What did you do in BL2 during your most recent session?

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#9529

It’s a game day for me : holiday here in BC , air quality pretty bad from the forest fires ( so no trail running for me ) and the wife’s working.

As posted a few hours ago ( heh! ), I was about to finish off the story : went full B0re ( <pun ) through Hero’s Pass and was shocked and surprised to see my adversary once again ( I thought I should maybe write a final chapter to 0tt’s saga, but no inspiration struck ).

I took out the Jacks and his various minions almost solely with my new Storm, which proved to be extremely impressive ( yes, very impressed with the Storm ) but finished him off with the Avenger. Then I dropped the Warrior with my new Sawbar, which I hadn’t really planned on ; but with 6/5 in Vel0city, it got the bullet-split range about right. That went amazingly fast ( especially as I farmed a better Bee than the crap one I got last night ).

I farmed the Warrior for a while, the only keeper being this :

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Then went to see Tannis ( I use any excuse ) to get the Terra mission. I also used the Sawbar on Terra to remarkable effect. The main problem being the range, so the fight got pretty hairy. Anyways, success , back to Tannis ( :heart_eyes: ) to turn in the mission ; then back to Terra for some farming. At OP2, the fight took me an average 10 minutes and I died every other time. No Hide ( not that I need one yet ) but got another of these :

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#9530

Nice Weisenheimer! :open_mouth:

Dahl Commando went to Opportunity to see how long it would be before the game crashed (just to get a starting data point: I am using the UCP, and this was as much to see if using this didn’t change anything as it was to use it in principle). After facing down an SGT Loader gunzerking a pair of Banes (dude was basically stationary) and an Engineer rocking a Hellfire (why yes, it does light you on fire something fierce), the game crashed at a little over 41 minutes into the map.

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#9531

Is that what a real one :astonished: i’ve never seen one of them before. It must be an extremely rare weapon.:exploding_head:

This would be very funny to witness. Are they audible as well? or is that how you new it was rockin’ Bane’s in the first place and i’m just a :clown_face: :poop:y head that’s :no_good_man: and should :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Too early in your summation of this but do you suspect anything in the patch? I had wondered if it could be a factor but remembered that Hattie said this had happened on her old laptop so started to think down the lines of hidden and/or possibly extra polygons that your cards might be rendering like in Crysis 2 or 3 for example where newer cards were being hobbled for sake of, shall we say consumerism? Maybe not the correct word but it’s what might have been used at the time just like the Witcher 3 and Geralt’s hair. Anyhow i’m probably 100 miles off the mark, but i think it’s pretty cool of you to try and work out what’s causing this :+1::+1:

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#9532

I’ve only ever seen green ones in the wild. I have a full collection of these Maliwan-barreled SMGs per manufacturer that I’m trying to fill with all purple versions. The Shoky and Weisenheimer are the only two I have left in green: I have a purple Storm, Provocateur, Revenant, and Wellness (where all the rest are blue). When the weapon pool is a zillion guns deep, some things are rare just because they get buried in the numbers. I’ve never seen an Attack Defender before either.

Nope - this was a thing I’ve been working around ever since I got in the habit of spending long amounts of time scrubbing maps years ago.

Dahl Commando went to try out a new UCP COM and picked up The Name Game mission. I tried to kite these Bonerfarts over the bridge to the entrance to Frostburn Canyon, but they couldn’t “see” me over the arch of the bridge, so I let them get carried away throwing snowballs at me. I think there are six in the air at once here. :grimacing:

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Explosive kills of those Pyro Nomads causes their gas tanks to explode... one Nuke to corner them, a second to detonate them.

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#9533

Yeah i was kind of pulling your leg there as @jefe will probably know, and i have been known to say a couple of things involving this particular weapon on the interweb machine in the past :grin:

I seem to get the Backburner in a purple variant a bit from the Warrior, and have a few of the Gemstone ones also come to think of it. I know i have a couple of the Emerald Dahl ones and Cubic zirconia as well from BS and maybe some others, and i definitely have a Diamond one as i’ve had a few of them and know i put at least one through the grinder and maybe one in the lava “bew_ style”.

