Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!

AirBiscuit · 22-10-2014 6:17pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Is it just me or is there a lot less fast travel stations around this time? I don't remember BL2 feeling like this much a chore to get around.

This coupled with the fact that vehicle stations are both less frequent and tend to be far away from the Fast Travel locations has caused me to mutter angrily a few times about the game being like a walking simulator alright.

calex71 · 22-10-2014 7:10pm

I've quit out and back in a fair few times now just to get to an exit faster.

Jordan 199 · 22-10-2014 7:19pm

Penn wrote: »

I'm most of the way through, but I'd say it's almost definitely easier. Fewer bosses, Cryo weapons are better than slag and less enemy variation are pretty big factors.

calex71 wrote: »

Haven't touched TVHM yet but there are a lot less enemies over all and the groups they spawn in are much smaller and more spaced out. So much easier imo.

Hopefully the difficulty gets turned up a notch on TVHM.

Sounds like I should be able to complete this game which I should hope to following my disappointment of not being able to complete Borderlands 2.

Mickeroo · 22-10-2014 7:21pm

calex71 wrote: »

I've quit out and back in a fair few times now just to get to an exit faster.

Does it put you at a fast travel if you quit out? Going to have to start doing that.

I just fought

Bogun and retrieved the AI

, would you say I'm at or passed the halfway mark?

calex71 · 22-10-2014 7:47pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Does it put you at a fast travel if you quit out? Going to have to start doing that.

I just fought
Bogun and retrieved the AI
, would you say I'm at or passed the halfway mark?

More or less but the next lot of story missions are quite long.

Give me a shout for Beginning of The End Mission mine bugged on me and I missed a boss.

Mickeroo · 22-10-2014 8:05pm

calex71 wrote: »

More or less but the next lot of story missions are quite long.

Give me a shout for Beginning of The End Mission mine bugged on me and I missed a boss.

Will do, just don't steal my loot like you did those poor randomers

viperirl · 22-10-2014 9:00pm

Picked up this insane weapon from one of the big chests just after the

RK5

boss fight. Mine is the shock version.

I thought the Moxxi laser weapon was a beast for damage but this thing is even better. 518% continuous damage bonus!. Together with Wilhelm's laser buffs, it puts out an incredible amount of damage. The first boss in TVHM went down in seconds from it. (not that he was a hard boss anyway)

Really enjoying playing as Wilhelm. Went down the hunter-killer tree which buffs up the wolf drone you send out. Half way down the skill tree you can paint your targets with a laser for the drone to attack.

Cookie_Monster · 22-10-2014 9:25pm

viperirl wrote: »

Picked up this insane weapon from one of the big chests just after the
RK5
boss fight. Mine is the shock version.

i just want that for the looks, never mind the awesome stats

calex71 · 22-10-2014 10:45pm

viperirl wrote: »

Picked up this insane weapon from one of the big chests just after the
RK5
boss fight. Mine is the shock version.

I thought the Moxxi laser weapon was a beast for damage but this thing is even better. 518% continuous damage bonus!. Together with Wilhelm's laser buffs, it puts out an incredible amount of damage. The first boss in TVHM went down in seconds from it. (not that he was a hard boss anyway)

Really enjoying playing as Wilhelm. Went down the hunter-killer tree which buffs up the wolf drone you send out. Half way down the skill tree you can paint your targets with a laser for the drone to attack.

Hmmmm similar damage to excalibastard at lvl 33, that has to be the only red text epic I've seen so far.

calex71 · 22-10-2014 11:26pm

I can already see a way on xbox to exploit the grinder given the fact you can copy saves and play split screen...... to basically turn one legendary gun and a purple into a seed for every gun in the game using grinder.

I can take that 1 gun, copy my save to usb x2 and cloud = 4 saves if you count original , give it to my other profile x4 copy that save to usb etc ......give to original save via split screen .... see where I am going

So you can load up one save with "mats" to make guns, 2 legendary + 1 purple with a moonstone grind = 1 legendary in the same type as the purple at the lowest level in the mix.

Have I tried it? ..................... :rolleyes:

viperirl · 23-10-2014 10:02am

calex71 wrote: »

Hmmmm similar damage to excalibastard at lvl 33, that has to be the only red text epic I've seen so far.

Pity that the excalibastard can only be picked up once per character regardless of what playthrough you're on. Think I'll wait until I reach the level cap before going for that one.

