil gives you a crit then interupt it before the third/fourth shot.
 
I tried that low damage slag grenade I got from the golden chest, and it's actually more awesome than previously thought. Not only is it slag, but it's a "sticky longbow bouncing bettie" as well. So it teleports, sticks to something, then bounces around shooting slag bullets in a 360 degree arc for several seconds. Pretty awesome when combined with the Sabre turret.
 
Ragenrok said:
The hidden tributes of weapons is starting to drive me crazy. Keep finding guns that do things that arnt in the description. Found a purp shot gun at lv 17. 135x16 damage, explosive shot but fails to mention it takes 6 ammo per shot. One shot kills almost all enemies but chews ammo like crazy.
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I had this problem a bunch of times.
 
MavericK96 said:
I wonder if you get better loot drops/more XP as a result. Otherwise I don't see the point unless you think the game is too easy for some reason.
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You can play SP if you don't have people to play with, jack it up to 4, and the game is supposed to react as it would under a normal 4 player co-op with ALL that it entails. Difficulty AND loot.
 
I don't know about you, but the game seems difficult enough, at least for PT1. I could maybe see doing it at max level to grind loot.
 
MavericK96 said:
I don't know about you, but the game seems difficult enough, at least for PT1. I could maybe see doing it at max level to grind loot.
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The whole lure of it is to get access to the best of the best loot as you say. I may try it later just so I can laugh at myself and the ass kicking I'll probably get.
 
WARNING: Lack of item to floor collision in Sanctuary hub.

Don´t do what I just did. Farmed Lynchwood while waiting for friend to come online. Got 8 great items for him and a few even better for myself. Back in Sanctuary I dropped the 8 items for him on the floor to the left of the golden loot box (at the hub), resulting in all the items falling through the floor never to be seen again... bye bye

We generally do not use the trading system because we get an error (count down from three starts over from three indefinitely). So we just drop the items on the floor as in Borderlands.

Anyway, new SHIFT code coming up at 2pm CDT
 
New shift codes, good for 2 hours or 10,000 uses

PS3: KT5B3-Z93ZB-FH3KB-STCT3-JWKZX
Win PC: KJ5TB-FKZXH-FB3JJ-TBJB3-6H5BH
X360: KT5B3-Z93WF-BF6JF-KXBT3-JWKXS
 
I hadn't played since monday night. I've had zero crashes until now (40hrs gameplay). But today I launch the game, it downloads an update, and now I crashed to desktop 3 times in 1 hour...
 
Why people need those gold keys? I found plenty of good weapons without it. Like burning pistol with infinite ammo and no need to reload.

BTW, I just encountered first robots. How far in the game am I? Is it middle game? I played like 30 hours already.
 
almalino said:
Why people need those gold keys? I found plenty of good weapons without it. Like burning pistol with infinite ammo and no need to reload.

BTW, I just encountered first robots. How far in the game am I? Is it middle game? I played like 30 hours already.
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I don't think very far. Also depends on how much side stuff you do, how you explore. I've put in 40hrs so far and I haven't even completed my first play through.
 
Dallows said:
I don't think very far. Also depends on how much side stuff you do, how you explore. I've put in 40hrs so far and I haven't even completed my first play through.
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Yeah, I also do all side quests I could find. Just to make the game last a bit longer.
 
I'm at lvl 33 with 44hours, still on first playthrough. Side Quests keep rolling in. Good fun.
 
Druneau said:
I'm at lvl 33 with 44hours, still on first playthrough. Side Quests keep rolling in. Good fun.
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If you do too many side quests you are too over leveled for the main missions.

Just saying ;)
 
Backed up the save folder in My Documents/My Games/Borderlands 2, formatted OS partition and re-installed, now my save doesn't get recognized. :(
 
Great game but could be so much more enjoyable. They did so many good things with the way it looks and rocket launchers are worth using, great boss killers. Making rockets very limited and not regen is great but that is where it should have ended. I wanted to play Zero but there is not enough ammo. Even for Sal there is pitiful ammo regen mods, and no ammo regen for any other class. Without the ammo regen during gunzerk I wouldn't even be playing. It is just too goddamn slow, running around scrounging ammo, at least for this style of fps.

