Borderlands 2 release date and preorder

[KevinCU]

Game was running really smooth earlier even while I was streaming. My PSU died mid-stream so I'll have to wait to get a new one before I can play again. Anyone who has played for at least a couple of hours, have you noticed that you seem to get a disproportionate amount of one weapon type from chests? I have opened ~4 "big" chests so far and every single one has contained 2-3 shotguns. Shit is really frustrating when I'm playing the Assassin and mainly use sniper rifles.

 

[Aikouka]

Best change? Skippable intro movies! :awe:

 

[Childs]

Just me or do pistols suck? Can't hardly hit anything with them, maybe I need to be closer. Am enjoying the sniper rifles..although I chose commander to do something else since I nearly always choose snipers.

I got this pistol that does a Josie Wells fanning motion, and its bad ass. I am using in the video I linked earlier. I cant wait for an upgraded version that does a smidge more damage.

 

[TheSlamma]

how is the enemy respawning, is it kill and re-spawn right before your eyes again? or can you clear an area for a period of time now?

 

[Aikouka]

For some reason, I keep thinking that the original showed the scope zoom rate on the weapon's card. Well, I know that Borderlands 2 doesn't, and it annoys me. I took one guy because it looked slightly better stat-wise, but the zoom is awful.

 

[n7]

Initially i thought PhysX looked pretty cool, but honestly, it's so gimmicky and often overdone that i am tempted to turn it down or off.

Otherwise i'm luvin' it.

 

[MetalMat]

The game is running pretty choppy on my laptop, even with all the settings on low or off. Almost unplayable at certain parts, really sucks cause I checked my laptop on multiple sites to make sure it could run it, it ran borderlands 1 flawlessly.

I will try what I can but I just think that my lappy is finally showing its age.

Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 @ 2.13 GHz
4 GB Ram
Geforce GTX 260M

 

[KaOTiK]

Been enjoying the game. Playing maxed out and it is smooth and looks good. I like the PhysX stuff, sometimes it is over done but, man some places would like a bit more lifeless without it imo.

Playing as the siren again as it was the only class I really liked in the first BL. I do miss Lilith a lot, and seeing her again in action made me sad, oh how I miss phase walking. Maya is cool though, the whole taking an enemy out of combat for a few seconds is very nice for those strong mobs that would have given me problems otherwise.

The first 10 levels for me kinda sucked, I didn't have any good weapons at all. Till finally lvl 11 I got 2 nice gun drops and I went from always having it a bit rough killing stuff slowly, to mowing stuff down in good old BL fashion.

 

[Aikouka]

I've been using the sniper rifle that Hammerlock gave me for awhile. Frankly, all the weapons that I get have no scope and/or no accuracy. Back in Borderlands, I was really picky about my guns being accurate... even my Combustion Hellfire had to be accurate and have a scope.

n7, have they changed how accuracy works in the game? I'm hoping that I'm not wasting my badass ranks on accuracy. :$

The game is running pretty choppy on my laptop, even with all the settings on low or off. Almost unplayable at certain parts, really sucks cause I checked my laptop on multiple sites to make sure it could run it, it ran borderlands 1 flawlessly.

I will try what I can but I just think that my lappy is finally showing its age.

Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 @ 2.13 GHz
4 GB Ram
Geforce GTX 260M

I would have suspected that you would be fine, but the game certain wouldn't look good. Have you tried lowering the resolution? It's not the best solution, but it should help quite a bit.

EDIT:

Oh I almost forgot... don't forget to look at the badass challenges. Each area has challenges that award badass rank(s).

 

[coldmeat]

I've been using the sniper rifle that Hammerlock gave me for awhile. Frankly, all the weapons that I get have no scope and/or no accuracy. Back in Borderlands, I was really picky about my guns being accurate... even my Combustion Hellfire had to be accurate and have a scope.

Ya, that's what I've noticed too. Most of the assault rifles I've come across are terrible. I guess it's to give you lots of room to improve.

