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toasterwarrior posted:vvv: True but goddamn is it the worst thing in solo. I was not being serious, it really is abominable design on multiple levels, solo or multiplayer. Since enemies get randomly-generated weapons too, there's absolutely nothing keeping a random RPG Loader from getting a laser-accurate rocket launcher with projectiles that travel faster than bullets and instantly downing you from a kilometer away just by looking in your general direction. This recently happened to me twice on the upper path to the Info Stockade. After I was downed the first time, there were still a couple loaders left alive way over on the other end of the highway, so I tried to snipe them, thinking that it would be safer than being up close with their splash damage. I literally don't even see them fire before suddenly my shields are gone and I have 5% of my health left. Rockets are balanced for players by the fact that you can't carry much launcher ammo, launchers have really long reload speeds, enemies have more health than you, and there are multiple enemies compared to only one of you. So when multiple enemies get these things things capable of one-shotting you, dealing splash damage, and traveling really really fast, there's a pretty goddamn serious problem with balance.
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Poque posted:Is there an agreed-upon method of fixing the game when it just refuses to run? I have the game through Steam and built a new PC over the weekend, and unfortunately BL2 refuses to launch through Steam. If I have my Friends window open, it says I'm "Now Playing Borderlands 2" for a couple seconds, but never even gets to the splash screen, and goes back to listing me as "Online". I found a weird workaround where I can launch the .exe with a .txt file in the main game folder, but the player files don't synchronize with Steam and I risk losing any progress I make while playing this way, and probably prevents me from playing with friends on Steam.
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gibbed posted:Did you validate game files to regenerate the executable? If not, it's probably Steam's DRM kicking in (it ties the executable to your system/hardware). I've been doing the 'verify game cache' but I'm not sure if that's the same thing you're saying. Every time I do that, it says it finds files it needs to redownload, but it doesn't fix the issue. Is that different than what you're suggesting? If it is, is the validation something I can do or should I contact Steam support? I kind of hope it's the latter, since dealing with Steam support is a drat fine experience.
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Gestalt Intellect posted:I was not being serious, it really is abominable design on multiple levels, solo or multiplayer. Since enemies get randomly-generated weapons too, there's absolutely nothing keeping a random RPG Loader from getting a laser-accurate rocket launcher with projectiles that travel faster than bullets and instantly downing you from a kilometer away just by looking in your general direction. Ah, sorry if I sounded a bit sardonic there, but yes, enemy rocketeers are no fun to fight against. There's plenty they could've done to cut down on their poo poo: limit them to one a mob, give them a wind-up animation or laser sight tell, give them a fixed weapon instead of random ones; but no, anyone playing the final stage of that arena quest is going to have to deal with five (?) RPG Loaders with practically no cover.
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Dec 3, 2012 18:42
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Is there any good reason to hold onto cash greater than 40k? Since ammo and re spawn costs scale with amount of cash available, I can't think of any reason. Occasionally something at a vendor catches my eyes, bit it's still really cheap.
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Poque posted:I've been doing the 'verify game cache' but I'm not sure if that's the same thing you're saying. Every time I do that, it says it finds files it needs to redownload, but it doesn't fix the issue. Is that different than what you're suggesting? If it is, is the validation something I can do or should I contact Steam support? I kind of hope it's the latter, since dealing with Steam support is a drat fine experience. Don't know what your issue is then.
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gibbed posted:No, that's what I'm talking about. The single file it always redownloads is the executable. Then once you run the game it'll regenerate the executable. Thanks for the help anyway. I'll contact Steam and 2K and see what's up.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Is there any good reason to hold onto cash greater than 40k? Since ammo and re spawn costs scale with amount of cash available, I can't think of any reason. Occasionally something at a vendor catches my eyes, bit it's still really cheap. I thought ammo costs scaled with zone level? But no, there's gently caress all to spend money on. Gambling, I guess.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Is there any good reason to hold onto cash greater than 40k? Since ammo and re spawn costs scale with amount of cash available, I can't think of any reason. Occasionally something at a vendor catches my eyes, bit it's still really cheap. At level 50 I've seen vendor items that run well over 100k pretty regularly. I imagine if a unique shows up there it could potentially be quite expensive. That's the only reason I can think of though.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Is there any good reason to hold onto cash greater than 40k? Since ammo and re spawn costs scale with amount of cash available, I can't think of any reason. Occasionally something at a vendor catches my eyes, bit it's still really cheap. There's a challenge to have 3 million dollars. Other than that there's no real reason to have money but there's no real reason not to have money either.
