Annoying things in Borderlands 2 (Discussion)

l let these kids in, they say to level up the real reason is to steal when l fighting in 0p4 l don’t have time to look around and l see some thing that drop and when l came back it was gone and l ask the kids and one said the other pick it up l ask him and he leaves this happen alot it was a orange never got to see it the one kid said it was the quake all my gun boxes are gone l feel sorry for them no one to play now l’m hating it l dont have time to watch them and fight at the same time they should put age with age. the kids are around ten years

Rather late, but…

…I thought that was one of Jack’s lines.

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Players that:

  • do their own thing; forgivable if it’s relevant to any quest(s), but not otherwise.
  • ignore a Dying teammate, especially if they can help them; forgivable if the Dying player is gonna die long before they can be reached.
  • grab/complete quests without the host’s approval, especially if the host was planning to farm them.
  • go inert while in-menu, preventing all inter-map travel.
  • display bad mic etiquette, from breathing into the mic to being too loud/excessive, or BG noise (like music) that not everyone might appreciate. Hell, someone was even rapping (badly) in a Tekken lobby, much to the annoyance of everyone present.
  • two people arguing over the mic in a full session. One guy [=Mic] thought my (really good purple) Vladof Anarchist was an Infinity and told me to drop it; he was slightly disappointed, but still wanted it – problem was, another player [Text] also saw/wanted it. They start arguing about it…and Tex says something offensive to Mic, who then loses it. And you know the rest.
  • constantly get in your face and try to trade or duel.
  • try to offload gear that is lower-level and useless to you, or high(er)-level and (obviously) hacked.
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There’s a few mechanics that bugged me, but I am getting a bit annoyed that some of the in-game storyline is starting to get a bit preachy for my liking. At first the Overlook shield quest was amusing (effectively Thou Shalt Not be an Ass), but I recently ran through the Wedding Day Massacre DLC while tying up loose ends before Battleborn came out. I found the end of the storyline to be quite irritating. Essentially it boils down to a robot, Innuendobot becoming a nuisance and Mad Moxxi condemning it’s behaviour and telling the player to kill it.

There are two problems I had with this. Firstly, Innuendobot’s personality is a result of Moxxi reprogramming it in the first place. Secondly, it’s Mad Moxxi trying to preach how to behave to the Vault Hunter, and through this the player.

Let me just link to the character introduction to Mad Moxxi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO6EDSsFsy4

This is a character that pays hardened mercenaries to kill other people for entertainment, and they picked her to get on her high horse. Don’t get me wrong, Moxxi is a fun character, but she is not the best role model. Besides, this is a game set on Pandora. There’s not many people of outstanding moral character on Pandora, and they are most likely the first one the bandits string up. It just felt clumsy rather than funny to me. After playing through Tales of the Borderlands I feel they did a better job of the moral grey area in Borderlands and still intertwine it with humour. I hope a leaf is taken from their books in BL3.

As for parts of the game itself, the weapon menu still glitches out on the pc version and the bug wasn’t even fixed in the Pre-Sequel.

Then there is the feeling that Ultimate Vault Hunter mode seems to narrow the diversity of weapon choice and character builds. I really enjoyed going almost entirely Little Big Trouble tree for Gaige in the first and second run through the campaign, but I felt like I was being forced into the Anarchy tree in higher difficulty and there weren’t enough enemies vulnerable to shock damage to make the boosts to electric damage worthwhile. I actually think Gaige would have fared better in the pre-sequel since there were a lot more shield-heavy foes there.

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When in uvhm lvl 62 killing a main boss down to 1/8 health when a lvl 72 enters the game and scales all enemies to his lvl. I die. He leaves. Now im stuck with high lvl enemies i cant kill. Save/exit.

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@Cg3 Level-spiking… :expressionless:

Yeah, I was just finishing Dragon Keep with some strangers, and some dude drops like 30 purple rarity Bees.

[quote=“MeTheAlmighty, post:46, topic:375367”]
Yeah, I was just finishing Dragon Keep with some strangers, and some dude drops like 30 purple rarity Bees.[/quote]It’s one reason I say that I’m quite alright on gear – and I usually am. Dropping me legit stuff is alright, but you start dropping me things like blue-grade Legendary COMs…

And I’m not sure why some folks refuse to take the hint when someone drops a trade the instant a hacked item is put up, or even identified as a problem. Like seriously, square peg in a round hole much?

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Of course, I instantly kicked him.

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I dislike how the catch-a-ride interface has a separate selection for “Vehicle Family,” as it makes the actual menu slower. I would have greatly preferred the Technical to be selectable from the regular menu, so that if I felt like using an Outrunner, the game wouldn’t make it inconvenient to do so.

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When you go into last stand and the enemy’s just run away from you, preventing you from getting your 2nd wind.

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Currently?

  • 4 player glitch fixed. Makes farming Vermi and OOO impossible for solo.

  • minor annoyance. Had a pixie clip into me. Making me stand there like an idiot while the other pixie killed me…

People who use the Shock storm front.

They are all shock.

Why?

The prefix “shock” stormfront.

Blame GBX, not the people who use it. :dukejk:

[quote=“Cg3, post:52, topic:375367, full:true”]
People who use the Shock storm front.
[/quote]The one that’s hacked for Jakobs manufacture, and sometimes won’t sit right in your inventory when viewed by manufacturer? I feel that. +9000 annoyance.

No its still valdof. I had one early on in my career before these forums. Its just modded to have fastball damage.

i know exactly what he’s talking about… It’s the one that does as much damage as a fastball but has the same effects as a storm front, 27 mil damage stromfront OP please nerf kunai :smiley:

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I remember it clearly, too – just one of the damn things (technically) one-shotted an OP8 Terra!