I've had rotten luck with legendary pickups so far but I managed to pick up my favorite legendary sniper last night, the lyuda/white death which I loved in BL2. However I'm noticing that not all hits seem to be registering sometimes just like a previous poster mentioned here. I could swear that I'm getting the headshots but the enemy health wont budge until another one or two hits. Maybe its a character accuracy stat or something like that, I'm not really sure.

calex71 · 23-10-2014 10:46am

viperirl wrote: »

Pity that the excalibastard can only be picked up once per character regardless of what playthrough you're on. Think I'll wait until I reach the level cap before going for that one.

I've had rotten luck with legendary pickups so far but I managed to pick up my favorite legendary sniper last night, the lyuda/white death which I loved in BL2. However I'm noticing that not all hits seem to be registering sometimes just like a previous poster mentioned here. I could swear that I'm getting the headshots but the enemy health wont budge until another one or two hits. Maybe its a character accuracy stat or something like that, I'm not really sure.

Really worth farming the raid boss for the longnail if you like snipers, 100% ignores shields and fully auto with a nice big mag.

I exploited the save copy and 2nd profile to get the excalibastard, and passed it back to my original one so I can still get it at level 50, but the wiki says frozen enemies should nova when shattered but I did see that effect happen.

viperirl · 23-10-2014 1:58pm

calex71 wrote: »

Really worth farming the raid boss for the longnail if you like snipers, 100% ignores shields and fully auto with a nice big mag.

Perfect! I wasnt aware of that new sniper and I love the Vladof ones in particular. The only sniper I had in BL2 that could bypass shields was The Tresspasser but I hated the Jakobs snipers so I never used it. Too slow for me despite their power.
Looking for a good shotgun now for close quarters.

calex71 · 23-10-2014 5:00pm

viperirl wrote: »

Perfect! I wasnt aware of that new sniper and I love the Vladof ones in particular. The only sniper I had in BL2 that could bypass shields was The Tresspasser but I hated the Jakobs snipers so I never used it. Too slow for me despite their power.
Looking for a good shotgun now for close quarters.

Shotgun? The Bullpup, been using it from the start of the game and again expoiting the game until they patch it, it's the one you get for having a save from BL1+2 Nothing came close to it that I tried in terms of mag, dmg, and rate of fire, it's hyperion so you know what to expect. You can get a new one each level by going to new game on the start screen, skipping the scene and quitting at the character select screen then select your character in use, the smasher pistol you get from that too is damn near as good as a maggie especially if you can roll a "two fer" kind.

Penn · 23-10-2014 8:27pm

Finished the main story. Admittedly, the enemies started getting a lot tougher towards the end, but the end boss was still too easy. Long enough fight, but easy. Only time I went into FFYL was just after I beat him and I stepped into corrosive ground.

Didn't get a legendary off him either. Some great blues and purples, but no legendary.

dreamers75 · 27-10-2014 2:40am

Finished the main story, havent cashed in so will do the sides before starting TVHM.

Its a DLC tbh, got it for 31 on g2play and feel it was a tenner more than it should have been. Good game all the same its exactly what it says it is, more of the same.

Assume the end is the beginning of Borderworlds, as the end of the game is after 2 i dont know why the "Kill you with brain" guy is helping or warning the vault hunters.

But with surviving vault hunters i assume they will be the playable characters Brick Lilith Mordecai,Axton, Salvador, Gaige, Krieg, Zero, Maya, Athena, Claptrap

Borderworlds was rumoured to be an MMO, hope its not. Also DLC for this could bring in more playables.

Spear · 27-10-2014 3:49pm

I've finished it, and I can't say I was either impressed or amused at any point. It was just more of the same, and felt like a chore to complete it. It just doesn't warrant a full price release, and should have been released as either an expansion or a €20 standalone.

calex71 · 27-10-2014 4:07pm

Spear wrote: »

I've finished it, and I can't say I was either impressed or amused at any point. It was just more of the same, and felt like a chore to complete it. It just doesn't warrant a full price release, and should have been released as either an expansion or a €20 standalone.

I liked the story and all the set up for stuff that will happen in borderlands 2 but you are right it felt like an add on and a half and many areas felt the same or lifeless devoid of even enemies for large stretches.

For me it would have made more sense to have featured the vault hunters from BL2 and take it up to the point where you wake up in the snow at the beginning of BL2.

