It was bound to happen at some point very soon… a certain friend told me he’s gotten bored with the game… of course this is after he’s powerleveled all the characters straight to 50 right away and got people to give him all the most powerful gear in the game and rushing through the main storyline (while probably not even paying attention to it). Oh what a surprise this is…how very, very surprising.
Anyway, I was playing with some other friends with legit characters yesterday, and it was non-stop fun and good times. I’m the one exception though-- this Zero I have was power-leveled a bit but only up to 16 or 17… purposely left him there since that’s around the same level they were a week or so ago. Heh, I had a Sal that was level 20 but he could barely hang with them yesterday since they were around level 24 and 25 at that point (and we were in Creature Slaughter Dome), and that Sal has some terribly weak weapons/gear so far. Our group was 2 Zeros, the Siren and 1 guy playing Gaige/Mechromancer… Deathtrap has been such a life-saver to the team soooo many times now. (of course he’s going mostly “BFF” tree; heh heh, the correct choice.)
I’m really enjoying all the damage bonuses Zero gets to sniping so far… it’s fun. Of course I’m also playing Zero currently to slowly-but-surely get those Decepti0n kills up to get the Nihilist head. That’s one of Zero’s best looks right there. (edit— sheeeit, I’m only at 260-something kills with that! Such a long way to go for 1 customization item!)
*edit update— that Zero is level 30 now, and only has the Vault of the Warrior to do next. The plan for this character is working out so perfectly… I’ve preferred to use a cool-down relic for him so that he can be in Decepti0n mode about as often as I want.
So the bad thing about investing hard into Axton’s Survival tree is that you barley do any damage to anything. The Leviathan was actually a challenge for me. Went back to Mostly Gunpowder+Gurrilla afterwards.
heh, for me it was since I had 2 groups of folks I played with recently… some were power-leveled to 50. The other group did not power-level; they only just made it to level 28 or 29-ish as of yesterday. I only have doubles of 2 favorites so far; Sal (a 50 and a 26) and Zero (50 and the aforementioned 30…of course once “Group B” eventually gets closer to 50, there will no longer be a point in keeping the extra versions of those characters)… I also like playing Axton but I only have 1 that’s 44.
It seems odd to make multiple versions of all of them though. It’s funny that I could easily predict that the one friend would get bored quickly. I’m already doubting he will ever play this game again. I’m sure he seriously thinks it’s an issue of the game being “boring” and NOT the fact that he went straight to 50 with all characters and got dupes of legendary gear several times over for each character. (*thus, we actually had to “hold back” on the final boss of course when going through on Normal, just so the battles would last more than a matter of seconds…but it’s the game’s fault being so boring, right? Heh, of course. That guy, man… )
*oh yeah, I finally got that cowboy/sheriff’s hat for Sal today by killing “Geary”! There’s a new sheriff in town… ooh, they should’ve put in a drill sergeant hat in there too…hell yeah that would be THE look to roll with.
Yeah, I feel like the only gripe I have with Sal is that I am constantly switching out the guns he has equipped. When I need to snipe, I have to switch it out, use it what I’m using it for, then switch it back so that I have dual-weilding shotguns/assault rifles ready for when I use my skill.
Someone with a transformation action skill would be interesting to me… like a guy becoming some hybrid human+??? creature like a werewolf (it’s…the Skagg-Man!? The bestial form would grant you some significant boosts for melee damage and movement speed, with maybe some health regeneration in the mix as well.)… or perhaps a self-aware robot… maybe the robot could change into a stationary cannon (or maybe a tank; slower movement speed to try and balance this temporarily boosted firepower) that fires super-powered laser shots for a certain amount of time. With the stationary turret/cannon form, your rate of fire and the power of the shots would go up dramatically, of course…heh, that might be a bit too ridiculous though.
I’m hoping the resetting Badass rank thing has been fixed at this point, but I’m still seeing people occasionally mention that over on the gamefaqs board. That would really suck to go from 12,000+ back to 0, with the unlocked skins and heads being lost as well… I probably wouldn’t care as much if you could at least still keep the unlocked heads and skins. One of Zer0’s best-looking heads is unlocked that way too (“Nihilism”), and it would be a casualty of the BA reset glitch…and that shit would take a long time to get back too—> 1,000 kills in his Decepti0n skill. With my luck, I’m already sure that this glitch will hit me at some point very soon.
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