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Anyone play it? I'm sure most of the Forum doesn't really play Video Games.

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My neighbor and his girl are addicted to it... I haven't got on the sticks yet but I can say from an onlooker point of view it seems badass... :tu

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Do you have an Xbox?

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I play it on pc. Pretty fun. I have like a level 25 Assasin and a 20 Siren.

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I just beat it today with Zer0. Gonna start the next playthrough next week sometime.

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I thought about picking it up but am prolly just gonna go for Black Ops 2 instead.

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Yep. I've got a L25/26 Zero. Just started a mechromancer as well.

Seems a lot longer than its predecessor. I've got 59 or so hours logged (good lord.) but I suspect I'm probably only about 2/3 through the baseline story.

Does it have the same kind of replay mechanic that B1 had? Where you could start over and run through it again scaled up to your existing level and toys?

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I have a few friends who are playing this. I am thinking about picking it up but waiting till I can find it used or on sale. :noon

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Watched My neighbor beat the final boss on BL2... Looks Awesome.... :tu

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My gf's son got it and beat it in 3 days in XBox then goes back to do all the achievements

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I have a level 45 I (think) Zer0. I just started a Mechromancer as well today. That's like Level 3 or something goofy. j
Yes sir it does have the First and Second playthrough options.
I heard about a site selling it for $45. Want me to find the site? It was posted on another Forum I barely frequent, they have a wicked Borderlands 2 thread though.
Final boss was actually easy. I had trouble at first then found a glitch off to the side where you can shoot at him, but you can't get hurt by his attacks, or the Crystalisks.
Yea, that's what I did. I did also start the "True Vault Hunter" playthrough. You start out at your rank at the end of your first playthrough. You then start playing through the game again. Enemies are harder, loot is better, etc.

I'm on Xbox Live: BHalbrooks if anyone needs help with a boss or anything.

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I loved the original, I'll be playing 2 just as soon as my new laptop arrives next week :)

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Finished the main line. Very happy with it. A couple of the near ending zones are really awesome. Plus an orange shield that's a melee damage shield and reflects bullets back as corrosion damage doesn't suck. :p

There's already another DLC? Just downloaded and started it last night.

I'll go back and do the other stuff later.

Finished the main quest line and most side quests at L33 with Zer0.

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So if you follow Gearbox on twitter and/or like them on Facebook you can get a code (one each) for unlocking a new "golden chest key." Active 'til 9:00 am EDT this morning.

Just found out about 'em.

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I play on the PC with the girlfriend. I have a few LAN characters with other people tho, so if anyone wants to start up a game with me, I am more than happy to.

My steam ID is thelifeofmyself. Add me. :)

As far as my progress, level 32 at the moment, I suspect the games main storyline is coming to an end soon. I am currently playing as Assassin (Zer0) and my skill build is pretty much entirely melee based. The girlfriend is a Siren and went a combo of sniping and team health bonuses. I have been having a TON of fun with the "Law & Order" pistol - shield combo.

If anyone here has been thinking about getting the game, I have an extra CD-KEY that I won for the game ( I already had it preordered ). You can enter into Steam and download the game. It comes with the Mechromancer. I was thinking maybe a trade for sticks or other things of interest. (It's for PC)

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Oh the L&O combo was great. I have this horrible problem where I hang on to the old named items even though they've outlived their usefulness. The bank is full of stuff like that. But I'm on my 2nd playthrough and the shotgun with the hyperion bot AI is just useless this time around.

A...a sniping siren o.O? Melee speced Zer0?

I clearly lack imagination.

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Anyone still play this? Just recently stumbled on a "Alkaline The Bee" Amplify shield. This thing is ridiculously OP... Takes my normal 2000 dmg pistol shots and amplifies them to 17k damage a shot with no shot drain. The enemies literally explode in a bloody mess when I shoot them. Using a shotgun makes this thing a 1 shot boss killer. Crazy damage.

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Yep. I was playing around in the save editor, seeing what kinda things were available and I ran across that one. I'd love to find one legit that I could use. Simply amazing damage, and wicked fast recharge!

Paired with a "Maggie" pistol, it can be even deadlier than a shotty. Maggie pistol is a legendary Jacobs pistol - except I think it's firing .410 shotgun shells :) --- a level 38 maggie does 1203 x6 dmg, and it sends those 6 rounds out in a very tight cone (81.2 accuracy). Get lucky with a "loaded" variant and your sending 14 of those rounds downrange as fast as you can pull the trigger, and with the usual fast as hell jacobs reload. (for comparison, a lvl 38 Jacobs Law pistol does around 3500 dmg, one bullet).

For a legal pairing, A nice Blue quality Vladof TMP pistol can be incredibly deadly with the Bee shield as well, you just have to remember to pop out, spray and duck behind something again.