If you’re open to offers i’ll gladly gift them to you if you want, as i don’t want any of them and don’t use them. I’ve never really used SMG’s much at all tbh. Anyhow like i said if you want them just yell out, if not no probs.

ps: Exploding a Pyro Nomads fuel tanks is so satisfying that i sometimes get a little annoyed if i don’t get the kill that way. Maya and CK are the biggest culprit for that.

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#9534

Thanks! :bookmark::slight_smile:

And wow, :cloud_with_lightning_and_rain:s are dropping like crazy lately!

How do you get the giant balloon to appear? Not destroy any :balloon: anywhere on the map? I always shoot the little balloon clusters on sight. Partly because as Tannis says we VHs will shoot anything, partly habit from doing one of the Claptastic Voyage map challenges for Overlook.

Re: crashes in Opportunity, I’ve never had that problem. Not sure if I’ve been there for 41+ minutes, but since I’m not a super-fast player (usually) it’s not unlikely. My hardware is wildly in excess to requirements for BL2 though, especially since I keep physx effects off to try to minimize clutter on the screen. It’s hard enough for Maya to see exactly where her PL target’s head is without globs of acid dripping out or all the environmental Converge debris flying around. :slight_smile:

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#9535

i’m currently farming vorASSidous for fire & corrosive practicable interfacers, and i am just getting pissed left and right

chief ngwatu mostly goes for my turrets instead of me, which i don’t want
the savage midgets keep attacking me, preventing me from opening my menu, and i don’t want that
vorASSidous keeps rabid’ing me, and doing those novas
and he kills my turrets with no effort at all while in rabid ■■■■■■■ mode

all i’ve gotten is a non-elemental practicable interfacer and a tumtum hawkeye

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#9536

I don’t believe it turns up during the main mission, but only afterwards on repeated runs. It’s quite easy to shoot it down accidentally or possibly have it shot by your turret when it’s just floating up over the water behind the wedding arch area, and if you are still fighting other enemies after you have killed the Happy Couple the balloon can already be above you and a lightning bolt will strike it and pop it for you. I don’t think enemies can pop the balloon although i can’t say for sure. And if you level up the HC they will drop more loot i think, not better, just more. Hope that helps :+1:

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#9537

I found one of these the other day from the Ancient Dragons.
I think I kept it because the name was so weird. I’ll have a look.

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#9538

Ditto. I love getting in behind them and putting rounds into that tank. It’s frustrating when you have little jets of fire coming from it, but they die from something else. Don’t want to get too close when it finally goes off though!

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#9539

Started the attempt to finish all of the BAR challenges today. The crouching assault rifle is easily the worst, idk how anyone gets it done

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#9540

I think it comes out if the happy couple has leveled up all the way before you kill them? I’ve only noticed it once (though I think I’ve had it come out numerous times… I don’t look up often, and the lightning gets it).

The “collection” is a set of screenshots of the drops, not the actual weapons. While they’re very good armaments if you’re playing with world drops, I’m playing with a fixed library. Thanks though! :+1:

Some of them, Unique gimmick or no, are quite good depending on what you want out of a weapon. “Fire and forget” DoT kills at OP8? Dual elements? Interesting projectile behavior? Random powerups? Unique Tediore reload detonations? Three (more?) variations of curses for extra combat challenges? High raw damage output? (Low damage output?) The SMG landscape in BL2 is pretty awesome, I think.

