The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

I'm back playing Borderlands The Pre Sequel now. I don't think that overall the game is as good as Borderlands 2 but I think it does some things better. Though I ended up rage quitting last night over the mission Lab 19. It's obvious they didn't design that mission with a solo player in mind. There's just not enough to wait for the code to change, run across the level to where you've got to input it and then shoot the dials into the correct position before it changes again. 

I don't like Borderlands. The setting and premise is cool but I find the gameplay to hold the series back and I think the main reason is what has just be touched on: none of it is really designed for a single player to have an easy time of. It's squad based FPS; you need at least one other player to watch your back all the fucking time because of the insane amount of enemies even when only one player is playing. You're always surrounded (making cover pretty useless) and it always seems that just when you're about to clear an area and get a breather, more arseholes spawn. A lot of guns seem to reload painfully slow too.

I've completed both the original and Borderlands 2 solo, including all story DLC's. I do tend to get killed in this series a lot more than other games though, and end up in fight for your life mode probably three times as much. I don't recall ever feeling seriously overwhelmed in the first two games, but I must admit I am finding that happening a bit in the Pre-Sequel at the moment. Fire damage seems insanely powerful in the Pre-Sequel that it seems a guaranteed Fight for Your Life situation unless you can get into a vacuum, which is impossible in certain areas that have a permanent atmosphere. I also am not finding my Action Skill (playing as Athena) to be of much use. I'm actually thinking of going to Concordia and paying for a re-spec to see if a different side of the skill tree makes a difference. 

I was thinking that at first with the Pre-Sequel but now I'm in the level 20 - 25 range things seem to have changed. I'm not finding drastically better gear and ended up buying an SMG from Marcus (which ate up almost all of my money), which has improved things a bit. 

Playing through the Claptrap DLC for Borderlands the Pre-Sequel now. Been a lot of fun so far however for the first time in this series I'm hitting bugs, frame rate lag (didn't happen anywhere in the base game) and I currently have an active side mission which is proving impossible to complete. I'm above the recommended level, so shouldn't a problem, but this enemy, a thresher, is proving impossible to kill because of it's powerful shield, which fully regenerates every time it goes back underground, and sometimes it doesn't stay up for more than a couple of seconds before burrowing again. Going to leave it and try again after beating the DLC's main quest, but right now it's yet another ridiculous enemy. 

adg211288 wrote: Playing through the Claptrap DLC for Borderlands the Pre-Sequel now. Been a lot of fun so far however for the first time in this series I'm hitting bugs, frame rate lag (didn't happen anywhere in the base game) and I currently have an active side mission which is proving impossible to complete. I'm above the recommended level, so shouldn't a problem, but this enemy, a thresher, is proving impossible to kill because of it's powerful shield, which fully regenerates every time it goes back underground, and sometimes it doesn't stay up for more than a couple of seconds before burrowing again. Going to leave it and try again after beating the DLC's main quest, but right now it's yet another ridiculous enemy.

adg211288 wrote: adg211288 wrote: Playing through the Claptrap DLC for Borderlands the Pre-Sequel now. Been a lot of fun so far however for the first time in this series I'm hitting bugs, frame rate lag (didn't happen anywhere in the base game) and I currently have an active side mission which is proving impossible to complete. I'm above the recommended level, so shouldn't a problem, but this enemy, a thresher, is proving impossible to kill because of it's powerful shield, which fully regenerates every time it goes back underground, and sometimes it doesn't stay up for more than a couple of seconds before burrowing again. Going to leave it and try again after beating the DLC's main quest, but right now it's yet another ridiculous enemy.  Okay, if The Pre-Sequel is anything to go by I think I might just be done with this series. I'm come to the conclusion that the devs now have nothing better to do than to troll players, create stupidly over-powered enemies (not just bosses). They've pulled the exact same stunt at the end of the Claptrap DLC as with the main game's final boss (sudden second form) and to make matters worse they even let you go to turn in the supposed final mission before springing it on you and well, I cannot make a fucking dent on it. Just died for probably the tenth time and am not only close to rage quitting but uninstalling the whole damn series (and I fucking love Borderlands 2, so that's how much the Pre-Sequel is now pissing me off).  The final Claptrap boss is capable of very nearly one shot killing me, the fight area floor sets fire to you (fire is ridiculously overpowered, like a single hit is a death sentence, especially if from a laser weapon) and like any enemy in Borderlands it gets full health back every time you die.  The first fight was enough and even that pushed on too long to be fun.

And therein lies yet more reasons why I don't like Borderlands.

The game has been perfectly playable since day 1. Most of the things they fix in the patches have been things I haven't personally encountered, and a lot of changes have been improvements rather than fixes, such as in 1.07 the inventory got an upgrade so books have their own tab, you can tell what you've read and what you haven't and you can pin crafting diagrams so you can see what items merchants sell that you're looking for without having to flit between tabs all the time. So far it also looks like 1.07 has actually fixed the NPC pop-in. 

Yeah to be honest it does seem noticeably worse for me even on my PC, in Novigrad at least (which has always been the most frame rate intensive area).