I ended up going back to my Law & Order combo (legally found items). I thought the Law & Order combo was crazy OP for a melee assassin, but the Bee put it to shame, made it not even fun anymore :P

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yaeh I'm clocking WAY too many hours on B2. I'm about half way through the 2nd playthrough with zer0 and I just respecced him for melee, which is a *****. I just can't get the hang of it.

I think i'm at L47 or so. Once I tag 50 I'm going to start hunting legendaries.

First time around I found a couple shields off the Warrior. But they were L35 so they're just in the stash now.

The arena DLC is busting my balls with zer0. I just can't seem to tank enough damage. I get lucky when there's a goliath or two to let loose. But failing that I get squished pretty easily.

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You need a LAW pistol (any level will do, its not for shooting) and a an Order shield. Then you can tank damage like crazy :) (both blue level items)
Combine that with a high end health boosting relic (cooldown and melee dmg relics work well also) and you can tank a shitload of damage.
(law&order basically says that any melee damage you do with lalw gets absorbed back as health if you have order equipped)

Have you played the pirates DLC? there's a gun you get that gives you +200% melee damage. If you cant get law and order, that would be a good second bet, that and enough backstab and you'll never come out of deception till almost everyone is dead.

there's definitely a bit of a "dance" involved in meleeing guys, but I find the non badasses you can dance around and get in 6 solid hits on someone without them touching you.

I tried respecing mine as a sniper, but everytime a guy got close I wanted to run up and slice him.... only difference, he didn't die when I did this as a sniper! I had to go back to the melee build.

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I've got the Law. I just can't remember which quest the order shield comes from.

I've just restarted the pirates dlc with the second playthrough. I must've ignored the gun the first time around as I was sniping.

If it wasn't for Moxxi's shotgun (heartbreaker I think?) I'd be squashed. It's strange, because the specs don't look so good. It's a fast firing burn elemental gun. But something about it just rips through everything, even though at the level I've got it it's like 1500x12 or something.

I've got a healing relic that's at 125 or so. What I wouldn't give for a bullet regen rec. But alas, that's Salvador's wheelhouse.

Most success I've had so far with melee was that mess of a battle to meet Brick. There are so many non-badasses that I just couldn't be stopped. Getting the groove of it was an awesome adrenaline rush.

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looks like the LAW comes from the first mission you do in sanctuary for the marshall (solve the murder).

The ORDER comes from the second marshal friedman mission in sanctuary later on (truxican standoff - figure out who stole the money and shoot em)

I'm still early in the second playthrough, Sanctuary just got phased. But I remember having the same feelings about moxies shotty in the first playthrough, it was oddly good!

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AH! Thanks. Yeah I remember that one. Haven't gotten there yet.

Yeah, something's peculiar about that shotgun. I'm not complaining of course. But I'm not getting rid of it either.

I wish there were more "ai" type guns, like the loader ai shotgun. I outleveled that thing in about 12 seconds. I like it when my weapons make up a peanut gallery. :)

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God, I couldn't stand that gun ,drove me nuts! I think second time around I'm going to make a shield and see what it does....

I'm finding the second time around to be pleasantly more challenging... the first playthrough was a very relaxing slaughter to me.... this time around I actually need a second wind more often than I would like, and have to be careful around certain groups of enemies and fight much more tactical....

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Problem with the second play through is the 27 item limit. I spend most of my play time involved in inventory management. They need to jack that up to the low 40s like in 1.

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VERY true. And it hurts fundraising too, because you never have enough room to really pick up a load of stuff. Kinda thought we see some of that expanded in the last DLC...

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Indeed. Or at LEAST fix the bank interface. God it's so awful I don't use it.

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Played the Pirates DLC, waiting to download the Arena until they come out with a Cap increase since I'm at 50 already.

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are you playing on a pc? or xbox/ps3?

I'm on a PC, and its very apparent that the interface for all the inventory screens is worse than on the consoles. It's a workable port of the interface... but not very good, a far cry from what it could be...

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Yep. PC. It's such an obvious lowest common denominator interface. Same thing Bethesda does with their games. How the UI to the recent Fallouts/Elder Scrolls is acceptable is utterly beyond me.

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yup. see the thing is, it didnt have to be that way in borderlands. it's so obvious that with just a very few tiny tweaks to the way the UI handled input, it could have been leaps and bounds better.

Even the way you have to constantly bounce between mini pages to access different parts of your bag, your self, your character stats, etc - that's totally workable with a console controller, just not with a mouse! and don't get me started on the tiny favorite/delete buttons that you have to click with themouse. HELLOO, would it have killed them to just assign that to a key?

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Get the final skill in the Bloodshed Tree "Many Must Fall" and use it in tandom with "Execute" from the same tree.. Just keep hitting melee and zip around meleeing everyone you see while in deception with little to no consequences. It's remarkably crazy. Don't slack in "F0ll0wthr0ough" since the speed bonus between kills will help you get to the next target quickly.

