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I think I'm over the initial shock of UVHM. It was a rough start for my Zero but I made it to Sanctuary and I'm about to start the firehawk missions at lvl 52. Progress has been slow, and I'm taking out bandits without too much trouble as long as I keep my distance, but I've cheesed pretty much anything resembling a boss so far. I sniped Boom Bewm from what seemed like a few hundred yards out (outside of their spawn area), and I didn't even bother attempting Flynt straight up. I jumped off that barge immediately and plinked away at him from the bottom of that lift that claptrap rides. If nothing else, UVHM is a good training mode for exploiting AI and terrain features.
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Flynt wasn't too bad for me- just slagged him and threw like 4 (8) Bonus Packages at his area-burstin' rear end and that pretty much set him up for me to empty a Torgue minigun and a Harold into his face and kill him. TORGUE. Man, slag also lasts a long time in UVHM.
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Farming for a new Blockhead now that I've got the caverns open, of course the first thing to drop was a Longbow. Which is cool and all, but it's still not a god drat Blockhead!
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Apr 4, 2013 22:09
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Xidus posted:Still not fixing splitscreen framerates on PS3. What a surprise. Which orientation are you using? My wife and I had awful framerates using horizontal split, but when we switched to vertical split it runs nice and smooth.
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Just got a new Catalyst mod for my Mechro, and the Team Elemental damage is the same as my level 50 one. Can anyone confirm if they've had better stats on higher level mods, or are my level 50 mods going to be OK for the remainder of UVHM? Finally killed that goddamn Thresher too. That was really annoying. Onto easy quests now!
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Anyone pulled any pearl gear yet? Me and NHB managed to pull a Stalker and a Sawtooth from loot midgets on release night, but nothing since then.
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Just got past Wildlife Preserve with my 54 Gunzerker. I'm still mostly using my level 50 legendaries but I did manage to get a 53 Slagga off a loot midget in the preserve. Slagga + CC and throwing Stormfronts all over the place is still going strong, though I did die to Bloodwing once. Managed to pick up a couple eridium relics as well, Bone of the Ancients which does like 23% Shock damage and 30% Cooldown which would be fantastic for a Mechro, and another one which I think someone posted a few pages ago that did FFY and Sniper Damage.
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Dear Gearbox: In regards to UVHM, Badass Constructors are the biggest pains in the rear end. gently caress them. gently caress them, and pre-emptively gently caress Sawtooth Cauldron. gently caress that place too. I can't wait to die a lot there! Warm regards, Dr.Smasher
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Minorities posted:Which orientation are you using? My wife and I had awful framerates using horizontal split, but when we switched to vertical split it runs nice and smooth. Vertical (I think, I forgot which is which. Side-by-side not top/bottom). For example when one person is mucking around in their inventory and the other isn't framerates go to poo poo.
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Dr.Smasher posted:Dear Gearbox: Electric Vladof snipers are pretty much a requirement for Badass Constructors.
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I'm amazed at the amount of blues, purples and e-techs UVHM throws at you instead of the usual lovely whites and greens that plagued the other two modes. Farming the treasure room has been very lucrative so far.
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Marogareh posted:I'm amazed at the amount of blues, purples and e-techs UVHM throws at you instead of the usual lovely whites and greens that plagued the other two modes. Farming the treasure room has been very lucrative so far. I'm thinking I should get around to that real soon.
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How are you already in the treasure room in UVHM  Don't you have to beat like all of Captain Scarlett for that area to even be open?
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Yeah I got to 61 as Zero yesterday and rushed the scarlet dlc in a day. Got a thunderball fists which made up for the conference call I lost thanks to being stuck under the drat warrior.
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The Duke posted:How are you already in the treasure room in UVHM I've already done the whole story and the Oasis DLC and am halfway through torgue's.
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I manage to play around 4-5 hours a day and I'm just over halfway through the main story, drat dude.
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Kifisonfire posted:Just got a new Catalyst mod for my Mechro, and the Team Elemental damage is the same as my level 50 one. Can anyone confirm if they've had better stats on higher level mods, or are my level 50 mods going to be OK for the remainder of UVHM? Found a lvl.61 Catalyst mod with +45% Team Elemental Effect Dmg, but with the same +6/5.
