Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel hype thread - Loot In Spaaaaaace

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Dyz: Dec 10, 2010

CJacobs posted:

To my knowledge, in all the hours I've played BL2, I have never ever fought that drat super-constructor the normal way because it just tears you apart in seconds if you get close. Even with as little enemy variety as pre-sequel has, I'm so glad they didn't bring back constructors with missiles because those things were a gigantic pain in the rear end.

But this is exactly what TPS lacks: frequent and challenging enemy encounters. I can recount a lot of tense moments in bl2 even with loot table equipment. I can only remember one challenging badass in tps and thats the raiders with rocket launchers. And they usually come by themselves.

The TPS characters feel more more fun than the bl2 ones but if all youre doing is killing lost legion soldiers 1 at a time who cares?

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# ? May 29, 2024 00:49

AirRaid: Dec 21, 2004; Nose Manual + Super Sonic Spin Attack

Dyz posted:

But this is exactly what TPS lacks: frequent and challenging enemy encounters. I can recount a lot of tense moments in bl2 even with loot table equipment. I can only remember one challenging badass in tps and thats the raiders with rocket launchers. And they usually come by themselves.

The TPS characters feel more more fun than the bl2 ones but if all youre doing is killing lost legion soldiers 1 at a time who cares?

Have you played the secret Mario room in Tycho's Ribs? It's full of Guardians and Legion Eternals and it's a really good fight. Even with a pair of tooled up Baronesses RoboJoe and I still had oout work cut out to not die. It is only one room in the whole game though.

# ? Mar 23, 2015 17:23

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Mokinokaro posted:

There's no real storyline, the humour falls flat hard and its filled with enemies that alternate between awful and annoying.

I recommend playing the Torgue and Tiny Tina dlcs if you ever go back though. Both are really solid.

My main complaint about the witch doctors was the masks covered their only critical hit area. Etech snipers would be ideal... if they actually dealt real critical damage. Unless you were playing zero with b0re you were just SOL.

Witch doctors aside overall I kinda felt that BL2 had more interesting hitboxes. Probably due to having various loaders in the mix with a good chunk of animal life instead of mainly human enemies.

# ? Mar 23, 2015 18:23

Pope Guilty: Nov 6, 2006; The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Being able to do a Tale of Two Wastelands thing with BL2 and TPS, while technically impossible, would be pretty boss.

But really I just want more stuff to point my Nisha at.

# ? Mar 23, 2015 18:23

widespread: Aug 5, 2013; I believe I am now no longer in the presence of nice people.

Pope Guilty posted:

Being able to do a Tale of Two Wastelands thing with BL2 and TPS, while technically impossible, would be pretty boss.

But really I just want more stuff to point my Nisha at.

I'd say go further. Put Athena/Nisha/Whoever into BL1 for no reason.

EDIT: Speaking of deliberate in-universe crossovers, this ad showed up:

I didn't even watch it but yeah.Twenty space bucks says it's like one of them 90s SNES commercials.

widespread fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Mar 23, 2015

# ? Mar 23, 2015 18:32

Kerrzhe: Nov 5, 2008

Just put Krieg in every game.

I don't just mean Borderlands games. Every game. :black101:

# ? Mar 23, 2015 19:59

Cream-of-Plenty: Apr 21, 2010; "The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering."

I feel like the Witch Doctors could be pretty annoying--especially in TVHM and UVHM--but for me, the most obnoxious enemies were the Orks from Tiny Tina's DLC that transformed into the "Duke of Ork". They'd level up so rapidly that it was really difficult to nail them before they grew into their final stage, and then you'd have to spend several minutes kiting them around and dumping massive amounts of ammo in them until they mercifully died. Like many opponents in TVHM and UVHM, getting anywhere near them was basically instant death, so you had to just constantly run circles around obstacles to keep them at bay. Supremely dull.

