Thursday, December 24, 2009

Borderlands

I've been playing a bit of Borderlands, enough to get 2 characters up to about L15 or so, and 2 more started up past the tutorial.

However as it's supposed to be a multiplayer game and I haven't done any multiplayer on it yet, the game is starting to wear thin. It doesn't really seem to have a lot of... replay value - the replays I am doing with the 3rd and 4th characters are really tedious.

My current opinions on weapon types:

Assault Rifle - it has a decent rof, accuracy and damage, and you can carry enough ammo.

SMG - basically it does everything the assault rifle does, except it burns through ammo faster (more expensive), you can't carry enough ammo to feed it for a whole mission, it has less accuracy, less damage, and less range. I dont understand why so many SMGs have a 2.4x or higher zoom on them.

Repeater - not too bad if you can find a decent damage per shot one. Often they're more accurate than an SMG and have rofs ranging from slower than assault rifles to faster than an SMG.

Launcher - pretty good but the ammo seems a bit hard to come by still at my level.

Sniper Rifle - things zigzag so much at range, its really only good for a surprise shot, unless you know how to lead a target that is intentionally zigzagging to avoid a sniper rifle.

Revolver - these are pretty good damage but are horrendously slow - its kind of like the sniper rifle except close range. And eventually you meet foes that you require some serious damage to dent, especially if they're still a level higher than you.

Cheers for now
Upsen.

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