Gearbox's Borderlands

Pogo · 2009-10-29T22:01:46.000Z

Tony M:

I was planning I choosing generic +damage +health +shields type skills until I get enough skill points to unlock (and max out) the 2 cooldown reducing skills on the turret. Then I would respec completely for fast cooldown and high damage turret. I haven’t tested the theory yet though so I don’t know how well it will work.

I figure you could do the same thing with Brick. Generic +health +shields +damage until you unlock the beserk cooldown reducing skills, then respec for a mega beserk build.

It’ll be interesting to see how this works out, as you may be somewhat gimped unless you find a really high powered +dmg% weapon to compensate.

LMN8R · 2009-10-29T22:14:58.000Z

Holy crap, I just saw this: http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

Borderlands is currently game that the most Steam players are concurrently playing. Crazy! Has a non-Valve game ever been in that position before? Heck, a non-Counter-Strike game??

Ben_Sones · 2009-10-29T22:33:10.000Z

Well, after my four-pack-group’s second night of mayhem, I have to say that this game is crazy fun in co-op mode.

Case · 2009-10-29T22:37:05.000Z

We did three player co-op on the LAN tonight. Wheeee!

Crazy fun. I love Siren’s phasewalk; got me out of trouble many, many times.

Ben_Sones · 2009-10-29T22:45:14.000Z

I just got the “electrocute your foes while you phasewalk” skill, and that’s really a lot of fun.

Pogo · 2009-10-29T22:45:41.000Z

Case:

Crazy fun. I love Siren’s phasewalk; got me out of trouble many, many times.

Pfft, don’t even try to pretend that people who play Siren don’t actively seek that trouble in the first place!

Ben_Sones · 2009-10-29T22:48:33.000Z

Yeah, I pull a lot of aggro. I figure the group can handle it. And if not, then I can always phasewalk the hell out of there. :)

Becoming · 2009-10-29T23:16:23.000Z

LMN8R:

Holy crap, I just saw this: http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

Borderlands is currently game that the most Steam players are concurrently playing. Crazy! Has a non-Valve game ever been in that position before? Heck, a non-Counter-Strike game??

Impressive. Speaking of which, look at Torchlight in that list. That’s pretty amazing itself, but I wonder if that includes the demo as well…

Adree · 2009-10-29T23:27:24.000Z

(Damage should say 26x4)
Just bought this from a vendor and even though I’m level 21 I’m pretty awestruck at the sheer damage it can do. It’s basically a shotgun with machinegun clip size and firing rate. Definitely medium range at most and I emptied 500 rounds in less than a minute but it might as well project a cone of death in front of me if I’m being swarmed.

Pogo · 2009-10-29T23:36:44.000Z

How do you get the tags for the weapons like that?

MarchHare · 2009-10-29T23:49:53.000Z

I should buy a lottery ticket, because today I became the luckiest person alive. In the span of no more than 30 minutes of playing, I found not one, not two, not three, but FOUR orange weapons. Two of them even dropped in the same firefight (clearing Jaynistown).

RepoMan · 2009-10-29T23:52:00.000Z

Wow, the Borderlands juggernaut just keeps rolling. And here I haven’t even played in three nights! WTF is wrong with me? I guess I’m just not a marathoner when it comes to this stuff.

Still, sooner or later I’ll be back in it with you all – I will postpone Torchlight and even Dragon Age in order to get in some more Borderlands.

RepoMan · 2009-10-29T23:52:34.000Z

Just saw the previous post.

What.

The.

FUCK.

MattKeil · 2009-10-29T23:54:39.000Z

The gold weapons are weird. I guess they’re just defined by level and red text effects, because even at level 24 I had greens and blues that outperformed those guns.

Pogo · 2009-10-29T23:56:21.000Z

The irony of those weapons is that the level 13 gun does the most damage per bullet out of all of those weapons. Hell, it’s almost as good a weapon as the sniper rifle that’s 11 levels above it.

Don’t be so excited just to find “rare” weapons. Orange actually drops like crazy and any green with a +dmg% and +fire rate modifiers can whoop the crap out of orange weapons 5-10 levels above it.

When you see a purple, you can get sort of excited, but without good modifiers like +dmg%, even they can be worthless.

Out of all those I would probably only use the Combustion Hellfire. Not many enemies take less damage from fire effects, so it’s the best all around gun there.

Seriously, the item randomization modifiers do some wacky things in this game.

Now if only I can find out how to link my badass purple combat rifle.

Morberis · 2009-10-30T00:08:02.000Z

Hmm the red text “Long and Strong” there for that first weapon isn’t on the borderlands wiki. What does it do?

Adree · 2009-10-30T00:19:42.000Z

MarchHare:

I should buy a lottery ticket, because today I became the luckiest person alive. In the span of no more than 30 minutes of playing, I found not one, not two, not three, but FOUR orange weapons. Two of them even dropped in the same firefight (clearing Jaynistown).

You call those revolvers… THIS is a revolver.

Abilio_Carvalho · 2009-10-30T00:29:57.000Z

no, that’s a bloody sniper rifle. :D

Joe_M · 2009-10-30T00:41:08.000Z

I thought the flavor text on weapons was supposedly pushing stat modifiers off the tooltip, but the mods are there? Just hidden?

Phydeaux · 2009-10-30T00:51:16.000Z

Best. Gun. EVAR:

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It’s doing all that as splash damage. You pull the trigger, see something silly like ‘600’ float above the primary target’s head, and then everything around him starts shooting up ‘100’, ‘120’, ‘150’, etc over and over again for something silly like 10-15 seconds.