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edit: oops, this is for the PC version, but... If you're looking to pick up a PC copy of Borderlands 2 for yourself or someone else, Amazon has the game AND the season pass on sale for $25 today. Game by itself is $20 and Season Pass by itself is $10. raditts fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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Probably stupid question: If I have a team class mod (i.e. "Team cooldown rate 16%") that applies to my character as well, or *just* to teammates?Marogareh posted:Yeah I got to 61 as Zero yesterday and rushed the scarlet dlc in a day. Got a thunderball fists which made up for the conference call I lost thanks to being stuck under the drat warrior. If you can get up on his body directly over the item and look straight down, you can pick up anything trapped under him.
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Lumpy posted:Probably stupid question: If I have a team class mod (i.e. "Team cooldown rate 16%") that applies to my character as well, or *just* to teammates? If it's where I think it is, there's way too much distance between the ground and the body. They'll have to run through hero's pass again to get the corpse to despawn.
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Lumpy posted:If you can get up on his body directly over the item and look straight down, you can pick up anything trapped under him. Rudoku posted:If it's where I think it is, there's way too much distance between the ground and the body. They'll have to run through hero's pass again to get the corpse to despawn. It was dead center in the middle where I couldn't get it and I did run all the way back again only for it to hang on the loading screen forever. I've been getting those a lot now for some reason and I have to exit the game to fix it which is really annoying.
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Lumpy posted:Probably stupid question: If I have a team class mod (i.e. "Team cooldown rate 16%") that applies to my character as well, or *just* to teammates? I have tested this with my couch co-op buddy and it applies to you and any teammates in your game session.
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So, wait, they finally raised the level cap? Hallelujah. I haven't touched the game since Torgue came out and I read some article where Gearbox was saying they couldn't raise the level cap without breaking the game (because of potential skill combos that were never meant to happen). Looking forward to Krieg when he comes out. I've wanted to play a Psycho since I saw ads for the first Game. I was honestly disappointed when I found out they were enemy only. marshmallow creep fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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So I was pretty keen to dig into the new level cap, and check out the DLC I've let stack up over time. Sadly UVHM is bullet sponge bore-a-thon, and I'm constantly out of ammo (because I'm double stacked on +SMG damage in order to do more than a pittance of damage anything bigger than a run of the mill bandit). I notice that back in TVHM that I'm still earning experience, but does ALL TVHM content cap at 50? Or will it scale to my level as I level up? Arach fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Apr 6, 2013 |
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For the time being, I am grinding my way through the beat down on UVHM. I'm at level 55 playing a Rocket-zerker build and my level 50 launchers + bonus package is still kicking rear end. If you want in on XP and guns, come join me on XBL, GT: KidKrampus .
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Man, the vehicles were made of wet tissue by the end of TVHM. I am not looking forward to how useless those things will be in UVHM....
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I dunno, my scootermobile was pretty sturdy at level 53. I think it had something like 2.5~3 times my health and shield total, which was at least enough to shoot a little and then get out instead of "oh, there are enemies, time to get knocked into ffyl because the car will explode while I'm still stuck in my getting out of the car animation" happening like in TVHM.
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The Bee still applies to the car for some reason, so take a Runner with a machine gun and just go to town. Car missions are way easier with that shield.
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The folks over at gamefaqs have discovered that the seraph gear we thought was removed is still in UVHM. The only way to get them though is through the DLC raid bosses.
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Neo Helbeast posted:The folks over at gamefaqs have discovered that the seraph gear we thought was removed is still in UVHM. The only way to get them though is through the DLC raid bosses. Wait, what now? Explain this now because I've never heard of anything being taken out before.
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So I got this thanks to the Amazon deal. I'd love to play with some goons, so hit me up anytime (I'll also stark lurking the irc channel). How fun is the game multiplayer? So far I'm have a blast (like I did with Borderlands 1), but it's probably much more fun with others (like in Borderlands 1).
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Father Wendigo posted:Wait, what now? Explain this now because I've never heard of anything being taken out before. gamefaqs posted:In UVHM, for some reason, Gearbox made it so that the useful Seraph items can no longer be bought and are now only found as drops from raid bosses. I don't like the decision. I had thought they had taken the hoplite out altogether.