I really don't have the same compulsion to go in and hunt loot and level badass ranks becasue I have nearly every gun, mod and shield already, most of the bosses who drop good stuff don't respawn and even if my badass ranks were 0% (most are 7 just from playing 1 character) There is nothing in the game I can't flatten in seconds even the 'raid boss'

For giggles I used the gun damage moxxitail from the bar on Iwajira and near one shotted him with my two fer maggie :pac: My shiny rocket launcher that dropped from him in the lava so I had to wade in and fetch it :mad:

viperirl · 28-10-2014 4:15pm

calex71 wrote: »

My shiny rocket launcher that dropped from him in the lava so I had to wade in and fetch it :mad:

Was it worth it though?

I picked up my fav launcher from BL2, the Badaboom, kinda prefered it over the old Norfleet due to it tighter spread.

Quite enjoyed the game myself despite its shortcomings. I've a level 50 Nisha and level 46 Wilhelm and loved their contrasting styles. Hated Nisha at first but gave her a chance and I'm glad I did. At lvl 50, Nisha is ridiculously overpowered when dual wielding a pair of Maggies and the Skullmasher sniper-rifle. Not the best at survivability but in terms of DPS, she's hard to beat.

They really need to do something about the endgame though. The lack of farmable bosses and NPC's that drop known legendaries seems to have annoyed a lot of fans of the series. Hardly used the grinder myself and a lot of legendary stuff that showed up in the vendors, I couldnt afford for ages. I think I prefered the old way of farming from BL2. (Just not with the lousy drop rates of BL2!). No better feeling that seeing that orange glow on the ground as you race over to it.

On the plus side, I felt that the skill trees where better constructed this time around and had less useless skills. And they seemed to scale well in TVHM too. Time will tell how that fares, if and when UVHM gets released.

calex71 · 28-10-2014 6:19pm

It's not really a rocket launcher more a grenade launcher, not a fan of them in general but most of the ones I tried in this were very poor at medium/long range, the Thingy launcher is ok though it throws out a cluster of homing corrosive nades, doesn't do a lot of damage from it's initial impact though.

Nisha is pretty much unkillable with her celestial class mod if you roll a high % health return for damage done !!!! I'm also using an oz kit that takes 20% off her already short cool down for showdown.

dreamers75 · 28-10-2014 6:37pm

Have yet to fight Nel, cant find the correct grenade type to make the Jump.

Iwajira is pathetic, easiest boss ever in the game. Have killed him before he even got close to me.

The spaceship and end dude are farmable but have yet to drop anything better than I have.

calex71 · 28-10-2014 6:52pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

Have yet to fight Nel, cant find the correct grenade type to make the Jump.

Iwajira is pathetic, easiest boss ever in the game. Have killed him before he even got close to me.

The spaceship and end dude are farmable but have yet to drop anything better than I have.

you mean to get the letters, took me a fair few falls but you don't need to grenade jump up or anything. If you want to do that just unequip the mod.

dreamers75 · 28-10-2014 7:20pm

calex71 wrote: »

you mean to get the letters, took me a fair few falls but you don't need to grenade jump up or anything. If you want to do that just unequip the mod.

For I?

Cant even get close to it on the last one.

calex71 · 28-10-2014 7:35pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

For I?

Cant even get close to it on the last one.

It's a 'd' and a 'k I think it was

I follow the same route these guys do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bO_8Vz7Wg8

If you need to do a grenade jump just remove your mod so it wont kill you.

dreamers75 · 28-10-2014 8:05pm

They grenade jump to get it, will try again later.

Seem to have lost all my guns and mods......

Cookie_Monster · 28-10-2014 8:16pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

They grenade jump to get it, will try again later.

the angled building with the dish you don't need to. The IC57 building you may, depending on which side you go up. Looking at it with IC57 to your right you can pad up on that side, jump to pipe and double jump to the slope at the back and walk up. If you go up the left hand side you need to grenade jump. did it last night, infuriating waste of time for nothing good and def not worth repeating

viperirl · 29-10-2014 11:00am

I never got a chance to play the original Borderlands game. Is it worth playing? 20 quid on steam. I realise that its old now and probably looks a little dated. I also heard that the PC port was less than optimal with a stupid fov but I believe this can be fixed in some of the ini files.

