Borderlands

[PVB]

The game sounded interesting enough, until I saw that Europeans had to pay 50% extra for the privilege of waiting another week before being able to play. I think I'll give this one a miss.

Eh?


Anyway, just opened up the Bounty Board, so can now pick and choose missions.
A bit annoying that while I was reading the board I started being shot at by thugs entering the area.

Am now shooting more accurately, partly due to reducing the sensitivity of the pad movement in the settings.
Can now take out half a dozen skags one after the other without missing any shots.


Found a very minor bug while wandering around, looking for cashy monies; walked back to the starting area (just after getting off the bus) and the whole 'tutorial' section started again, with the onscreen prompts and even Claptrap appearing, telling me to jump over an obstacle, but when I did it he just stayed there, telling me to jump over it again and again.

Will report it to the official forums tomorrow, as they seem to be timing out when I try to register at the moment.

[Orangy Tang]

the whole 'tutorial' section started again, with the onscreen prompts and even Claptrap appearing, telling me to jump over an obstacle, but when I did it he just stayed there, telling me to jump over it again and again.

The tutorial prompts seem directly wired to certain areas in the levels, there's some I've seen over and over. Have just backtracked to the start and didn't get the Claptrap starting over though (although I did find a nice sniper rifle hiding on top of one of the buildings in the start arena, shame I've got a better one by now ).

[noodles]

I like the comic book graphic style. Nicely done.
Still on Red Faction Guerilla at the moment but will surely give this a go when I'm done.
Fallout 3 landscape with Diablo accents and graphic novel style. I'm in.

[betamax]

Well, this ate my weekend. I started a playthrough with both Mordecai and Brick, and while I've had great fun sniping and setting my bloodwing on midgets I have to say Brick is so much more fun. As soon as you get his beserk ability, you can steamroller through stuff that was killing Mordy time after time. Ninetoes? Berserked to death in four seconds along with his stupid dogs.

One thing I've noticed- some of the bounty board quests may be bugged. Twice now I've taken up quests to find scattered gun parts. Simple enough. However, if you pick up the parts out of sequence (IE dont follow the pointer to each part in turn, but happen across a part and grab it) the quest freaks out and the final item vanishes, leaving the quest uncompletable and incidentally locking you out from some achievements for quest completion.

[CarlBillen]

One thing I've noticed- some of the bounty board quests may be bugged. Twice now I've taken up quests to find scattered gun parts. Simple enough. However, if you pick up the parts out of sequence (IE dont follow the pointer to each part in turn, but happen across a part and grab it) the quest freaks out and the final item vanishes, leaving the quest uncompletable and incidentally locking you out from some achievements for quest completion.

I have picked up the parts out of sequence for both the Sniper Rifle and Combat Rifle quest, and I both got lovely purple weapons in return. I am playing the PS3 version though.

I hate the litte shotgun midgets! Each time when I have them lined up for a headshot, they shot their shotgun and fly back from the kickback of their shotgun

[Bod]

I'm playing a single player game as Lilith at the moment. She is now up to level 18 and can kick some ass, but I did struggle with Sledge until I tried this ...

Spoiler: show

I tried a few times to take him on in the comfort of his lair, but he kicked the living shit out of me every time. So I managed to entice him out of the lair and into the long corridor outside. Then I just sat at the other end with my oh soooooo powerful sniper rifle (298 damage) and kept picking away critical shots until his head came clean off.

[PVB]

Have just backtracked to the start and didn't get the Claptrap starting over though (although I did find a nice sniper rifle hiding on top of one of the buildings in the start arena, shame I've got a better one by now ).

Ooh!

I might get some time tonight to find my way around the map to get onto that high walkway near the start, as there seem to be a few boxes up there for looting.

[Phineasfool]

Had a rare Sunday off yesterday and spent the whole day playing this. Got my Lilith up to level 32 and found a couple more orange weapons. Also got a grenade mod that when it goes off pops up into the air and then rains corrosive acid all over the bad guys. It's so wonderful to hear their agonizing screams as they melt away. I'm hoping to finish up my first playthrough tomorrow and then either start the new game+ or start a new character and try some co-op.

I also did some reading and found out there is one more rarity color above orange. It is a pearl color. Can't wait to find one of those guns.

[HGFB]

I just got back into playing this again after the weekend. Right after killing 9-Toes I'm level 7. I got one quest to go and use something. I've done that and now the only quests I have are two at level 10 that are impossible for me to do.

Did I miss something?

[CarlBillen]

I just got back into playing this again after the weekend. Right after killing 9-Toes I'm level 7. I got one quest to go and use something. I've done that and now the only quests I have are two at level 10 that are impossible for me to do.

Did I miss something?

Uhm... After the Nine-Toes quest, you get that very hard "Bone-Head quest" (which is quite difficult).

But when you go back to TK Bahu, he can give you a quest about getting his leg from Scar (which is quite hard too) and getting some flowers, but when you go back into Skag Gully, you will find a quest for finding missing data recorders in Skag Gully, which involves travelling quite a distance and killing quite a lot of enemies. And doesn't the Bounty Board open up for more quests?

I remember that after the data recorder quest I was able to do the Scar/leg quest, and then I was able to do the Bone-Head quest (and then the game will open up )

Good luck and good hunting!

[HGFB]

Ah right. I hadn't bothered picking up the quest from TK yet as the board listed it as Level 10 hard.

[betamax]

Ah right. I hadn't bothered picking up the quest from TK yet as the board listed it as Level 10 hard.

Hard isnt all that hard. But if it says impossible, take note- you wont even be able to put a dent in the baddies it involves.

[PVB]

I just got back into playing this again after the weekend. Right after killing 9-Toes I'm level 7. I got one quest to go and use something. I've done that and now the only quests I have are two at level 10 that are impossible for me to do.

Did I miss something?

Apart from getting the other quest(s) from TK, maybe there's a need to grind a level or two by clearing the surrounding area of skags and thugs?

[HGFB]

Ah right. I hadn't bothered picking up the quest from TK yet as the board listed it as Level 10 hard.

Hard isnt all that hard. But if it says impossible, take note- you wont even be able to put a dent in the baddies it involves.

In this case I couldn't even take down one mob. When I finally came to do the quest I needed to get my second wind a couple of times too. All good though.

It does show up the rather sloppy design you get in games sometimes. The quest to take you back to TK should have been listed as the player level and normal with the followups from him being the hard and onlevel quests.

[PVB]

Got up to level 9 now.

That Skar was a right bastard.

Got some nice weapons now, too.