# ? Mar 23, 2015 21:45

wdarkk: Oct 26, 2007; Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten

So I seem to be downloading an update, and the DLC is tomorrow.

quote:

Version 1.0.5 Patch Notes

The following bosses will now respawn when a player exits and re-enters a map:

Tiny Destroyer
Boomer
Rabid Adams
Giant Shuggarath
Bruce
Rooster Booster
Even-More-Disgusting Tork
Drongo Bones
Meg
CLAP-L3K
Lost Legion Powersuit Noob
Meat Head

(Note: Col. Zarpedon's loot pool has been added to the Sentinel since Zarpedon cannot respawn.)

General

Adds support for upcoming downloadable content.
Addressed an issue where Maylay shields would give a damage boost to all Digi-Jack attacks and not just melee.
Top tier SDU upgrades can now be purchased and will no longer disappear after ending a session.
Added support for Nvidia Surround
Fixed an issue where certain sound effects could fail to play.
Addresses an issue where certain skills were not being correctly modified by class mods.
Fixed an issue where certain customizations would not be dropped in-game.
Col. Zarpedon's loot pool can now be dropped from the Sentinel since Zarpedon cannot respawn.
Addressed a rare issue where Wilhelm's robotic voice failed to replicate for clients.
Users will no longer experience a rare crash while listening to ECHO recordings in Serenity's Waste.
Players will no longer receive an "All Players Needed" message after using Digi-Jacks in a single player game.
Stopped the "All Players Needed" message from appearing if a player goes back to the entrance of Deadlift's lair.
Increased the rate at which the game checks to see if the player is looking at a usable object.
Various CPU performance optimizations.
Fixed an issue where grinding 3x purple items could result in a crash.
The grinder can now produce items above level 50 in Normal and True Vault Hunter modes.
Fixed an issue where the trophy "I Welcome Your Attack, Fool" could fail to unlock.
Sterwin will no longer die from Guardian attacks during the "Sterwin Forever" mission.
Fixed an issue where weapons could lose functionality after Claptrap's "Meat Unicycle" action package expired.
Aurelia players will no longer crash after joining a game hosted by a player playing as the Doppelganger.
Cleaned up graphical oddities that occurred after shooting certain frozen enemies.
Players can no longer use moonstones to grind 3x very rare (purple) items unless they are class mods.
Players will no longer retain "slowed" state when taking cryo damage from multiple sources.
Jack's Indistinguishable Projection class mod texture now appears correctly when viewed in inventory.
Players will no longer get stuck after saving and quitting during the "Science and Violence" mission.
The Chronicler of Elpis class mod will now show all of its Freeze Chance and Shield Capacity bonuses on the item card.
Fixed an issue where the player could lose weapon functionality if entering �Fight for Your Life� while the �Medi-bot� action package is active.
Improved stability when playing the �Digistructed Madness� missions in the Holodome DLC.
Fixed a possible progression blocker in the mission �A New Direction".
Fixed an issue where Dr. Spara�s dialogue was inaudible for clients.
Wilhelm�s ShockAbsorber footstep audio can now be heard by online clients.
Fixed an issue where Hanna would react erratically for client players after death in the mission �Don�t Shoot the Messenger�.
Fixed an issue where Eghood�s dialogue could play after he had been killed.
Addressed a possible progression blocker in the Holodome DLC that could occur when client players save and quit.
Kills made by Digi-Jacks now count toward the increased action skill duration of the skill �Best Foot Forward�.
Fixed a Doppelganger issue where the player could still fire his/her weapon while entering the �Fight for Your Life� animation.
Reduced frequency of �critical hit� callout audio.
The challenge �Big Game Hunt� will now only increment once for each kraggon killed.
Jack's Indistinguishable Projection Class Mod will now correctly increase his slam damage.
Addressed a rare issue where the Host player could be invisible for clients.
Updated an improper texture on the �Smasher� loyalty reward pistol.
Addressed a rare crash that could occur when fighting Flame Knuckle.