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Poque posted:
Uninstall your nvidia drivers and do a complete registry wipe of it (the drivers, not your registry). Re-install using the latest WHQL drivers from nvidia. You may need to reinstall/repair directx after this. If it still doesn't work, do a clean install of win7. If you don't want to bother with the drivers, just skip to reinstalling windows. Aenslaed fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Dec 3, 2012 |
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Objectives: 1.) Shoot The Sheriff. 2.) Do Not Shoot The Deputy. 
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poptart_fairy posted:Objectives:
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nnnnghhhhgnnngh posted:
Oh god that one is a royal pain in the rear end if you're decked head to toe in E-tech weaponry, like I am on my Axton. Nothing can knock off his hat, and then he makes quick work of me. My turrets pick me up real fast, but it's still annoying.
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Aenslaed posted:Uninstall your nvidia drivers and do a complete registry wipe of it (the drivers, not your registry). Re-install using the latest WHQL drivers from nvidia. You may need to reinstall/repair directx after this. If it still doesn't work, do a clean install of win7. If you don't want to bother with the drivers, just skip to reinstalling windows. Thanks much, I'll give this a shot when I get home. Another friend has also suggested checking disk logs for errors, but that seems less likely since the game runs, just not through Steam.
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Kikas posted:Oh god that one is a royal pain in the rear end if you're decked head to toe in E-tech weaponry, like I am on my Axton. Nothing can knock off his hat, and then he makes quick work of me. That screenshot, the guy is wielding two legendary launchers that start at something like 300k damage. I wish enemies dropped their guns on death, i miss that from BL1. nnnnghhhhgnnngh fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Dec 3, 2012 |
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Apparently there's a site called Play-SC.com that's selling BL2 keys for $20p and my friend is thinking about buying one. I know gently caress-all about key sellers, so unless I hear otherwise from goons, I just assume that they're all shady as gently caress. Anyone bought from these guys and/or know if they're legit, or should I stick with my gut and not mess with them? Edit: VVV Thanks. That's kind of the vibe I was getting from them. Also didn't realize they were an international key-seller, so hope this didn't break the rules. Hellburger99 fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Dec 3, 2012 |
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Hellburger99 posted:Apparently there's a site called Play-SC.com that's selling BL2 keys for $20p and my friend is thinking about buying one. I know gently caress-all about key sellers, so unless I hear otherwise from goons, I just assume that they're all shady as gently caress. Anyone bought from these guys and/or know if they're legit, or should I stick with my gut and not mess with them? After Googling around a bit, they sound like a grey-market Russian key reseller. Avoid them. People have lost Steam accounts from that kind of poo poo.
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Kaubocks posted:However, we may have been fighting these bosses the wrong way or something but... we found Piston's Zeppelin and Badassasaurus to be unnecessarily lovely boss fights. Is there an Actual Method for fighting those or is it seriously just "throw yourselves at them until they die"?  v
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Poque posted:I've been doing the 'verify game cache' but I'm not sure if that's the same thing you're saying. Every time I do that, it says it finds files it needs to redownload, but it doesn't fix the issue. Is that different than what you're suggesting? If it is, is the validation something I can do or should I contact Steam support? I kind of hope it's the latter, since dealing with Steam support is a drat fine experience. I had this problem when the first DLC patch hit. Solved it by backing up my save files and deleting and redownloading the entire game.
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So I just reached the point in the main storyline where you get Jack's voice and using Zer0 and I am loving rolling with laughter right now.