 

[Majic 7]

Had my first crash. I had just dealt with Flynt and was walking towards Claptrap when I black screened and my machine shut down and recovered. Don't know if going back to last check point and saving has anything to do with what happened next, but when I restarted the game and resumed I was back in Hammerlock's town with joining Claptrap at his ship my quest objective. Sucks if I have to kill all those NPCs again.

 

[Demo24]

I got this pistol that does a Josie Wells fanning motion, and its bad ass. I am using in the video I linked earlier. I cant wait for an upgraded version that does a smidge more damage.

I'll just keep an eye out then. I did get one that explodes on reload, that's fun.


I've actually been getting fairly random gun drops. I wonder if it depends on what character. Still hammer locks sniper rifle is nice at the moment. I appreciate the new sniper rifle design I've found at the moment, much faster. Guessing they have tweaked accuracy too since I've found it much easier to get headshots now.

And yes it appears to be that in most areas its a clear and wait for respawn setup. Some areas remain cleared though, and others it takes quite a bit longer for respawns than borderlands 1.

 

[Majic 7]

Guess I'm done for now. Started the quest again from Hammerlock's and had to kill all the NPCs again including bosses. Quit and saved about halfway through. Started up again and was back at Hammerlock's. Corrupted save. Saves stats and loot but not progress. Got better things to do.

no event data.

I guess this is the way saves work in this game according to something I read on GearBox forums. If so that is idiotic. While going over the mission again I died and it spawned me at the last check point. But if you quit and save you have to start at the beginning of the mission, again. Just stupid. If I hadn't crashed then I would have been able to restart at the last check point. Glad they are so confident in their game mechanics that problems like this aren't factored in.

 

[TheKub]

I'll just keep an eye out then. I did get one that explodes on reload, that's fun.

Yeah got one of those but wasnt paying attention. I had a mob running up on me any I ran out of rounds for my sniper rifle. Did a panic swap to the pistol and started spaming fire. Went to reload and saw that I threw my gun. Definitely a WTF moment, thought I hit the drop weapon button accidentally.

 

[festa_freak]

I bought the game at greenmangaming. It's pretty fun although I don't see much difference between this and borderlands 1.

It runs good on my system maxed out without physx on ivy bridge and a 4870 1GB. I don't like it when I can max out games on old video cards :/

 

[MetalMat]

So I tweaked my graphics and it runs better now. I was able to put it some time up to a couple missions into sanctuary as a Gunzerker. Here are my 2 cents, though keep in mind that my graphic settings are on low.

I am surprised at how little they changed! I mean the guns are pretty much the same (though the assault rifles have been pretty lackluster), the mod slots are the sames, the enemies have been similar, the vehicles are the same, the quests are the same, cut scenes are the same, etc.... And the A.I. seems worse. The tutorial part of the game was painfully long as well.

It feels like they just took elements of the expansion packs, threw them into BL1 and made tweaks. Literally the biggest changes so far have been dual wielding, the badass medals and a few new enemies here and there.

Its a fun game but I would have a hard time recommending this over BL1 (with all the BL1 expansion packs) right now. Disappointing they have not added more into the game, hopefully this will get better over time.

This is feeling more like Borderlands 1.5 than Borderlands 2.

 

[TheUnk]

Looks like there is lots of love for the Physx but I'm not getting it.

All I've seen of it so far is from liquids, mostly blood, and the way it interacts with the environment is stupid and makes no sense whatsoever. It's like everything is made of jello that rolls around the ground and starts to disappear when you step on it.

 

[Ferzerp]

Yeah got one of those but wasnt paying attention. I had a mob running up on me any I ran out of rounds for my sniper rifle. Did a panic swap to the pistol and started spaming fire. Went to reload and saw that I threw my gun. Definitely a WTF moment, thought I hit the drop weapon button accidentally.

I hate those guns. They're bad for the chronic reloader.

Reload after shooting 1 round? Sorry, you just tossed your gun and lose everything that was in the clip.