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I think that's awesome. Not entirely looking forward to going back and fighting Hyperius/Gee, but still. I need my 61 Evolution.
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Anyone have a Sham in UVHM? I was wondering how good the L50 performed to see if I wanted to try farming one.
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Finally beat UVHM a few minutes ago. Sawtooth Cauldron to the end of the game was pretty much one giant stream of gently caress you and I think I died about 20 times on Hero's Pass alone. Granted, I was using level 50 gear all the way through for the most part but holy poo poo getting one shot by a constructor over and over again is just about the least fun thing I can think of. I ended up cheesing the Ultimate Badass Constructor 3.0 from extremely far away with a 120% crit burst sniper which whittled him down painfully slowly. I still have no idea how to kill these bastards efficiently on UVHM other than getting better gear in general. Even at ~56 I think sniper rifles are just terrible now. We'll see how this changes once I get a couple 61s but for now that sucks. I'm going to be sad if my favorite sniper, the Pimpernel, is useless on UHVM. Got a 57 Impaler off The Warrior and other than the Slagga I got in the WEP earlier I didn't see a single other legendary or pearl the entire time. The Duke fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Apr 6, 2013 |
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The Duke posted:Finally beat UVHM a few minutes ago. Sawtooth Cauldron to the end of the game was pretty much one giant stream of gently caress you and I think I died about 20 times on Hero's Pass alone. Granted, I was using level 50 gear all the way through for the most part but holy poo poo getting one shot by a constructor over and over again is just about the least fun thing I can think of. I ended up cheesing the Ultimate Badass Constructor 3.0 from extremely far away with a 120% crit burst sniper which whittled him down painfully slowly. I still have no idea how to kill these bastards efficiently on UVHM other than getting better gear in general. Even at ~56 I think sniper rifles are just terrible now. We'll see how this changes once I get a couple 61s but for now that sucks. I'm going to be sad if my favorite sniper, the Pimpernel, is useless on UHVM. You can also use weapons with hidden projectiles (DP Harold, Lead Storm, Sandhawk, pimpernel) and a bee shield to deal with them. That last constructor in hero's pass wasn't that bad if you run into that large container that it spawns next to and cheese it from there. ----- The treasure room hasn't gotten me any desirable legendaries, but I did manage to get topenaas of every element so far! I really want the new pearl sniper (storm) for my mechromancer. I'm wondering how it will proc Interspersed Outburst with the explosion and tiny orbs of electricity it also spawns. burntpork fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Apr 6, 2013 |
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Kifisonfire posted:The Bee still applies to the car for some reason, so take a Runner with a machine gun and just go to town. Car missions are way easier with that shield. Yeah, I figured that trick out almost immediately after getting my first Bee. It's why I kept a level 30 shield all the way through TVHM.  Sadly, it ultimately just meant that I could kill single enemies and small groups about as fast as they could kill me.
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Speaking of stupid vehicle tricks, about a week ago I found that if you fired from the back (passanger position) of an otherwise empty technical, enemies wouldn't notice you killing them, no matter how long it took. I haven't checked to see if it still works since the patch.
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I've started UVHM on my Siren since they're a necessity to a party of more than one now, and Holy Hell this is so much easier than with Sal. I'm running a Ruin spec with side trees in self healing, Crit Bonus, and RoF/Damage bonuses with a class mod that gives +85% damage to SMGs and a Lv. 50 Bitch. poo poo is melting. I am killing people so fast that I have phaselock time left over. I actually killed midge-mong without dying. The only problem is that I'm getting swarmed and flanked while I'm busy killing people without even slagging them first. Which is why I'm asking if anyone is looking to roll through the rest of the Southern Shelf tonight. I don't want to hop in with 61s because I'd throw off the loot pool for everyone, but I'd be happy to throw in with someone looking to start again. Oh, one more thing - I think Loot Midgets in all modes have the wild loot table. I killed one in Thousand Cuts last night while finishing up TVHM story last night and got a plump lv. 46 KerBlaster off of him! Less inspiring was killing The Warrior and spending three minutes trying to get the Volcano rifle that had dropped under his jawbone. All in all, a good night.
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