yankeehater
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Cant wait to play as Zer0. Great job on the OP.
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Borderlands 2 |OT| Opening Pandora's Box (of Guns!)
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$20 in GMG credit, pre-purchase price over at GMG, and 25% off coupon that will end today (GMG25-1BW0K-K1A3G).
:3
Was just thinking that myself.
Empty Space
Member
Wow not seeing a whole lot of love for Salvador in the thread. I kind of feel bad for the guy.
Edit: The two post above me make me look like a liar.
Edit: The two post above me make me look like a liar.
Dog Problems
Banned
He'll be my main character.
Sorry, but melee doesn't appeal to me at all in a shooter. Kinda the same reason I never even tried Brick in the first game.
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
Well, I let my friends to pick whatever they want and they left Salvador to me, so I'm going to play as him, until I get my hand on Mechnomancer.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I just don't care for dual wielding personally, but at least he's no Brick. What a stupid character; let's make a guy whose ability is to punch things in a game about gun variety.
Empty Space
Member
You do realize Zer0 is the melee guy now right? Salvador's skill lets him dual wield guns.
Dog Problems
Banned
His special skill is using two guns at once rather than melee like Brick did.
Only manly men play Salvador. He is going to be my main.
Really? He's the closest thing to a Shadowrun Dwarf, and that's awesome.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Didnt they start cracking down even harder on that after the whole russian fiasco? with that in mind is it really worth risking your account + all games for a single title?
iNvid02
Member
only if you are trying to buy through a VPN, unlocking a game should not cause any issues. me and others have done it on numerous occasions with no trouble but its always your decision
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
will try to keep the OT up to date for news, DLC, steam preload, VPN workaround etc - first update
- 10/09/2012: Creature Slaughter Dome pre-order bonus playable if party host has the content - source
So. That's a little rad.
Also: we know if the NVIDIA download codes come with the pre-order goodies?
EDIT: nm, they don't.
fluffydelusions
Member
Never played the first, How viable is melee in this game. Do you run around knifing people ala COD?
I did the same with Darksiders 2 and Sleeping Dogs. No problems. Maybe they stopped carrying about it. I mean you bought the game so a ban would be pretty ridiculous.
saveweyard
Banned
will try to keep the OT up to date for news, DLC, steam preload, VPN workaround etc - first update
- 10/09/2012: Creature Slaughter Dome pre-order bonus playable if party host has the content - source
Wow, this OT is pretty great. Thanks for all your work!
iNvid02
Member
hmm, does anyone know how to make a google doc editable if the user has signed in with their account, i thought i did that
Dog Problems
Banned
Brick was my main in the first game and I had no problems using melee all throughout the first playthrough and part of the next. Zer0 seems to have some good skills to make a nice melee character so I imagine it'll be the same for Borderlands 2. You'll probably be fine during the first time through but after that things will get tough and you'll mostly use guns, just like the first game. It got to the point where Brick's skill was used to save myself rather than running out and punching enemies.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Thing is though there have been steam threads about it and people losing accounts and getting the big N O to having their accounts reinstated. :/ Good to hear that it worked for some of you guys though with other newer titles.
Was looking things up a bit since am over in Japan where for some ungodly stupid fucking reason that even if we want the US ver the release date is Oct 30th or something in late Oct. Total bullshit personally.
Would it work if you had a relative back in the US unlock it from the states then you log back into your account in the ones country of residence?
Empty Space
Member
I can't attest to New Game+, but I played through Borderlands 1 and all the dlc as melee brick and it worked just fine. Adam, our resident gearbox rep, seems to believe Zer0's melee tree will be fun too.
saveweyard
Banned
Hmm, messing around with the Assassin skill tree and I can't choose between sniping and bloodshed. Bloodshed sounds really fun, but I don't know how I feel about focusing on melee in an FPS.
Bloodshed might be fun to solo with, but will probs go with sniping during co-op.
Bloodshed might be fun to solo with, but will probs go with sniping during co-op.
Avinexus
Member
Lilith wasn't melee. Just based on the skill tree an all melee build for Zero seems like it would do fine. Personally I don't see the appeal in playing all melee though, since half of the fun in the first game was finding sweet guns to use.
It is exceptionally weak to some BL1 bosses and DLC bosses making it essentially a health regen power. The final
boss at the vault is extremely annoying as a Brick and same goes for Knoxx
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Is that licensed song from the first one back? It was catchy
Phasewalk's offensive capability was walking up to enemies while invisible then meleeing, no?
Dog Problems
Banned
As I mentioned above, I'm guessing it'll work fine for the first playthrough and once the game gets more difficult you'll probably not be using it as much. I could be totally wrong as I'm basing all of that on my experience with melee from the first game.
fluffydelusions
Member
How does coop work in the game...can you just join in other peoples games kind of like L4D2?
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Liliths skills were a bit broken from the start, so most people just wound up doing the build that would set fuckers on fire everywhere. She was the walking deathmachine with that and could wipe out entire groups of enemies even before your buddies showed up to the scene.
I think Zero most def will be viable just due to the fact that he leaves a double allowing for you to get positioning on enemies, which was not as easily possible on your own in the first one.
Though as with anything it will be a tactical decision to get up close and personal as not exactly the best of ideas to run into a crowd of bad guys with guns when all you got is a butter knife regardless of how sharp it may be.
Can imagine hes going to be a great help against a single strong enemy target though rather than trying to go into a crowd and mix it up.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I need to say that I find Salvador utterly unremarkable.
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