Did you see me having fun with the Goliaths in the Arena?
OoooooOOoOoOoHHHHHHHH!!
I --CANNOT-- WAIT TO PLAY THE HYPERION CIRCLE OF SLAUGHTER ON TVH MODE!!
You --DO-- know there's yet another Mode after TVH Mode, Right?
I forget the name of it, but ---EVERYTHING--- is Level 50!
Night!
WOW... JUST. WOW!
Voted Game of the Year by X Play!
Awarded Best Multiplayer Game of 2012 on the Spike VGA's!
Dameon Clarke wins Best Performance by a Human Male for Handsome Jack on the Spike VGA's!
Clap Trap Voted Best Character 2012 by Gamer Poll on the Spike VGA's!
GEARBOX HAS GONE GOTY CRAZY! THEY'RE GIVING OUT SHIFT CODES TO CELEBRATE THEIR AWARDS!!
**These codes will be good all weekend!**
Xbox 360: KJCBB-CXSWH-6ZXT6-WXTBJ-RSHHZ
Xbox 360: CT5TB-B6HWS-XSR3F-KR3BB-H6B6R
Xbox 360: CJ53B-66ZC9-RZR3X-5XJB3-JHC5T
Xbox 360: WTWTJ-ZRHCZ-RZXJ6-5XJJB-ZKKH3
Xbox 360: CBWTT-SBFSK-35WKT-HB5TT-RRRHH
I now have ELEVEN Golden Keys!!
WOO!
GUNS! GUNS! GUNS!
Five Things You should Know about Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt
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1. It's Actually Challenging
If you've already completed Borderlands 2's main game, the last two campaign DLCs might have felt like a breeze. They certainly did for me. But Gearbox took notice, and made Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt a hell of a lot tougher. It'll be an actual challenge to fight through mobs of enemies. In fact, you'll have to be at least level 30 just to tackle the thing.
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2. New Enemies. More Importantly: A New Enemy Behavior
The more appropriate difficulty scale is partly to do with new enemies, specifically one new enemy type. In Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt, you'll be exploring a new continent—called Aegrus—full of mountains and swamps. But Aegrus doesn't just bring a new aesthetic appeal; it's riddled with new enemies, too.
The swampy greens and mountainous browns are overrun by savages. Savages are basically like bandits. They look like headdressed, tattooed, spear-and-shield-equipped bandits. They even evolve like bandits do when you don't kill them fast enough. Midgets still jump up behind you while squealing in that adorably terrifying way. You know the one.
But these tribes of savages doesn't behave exactly like bandits do. Because they've got a chief. Chiefs can heal their friends, themselves, and send out powerful attacks (fire or slag, for instance) to slash at your health bar.
Giving one enemy type this much power means one important difference for you: you'll have to focus all of your gunfire on this target first, unless you want to unload your clip into a bandit-style savage only to see his health bar reset thanks to these pesky witchdoctor-types. They'll buff their friends while debuffing you, which results in nasty effects like slowing you down.
Then there are big, flying things called Spores. They hover above you, dropping mini, kamikaze versions of themselves onto your head. Scaylions are Varkid-like, bug creatures. Together these new enemies make up what feels like a fresh Borderlands experience.
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3. New Vehicle That You Can Paint With Lots Of Pretty Colors
I really wish I could tell you the new vehicle is the two-seater motorbike we saw in Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage. And I really wish I didn't have to tell you that the actual new vehicle is a fanboat. The fanboat is all too similar to the sand skiff we saw in Captain Scarlett and Pirate's Booty. Sure, it maneuvers seamlessly between all possible directions within the 360 degree span quite a bit smoother than the sand skiff. And sure, its got a flamethrower and a corrosive acid launcher. But it still controls quite a bit like the sand skiff.
Oh, and there are lots of customization skins for the fanboat that enemies will drop.
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4. New Raid Boss. Plus, Bonus!: New...Rare Creatures?
Voracidous is the name of the seraph guardian raid boss that will be the cause of your furrowed eyebrows when you get your hands on Big Game Hunt next month. He's a Stalker, but, fitting with the theme, you'll have to fend off against the Chief that controls him, too. Which, as you can imagine, means there will be other groups of enemies you'll have to deal with.
Then there's Dexidous who will be the cause of one very long, sleepless night fighting through wave after wave of enemies. This "rare" creature will only be summoned after you supply various totems across Aegrus with a hefty ton of precious Eridium. Kill this Drifter and you can pick up Hammerlock-themed (aka hunting-themed) weapons.
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5. Loot, Loot, Loot!
Hammerlock/hunting-themed weaponry aside, I found a ton of new weapons to replace my previous favorites. I get attached to my guns, even in a game like Borderlands that encourages you to constantly swap them out for new, shiny ones. But it's hard to argue with the insanely powerful pistols and assault rifles this new DLC throws at you. Did I mention these insanely powerful weapons are also insanely plentiful? By the end of Big Game Hunt, you'll have opened many, many loot chests. More than your feeble little backpack can handle.
Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt releases on January 15. It's covered in the Season Pass, or will be available individually for $9.99.
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Borderlands 2 Will Raise Its Level Cap Early Next Year
IGN today reported that Borderlands 2's level cap, currently at 50, will rise sometime in the first three months of next year.
It's not going to come with Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt, announced and previewed today. 2K Games told IGN that Gearbox Software still is considering whether to do it as part of a DLC extension or as a separate download.
The studio did both in the original Borderlands in 2010, raising the cap from 50 to 61 with The Secret Armory of General Knoxx and then raising it to 69 with a free update.
Additionally, 2K is said to be thrilled with Borderlands 2's sales performance, and is envisioning a second "season" of DLC after this one concludes. Big Game Hunt will be the third of four promised extensions.
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I lol every time we do our victory dance!Every victory in the arena is worthy of a victory dance!
