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Am i the only one who loves what the Goliath's come out with when you pop their helmets off lol everytime it has me in stitches haha

They have so many sadistic comments its great :D

its weird how some people are having such hard times with the game whilst others are finding it really easy!

it seems pretty balanced to me. some area's are easier and i do time from time to time but i haven't found it impossible!

It has its moments of real difficulty normally caused by being excessively gun-ho and not using cover. But lets be honest, from all we've seen of Mal's posts we have enough evidence to conclude that half of what he says is made up and the rest is him complaining about being terrible at the game because of a complete lack of understanding of the mechanics by the look of it.

Just got to Chapter 13, level 25, 35 hours in, 46% Steam achievements.

I wonder if its the pacing of the person rather than the game?

They should've made it so enemies in certain areas had a minimum level (so you couldn't whizz through the game facing low level enemies) but then they scaled with you, even if it they do drop a little below you now and then. It does get a bit stupid when you go to Lynchwood before doing the BNK-3R quest and fight lvl29-30 bandits, then you do the story mission and you're fighting things several levels lower. Then when you go into some areas beyond that story mission you are STILL fighting lower level enemies.
 
@Mal X this might sound obvious but are you upgrading you know you can upgrade your slots you say that you have only 5 grenades! Spend some eridium or whatever it's called and upgrade you slots, also if you can get hold of a gold key from a shift code this helps massively I unlocked the chest in sanctuary at level 23 and got some superb weapons.
 
The problem with the golden key is you could easily get 2 pistols, 2 shields, heck even 2 class mods that arent your class. It'd be better if it was an exclusive chest which had say 1 shield, 2 different weapons, a nade mod, something like that, rather than potentially giving you something you've absolutely zero use for, and feel like you've waited for something potentially awesome and been cheated.


Last night i tried the player hack from BL1, basically scans the games memory, finds how many people are in your game, and you move a slider to however many you want the game to believe are playing, so you can technically knock it up a notch to make it harder, get slightly better loot, plus harder and more baddies to take out.
I went from end of PT1 done 2p co-op, to start of PT2 1p with 4p tweak, its a whole different game :D
Doing the very early mission from the first town to claptraps boat and back, killing Boom & Bewm on the way and then Captain Flynt at the ship, holy smokes, they're tough, cos they're 4 player difficulty (+PT2), with 1 person for them to target, and 1 person doing any damage.
Even same level bandits (w/ shield) were taking about 5-6 headshots with a very good elemental sniper (orange) (~2k damage, 400-500 element)


Mal X:
I think most people would disagree with you on Bulletstorm, its fun, but its considered a very average game for a casual gamer. Borderlands is still fun & casual but still works as a decent fps.

With BL2 you really have to look at items as a whole, not 1 or 2 stats. The best gun isnt simply the one with the most damage, you need to look at accuracy, capacity, reload time, elemental stats, plus any other 'gimmick' it might carry, like firing 2 shots, burst on focus/scope.
I mention this because the other items are similar, like your fire burst shield, theres a good half dozen basic types of shield flavours, whether its a standard shield, fire burst, or the others i wont spoil. Grenades too, there are nades which dont even require good aim, and understanding exactly what the benefits of each stat, and variation of a type of loot, is very important.
You could have a really high dmg/protection shield, but if it has a 5sec delay before it'll start to recover, once its depleted you've got to hide for a while before it even starts repairing, it could be 20sec before your back to full shield.
However on the opposite end of the scale, a low protection shield which takes 2sec to start repairing, a high repair rate, and its fully repaired in 10sec.
Likewise, using your playing style as a scenario, if your sniping, and they're shooting back from distance, when your sheild is dropped it lets out a fire burst... not really that relevant when your up in the hills or something, but if you were in the thick of it, SMG, Shotgun etc, then it's of better use.
Theres a very handy type of shield for snipers, i wont name it (unless you want me to), but it plays to those strengths you mention.
Thats the key to BL2 really, building a character around your playing style, and maintaining some variety because you may encounter something that doesnt suit your style, and you can either chip away, or switch weapon and find something that does more damage momentarily, then go back as you were.

Understanding the stats, and how to identify what makes a piece of loot good, great, or useless, is quite important.
 
I did the hidden journals mission in the highlands for tannis and a badass fire thresher turns up, kills me instantly and i go back and it appears again and I fire a corrosive rocket launcher at it and it disappears. Is this a bug?
 
Holy random difficulty spike!

Fighting BNK-3R or whatever that flying thing was came down to utter chaos and eventually just camping by the vending machines with a corrosive pistol and chipping away at it. No robots came looking for me!? Really tough battle until I essentially cheated.

Into the angel core and 2 corrosive pistols and Gunzerking and it was a walk in the park!? Even badass loaders went down in seconds before Roland and Lilith could even do anything - dull fight.

All the above aside though I'm still struggling to find any useful weaponary for my character - it keeps throwing me sniper rifles and smgs when I really need shotguns and rifles. Preferably with more than 2 shots for the shottys and a decent 100+ clip on the machine guns but the best I get is about 40 :(

:/
 
Well we just fought Saturn (gigantic mother****ing robot) and it dropped a seriously awesome purple sniper rifle. Jakobs with the twin barrels that rotate for high fire rate with 1900 damage and +180% crit damage. Really low recoil too.

You can't beat bricks threat to "skin everyone with their own teeth" :D
 
just started vault hunter mode and got my first orange gun. pistol like but its worth 19k resale value!!