Permanent Hot Fixes

The Doppelganger will now get the appropriate amount of free grenades while airborne with a Bomber Oz kit equipped.
The Doppelganger's Projection class mod will now provide the correct gun damage bonus.
Aurelia�s �Privileged� class mod will now apply the correct reload speed bonus.
Fire rate and reload speed bonuses from Aurelia�s �Privileged� class mod will now properly apply when the mod is equipped from the backpack.
Bonus sniper rifle damage from Aurelia�s �Big Game Hunter� will now properly apply when the mod is equipped from the backpack.
A bullet will no longer be added to the currently equipped weapon when a player with Aurelia�s Silver Lining skill kills an enemy with a melee critical hit.
Chronicler of Elpis class mod now displays the correct shield capacity increase on its item card.
Aurelia�s �High Definition� class mod will now properly apply its gun damage bonus when the mod is equipped from the backpack.
Jack's Indistinguishable Projection class mod description now correctly indicates that the damage bonus only applies to Hyperion guns.
The geyser will now fire automatically when Iwajira is killed.
Added the Hail assault rifle to Iwajira's loot pool.
Addressed certain "Cult of the Vault" symbols not displaying properly for clients.
Adjusted Flying Sera Guardian enemies to properly award experience, activate skills and trigger second wind upon defeat.
Fixed a bug that allowed Nisha to dual wield weapons that weren't pistols.
Addressed an issue where some types of ice damage were being incorrectly resisted.
The Rosie's continuous damage bonus has been reduced.
Miss Moxxi's Probe's lifesteal bonus and critical modifiers have been reduced.
Fixed an issue where the �Building a Robot Army� mission could fail to advance at the �Destroy Powersuits� objective.
The Hellfire, Magma, and Hail splash damage DoT status effect will now tick for the correct amount of damage.
Players can now discover the �Cult of the Vault� symbol in Titan Robot Production Plant.
'Tread Carefully' challenge - Players can now successfully complete the challenge by destroying five power suits without triggering any power cores.
'Death from Above' challenge - Players will now be alerted that they have unlocked a customization head after completing tier five of the challenge.
The effective range of the �Blaster� and �Spitter� type laser guns has been increased.
The Holodome overchargable jump pad will now be able to be overcharged if the player shoots the overcharger before activating the optional jump pads.

# ? Mar 23, 2015 21:49

Chasiubao: Apr 2, 2010

Awesome. My characters transferred over, but my Badass Ranks did not. :sigh:

# ? Mar 24, 2015 05:23

Pope Guilty: Nov 6, 2006; The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Huh, sorry to see that the Redbelly and No Such Thing as a Free Launch bugs aren't in there.

(Redbelly doesn't reliably separate at half damage and the shield around the gyroscope in NSTAAFL doesn't go down when you hit the switch. Both issues are fixed by leaving and reentering the map.)

# ? Mar 24, 2015 05:33

wdarkk: Oct 26, 2007; Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten

Chasiubao posted:

Awesome. My characters transferred over, but my Badass Ranks did not.

Those are stored in a separate file or something. I think it's profile.bin.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 05:48

Chasiubao: Apr 2, 2010

wdarkk posted:

Those are stored in a separate file or something. I think it's profile.bin.

Console :/

# ? Mar 24, 2015 05:52

Chasiubao: Apr 2, 2010

It's nice to know that even with the power of next-gen consoles, UE3 still has texture loading issues

# ? Mar 24, 2015 08:35

Greenplastic: Oct 24, 2005; Miao, miao!

Chasiubao posted:

Awesome. My characters transferred over, but my Badass Ranks did not.

That's weird, they should transfer.

quote:

Badass Points (all of these will transfer, but you�ll get to re-spend them)

http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/1338/cross-save-in-borderlands-the-handsome-collection

# ? Mar 24, 2015 17:06

Chasiubao: Apr 2, 2010

Greenplastic posted:

That's weird, they should transfer.

http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/1338/cross-save-in-borderlands-the-handsome-collection

Not sure about PS4, but Gearbox said Bone BAR not transferring, or any of the other rewards like the bonus golden keys, was a known bug they're now working to solve.