Invest whatever points you have left over into "C0unter Strike" from the Cunning tree for some good power while people are busy shooting at you. From there try to get to "Death Mark" and "Unf0rseen"

And yes, if you can find the LAW pistol and Order sheild, which are both quest drops, use them with that spec and you'll tank around the battlefield like you have never imagined.

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This would be my ideal Zer0 Melee build:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...meleebuild.jpg

You can try building your own here:
http://www.borderlands2.com/us/skilltree/assassin.html

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I enjoyed the first more but i play this a bit here and tgere

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Been loving the game and stuck at 50, damn level cap.

Been farming the legandary weapons lately. Finally started beating the raid bosses.

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Here's something that's been driving me NUTS.

What's Captain Scarlett's accent?

Heaven help me if I ever encounter it in the real world.

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Aussie ;)

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See I didn't think it was. It sounds a bit off from Aussie to me, but not quite Kiwi either.

Then again, I suppose Australia is a big place, with rather more regional variety than I'm likely aware of.

"Colleen Clinkenbeard, the voice of Lilth, Tannis and now Captain Scarlett. Scarlett's voice is pretty much Lilith's with an accent."

So it's a put on. No wonder I can't quite place it.

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I could be wrong, I just assumed it was, but I have very little experience in aussie accents, I'd probably have trouble telling Kiwi and Aussie apart in some cases.

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Been grinding a bit and just tagged 50 last night.

The Law gun ALSO can drop off the Sheriff in Lynchwood, which is good because I got to replace my L38 with a L48 that does 13k base damage and is entirely worth carrying at L50.

Also picked up the +200% melee rifle from the dlc and, yeah, you're right. It's insane.

Still using Moxxi's Heart Breaker. At L41 it's still one of my favorite guns. It's got a high elemental %, very fast reload and "increasing accuracy", so it's pretty much guaranteed to light people on fire.

My heart really belongs to Jakobs though.

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Congrats :tu

AMEN to that! Seems like half my snipers are Jacobs.... the other half are Vladoff. Same story with the pistols, love me a Vladoff machine pistol to go with my Jacobs pistol.

not sure if the pirates booty DLC level is fixed, or based on when you start it with your character. It it's anywhere near your high level now, you might want to check out this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMEaZYwYgXw

Shows you how to glitch back into the final treasure room, even after the leviathan is dead gone, and the DLC beaten. (Anyone remember the General Knoxx trick? yeah, same idea, except much more complicated). Took me about 20-30 minutes to learn (but I also watched the good video last, DOH). Key point in the video thats REALLY easy to miss - IF YOU DIE AT ALL, SAVE AND QUIT!!! The exploit becomes IMPOSSIBLE to do after you die, you have to reload. But now it's EASY for me, takes me about two minutes to get into the treasure room.
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I looted a few decent E-Tech weapons from there, a legendary class mod (that would be good at any level), and my personal favorite, a legitimate "Trick Shot Maggie" pistol... and I love my Maggie! combine that with a bee, and you've got a very nasty force.

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It's definitely scaled. When I hit the end of the DLC on the second playthrough, everything will definitely be 50/51 or so.

I'll skip the glitching. It's too close to just editing saves for me.

I put Zer0 on the back burner and started a Mechro. Between Anarchy and "Upshot Robot" it gets crazy. I'm definitely going to climb up the BFF ladder, then Little Big Trouble. The only Chaos point I have is 1 in Anarchy.

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hehehe, I have far shadier morals when it comes to my gaming :tg

My Zer0 is at level 45, not long to go...

Back around level 35 I opened up the zero in a character editor and changed him to a Mechro. With Anarchy and the shield recharge skill (kill something, full shields), it was NUTS. I owned everything... but... I just don't like anarchy. I'm too much of a precision player, the inability to aim really drove me nuts! (Not surprisingly, Mordacai was my main guy in Borderlands 1 :tg)

I've been thinking about making a commando next... but meh, not sure I'll invest the time to get him leveled.

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Hammerlock was fun. *burp*

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which part? :)

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New mobs. Tough little sons of *****es. I played the main quest line through and a couple of the side missions. Some of the stuff they put in there was REALLY annoying. Nothing I hate more than timed quests. Escort missions come close. But not quite.

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first playthrough, or second?

I got bored once I started the second... I guess I'm ~halfway through the second playthrough... not sure I'll ever finish it...

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I played it after (but still within) the first playthrough. L39 Mech. I've retired my zer0 (aside from some warrior farming now and again) until they raise the level cap.

It still doesn't come close to the Dr. Ned dlc from BL1.

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mm yeah, dr. ned was fun.
I think my Zero is up to level 44.... just don't have the motivation to finish him out to 50...

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See that's what I like about zer0. I can just play it like a carnival arcade. Sit someplace and pop badguys with a really nasty sniper rifle for a while if I get in that kind of mood.