Borderlands : A New Beginning

[Dez]

What modes are there online besides co-op? And can you hook up with randoms if your friends arent online? Is there matchmaking? Etc. Etc.

 

[mfbmike]

What modes are there online besides co-op? And can you hook up with randoms if your friends arent online? Is there matchmaking? Etc. Etc.

co-op is really all there is. but there are arenas in the game that you can go to to have duel tournaments or whatever. you can also duel one another in the game.

you can hook up with randoms. Quite easily actually.

You can create your games and have random people join or you join other random games.

The game will help you and others search for games with people around your level or around your point of the game/story.

 

[BazookaJoe5]

Thats all I needed to hear, I'll probably pick it up later, to much other shit to play right now and not having internet def kills alot of games for me... god damn comcast and there you are downloading to much nonsense. I'll tell them when I am downloading to much, and fuck you too verizon for not letting me trade modems.... fuck you in your stupid ass... /rant

I'm going to have to disagree with mike on this one, I have played Co-Op only one night and I still feel like this game is one of the best, if not THE best, game to come out this year. It's truly one of the most enjoyable games I have ever played and that is extremely high praise coming from someone who has been gaming since the NES days.

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

This is what I'm going to go with I think

http://www.borderlandsthegame.com/skilltree/roland/#01533031133200004542024

 

[Herm]

i bored of the game playing with randoms online. If i were playing with guys i knew like you all are doing i'd likely love it. Is there voice chat on the 360 version? Maybe there is on ps3 but nobody on my teams had headsets but me FML.

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

XBL has parties so it doesn't matter if there's in game chat (but I assume there is)

 

[mfbmike]

i bored of the game playing with randoms online. If i were playing with guys i knew like you all are doing i'd likely love it. Is there voice chat on the 360 version? Maybe there is on ps3 but nobody on my teams had headsets but me FML.

:/

That sucks.

And yeah, there is voice chat on 360. More people definitely have headsets on 360. lol.

 

[Tengo Juego]

I'm going to have to disagree with mike on this one, I have played Co-Op only one night and I still feel like this game is one of the best, if not THE best, game to come out this year. It's truly one of the most enjoyable games I have ever played and that is extremely high praise coming from someone who has been gaming since the NES days.

Yikes, what else have you played this year?

This game is great. But its the same stuff over and over. Its a grindfest. Fun for those who are really into RPG styled combat. Someone who plays a lot of Call of Duty or Halo would most likely hate it.

I'm enjoying it, but its not even top 5 of 09.

Batman Arkham Asylum is still the best game I've played in 09. Uncharted 2 would probably replace it if I had a PS3.

 

[BazookaJoe5]

I've played and beaten pretty much every big game to come out this year including Arkham Asylum and Uncharted 2 and I enjoy this more than anything. Don't have to agree with me, it is all opinion anyway.

It's not only top 5 for me in 09, it could be the best game of 09, depending on how good MW2 is.

 

[BazookaJoe5]

Old Haven is a bitch. I have a corrosive sniper rifle so it helped immensely but it was still a major PITA. Not as much as the last arena fight in Rust Commons West though. Talk about a shitload of fuck. There is literally no safe zone during that. Wherever you are, you are fucked. I finally beat it though, after much cursing.

 

[mfbmike]

Old Haven is a bitch. I have a corrosive sniper rifle so it helped immensely but it was still a major PITA. Not as much as the last arena fight in Rust Commons West though. Talk about a shitload of fuck. There is literally no safe zone during that. Wherever you are, you are fucked. I finally beat it though, after much cursing.

rofl yeah, those turrets are a huge PITA. get those down and it gets easier. you are almost at the end of the game.

I managed to beat it lastnight.

If you want help finishing it up, I'd be more than happy to help.

 

[Lupe]

So it's not that long of a game? wtf

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

So it's not that long of a game? wtf

I think mike has just been maxing out on it lol

 

[mfbmike]

First playthrough will get you to about lvl 34-36 or so. once you finish 2nd playthrough you should be around lvl 50.

There are two playthroughs. Second playthrough is even harder than the first. It's ridiculous. lol.

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

Damn I had no idea there were class mods or fast travel. Both make the game even better

 

[Juggernaut]

Damn I had no idea there were class mods or fast travel. Both make the game even better

Speaking of class mods, anyone know how they work?

Say i'm maxed out on the Juggernaut skill for brick, find a class mod that gives plus 3 for that skill set. What happens?

 

[TeflonDonny]

Speaking of class mods, anyone know how they work?

Say i'm maxed out on the Juggernaut skill for brick, find a class mod that gives plus 3 for that skill set. What happens?

I've read that you still get the bonus stacked on top. Not sure if its true though.

 

[Juggernaut]

If so, then i have to find a MOD that makes cool down even less for Brick

 

[mfbmike]

I would assume you get the +3 on top of the 5 you put into the skill. It would be dumb if it didn't work that way.

Berserker class mod ftw.

Artifacts are $$$ too. They improve your action skill with elemental dmg and shit.

I'm rocking lvl 4 explosive punch. Shit gets crazy when I shift into berserker mode. rofl.

My brick is lvl 40 now btw. :bow:

 

[Juggernaut]

Damn, im only 22 but i dont play that often, not as much as i would like anyway.

How high do the artifact levels get? Is level 4 the highest?