Angron · 29-10-2014 11:03am

viperirl wrote: »

I never got a chance to play the original Borderlands game. Is it worth playing? 20 quid on steam. I realise that its old now and probably looks a little dated. I also heard that the PC port was less than optimal with a stupid fov but I believe this can be fixed in some of the ini files.

It's a fun game, though the story did have a kinda disappointing ending. Not as good as 2, but enjoyable and funny. You could hold off and pick it up in the sales, I think there's a halloween sale in the next few days.

gizmo · 29-10-2014 12:31pm

viperirl wrote: »

I never got a chance to play the original Borderlands game. Is it worth playing? 20 quid on steam. I realise that its old now and probably looks a little dated. I also heard that the PC port was less than optimal with a stupid fov but I believe this can be fixed in some of the ini files.

€20 for the GOTY version of the game with all of the DLC is still pretty great value given the amount of hours of gameplay it offers. If it's just for the vanilla version then i'd say hold till you can get said version for said price.

dreamers75 · 29-10-2014 12:39pm

I find all 3 games so far lose the plot of themselves once you get into the final sections.

I am not a big story game fan but if there is a story at least finish it.

Angron · 29-10-2014 2:09pm

gizmo wrote: »

€20 for the GOTY version of the game with all of the DLC is still pretty great value given the amount of hours of gameplay it offers. If it's just for the vanilla version then i'd say hold till you can get said version for said price.

Just checked, it's 20 for the base edition on steam at the mo, 30 for GOTY.

gizmo · 29-10-2014 2:26pm

Angron wrote: »

Just checked, it's 20 for the base edition on steam at the mo, 30 for GOTY.

Aye, looked here and saw that the base was £20 so had a feeling it was just going to be for the vanilla. With the release of the Pre-Sequel BL2 content was on sale from a bunch of retailers recently but I'm sure the original will be back for similar prices around Halloween or Christmas.

Penn · 29-10-2014 3:32pm

Finished the main story with Claptrap. Was playing TVHM but cannot even get close to defeating Deadlift. One of the worst designed bosses I've ever come across. A level littered with jumppads and on multiple platforms, in a first person shooter, is ridiculous. It's near impossible to get second winds because the minor enemies are scattered all over the place, and falling off a platform or hitting a jumppad accidentally can happen way too often. Plus Deadlifts main attacks are all electric based. Electric laser, electric bubbles and electric floor. And if you lose track of him it's too hard to find him again due to the different platforms etc. It's an immense amount of bullsh*t crammed into one boss fight. Not to mention the amount of times I've gotten Meat Unicycle as Claptrap's skill, which is worthless in that fight.

Rather than progressing with Claptrap, I'm going to try Athena out for a while. Claptrap's skill is brilliant in some cases, diabolical in others. Pirate Ship mode is lethal, but too slow. Torgue Fiesta can do too much damage to yourself. Most of the rest are worthless apart from Blightbot. The randomness of it will be too dicey for me for TVHM.

Enjoying Athena so far. Going to progress down the Phalanx skill tree for playthrough 1, then the ceraunic storm one for TVHM. Should be a fairly good combo.

calex71 · 29-10-2014 4:19pm

Out of all the action skills nisha and wilhelm are instantly good. The other 2 only later on or depending on how you spec them , like with athena it will stop you taking damage but you have to be mindful of the time and aim at the end even then it's still not guaranteed a kill.

dreamers75 · 29-10-2014 5:04pm

Wilhelm with cool downs and shield boosts from column C then follow Column A and hes very strong with Wolf/Saint

calex71 · 29-10-2014 5:23pm

Just got another easter egg in serenity waste there , Phonic the Kraggon

He's blue and does a spinning attack and when you kill him end explodes a ring of money

:pac:

viperirl · 29-10-2014 5:41pm

This is my level 46 Wilhelm. In the first playthrough I only went down the Hunter-Killer tree but in TVHM I found that Wolf wasnt quite as effective in the later levels and I didnt want to be dependent on him for damage either. So I went down Cyber Commando to buff up Wilhelm himself plus some survivabilty from Deadnought yet keeping Wolf out as long as possible so he can provide a distraction. Laser Guided is great for that.
The Legendary class mod adds points to Fire Support, Man and Machine, Energise, Aux Tanks and Afterburner I think. Quite happy with this and I think its well balanced between DPS and survival.

