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[dankingery]

i'll have to keep an eye out for it. thanks for the tip.

[Reccoom Kaboom]

My new game crack (aside from left4dead & castle crashers) is the wonderful "you-got-your-rpg-in-my-fps" game Borderlands. Lighter on the rpg than what bethesda does, more like a diablo in first person with thousands of gun stat and attribute varieties. uses the 4 main classes with branching skill trees formula. Controlls like a very tight fps, and the weapon stats make a difference. Great art style. Multiplayer co-op and deathmatch types.

bought this game on the 3rd, 2pm, didn't stop till 10:30 the next morning. I've put in more hours in this game in a 4-day stetch than any other game I've ever liked.

[dankingery]

alright, i found something way worse than those painting trolls. made the mistake of taking a look in that crashed ship. holy shizznit, those ghosts with the swords dealt some quick death. decided i'm going to wait to finish that one up. like, at least another 10 levels.

hit level 15 tonight. made it through the hunter's run mission at fort grief. pretty easy. apparently, if you stand in the shadows the computer doesn't realize you're there and you can 6x their asses to death. got some nifty armor out of it too. also, purified the sanctuary so i also got that cool horse with the dark purple fur and the glowing red eyes. that damn thing hauls ass.

Edited by dankingery, 09 November 2009 - 09:09 PM.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Which crashed ship? I'm trying to recall. I always did hate those wraiths though. I usually sneak up on em or wait till they float over to me to try and get a decent surprise attack.

I believe I was the master of all the standard guilds...Can't really recall any that I found to be difficult off hand.

I never did anything with the expansions as I never got the chance.

[dankingery]

the forlorn watchman mission. the ghost asks you to release him from the "panthers mouth" or whatever. turns out there's a ship wreck and when you go inside you're immediately attacked by two wraiths. one casts a spell that dumbs down all your stats and then the other one ninjas your ass to death. now that i've got some chameleon armor i may try to sneak in there just to see what happens. last time though, it took me a couple of tries just to get out of the damn ship without them killing me very quickly.

found the best way to flee enemies. just swim. saved my thieving ass may times from the castle guards.

can anyone explain to me how turn undead works in this game. in other games i've played it's pretty much a pass/fail spell that if it's successful the undead become plain old dead. i've got a bow that has a turn undead attribute to it, but when i shoot shizznit that i consider undead nothing really happens.

[Reccoom Kaboom]

in oblivion, turn undead makes the dead flee/attack their master, depending on its level. handy to have against necromancers.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

the forlorn watchman mission. the ghost asks you to release him from the "panthers mouth" or whatever. turns out there's a ship wreck and when you go inside you're immediately attacked by two wraiths. one casts a spell that dumbs down all your stats and then the other one ninjas your ass to death. now that i've got some chameleon armor i may try to sneak in there just to see what happens. last time though, it took me a couple of tries just to get out of the damn ship without them killing me very quickly.

I figured that's what you were talking about after I posted. Cause I know I've done like 99% of the oddball quests in the game. Funny thing is I sort of never got fully into the main quest. My brother sort of ruined the ending for me. I came home just when he was finishing it up. So I never felt an urge to go further than where I was at.

But I don't recall what weapon I used usually. I had a habit of only using unique weapons until their enchantments ran out of a charge. Since there were so many, I'd just switch it out for another enchanted weapon. I always liked getting into archer battles with other archers.

[dankingery]

i haven't ran into a single necromancer yet. although, i'm guessing that'll be a big part of them game, judging from the rumors i hear at the mage guilds and the like.

i've been trying to figure out leveling up in the game. if anyone can tell me exactly how it works, that'd be great. how i think it works is this, you perform different actions and your stat points increase. after a certain number of stat increases (i think 5) it tells you that you should rest and meditate on what you've learned. is this correct?

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

You have to level up your main 10 skills. After 10 skill points earned from any of your main or secondary skills you will be encouraged to rest. I think that's right.... Pretty much just like Morrowind. But it's better than morrowind. Where in MW it was best if you planned out exactly what skills you raised, and try to level up immediately after it tells you to, so you could get bonuses for specific attributes. In Oblivion I think the bonuses are preset according to the level or something. Not sure fully. It's been a while. I bet there is an article about it on one of the Oblivion sites.


**** Here is one. http://www.uesp.net/...livion:Leveling

Edited by Universal Ruler Supreme, 10 November 2009 - 05:24 PM.

[Scumdogg]

The Oblivion main quest made me sad. I spent so long not doing it, working on side stuff...then figured i still had like a whole game left when i was gonna do the main quest right? Felt like i finished in in about twenty minutes. Weak. Fallout 3's main quest is better, although admittedly not by much. Bethesda is all about the side missions.

[dankingery]

hey, here's a fun fact. i just got my ass kicked last night by a fish. yeah, you heard me right, a fish killed me.

how embarrassing. okay, so i've killed these fish before, i don't remember their name but they're the only fish i've seen. maybe slaughterfish. anyway, i've always been able to kill them pretty easily in the past with just my shadowhunt bow. a mini quest i'm doing asked me to get 12 of their scales. simple. especially where they're located. i can just bait them into the shore and arrow their ass from the safety of a rock. so, i setup my strategy, swim out and find the first fish. arrow between the eyes for 3x damage. it begins to chase me. as i'm swimming backwards unloading arrows on it i notice this fish is either super fast compared to the other ones i've killed or something has gone horribly wrong. turns out, my bow which normally paralyzes an enemy briefly is out of charge and this fish is way faster than i thought they were. and a bit of a fighter too. i'm dropping arrows into it like crazy but it combos me to death in short time.

the moral of this story, always pay attention to how many uses your items have and don't forget to heal after fighting some ogres and a troll. luckily my last autosave was only a mere moment before my huge embarrassing failure.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Yeah, those are special Slaughterfish, and there are only supposed to be 12 in the area, and only appear I think once you take the mission. I recall them being pretty difficult, and bigger than normal I think, but can't recall ever being slaughtered by these slaughterfish.

[dankingery]

well, i won't feel too bad if they're special or something. but the fact remains that i wasn't prepared for the fight and got too cocky.

as for the enchanted weapons, does anyone know if there's only specific weapons in the game, or if they're randomly generated a la dungeon siege?

[Strontium Dog]

There's some specific and unique weapons (eg Goldbrand, Umbra) and others that are random and available in multiple quantities. Anything you find on a generic bandit or the like will be a random weapon.

In Oblivion, i found every fight through the entire game to just be tedious because no matter how strong you get, every random bear or goblin in the game is getting stronger with you.

I didn't like that aspect either. It wasn't so much the tough battles as it was the way every bandit and raider you meet after a certain level is wearing full Daedric or Glass armour... seemed somewhat ridiculous.