On my first trip to Tannis’ dig site, I hit up the red chests there and the one up on top of the stones to the West of the shack where Tannis is found coughed up an Eridian “shotgun” 11x99 for damage.
This is my “fight for your life” as 1 or 2 hits from it shred pretty much anything at point blank range.
Though, on the down side, you can only fire about 3 shots before it’s energy is depleted.
The text on it is white by the way.
It’s name is Thunderstorm.
Text says “Lightning may not strike twice, but it can strike freakin everywhere!”
Later on have come across 3 more Eridian weapons now, 1 is a sniper rifle called Lightning. Looks like a 1.0x zoom scope on it.
Other 2 are both “cannons” both do/did 866 damage.
Second one I got has a scope on it, both are named in binary.
Don’t have the exact sequence written down, will have to fire up game later and look it up, though I did sell the one without a scope.
I think this game really gets into the swing of things in the second play through. You get much more interesting weapons and you have enough points to properly play with your skill tree. All I need is a shield with more than a thousand HP, my current one is 893 and not enough…
I’m level 37 and having a little trouble in the second playthrough (hunter); I’ve only done a couple of the quests. I may be undergeared. I’m having trouble with the seemingly larger (and certainly deadlier) skag packs in Skag Valley at the moment.
roBurky
1924
Yeah, I got one of those during the sequence at the end of the game. Just annihilated anything in one shot, but such a long cooldown once you’d emptied it. but importantly, they continue recharging while you’re using other weapons. So the way I played the game entirely changed as I kept switching between my three wildly different eridian weapons, managing the cooldowns, having to change the range I fought at every few seconds.
I had that electric shotgun thing, a rocket launcher-like cannon thing, and a homing explosive rapid-fire weapon.
I seem to have outlevelled all of my eridian weapons now, which is a great shame. Going back to just using the most powerful version of the gun type I’m specialised in is nowhere near as interesting.
The 6 rounds makes that twice as brutal. I have something like that but it is 2 rounds…which can get a bit hairy when the whole base starts charging you.
That’s the dumbest loot-coloring system I’ve ever seen, then. If I see a white gun off in the distance from a dude I just sniped, I ignore it. You can’t see the price tag or stats until you’re close to it.
roBurky
1927
I’ve only ever seen oranges in chests or shops. I bet pearlescents are going to be mainly appearing in those places too, if not exclusively. You can’t mistake it for a common white in a shop, which is where I found mine.
I don’t understand why gun rarity doesn’t correspond in some way with gun effectiveness.
Kadath
1929
Not sure if I should post this in the PC fixes thread or this one but here goes. I’m going to uninstall my Borderlands copy from the lappy and want to copy it to my main desktop. Has anyone found a better way to do this than the hex edit thing posted here:
http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?p=1612135
Pogo
1930
For all the work they put into this game, they really kind of fucked up the weapons completely. That’s pretty much it.
solomani
1931
They should probably just stick to the WoW standard. Dont fix something that aint broke. Using multiple shades of the same colour and two colours - one for epics and one for junk - that are very close to each other wasnt the best idea. But its a minor quibble.
solomani
1932
Manually copy the file to the new PC. If the new PC is a fresh install (no previous saves) you should be fine. If copying to someone else’s PC who has characters saved AND you have issues loading/finding your character there is a save game conflict. Use the save-game editor to change the slot (don’t have the link handy just google it).
However its a fresh install so should just be able to copy the saves. Done both ways and it and works fine.
I’m reading a lot of folks saying it’s bizarre how greens can be better than purples. Well, yeah it’s true, but the reason (I think) the weapons system decides rarity is based on the stats that come bundled with the weapon, not necessarily how good the stats are. I’m pretty sure certain combinations of specific types of stats adjust the rarity, not so much how high or good the stats are. For example, finding a gun that has bonuses to firing rate, accuracy, zoom, and does shock damage could be generated as a purple gun, even if the damage is garbage, the shock is x1, the zoom is 1.0 and the magazine size is 2. Rarity doesn’t necessarily reflect how great the gun is going to be in every situation, but how uncommon it is to find a weapon with it’s attributes.
By the way, this is all just speculation.
LMN8R
1934
There’s a lot of other nuance to it too…just something about the feel of certain weapons that make them seem more valuable to me.
I got this green sniper rifle with one of those square greenish scopes that had immense stability and pretty good power, worth 1000-1100 credits to sell. I must’ve kept it for 10 levels worth of game, and preferred it to many other sniper rifles worth 4-5x that much. It certainly seemed better to me than other rifles with similar properties, not really sure why.
JM1
1935
It usually does. While you can find that equal-level purples are outdone by equal-level greens, it’s not that common. Oranges with their special attributes are another thing entirely.
Of course, some class builds may make certain attributes far more attractive and thus skew the system even more.
The expansion pack is sounding pretty substantial.
JM1
1937
That video won’t run for me, in 2 different browsers :(
Was a bit troublesome for me too actually. Try this link instead http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/957206/borderlands/videos/borderlands_dlc_vdp_110909.html;jsessionid=5t2d0qsgg5f21
They are saying 6-10 hours, 5 new dungeons and I swear the guy says 50 new quests.
I go through a lot of sniper rifles for similar reasons. Sometimes a rifle just feels wrong.
There are mechanics I need a better understanding of: accuracy (there are times when I have the site center mass and shoot and get no hit) and sway (sometimes - with the same rifle mind - I get sway at times and not at others. Starting to think it’s a bizzare bug).
But outside of this, and even outside of preferences (I prefer larger clips and quicker rates of fire), sometimes a gun just feels wrong. And so it gets discarded. I keep about 5 rifles because of this; a couple newer one sI am testing and my rifles that I feel comfortable with (I got burned earlier in the game when I dumped a rifle I loved for two that were statistically superior, and neither ended up being a gun I liked) - a high damage vanilla rifle, one acid, one burner.
My most powerful rifle is that vanilla rifle (585 damage), but it has a small (3) clip size and it’s got shit for fire rate. And I’ve never felt fully comfortable with it either. I found a 380 or so damage rifle with an extended clip (9!) and exceptional rate of fire that might replace it.
Pogo
1940
I think you’re right. Their system decides that +2.4x zoom is just as powerful a stat as +50% damage or high elemental proc chance.
So if you get a weapon with a high magazine clip, high zoom, and high accuracy and fire rate, you have 4 powerful qualifiers that don’t actually amount to much damage, depending on other factors. High accuracy and fire rate without a scope can be pretty useless at long range playstyles.
