There are plenty of great repeaters which serve as a great backup for the SMG when you run out of ammo (happens often when you’re using an SMG). No to mention, they usually have more accuracy than SMGs.

You have to continue past Flynt to finish the playthrough and gain access to some interesting stuff, and more importantly unlock playthrough 2.

And I know I’m repeating but…. whoever designed the ending should be terminated, slowly and painfully. The most asinine part of it for me is that they CHOP THE TERRAIN OFF so that you can’t maneuver very well. It isn’t even obvious they’ve chopped it off…. I tried to jump down to a ledge and found that I’d committed suicide. General Knoxx is right to refer to the endgame monster as “a plate of calamari.”

There’s a more general problem too in that difficulty increases are often irritatingly unimaginative. A lot of them consist merely of upping the respawn rate. And how much life is there under the surface of Pandora anyway? What with crab larvae and Volkswagen-sized spiderants and all the other crap, the goddamned planet must be hollow. After a while it wears at the enjoyment, since what’s going on is so silly, and the inability to completely clear most areas no matter how much effort you put into it becomes maddening.

On the Repeater Pistol thing…

Mordecai with his 50% + 500% special attack skill (forgot name)
+ a repeater with 200% melee damage, why would you need anything else??
you can hit 99,999 with this combo if you are slightly above the enemy level OR if u hit criticals :)

Borderlands, ah. It’s such an old-school game that really positively stands out from the pack. I’m playing as a Hunter (for LOOT), scavenger class mod (for LOOT), and I play like a madman instead of sneaking around. It’s nicely challenging and crazily fun to just go all-out and blow shit up. I’ve also gained the habit of shooting every gas tank and barrel even if there was nobody nearby. Why? It’s fun!

LOOT scavenging is the thing that most keeps me addicted to this game. It’s an awesome feeling to finally find that sick kickass gun you’ve been longing for after a long foe-whacking session.

Some of my finds (which I still use):
My dear re-kill-everything-volver that only holds two bullets but I don’t care. :)
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Dracoaeon/screenshot/576668995773602549
My beloved .50cal ShotPer (or SniGun) – it shoots 7 bullets in a very tight spread (it’s almost like one bullet) and it is pump-action. :3
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Dracoaeon/screenshot/576668995773630249

Note: Guys with guns was really fun. their dogs: Not much. Their bug friends? Eh. Their flying kamakaze buddies? Alright, pretty fun, but mostly it was fun to kill the guys with guns.

Then I got to the ending. WHICH IS SUCH. COMPLETE. BULLSHIT. IT’S A GAME ABOUT OPENING THE DAMN VAULT, AND THE VAULT DOESN’T OPEN! THAT’S BULLSHIT!

2. It’s pretty obvious once you’ve completed it: when you choose that character from the main menu, the game asks whether you want to continue with Playthrough 1 or Playthrough 2.

3. I don’t have the DLC but I’m pretty sure they’ll reset like the rest of the game’s content on your second playthrough.

4. Nope, he won’t get levelled up, he’ll stay at 8. With 8 and 10, you’d probably be fine fighting together. With a bigger gap, though, co-op can become a bit pointless.

1. I`ve not encountered any eridian artifacts but the game keeps tipping that they`re really powerful. What are these artifacts exactly? What do they do and where the hell can I find them??

2. I`ve read on the internet proper directions on how to start the second playthrough and through your posts I`ve learned you can switch back to playthrough 1 as well if you want…but I can`t find any forum or place that tells me…How do you properly switch between playthroughs when you want to??

3. Also with the new DLCs that are out for Borderlands…I haven`t downloaded any of them yet…thinking of it…so just wondering…if I downloaded them before I finish playthrough 1…well atleast the first two DLCs because I know the third one is a sequel that takes place after the campaign game….my question is this –> can you play the DLCs in the playthrough 1…beat playthrough 1…and then play them again as part of playthrough 2, as well??

4. Lets say I start a new single player game also with a new charachter….play for a while…lets say I go to level 10..and then exit the game…later my bros starts a new single player game with his Live Id and a different character….and then he levels up only to level 8 and then exits….then later I`m about to play my game and we decide to play together and have a local co-op game….but he`s like level 8 where I`m level 10….how does that work? Does he automatically get rewards for the missions he didn`t do but I already did because I`m a level 10 and he`s a level 8?

….thanks…sorry to ask so much…hopefully you can help me with these…I been looking everywhere for the answers…can`t seem to find them..
Peace!

I don’t know what to feel about this game. It is deeply flawed, very buggy, difficulty spikes are insane, and the ending is terrible. The skills range from being worthless to being broken, and so do the guns.
I found a Repeater Pistol at level 14, it deals 95 dmg a bullet and has a fire rate of 13.0, I respecced to gunslinger and it became even better. This allowed me to coast through the game until I hit level 22. Where I found a shotgun that has 20 bullets in a clip, respectable damage, and a very good fire rate. I respecced to get the +30% critical damage, and the increased accuracy (both on tier 1 Mordecai) and at level 35 I still haven’t found a better weapon.
This is lame, I picked Mordecai to shoot people with sniper rifles, and I haven’t found one that’s any good.
And yet, for all of this games flaws, I keep coming back and playing it. This makes it very hard for me to hate it or recommend it.

I heard that there actually aren’t any A-bombs; they just asked Clint to stare at a spot for more than 5 seconds.

Looks like the lawyers are on the way. Jaz, get the shotgun.

“[libel libel libel]”

“Yeah that seems about right. Who wants some cocaine?”

“Yeah, and they have to look metallic.”

“Right, we got this.”

Of the four, her mid-combat comments have the greatest potential to be irritating, since they seem to be going for an aloof toff vibe. But like the rest, the delivery and characterisation is really natural and beautifully done, so she never offends.

In less respectable games, the large breasts thing doesn’t bother me, but the weird breasts thing does. The worst offenders seem to have been modelled from memory or imagination, as abstractly round as a child’s drawing of a face.

I might do this with my Siren. My Hunter finished at 36, which was fine for Nightmare difficulty, but my Siren was only 32. Rather than scaling, the whole game is just five levels ahead of me now, and I’m levelling slower than the quests are.

My coop team decided to skip all the side quests after killing Flynt, and went straight for the main plot missions to beat the game. Glad we did. We were all level 37 when we started Playthrough 2. You can still go back and complete the unfinished quests in Playthrough 1, which I found just as fun since I was a walking god by then.

One last tip. Elemental weapons are king in Playthrough 2. Get some X4 elemental weapons as quickly as possible.

It’s sort of like Crysis, where they’ve taken the strongest point of the game and just removed it and turned it into something it really isn’t.

One time we ran out of ammo on the final boss, so we had to run back through the level to a vending machine, only to find the enemies had re-spawned.