Like to whip out the shotgun a lot too so I didnt think that Laser Focus was worth the extra damage it gives so I put just point in that.

http://thepresequel.com/Wilhelm/540110000001505020305150500000000

calex71 · 31-10-2014 11:48am

They have a halloween event on this weekend Un-Deadlift is dropping a unique shotgun. It fires exploding pumpkins.

calex71 · 02-11-2014 12:03pm

1st DLC announced http://borderlandsthegame.com/index.php/news/handsome-jack-is-coming-to-borderlands-the-pre-sequel-as-a-downloadable-add

Play as Jacks's double, can't say I've much interest to be honest.

dreamers75 · 05-11-2014 8:06pm

20 golden keys

PSN: C55BT-S95HR-FZT5J-H3K3J-5H5TW
Steam: C55BT-S95HK-HTT3J-B3J3J-5H5CR
Xbox Live: C55BT-S95CJ-CXX3R-C6J3J-5H5J3

sharmander · 12-11-2014 12:30am

Damn, I'm so annoyed I missed the event with un-Deadlift as that shotgun sounded awesome!

Has anyone bothered to play as Doppelganger Jack yet? I'm cautiously interested in trying him out. I initially tried to solo with Claptrap and got frustrated and started playing with Nisha instead. Already enjoying my campaign so much more!

calex71 · 12-11-2014 12:35am

sharmander wrote: »

Damn, I'm so annoyed I missed the event with un-Deadlift as that shotgun sounded awesome!

Has anyone bothered to play as Doppelganger Jack yet? I'm cautiously interested in trying him out. I initially tried to solo with Claptrap and got frustrated and started playing with Nisha instead. Already enjoying my campaign so much more!

It wasn't , check their website / forums I know they issued a shift key for it. Might still work.

dreamers75 · 12-11-2014 12:46am

The DLC is just a character....no levels. I was expecting TinyTina/KNoxx type addon, not worth a tenner.

sharmander · 12-11-2014 12:47am

Fantastic news! Thank you so much for letting me know.

Thanks to yourself and Angron I'll have that shotgun and all the shift codes I'd missed over the last few weeks.

Generic Dreadhead · 12-11-2014 12:01pm

From reading the thread I'm glad I waited/will wait for a GOTY Edition of this.

calex71 · 12-11-2014 7:56pm

UVHM announced http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-19795-Ultimate-Vault-Hunter-Mode-Coming-to-Borderlands--The-Pre-Sequel.html

and its free.

Not sure what the point would be without a level cap increase though. Even at that I'd certainly not be willing to reacquire stuff in this to the extent I did in BL2 where I did it .... how many times was the cap raised ???? 3 I think wasn't it?

calex71 · 15-11-2014 8:13pm

3 new achievements listed for this, from the looks of them it's an arena :mad:

So glad I didn't get a season pass now.

Mr E · 08-03-2015 5:30pm

New DLC (Claptastic Voyage) coming on March 27th.

http://borderlandsthegame.com/index.php/news/borderlands-the-pre-sequel-claptastic-voyage-and-ultimate-vault-hunter-upgr

In Claptastic Voyage, Handsome Jack has found something ludicrously powerful within Claptrap’s mind. Never one to turn down a chance for more power, Handsome Jack digitizes the Vault Hunters and sends them inside! Their goal is simple: find the mysterious “H-Source” code and get out of Claptrap’s consciousness without going completely insane. These anti-heroes will have to deal with Claptrap’s personal insecurities, his malware, and digital representations of his crushing loneliness.

Claptastic Voyage will answer important Borderlands questions like why Claptrap loves dubstep so much, all while exploring his inner most thoughts. You’ll also get a chance to visit all-new environments, make new friends (and run into some old ones), and get some new gear as well as new unique Achievements or Trophies. On top of that, Claptastic Voyage features a new customizable arena that lets you choose your own gravity settings, enemy difficulty, and more. There’s also a brand new glitched weapons system and many more fun surprises for you to discover.

Additionally, the Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack 2 is included as bonus content in the last add-on pack for the Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Season Pass, which raises the level cap to 70, giving each of your characters 10 new levels, plus 10 new skill points to earn.

Could be fun, but I'm a borderlands burnout....

Generic Dreadhead · 09-03-2015 11:20am

Cormac... wrote: »

From reading the thread I'm glad I waited/will wait for a GOTY Edition of this.

Present Cormac agrees with Past Cormac.

Looks like the Handsome Jack collection is the way to go

EoinMcLovin · 23-03-2015 6:13pm

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!

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