Got a orange electric pistol, lvl 4, was still using it at lvl 20, put it in claptraps bank so my second play through characters can pick up a nice early bonus. I didn't pick up the pistol till around lvl 10 so it should rock for a new character getting to sanctuary.
 
Well we just fought Saturn (gigantic mother****ing robot) and it dropped a seriously awesome purple sniper rifle. Jakobs with the twin barrels that rotate for high fire rate with 1900 damage and +180% crit damage. Really low recoil too.

You can't beat bricks threat to "skin everyone with their own teeth" :D

:( want, no need!
 
Got a orange electric pistol, lvl 4, was still using it at lvl 20, put it in claptraps bank so my second play through characters can pick up a nice early bonus. I didn't pick up the pistol till around lvl 10 so it should rock for a new character getting to sanctuary.

Good thinking. I have a pink lvl 9 or so homing flaming dart gun I've done the same thing with. You can find some beautiful low level guns, i never like moving onto new ones when I've been using old faithful for so long.
 
I wish the levels went beyond 50. I have reached the end of the right skill tree for my Commando, to give him two turrets with shields. But I'd love to add the dual barrels with **** to them :cool:.

I don't know whether to start a new character now or finish the dlc from BL1...
 
I wish the levels went beyond 50. I have reached the end of the right skill tree for my Commando, to give him two turrets with shields. But I'd love to add the dual barrels with **** to them :cool:.

I don't know whether to start a new character now or finish the dlc from BL1...

it will when the DLCs come out, it'll go up to level 70 , game was easier last night, i found new elemental shot guns.

the trouble with picking the right shields/ grenades is that there's too many of them to choose from, i havent seen anything for snipers only 20% damage increase, but this means loosing health.... no way man !

i have no special skills at all, just normal health and i've never found a key etc, i wouldn't know what to do, i only have 5 grenades and 6 rockets that's it, i've only ever used the rocket launcher 5 times, i kill everything with the sniper rifle and it can take ages too....i'm now at level 41

i'm getting better though, last night a big boss top loader chased me half way across the map, it took 1/2 an hour to kill him, i was about a mile away from the hyperian base, i killed him by the river.

you see what i mean, i cannot kill him at close range i die too often, i dont have enough firepower... i still dont have the sniper rifles from the 1st game, i've found new ones yes but these aren't as good as the 1st game.

you cant melee with him like you can with Sam, you can not circle your enemies, duck and dive/ bop and weave..... his shield goes down straight away, my shield is 18000 damage, 10000 health and it goes down after only a few strikes...

i tried decoys, out flanking, chucking grenades, but it doesn't work, you start thinking that you're doing real good and BANG he's down on his knees, it's so utterly frustrating !
i'm not making this up, it really is this bad for me, he just goes down with no warning, you dont think i'd better run for cover, you're so busy firing like crazy that you dont see the shield going down.

i was at Tiny Tina's for 4 hours yesterday, i just coudn't kill her party guests, but i went up two levels trying..... two levels ! .... i just wouldn't give up, but i had to in the end because i was too exhausted to carry on.

i must have killed at least 70 Goliaths, plus loads of that really big new one, killing Goliath is quite easy for me, it's protecting her generator that's near impossible, yet again; this was quite easy in the 1st playthrough.

i have 4 really badass shot guns now, 2000 x 17 Sl*g.... the same for acid too, very late last night i killed a level 42 badass toploader in two hits, i thought ``yea baby this is cool`` ;)

i seem to find a hell of a lot of really massive shot guns, but no snipers, this is very odd, i think the game gives you shot guns if you're already using them and i am simply because no other gun works !
 
Jacks town is rock hard...killed a lvl 25 badass constructor at lvl 25, got about 6k experience, got a gun worth $500 :(

Soul destroying. My weapons are now 6-7 lvls behind me, and weren't great back then, think I'm gonna have to use my key and pray I get at least one good weapon.
 
I was a smidge off level 30 and in the same boat, dokko. I got level 30 when i defeated Saturn in the arid nexus with level 25/26 weapons (that was fun....lol) and it dropped 3 or 4 excellent level 30 guns.

I didnt make the connection between the arid nexus and the arid badlands from the first game until I had pretty much finished off in that section...duh lol
 
I have 5 gold keys, used my first at level 10, im now level 12. I got 2 purple guns, one a sniper rifle that does 120 dps and has a 67% chance to make people burn, means 2 out of 3 shots sets peeps on fire. Makes things a lot easier except on the pyros.

I also got a purple gattling gun that fires 3 shots at once and does explosive damage as well, superb weapon on the pyros. I also have a magnum pistol that does 94 damage and shoots loads of bullets.

I aim to use the next key at level 20 and then 30 and so on.

Playing as Axton I like to snipe first then swap to gattling or pistol, drop the turret and wade in, seems to work pretty good for me, had a few deaths but normally my fault for not paying attention.

A few things that do my head in, having to press M for Map and escape instead of M to go back to the main screen. At level 12 got to Firehawk and getting fed up with Snow, does it change anytime soon be nice to have a change of scenery. Also levelling seems slow, im doing all missions and killing everything but it still seems to be taking a while.
 
this game is very addictive, even though i hate it, but it'll be miles easier once it's finished and you go back all relaxed to play repeat missions....

in fact, most of the weapons last time were found after the game was beat
 
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