Borderlands

[CarlBillen]

Sledge was the one who killed me.
I just managed to avoid death right before in his safehouse.
Krom was hard but more a situation of finding "the right spot".
The Rakk Hive were not entertained by my x4 Explosive SMG I just found a few minutes earlier
Flynt was rather hard (I just killed him 10 minutes ago) but I sure was glad I had my "11 Thunder Storm" alien weapon; only good for a shot or 3, but one shot makes a shield disappear.

The few alien weapons that I have are... odd...
I have a kind of alien SMG, that shoots curvy bullets that don't really hit anything well...
I have my "11 Thunder Storm" (before I had an 10 Thunder Storm, that did 99 x 8 instead of the 148 x 8 now) "alien shotgun". Get really close, and boom, dead (or almost dead) human . Totally useless against spiderants, but very good against "fleshies" and "tin cans" (Crimson Lance).

And man, Old Haven, that felt like Half Life when you meet the soldiers for the first time. They are hard but they are fun to fight against
And now I know how it feels fighting against a Roland...

The game does feel totally different when playing alone than when in co-op; the arena battles (against skags or humans) are quite intense (Do you get a trophy for getting 5 second chances within 15 seconds ? ), as is the Flynt battle. I'm still slugging through it alone, and I haven't had any glitched trophies yet.

[PVB]

Got Sledge on the third attempt.

First time I did everything wrong, second time I concentrated my fire on Sledge and got wasted by his minions, especially those bastard midgets.

Got a few more new missions in the Arid Badlands to do, then will go into the next area.

[Rhythm]

Took advantage of Asda's £25 deal today and picked this up, so I'm now alternating between this and Demon's Souls. This is a bit bloody good, innit? I'd only picked it up for co-op with a mate but a solo session intended to help me get familiar with the controls but 2 and a half hours later I was still going! The "just one more mission" aspect is spot on!

[CarlBillen]

Took advantage of Asda's £25 deal today and picked this up, so I'm now alternating between this and Demon's Souls. This is a bit bloody good, innit? I'd only picked it up for co-op with a mate but a solo session intended to help me get familiar with the controls but 2 and a half hours later I was still going! The "just one more mission" aspect is spot on!

Yup, it is fiendishly addictive, isn't it?

I too am alternating between this and Demon's Souls, but I use a key combination in Borderlands which allows me to aim and shoot with the top triggers, and use my special ability with the bottom right trigger, and grenades are mapped to the 'O'-button on the PS3 controller.

But when I have played Demon's Souls for a while, I am so used by pressing 'X' to pick things up, but suddenly 'X' is jump! And you do not want to know how many grenades I have tossed away when I wanted to run or roll away in Borderlands

I just finished my first playthrough, and DAMN, those Guardians are hard! The only weapons that were a bit effective were the alien ones I was carrying, to get rid of their shields quickly, and then I would switch to a high-clip SMG or CR to finish them off. I died in the Vault of course, because by the time I got there all my SMG and CR ammo was almost gone...

So, second playthrough : yes Zed, you want me to kill 5 skags, HA! First skag I see : "Angry Skag Whelp". Well, it is level 35, so it should have a "cooler name". And what is that other one? "Badmutha", what kind of prefix is that? 3 seconds later and after using a phasewalking "Run Away!" maneuver, I was like "OK, so that's playthrough 2..."

I started as level 36 but I was level 37 really really quickly . And my alien shotgun zaps most people in one shot (at close range) while my alien sniper is good for 4-5 shots before it needs to recharge, BUT I can kill most people with two shots. Good enough! I've read that many people dislike the alien weaponry, and I have to admit, my Siren groaning "no more ammo!" after a few shots is quite annoying, but good God! The people screaming while their brains are popping out makes up for all that

[PVB]

That Skagzilla's a right cunt.
Took an age to wear him down, but finally managed it.

Kept getting killed by Mad Mel, until I found a spot to kill him without taking much damage:

Spoiler: show

Just before you enter his arena, perch the vehicle on the top of the ramp (without falling into the arena) and shoot him from there. He'll hardly hit you (well he didn't hit me anyway) and it only took about half a dozen hits to finish him.

Got to New Haven now and have a lot of missions to work through.

[CarlBillen]

Got to New Haven now and have a lot of missions to work through.

Say hi to the Scythids and Spiderants from me
And take good care of the paranoid Claptrap
You can also talk to Marcus inside his shop to get extra missions (they are lvl. 21 missions or something if I'm not mistaken)

[PVB]

Got to New Haven now and have a lot of missions to work through.

Say hi to the Scythids and Spiderants from me
And take good care of the paranoid Claptrap
You can also talk to Marcus inside his shop to get extra missions (they are lvl. 21 missions or something if I'm not mistaken)

I'm currently level 22, so they should provide a challenge.

The names of everyone is something that annoys me; if I get told in the game that I should go and speak to somebody, I have no way of finding out where they are unless it's a mission marker.

The Claptraps keep telling me there's new missions on the bounty boards where there aren't is also an annoyance.