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Just a tip for you guys starting out: Acid shotguns are really effective against buzzards. The majority can't hit a dude from ten feet away for poo poo, but a giant vehicle? Unless they're so far they're almost a dot, a lot if not all of your spread will make contact, and shotguns are so stupid loving strong you can usually two-three shot them. This is great to remember when you don't have an automatic acid weapon or a fast rocket launcher.
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nnnnghhhhgnnngh posted:
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nnnnghhhhgnnngh posted:I would carry a regular sniper rifle just for Goliaths. Popping off their helmets is really one of my favorite details about the game. I remember getting absolutely murdered in the section after the dam with the two turrets (on the way to Krom's canyon? I don't really remember.) There was a guy on the ground absolutely shredding me, over and over and over again. Finally killed him, he dropped...a Hellfire. Felt pretty okay after that.
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nnnnghhhhgnnngh posted:I wish enemies dropped their guns on death, i miss that from BL1. Yeah that seriously annoys me. I haven't seen an orange drop in literally a hundred hours of playing. But I've seen numerous enemies loving using them against me. Then I kill them and they drop a white smig. Same goes for cool E-Tech guns that hit me for like 14k at level 40 and poo poo like that. The only E-Tech I find are Darts. Unrelated: Does anyone like Hero's Pass? What a hell hole. I can't stand to run back to the Warrior because it's such a pain in the rear end. RyokoTK fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Dec 4, 2012 |
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If you're just trying to farm the Warrior (or Bunker for that matter) simply save & quit and then reload. You'll respawn beside the shops and can fight the boss again without strolling through the previous area first.
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RyokoTK posted:
I do, actually, or at least I did on first playthrough mode. Haven't done it as often on TVHM yet, so maybe I'll change my tune. Fake Edit: ^^^^ Gotta remember that, thanks!
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Fina posted:If you're just trying to farm the Warrior (or Bunker for that matter) simply save & quit and then reload. You'll respawn beside the shops and can fight the boss again without strolling through the previous area first. Oh, I know that, but on my most recent character I accidentally hit the TVHM button when it was first prompted and lost my checkpoint. 
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Does the sanctuary chest no longer have etech weapons? edit: i guess they do, its just way less frequent Tyree fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Dec 4, 2012 |
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Epic High Five posted:I just instinctively hit ggggg One of the reasons I always carry a sniper rifle is so I can knock the helmets off those guys before they can start shooting. EDIT: Looks like others do, too. And I didn't even quote the right post, either. But still! For more content, if you like toying with Goliaths, go to the Eridium Blight. The bandit camps to the west seem to spawn them like crazy and I've gotten 5-way goliath duels on more than one occasion. Jabarto fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Dec 4, 2012 |
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Yeah I often forget Goliaths are plenty of a threat with the helmet on. Even the normal ones deal shitloads of damage. I just wish the goliath AI weren't so horrible. They'll be at Ultimate and suddenly go passive and not react to anything around them, just walk around until they're killed. They will also frequently leap to their deaths.
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Bobnumerotres posted:Yeah I often forget Goliaths are plenty of a threat with the helmet on. Even the normal ones deal shitloads of damage. Sometimes if one jumps at me when I'm on an inclined surface, it'll glitch through the ground and become invisible/untargetable. Kinda funny hearing their insane rantings coming from the ground like some kind of poltergeist, though.