:smith:

# ? Mar 24, 2015 17:30

AirRaid: Dec 21, 2004; Nose Manual + Super Sonic Spin Attack

New DLC is live! (on Steam)

# ? Mar 24, 2015 18:21

Chasiubao: Apr 2, 2010

Forgot how tough UVHM Deadlift is :/ The quest reward electric sniper rifle is about 4k damage, and it does close to nothing to his shields.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 21:15

Malt: Jan 5, 2013

Picked this up for PS4, PSN: lvlalt.

Is there any character that stand outs as best or worst for playing solo?

# ? Mar 24, 2015 21:35

Cream-of-Plenty: Apr 21, 2010; "The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering."

It seems sort of weird that there's no Steam News about the DLC being released today, like, "Voyage of Claptrap DLC is live!" or something. Granted there are earlier articles mentioning the date, but it's pretty typical to have a date-of post announcing it when it actually happens.

Malt posted:

Is there any character that stand outs as best or worst for playing solo?

Honestly, they're all pretty solid in their own respects. If you don't want to feel so lonely when you're solo'ing, Jack and Wilhelm both have skills that give you AI assistance (Jack's digi-clones and Wilhelm's robots), but even with the absence of similar skills, the other four characters are still solid choices. Some of the characters do have skills/trees that seem to predominately lean towards teamplay, like Claptrap's "I Love You Guys!" tree, which might not be as impressive when you're by yourself, though.

Cream-of-Plenty fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Mar 24, 2015

# ? Mar 24, 2015 21:55

Devorum: Jul 30, 2005

Chasiubao posted:

Not sure about PS4, but Gearbox said Bone BAR not transferring, or any of the other rewards like the bonus golden keys, was a known bug they're now working to solve.

Mine transferred fine on the PS4. Seems to be an XBone issue, from what I've read on their forums. Now I'm just waiting for my bonus keys and BAR.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 22:11

Mokinokaro: Sep 11, 2001; At the end of everything, hold onto anything; Fun Shoe

Cream-of-Plenty posted:

It seems sort of weird that there's no Steam News about the DLC being released today, like, "Voyage of Claptrap DLC is live!" or something. Granted there are earlier articles mentioning the date, but it's pretty typical to have a date-of post announcing it when it actually happens.

Gearbox is very fond of launch trailers for DLC as well.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 22:11

Chasiubao: Apr 2, 2010

Devorum posted:

Mine transferred fine on the PS4. Seems to be an XBone issue, from what I've read on their forums. Now I'm just waiting for my bonus keys and BAR.

Yeah, Gearbox support confirmed. They manually granted me a bunch of Golden Keys in the interim.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 23:19

wdarkk: Oct 26, 2007; Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten

Is the DLC actually live? Or maybe the Mac version is just slow again.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 23:34

CaptainSarcastic: Jul 6, 2013

wdarkk posted:

Is the DLC actually live? Or maybe the Mac version is just slow again.

It downloaded for me in Windows last night since I finally sprang for the Season Pass a day or two ago, but I saw no way to access it (The Holodome did show up in the Fast Travel Network). Looks like my Linux client is downloading it now, but the lack of character sync between the two has led to me mostly playing in Windows (since I can Gibbed my characters to reasonable equipment). Might fire up the Linux version later on and see if it shows up there.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 00:06

Chasiubao: Apr 2, 2010

I did get a nifty pinkish glitch sniper rifle from the new Claptrap DLC. Every so often it makes a weird noise and 'glitches', which adds a big damage multiplier. Can't tell how much it is, but it's a big difference. Usable outside of the DLC, too.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 00:11

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Chasiubao posted:

Usable outside of the DLC, too.

Well that's awfuly lovely of them. They could justify letting you having gear from the Tina and Holodome DLC outside of their respective DLCs, what changed?

# ? Mar 25, 2015 01:05

Kerrzhe: Nov 5, 2008

Father Wendigo posted:

Well that's awfuly lovely of them. They could justify letting you having gear from the Tina and Holodome DLC outside of their respective DLCs, what changed?

Nothing changed. I think you read it wrong--you can use them outside the DLC. :v:

# ? Mar 25, 2015 01:06

Father Wendigo: Sep 28, 2005; This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Kerrrrrrr posted:

Nothing changed. I think you read it wrong--you can use them outside the DLC.