[CarlBillen]

The names of everyone is something that annoys me; if I get told in the game that I should go and speak to somebody, I have no way of finding out where they are unless it's a mission marker.

Ah, yes, I know the feeling. You'll have similar trouble in New Haven, because Scooter will give you missions (he's right next to the entrance), the boss of New Haven will give you missions (she's pretty near the entrance too), Marcus (in the gun shop) and the bounty board (between the gun shop and the medic shop). Most of the time I do a little tour of all of them, talk to them and then I know what I'd done or not

The Claptraps keep telling me there's new missions on the bounty boards where there aren't is also an annoyance.

I never had that! You do have 3 or 4 bounty boards, which have different quests though :
- The Fyrestone bounty board (in the first level)
- The Dhal Highlands bounty board (?) next to the house where you rescue the guy who sits on the loo, and where you have your first car-vs-car fights
- The New Haven Bounty board (in New Haven itself)
- You will find the Middle of Nowhere bounty board later on too.
- Crazy Earl isn't a bounty board but will give you quests which Claptrap will talk about.

Basically, when I get into a new playing area, I pay good attention all the messages that might popup (like Claptrap stating on which bounty board soemthing new arrived), and the artifact woman who has a new job for you and so on. Then I hop into the car, drive past everything to get all the quests, so that they are nicely in my mission log. Then I go solve missions, and do a big tour past most of the bounty boards to turn them in.
But I haven't had Claptrap sending me to any wrong bounty board yet...

[chub]

I had some cases of Claptrap telling me there are new missions available at the same bounty board I was looking at, I mean before I had accepted them. Give me a chance to read them you robot!

[CarlBillen]

I had some cases of Claptrap telling me there are new missions available at the same bounty board I was looking at, I mean before I had accepted them. Give me a chance to read them you robot!

Yes, that can be the case when you use the New-U teleport system to get into New Haven. You can be consulting the bounty board there before you get the Claptrap message in the top right corner.

Ah! Maybe I understand what PVB meant : you can have that you've done all the missions at a bounty board (so that the bounty board button is still read) but the Claptrap next to it shouts one of its predefined sentences of "There are new missions available" while this isn't of course the case. (A bit like his "Wow! You're not dead yet?" question).
PVB, I was talking about the Claptrap image appearing in the top right of the screen when you enter a zone. I've stopped listening to Claptraps who are standing next to bounty boards anyway (you'll learn to do that in New Haven )

P.S. Look at me, I'm dancing, I'm DANCING!

[PVB]

I had some cases of Claptrap telling me there are new missions available at the same bounty board I was looking at, I mean before I had accepted them. Give me a chance to read them you robot!

Yes, that can be the case when you use the New-U teleport system to get into New Haven. You can be consulting the bounty board there before you get the Claptrap message in the top right corner.

Ah! Maybe I understand what PVB meant : you can have that you've done all the missions at a bounty board (so that the bounty board button is still read) but the Claptrap next to it shouts one of its predefined sentences of "There are new missions available" while this isn't of course the case. (A bit like his "Wow! You're not dead yet?" question).
PVB, I was talking about the Claptrap image appearing in the top right of the screen when you enter a zone. I've stopped listening to Claptraps who are standing next to bounty boards anyway (you'll learn to do that in New Haven )

P.S. Look at me, I'm dancing, I'm DANCING!

That's probably what happened.

You say you're dancing again and I'll keeeel you!

[Mayhem]

Yeah, my brother is pissed off with that phrase already

Into Dahl Headlands now on second playthrough, and nothing too taxing just yet, perhaps I'm a little ahead of the game level wise because it's playing easier than the first run through. Although I know Mad Mel is going to be bloody tricky, even with the trick PVB posted (which I used as well first time!). Perhaps it's the yummy guns I have... my berserker has 1000 damage x4 corrosive and 700 damage x4 shock launchers, a x4 fire sniper, an explosive 55 clip SMG that never runs out of bullets and an explosive shotgun.

Roll on the DLC... I wonder how we will get access to Jacob's Creek, as there were no spare entrance points on the maps in the normal game.

[Mat]

Really handy tip for Mad Mel: just lock on to his vehicle, hold down the rocket button, and drive in circles around the fiery thing in the middle. Worked a treat for me

[PVB]

Really handy tip for Mad Mel: just lock on to his vehicle, hold down the rocket button, and drive in circles around the fiery thing in the middle. Worked a treat for me

Not for me, as he kept leaping over the middle bit and side swiping my vehicle onto its roof, so I ended up running around on foot until I died, often.

[chub]

Really handy tip for Mad Mel: just lock on to his vehicle, hold down the rocket button, and drive in circles around the fiery thing in the middle. Worked a treat for me

Not for me, as he kept leaping over the middle bit and side swiping my vehicle onto its roof, so I ended up running around on foot until I died, often.

After dying a few times, I ended up standing at the entrance outside the arena just shooting his car with rockets until he blew up. Worked well, no car needed.