So I am forced to use Sal if I am to avoid boredom. Melee and stealth with zero is not fun. I am not into spamming a turret and letting it do my job for me. I haven't tried the siren but her ability looked like dogshit too. I would be totally fine with trying the other classes if they would just do like BL1 and give them ammo regen for one weapon type. Axton gets assault rifle, Zero gets sniper, and Maya gets smg. Either that or leave enough goddamn ammo lying around for me to pick up. I didn't even really need the ammo regen in BL1, it just saved me time not having to open the ammo crates. In BL2 the ammo crates aren't enough even with the Sals ammo regen mods. Thank fuck for the regen while gunzerking or I would be waiting for some sort of patch or mod to remedy the lack of ammo in this game.

I need to know the zoom level of my weapons. I have to guess how much a scope zooms based on the little pic. I can't tell whether or not I want to buy a weapon now. In BL1, if an Assault rifle wasn't 1.4x zoom and around 15 rate of fire I wanted nothing to do with it.

Also I miss good smgs. In BL1 smg was the only weapon I needed, one accurate scoped smg an a double anarchy (like a shotgun but uses smg ammo) and it made Siren playable with an smg ammmo regen mod. Now smgs are weak as shit, most of them are super innaccurate, and of course not enough ammo without spamming gunzerk.
 
blort said:
Also I miss good smgs. In BL1 smg was the only weapon I needed, one accurate scoped smg an a double anarchy (like a shotgun but uses smg ammo) and it made Siren playable with an smg ammmo regen mod. Now smgs are weak as shit, most of them are super innaccurate, and of course not enough ammo without spamming gunzerk.
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I have been finding that smg's are awesome in this game, its the assault rifles that suck balls compared to borderlands 1.
 
blort said:
Great game but could be so much more enjoyable. They did so many good things with the way it looks and rocket launchers are worth using, great boss killers. Making rockets very limited and not regen is great but that is where it should have ended. I wanted to play Zero but there is not enough ammo. Even for Sal there is pitiful ammo regen mods, and no ammo regen for any other class. Without the ammo regen during gunzerk I wouldn't even be playing. It is just too goddamn slow, running around scrounging ammo, at least for this style of fps.

So I am forced to use Sal if I am to avoid boredom. Melee and stealth with zero is not fun. I am not into spamming a turret and letting it do my job for me. I haven't tried the siren but her ability looked like dogshit too. I would be totally fine with trying the other classes if they would just do like BL1 and give them ammo regen for one weapon type. Axton gets assault rifle, Zero gets sniper, and Maya gets smg. Either that or leave enough goddamn ammo lying around for me to pick up. I didn't even really need the ammo regen in BL1, it just saved me time not having to open the ammo crates. In BL2 the ammo crates aren't enough even with the Sals ammo regen mods. Thank fuck for the regen while gunzerking or I would be waiting for some sort of patch or mod to remedy the lack of ammo in this game.

I need to know the zoom level of my weapons. I have to guess how much a scope zooms based on the little pic. I can't tell whether or not I want to buy a weapon now. In BL1, if an Assault rifle wasn't 1.4x zoom and around 15 rate of fire I wanted nothing to do with it.

Also I miss good smgs. In BL1 smg was the only weapon I needed, one accurate scoped smg an a double anarchy (like a shotgun but uses smg ammo) and it made Siren playable with an smg ammmo regen mod. Now smgs are weak as shit, most of them are super innaccurate, and of course not enough ammo without spamming gunzerk.
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I think it just depends on the character you choose. I think they purposely made certain characters easier to use that others. Just like BL1.

Playing Siren and still on first play through. at Lvl 29 and just hit oppertunity. Ammo does some times become a problem but since I have a boat load of weapons that I know work well I can deal with most situations with ease.

In BL1, I struggled for a while with the Siren but Roland on the other hand, the game was easy as pie. with the turret and ammo regen mods it was just too easy.
 
I havent found any smgs that compared to BL1 yet. There were smgs that were sniper rifle replacement types and smgs that were shotgun replacement types. In BL2 the smg might perform closer to how an smg is expected to (in a video game) but I still miss the sheer range of styles (sniper to shotgun) that they offered in BL1.
 
pandora's box said:
I have been finding that smg's are awesome in this game, its the assault rifles that suck balls compared to borderlands 1.
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Glad I'm not the only one who thought that about AR's, they're terrible. I'm level 27 and I've yet to find a decent one. I found a couple purple "blasters". I got excited until I used them and couldn't hit a damn thing because of the terrible bullet spread, and the zoom mode shoots three directions, which is just a complete waste of ammo.
 
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