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[Jerush]

Meet the Siren

Gearbox details the revamped siren class in its shoot and loot sequel.

The phaselock ability is the first earned in the Siren's skill tree, allowing her to bind an enemy from range in a kind of energy bubble

First, it takes an enemy out of a fight, providing a degree of crowd control.

Second, it locks the enemy in place, useful for turning fast-moving creatures into easy targets.

She's got support trees so she's also kind of a mystical healer and she uses her ability to grant health bonuses to herself as well as the team.

She can use her phaselock ability to revive another player, so you don't even have to be near somebody to get them up

She'll also be able to deal out plenty of direct damage by investing skill points in the Cataclysm tree.

She has a skill called Helios, and when a target gets phaselocked you get a huge aoe explosion and targets in that radius can get set on fire.

Source:
http://pc.ign.com/articles/121/1219322p1.html

[Jerush]

Meet Borderlands 2's Gunzerker

Shoot guns in style.

The Gunzerker, can temporarily wield two guns at once.

With the skill Yippe Ki Yay, "while you're gunzerking [dual-wielding], any time you kill an enemy it increases the duration of gunzerking. A really large encounter with lots of enemies becomes exciting. You immediately enter your gunzerking mode and every time you kill them you get bigger and stronger and badder and just completely go on a rampage throughout the fight.

There's also the Brawn skill tree, where you can learn the Come at Me, Bro skill. With this, "while gunzerking you can let out a taunt and get enemies to focus on you," said Hemingway. "But then for the next several seconds you get a ton of damage reduction. But also the moment you taunt you instantly go to full health -- and so it's actually fantastic.

The third skill tree is called Gun Lust, which according to Burch is "all about just doing crazy or interesting things with guns. There's one skill called No Kill Like Overkill and anytime you kill an enemy, any excessive amount of damage you dealt is converted into health for you.

A skill called Double Your Fun ties into the grenade system. "If you throw a grenade while gunzerking you actually end up throwing two grenades, but the second grenade doesn't cost you ammo.

Source:
http://pc.ign.com/articles/121/1215312p1.html

[SRINI87]

No Vita plans for Borderlands 2, 2K confirms

[SRINI87]

[dsogaming]Borderlands 2 will be a Steamworks title

2K Games, Gearbox Software and Valve today announced an agreement to power all PC versions of the highly anticipated Borderlands 2 with Steamworks when the game launches on September 18, 2012 in North America and September 21, 2012 internationally.

[dante77]

does that mean no physical copy?

[SRINI87]

Images removed

Edited by SRINI87, 09 March 2012 - 08:27 AM.

[Dbz_479]

Awesome stuff!

[SRINI87]

Borderlands 2 aims for “as few cutscenes as is humanly possible”

Gearbox really, really doesn’t want to turn Borderlands 2 into a cut-scene heavy drama llama.
“The key is not breaking flow. A big part of that is as few cutscenes as is humanly possible,” Borderlands 2 writer Anthony Burch told GameInformer when asked about the game’s story.

“Apart from our cool splash screens that last about five seconds, there’s maybe three cutscenes in the entire game – one at the very beginning, one at the very end, and one in the middle. I’m not certain on that number, but it’s very low.”

src:Vg247

[nautical_j]

does that mean no physical copy?

Nope... There would be a boxed copy as well... But the game would be linked to your steam account... Like left 4 dead, Deus EX, Space Marine

[SRINI87]

Borderlands 2 love letter to pc gamers

Spoiler

pc specific features

FOV Slider
100% mouse usable menus/mouse wheel scrolling
Remappable keybindings for keyboard/mouse
PC-specific UI
Native multiplayer matchmaking
Push-to-talk functionality
Logitech keyboard support
LAN support (with emphasis on an included offline mode)
Control pad support
Integrated v-sync option
Support for higher resolutions
Mouse smoothing options (can be disabled completely)
Cloud save support
Achievement support
Friends list support

[Aftrunner]

Most of that should be taken for granted in PC version. Shitty console ports have lowered expectations so badly.

Still at least they are trying this time. The first one was a horrible port esp when it came to UI.

[SRINI87]

Borderlands 2 – NVIDIA GTX 680 Tech Demo

[Ram Dante]

^Now that is awesome!

[SRINI87]

[VG247] - Borderlands 2: massive gameplay video, how aesthetics and gameplay fuse

Edited by SRINI87, 04 April 2012 - 05:35 PM.

[Dbz_479]

Borderlands 2 NEW Gameplay + PC Co-op Hands On Impressions!

shorter vid

Edited by Dbz_479, 04 April 2012 - 05:39 PM.

[Dbz_479]

[nautical_j]

Brilliant gameplay... Cant wait to get my hands on it... And my respect for gearbox for not including wub-wub....

[Dylanjosh]

Brilliant gameplay... Cant wait to get my hands on it... And my respect for gearbox for not including wub-wub....

They better have more dubstep trailers then

[SRINI87]

Edited by SRINI87, 07 April 2012 - 08:51 AM.

[Dbz_479]

Borderlands 2 conjures up Mechromancer class, adds character customization options
On the final day of PAX East, members of Gearbox detailed plans for Borderlands 2, which is set to drop on September 18. The biggest news nuggest is the Mechromancer, a class that will be added to the game as DLC after launch and free to those who pre-order. The Mechromancer is a female human/machine hybrid, which is totally great because we wrote all of this erotic Claptrap fan-fiction that would totally explain -- ahem, sorry. She will also have a friend: a giant robot called D374-TP (Deathtrap).



Game Informer was at the panel – all of us were too busy scurrying back to our respective journalizing holes to attend today – and says that in addition to the Mechromancer, there will be options to customize the look of your character. Costumes and custom gear will be earned when players complete missions and challenges.

Finally, there will be a special edition of Borderlands 2 that will retail for $149.99. It's packaged in a big plastic loot box replete with a Marcus Kincaid bobblehead and, obviously, a copy of Borderlands 2.
http://www.yourgamercards.net/index.php/news.html/_/gamingnews/borderlands-2-conjures-up-mechromancer-class-adds-character-customization-options-r1551

[Dbz_479]

[dante77]

please don't tell me there is no sniper class

[ScrewyAurum]

Gunzerker, sniper in one hand shotty in another!

[i_rock098]

double weild is only available for a limited time in the game.

[cat]

Final BOX Art -

Edited by cat, 17 May 2012 - 09:43 PM.

[cat]

Borderlands 2 Editions -


Premiere Club Collector’s Edition -



Includes -



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Deluxe Vault Hunter’s Collector’s Edition -



Includes -



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Ultimate Loot Chest Edition -



Includes -

Edited by cat, 17 May 2012 - 09:44 PM.

[dante77]

nice box-art and I'm buying it if it has sniper class

[Dylanjosh]

Oh man horrible box art. I loved the boxart of the previous game, but this one looks overdone.

[slackerninja]

I so want that loot chest edition.

[dante77]

Compare to some of the other box-arts, its better. 1st one was better I agree