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I somehow still haven't been downed doing the challenge, so I'm wondering if I maybe need some sort of additional restriction to keep me from getting overleveled, since that's probably making it easier than it should be. If I kept myself from doing any sidequests at all I would probably end up comparatively underleveled, so I need to find something in between to balance it out. Pretty soon the game will be expecting me to use blues and purples though, so maybe it will change. Anyway, this Torgue assault rifle is getting pretty outdated. I screwed with some SweetFX settings to lower the saturation by a lot because I'm getting sick of looking at all this color, but I couldn't lower it by much more than this before the menus started to become kinda unreadable. Maybe later.  Oh hell yes. The addition of snipers to the drops is a massive benefit and immediately makes things far easier.  It pretty much obliterates everything.  What's your name, sexy?  I don't have a vehicle skin more boring than this one, but it's good enough.  Super grenade!  Until enemy get really close to me, snipers are pretty much all I'm using now. I bought a good-looking Dahl one from a vending machine before realizing it had a five-shot burst, which was really grinding through my pathetic ammo reserves, so I had to go back to the Vladof.  I won't be able to get any more SDUs after these, but I guess they'll help a little.  I'm really not sure why I'm still carrying this thing around since I can't use it. It's sort of a permanent reminder to always remain loyal to my higher principles. I put it in the stash for now, and will stare at it hatefully anytime I become tempted to use not-terrible weapons in the future.  Finally! Vending machines hardly ever have good class mods so I can tell I'll be getting a lot of use out of them.  I can't take this quest because it will eventually require me to use an E-tech gun to progress, and that won't happen on my watch.  I see this for sale right after the other mod and go for it. While I never use Technophile mods under normal circumstances due to their disappointing skills and the fact that their shield buffs are additive rather than multiplicative, that very fact is a good reason to use them now. An additive shield increase is just what I need to help with my mediocre capacity right now. Plus, the Technophile box is cute.  That is not refuse, Hammerlock.  The car is pretty great in situations like this. Its guns know no rarity scale.  Oh come on I've never even seen a purple item this early in the game bef-  goddammit  Hilariously lucky anarchy-fueled crits from the Vladof sniper is pretty much how I get through Southpaw Steam & Power.  Current skills.  Frostburn Canyon is extremely disappointing. I don't find a single item worth using.  It also goes out of its way to make fun of me.  I have to be careful not to go down here since Lilith is really good at "helping" you by stealing your FFYL kills. She's like Deathtrap in public games. You know, the one that always follows you around when you go down, starts restoring the shields of the enemy you're shooting, then comes back and kills it just before you do.  Finally, a Vladof assault rifle! I love these things.  Money, surprisingly, has a lot of uses for this challenge. Vending machines offer a lot of white equipment and I have to keep buying small upgrades to stay competitive. It's how my Technophile mod now offers an impressively ineffectual +40 shield capacity! This shield costs me my last penny.
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Bobnumerotres posted:I just wish the goliath AI weren't so horrible. The game's AI seems pretty terrible in general. Enemies will happily attack through solid walls, most obvious with adult varkids. Bandits sometimes get stuck in loops, jumping in and out of cover. And Deathtrap. I really hope Gearbox will fix that thing someday.
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I got my copy for like $25 from a russian site. It worked no problem, and also for a friend. A second friend bought it, and he had to vpn to a russian server to get the game downloaded but it works fine now. Also a question: If someone had a bee before the 1.2.0 update, does it get nerfed, or is it only new bees that drop?
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Tiger.Bomb posted:Also a question: If someone had a bee before the 1.2.0 update, does it get nerfed, or is it only new bees that drop? The individual components that make the item up were nerfed, so it's all of them.
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Borderlands is so subtle when it comes to foreshadowing  -Story spoilers- http://i.imgur.com/lteEb.jpg Taken in Roland's cell.
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Lima posted:Borderlands is so subtle when it comes to foreshadowing I like the game's plot but holy poo poo it made me angry when it took control away from you so Jack could monologue, shoot Roland and then capture Lilith. It's like, loving hell game, one thing - one thing - you make me repeat for the last thirty hours of gameplay and you even take that away so my character just stares like a moron for fifteen seconds.
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poptart_fairy posted:I like the game's plot but holy poo poo it made me angry when it took control away from you so Jack could monologue, shoot Roland and then capture Lilith. It might have been the end right there. The whole Thousand Cuts climb, especially that Badass Constructor at the top took me way to many tries for a mid-game fight. RyokoTK posted:Yeah that seriously annoys me. I haven't seen an orange drop in literally a hundred hours of playing. But I've seen numerous enemies loving using them against me. Then I kill them and they drop a white smig.
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