I'm playing a gunzerker, but right now, my primary weapons are a fire sniper rifle, a fire pistol, and an explody pistol. The sniper is my primary because the damage is so much higher.


Also, if you aren't spending your tokens, do it now.

 

[KidNiki1]

played last night, and had a fucking blast!!

seems like some people were expecting something more form this game, but i found it to be totally awesome. the writing was hilarious...the diamond pony named 'butt stallion'?? omg, i almost passed out i started laughing so hard at that. more blowing people's faces off, lots of headshots and carnage and blood and pure violence, wheeeeee!!! exactly what i wanted... a great gaming time with friends. looks gorgeous, had all the settings jacked as high as they would go, and everything was smooth.

the only one annoying thing was that after we all got booted off steam for maintenance (bad timing for sure) there were a lot of problems trying to group up, and one friend ended up not being able to join us at all. which sucked. the menus took a minute to get used to, but other than the grouping thing, i honestly can't think of anything bad about it.

also, everything in the CE loot chest was frikkin amazing! Some really nice stuff in there.
wooohoooo!!!

 

[Elcs]

Anyone with BL2 and experiencing motion sickness? BL1 gave it to me like mad but the fixes helped a tad. I'd love to hear experiences from people.

Anyone running this with a CrossfireX system?

Until it comes on Friday morning/afternoon in the post I can't try it out so I'd like to get a feel for the stability of the game on CrossfireX systems and if it's worth keeping CrossfireX enabled for it.

From what you guys are saying, it seems more stable than most launch products, just a bit niggly in areas.

 

[Ferzerp]

Anyone with BL2 and experiencing motion sickness? BL1 gave it to me like mad but the fixes helped a tad. I'd love to hear experiences from people.

Try increasing the field of view.

 

[gorcorps]

Put a good chunk of time into it yesterday. There seems to be some clipping issues, mainly with enemies being a foot or so INTO the ground at times. This is mainly the non-human enemies.

I also had trouble holding connection in a public game I joined. Had some decent lag then it finally booted me. Not sure if it was my connection, their connection, steam or what. I did join in with a friend without issue for 30 mins or so though and that was fun.

 

[Aikouka]

I will say that the AI in the game is definitely odd. The first game had really simple AI, but I think it worked better because of how simple it was. People would just charge at you or shoot at you, but it seems that all the extra choices that enemies has must be really complex, because sometimes they get confused... and stop. I just end up looking at them funny ( ) for a second, and shooting them in their crit spot. They definitely made some good changes such as bandits taking cover or jumping up onto things (they still won't take ladders though). The thing is... it didn't take long for me to find new ways to game the AI. Bullymogs throwing shit at you? Just put a column-like object in the way. Bullymogs are fine if they can still see you, but they never take into account if their objects are constantly hitting something. It was rather amusing to see the bullymog throw his snowball against the ice column constantly.

PhysX does add all of the blowing pieces of cloth into the game, which honestly... makes the game harder at times. The flags or whatever tend to obstruct your vision (although they aren't solid and won't affect your bullets) and can make it hard to get someone in your sights. I am glad though that PhysX provides me accurate port-o-potty refuse physics.

I'm already out-leveling the content after doing the one side-mission (Symbiosis). Obviously, I haven't gotten that far yet since I'm only talking about that, but my biggest complaint about that side-area is... it's too damn big. There's only one objective, but they add this huuuuuuge extra section that really provides nothing more than two badass bullymogs and the hidden vault symbol.

 

[KidNiki1]

Bullymogs throwing shit at you? Just put a column-like object in the way. Bullymogs are fine if they can still see you, but they never take into account if their objects are constantly hitting something. It was rather amusing to see the bullymog throw his snowball against the ice column constantly.

yeah, but then how will you get your achievement for shooting things thrown at you???

 

[Aikouka]

yeah, but then how will you get your achievement for shooting things thrown at you???

I don't really have any guns that are good enough for that. I already feel dirty enough not using SMGs with a Siren!