Maybe - I might Execute right into those packs with Zer0 just because it’s funny. WTF IEDs are also unusually lethal against these guys.

edit - sounds like a great breakfast run! I’m using an overpowered, blast-proof Aequitas shield here, so these detonations basically wipe my shield but don’t dip directly into my health. I love how it blows you back a little despite the apparent momentum of Execute. Also! Killing Pyros this way does not trigger Many Must Fall, even though I get the credit for the kill (note the kill skills but lack of the MMF icon). Melee killing a Pyro without hitting the pack does trigger Many Must Fall. Weird. Also, one of the Nomads was packing a Seeker. :grimacing:

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#9541

Drop into a lower mode, go everywhere crouched. Don’t do this as Maya with Kinetic Reflection and Cloud Kill though…

Probably because your technically killing a “barrel” strapped to their back. Does MMF proc if you Execute a barrel or stinging cactus?

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#9542

Did lots of farming of LLM in WEP and of Doc Mercy with Reverend Pain and got very little in return- a corrosive Wanderlust from the LLM and another n.e. Rapid Infinity from Doc Mercy. Sarge Steel finished WEP and headed for Thousand Cuts while Dee Lightful entered TVHM to do the Crouching Tiger, Hidden AR challenge, as some of the heavy nomads and Goliaths will survive Cloud Kill but are still easy enough to kill. Also went to Caustic Caverns as there’s not much chance of bullet deflection there :smiley: She now has just over 1000 kills out of the 1600 needed to finish Tier 4- maybe another week or so to finish it.

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#9543

I didn’t have much time last night. I was grilling steak kebabs and that took up a lot of my gaming time…

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Not into Spikers but this is all Dahl so I’m keeping it.

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And this scenic shot is just because I was slightly mesmerized by its beauty.

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Ya kinda have to be there as the waterfalls really kick up the awesome atmosphere it was providing. I just chilled there for a min. :blush:

When this situation occurs, and if I have the room in my backpack, I remove my weapons to make more FOV space for my enjoyment.

oh man, totally forgot to mention I tried spending some crystals cause I’ve been maxed out for too long, imo. So I decided to farm the Seraph vendor in Oasis by travelling to the Leviathan map and back out so upon save/quit I reload closer to the vendor. Quicker farming. :wink: Was going for matching grip elemental(hopefully rightsizing prefix) Actualizers. Never gave them much of a chance and I am currently rolling with a Hyperion Allegiance build with my maya and thought it’d be fun tesing these out on her. man that was a boring farm, couple hours I won’t get back. lol But I did end up with corrosive and incendiary actualizers with matching grip, not the prefix i wanted but was tired of going for perfection. Yes, Dahl stocks are required. :blush: The Social prefix is most likely what I’m going to want. The reload is atrocious on those babies. 4.2 for matching grip, but 3.5 if it’s the social prefix.

fired off some rounds with Sal. The kick/recoil this baby has is INSANE. Not sure if I’m going to like these over the Bitches I currently use on Hyperion Maya.

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#9544

and i’m still getting bad prefix hawkeyes and non-practicable non-elemental interfacers
it’s like every single interfacer is non-elemental and non-practicable
does it look like i want any of those
the only elemental practicable interfacer i’ve gotten was

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like why would i want slag on an interfacer

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#9545

I had amazing luck with iFacers my last run. One in each element with not-terrible parts , two of them Practicable, and very few Hawkeyes.

I can’t think of a good use for a slag one but a slag Conference Call is a good surveyor killer.

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#9546

finally get practicable interfacer
oh look it’s non-elemental like usual, like everyday, like everything your parents pack for your lunch

#9547

So, I was goofing off with a buddy who was running Krieg - And I was using my Siren. We were doing some field testing with him specc’ing into Fuel the Rampage and me spec’d into Restoration.

It seems that the friendly fire side effect for FtR is negated by Restoration - and still heals! However, the one thing that didn’t work with this loop hole was if I used a pistol for a headshot – But here’s where it gets slightly odd!

The Grog was the only pistol that healed him no matter what.

Thoughts, theories, and possibilities anyone?

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#9548

That shot right there is why Hayter’s Folly is my favorite map in the entire game. Way back in 2013 when I got a new TV, that map is the place I went to in order to compare the picture quality between my old TV and the new one. Good golly, that was flawless environmental design by Gearbox.

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