Borderlands

[CarlBillen]

You lot yapping about this got me interested - so 'tubed it and now its another game to buy before Xmas

Ha, you cannot believe how much this forum has cost me

But it's a possible Game Of The Year game, addictive and fun, so you won't regret it.

HGFB, that sounds like a most excellent and useful tactic to kill Mothrakk. I think I have to tackle that beast soon again during my New Game+. I hope that the tactic still works there, because in the first playthrough you are happily driving through many many beasties with almost no problems (except for the occasion Badass Spiderant), but in my second playthrough after driving over a few big skags my car start looking quite battered...

Can you believe that I took me a while before I even knew how to lock on targets with the car?
It was quite difficult to do the 'kill 5 raider cars' mission with manual aim

[HGFB]

I hope that the tactic still works there, because in the first playthrough you are happily driving through many many beasties with almost no problems (except for the occasion Badass Spiderant), but in my second playthrough after driving over a few big skags my car start looking quite battered...

It should. The idea is you're driving around so the fireballs don't hit you. If they do your car tends to explode. Same as on foot but you don't have to stop to aim.

[benedictw]

Call me dim, but how do you lockon using a vehicle?

[PVB]

It's great. The car can't get the angle to actually look at the boss but it locks on just fine. You just drive around shooting until it rains loot. No aiming required If it's any consolation me and a friend died a lot before we figured that one out.

Funnily enough, I used the same tactic (with the rocket launcher) to get the bandit vehicles in the Dahl Headland, but never though to use it for Mothrakk.

[betamax]

Call me dim, but how do you lockon using a vehicle?

On X Box, tap A I think.

[benedictw]

Call me dim, but how do you lockon using a vehicle?

On X Box, tap A I think.

Thanks beta.

[PVB]

Call me dim, but how do you lockon using a vehicle?

On X Box, tap A I think.

Thanks beta.

Yup, A cycles through targets with each press.

To stop locking on any targets, point camera viewpoint away from all targets and press A again.

[chub]

Can you believe that I took me a while before I even knew how to lock on targets with the car?
It was quite difficult to do the 'kill 5 raider cars' mission with manual aim

Don't worry, I did the same thing! Except for me 'a while' was more like 'most of the game'.

[Phineasfool]

Can you believe that I took me a while before I even knew how to lock on targets with the car?
It was quite difficult to do the 'kill 5 raider cars' mission with manual aim

Don't worry, I did the same thing! Except for me 'a while' was more like 'most of the game'.

Same here. I didn't know about the lock on until the 2nd play through. I just hopped out of the car and used a rocket launcher to take out cars beforehand.

[craigt]

You lot yapping about this got me interested - so 'tubed it and now its another game to buy before Xmas

I caved in and got into this a few days ago and my god it's addictive. I considered Batman to be my GOTY, but this is a contender at the moment. I'm now up to level 20 and have just finished of Sledge, who went down like a sack of potatoes after I planted my turret and showed him the end of my Terrible Matador shotgun. Just 6 or 7 shots were required. It was a bit surprising after the build up he had been given

Now a whole new area has opened up for me to explore, i've just got to finish off a few little side quests first.

[Mayhem]

Beat Mothrakk on co-op last night. Could I lock onto it with the machine gun turret in the car?! So my bro hopped in the gunner seat and we manually shot down the fucker

Cheers for the tip there, made life a lot quicker than before, even though I was gunning it and outrunning the death from above most of the time while my brother kept the barrel very hot indeed...

[Orangy Tang]

I've completed my first playthough now and finished with a level 35 Siren. Bit of a disappointing ending (both in terms of limp story climax and uninteresting boss battle) but I'm still going to go back and do playthough 2 to max out my character I think.

I get the feeling that they were trying with the story but didn't have the dedication to pull it off. Could really have done with more actual cutscenes and plot events - relying on lots of text and a few voice overs doesn't really cut it. As a result you don't really feel engaged with the story, rather it's something else going on while you just happen to be vaguely in the same room.

Contrast with Halo - the story may be bollocks, but it's compelling bollocks that you actually feel a part of.

Edit: Also, never thought I'd be using the phrase 'compelling bollocks'.

[The ghost of raids past]

Just killed SkulHead at level 10. He was a tough little devil but sitting at max range with an incendary sniper finally nibbled him to death. Do I need to buy weapons or are the ones you loot from the bosses good enough to win with ?

[Phineasfool]

Just killed SkulHead at level 10. He was a tough little devil but sitting at max range with an incendary sniper finally nibbled him to death. Do I need to buy weapons or are the ones you loot from the bosses good enough to win with ?

Usually the loot ones are plenty good. Check the vending machines though. Occasionally you find an awesome gun in the item of the day.

[CarlBillen]

So I recently got to my second playthrough, and I entered the Lost Caves at Level 37. I came out of the caves as a Level 40, and I think that I died around a hundred times, and that there were very few enemies that weren't killed by a second wind.

Come on lads, the amount of Badasses and BadMuthas is really really high!

And am I mistaken or in NG+, besides that the creatures are harder and that there spawn more of them, do they spawn more regularly? Because I constantly feel there is no safe place to rest.

I also did a bit of Playthrough 1 again, because I had missed the ClapTrap in Earl's Scrapyard, which allowed me now to get 42 slots.

By the way, what's the maximum level of weapon skill you can have? Because when I left the caves my SMGs are at level 15, my energy weapons at level 13 and my CRs at level 12.