I swear to God there was an Un- there just a second ago. :suicide:

# ? Mar 25, 2015 01:09

Chasiubao: Apr 2, 2010

Father Wendigo posted:

I swear to God there was an Un- there just a second ago.

There was not

If anyone is up for some UVHM on Bone, I'll be online later tonight.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 02:01

Alien Rope Burn: Dec 5, 2004; _{I wanna be a saikyo HERO!}

CaptainSarcastic posted:

It downloaded for me in Windows last night since I finally sprang for the Season Pass a day or two ago, but I saw no way to access it (The Holodome did show up in the Fast Travel Network).

Yeah, I saw it downloaded but didn't see any obvious destination or notification pop up yet.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 03:28

Cream-of-Plenty: Apr 21, 2010; "The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering."

CaptainSarcastic posted:

It downloaded for me in Windows last night since I finally sprang for the Season Pass a day or two ago, but I saw no way to access it (The Holodome did show up in the Fast Travel Network). Looks like my Linux client is downloading it now, but the lack of character sync between the two has led to me mostly playing in Windows (since I can Gibbed my characters to reasonable equipment). Might fire up the Linux version later on and see if it shows up there.

Alien Rope Burn posted:

Yeah, I saw it downloaded but didn't see any obvious destination or notification pop up yet.

Are you guys sure it was the DLC (which was a ~2.1 GB file, downloaded, at least for me) and not that other, large (I think 900 MB or 1 GB) patch that was released yesterday for everybody? I don't think the DLC was preloaded for anybody before it was available to play.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 03:40

Alien Rope Burn: Dec 5, 2004; _{I wanna be a saikyo HERO!}

It was over 2 GB, I remember that much. Took a bit to download.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 04:37

Henrik Zetterberg: Dec 7, 2007

PS4 user here. I redeemed 2 codes yesterday for 25 and 3 golden keys, but when I get to Concordia in the game, the golden key chest says I have 0 to spend. I tried restarting my game and whatnot with no luck. Anyone else having this issue?

# ? Mar 25, 2015 16:32

watho: Aug 2, 2013; The real world will, again tomorrow, function and run without me.

Did you check the Shift vending machine thing?

# ? Mar 25, 2015 16:34

Pope Guilty: Nov 6, 2006; The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Yeah, the Pre-Sequel puts all your SHIFT rewards in the SHIFT vending machine in town. It's also sticking out over the pit in the middle of Concordia, right in front of the elevator to the Merriff's office.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 16:37

Henrik Zetterberg: Dec 7, 2007

Ahh what the hell. I saw the vending machine but didn't think anything of it. I will check tonight, thanks!

# ? Mar 25, 2015 16:40

Bumper Stickup: Jan 7, 2012; Mmm... Offshore Toast!; Grimey Drawer

So the grinder isn't letting me grind purple class mods anymore. Specifically I can't grind three claptrap class mods. Any idea on how to fix this or is it just some weird permanent bug?

# ? Mar 26, 2015 01:54

Chasiubao: Apr 2, 2010

Claptrap DLC:

# ? Mar 26, 2015 06:36

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Claptrap DLC endboss spoilers: What the hell is up with EOS? I'm at level 60 with Gibbed-gotten top-of the line guns, the boss is level 52, I spent half an hour chipping him down to around half-health before getting sick of it and quitting. I don't see how you're supposed to do this with legitimate drops. From some quick Googling it doesn't look like I'm missing any tricks or anything. Do I just suck, or do they need to patch this guy way down?

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# ? May 29, 2024 00:49

Cream-of-Plenty: Apr 21, 2010; "The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering."

Fibby Boy posted:

So the grinder isn't letting me grind purple class mods anymore. Specifically I can't grind three claptrap class mods. Any idea on how to fix this or is it just some weird permanent bug?

I seem to have problems grinding purple items from the Golden Chest. Is that where these came from?

# ? Mar 26, 2015 06:52

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