Questions tagged [borderlands-2]
a 2012 first-person role-playing shooter and the sequel to the original Borderlands. Developed by Gearbox Software for PC, Playstation 3/4, and Xbox 360/One platforms. Players can play singleplayer or coop as one of 4 Vault Hunters (+2 extra DLC characters) in their quest to find the second Vault and stop Handsome Jack.
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How many times can you get Moxxi's Good/Bad Touch weapon?
Possible spoiler: if you tip Moxxi $15k, she'll either give you Moxxi's Good Touch or Moxxi's Bad Touch. Does anyone know how many times you can tip her to get the weapon?
FYI: I tipped her $15 at ...
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What kinds of things can I win by gambling?
What kinds of things can I win by playing the slots in Moxxi's and what combinations payout?
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How do I use the shared stash to transfer items between my characters?
Pre-release information on Borderlands 2 declared there would be a "shared stash" which you can use to transfer between your created characters. How do I access the shared stash?
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Can I single-fire a Dahl sniper rifle or cancel burst fire?
I've got an awesome sniper rifle with a great rate of fire and good damage. It's perfect except it's Dahl; it fires in a 5 round burst when I'm zoomed in. This is extremely unnecessary and burns my ...
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How do I "power slide"?
To get the "Blue Sparks" challenge I need to "power slide" into enemies to kill them. Since I've successfully completed the game without ever killing a single enemy in this way, I apparently don't ...
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Is cross platform multiplayer possible?
As Borderlands 2 has been released on multiple platforms, would it be possible for me to play Borderlands 2 on PC with a friend that is playing on a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 or is it only possible to ...
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Can I transfer my PC characters to my Mac?
I was hopeful that I'd be able to download and boot up Borderlands 2 on my mac this morning to the grand sight of all the characters I'd created on the PC version happily waiting for me. Unfortunately,...
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Can I redistribute my skill points?
Uh oh, I already made a decision I regret! Is there any way I can respec my character?
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What counts as low health for Killing Blow?
Zero has a skill in the Bloodshed tree that
Massively increases Melee Damage against enemies with low health.
What exactly counts as low health in this case?
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I have hit level 50 and the game is dropping level 50 guns. Are these guns as good as they get?
I have finally hit the level cap in Borderlands 2 during the Data Mining story mission.
Now the golden chest gives level 50 items, the slot machines in Sanctuary give level 50 items, Moxxi have me a ...
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Does Borderlands 2 on the PC save locally or in the cloud?
In the first Borderlands, saves were stored locally which people could easily hack and this ruined the online experience for me.
Is this still the case for Borderlands 2, or is it all stored online ...
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How to kill the Gluttonous Thresher?
How can I kill the Gluttonous Thresher? I died like 20 times and it's taking all my savings!
I'm level 16 and can't kill it. I use my saber turret to break its shield, but after that I can only deal ...
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How do I know which weapons to keep in Borderlands 2?
I recently started playing Borderlands 2 for the first time. I haven't played any other version of the game.
Weapons are frequently dropped by enemies, and are also available from various vending ...
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Do bosses or boss encounters respawn?
Is it possible to return to a point of a boss fight or encounter and redo the fight after you've completed the associated quests? Would certainly make farming for good items much easier.
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How is ammo shared when playing co-op?
From the question How does auto-pickup work?, we know that ammo is shared between players in co-op. How does this sharing work? Does each player get the full amount of ammo, or is it divided between ...
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Mighty Morpin Problems; lost Mutant Badass Varkid
I got the injector from Sir Hammerlock, injected the pod and this huge green badass thing popped out and killed me in the face. Now I can't find it nor can I inject another pod to achieve the same ...
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In a co-op game, whose PhysX settings determine if flowing cloths are bulletproof?
…flowing cloth (flags, tarps) that use PhysX to flow realistically are solid with PhysX off, and block bullets completely. With PhysX on, the cloth can be shot apart and thus shot through.
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Is "+% chance" additive or multiplicative?
For items and Badass Tokens that boost things like Elemental Effect Rate (which is a % itself), is the added percent applied multiplicatively or additively?
For example, the Siren's skill that adds ...
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What happened to Handsome Jack?
Major spoilers in this question, so beware if you have yet to finish the game!
The question isn't so much about what happens to him since the ending is pretty unambiguous in that respect, but rather, ...
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Are there weapons which regenerate ammo?
In Borderlands 1 I had a great pistol which only had a 2-shot clip but reloaded almost instantly and it also regenerated ammunition over time, fast enough that it basically had infinite ammo. I haven'...
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What is this red cross next to my weapon? [duplicate]
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How do I mark an inventory item as trash?
I'm not even sure about when it appeared there. It doesn't seem to do anything when I click it. Any idea ?
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Where is the most effective spot to item farm?
Having beaten the main story quests of the game, I'm now running around mopping up side quests and preparing for a second playthrough of the game. I was curious where some of the best item farming ...
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Does the Season Pass include preorder bonuses like the Mechromancer class?
I have pre-ordered Borderlands 2, giving me the Mechromancer class for free. The season Pass that will come out soon after release will consists of 4 DLC packs. Does the Mechromancer class DLC count ...
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Where can I find my melee damage?
I often find cool items that provide melee damage bonuses, e.g. +50% melee damage.
I'd like to know the base of the melee damage calculations, "+50%" of what?
It is easy to find this information ...
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Optimizing Axton for Solo Play
Due to a severe lack of close-level friends, I'm stuck playing Borderlands 2 solo.
I've tried a few different builds that I've found scattered around the internets, mostly focusing on one particular ...
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Why does Handsome Jack let me respawn?
I may have missed something in the story line but if Handsome Jack is the Hyperion leader.... and the New-U stations are hyperion controlled, why does he let me respawn? Is it due to Angel's ...
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Can I gunzerk forever?
I was playing online with my friend and we saw a player whose action skill never ended. He was playing as Salvador. Is it possible to do that? I am putting points into rampage and gun lust but it ...
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How do save game spawn locations work in Borderlands 2?
I've been playing Borderlands 2 on Xbox recently (havent played the first yet) and am wondering how the save game works.
If I hit Start and select Save and Quit from the menu then load my game again ...
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How can I get up to the Sheriff of Lynchwood?
I've just killed the Sheriff of Lynchwood, but she never came down from the top of the building. An answer to another question leads me to believe that she might have dropped something interesting, ...
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How do you open jail cell 4 and the other jail cells during the "Save Roland" mission?
I encountered this jail cell which obviously has loot behind it, but no way of interacting with the door seems to open it. I first saw it on the "Save Roland" quest, and later on "Out of Body ...
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Can you get legendary weapons in Vending Machines?
Very similar to some vending machines in Borderlands 1 (There was a "secret" vending machine in New Haven that would have very high legendary spawn rates), can vending machines in Borderlands 2 spawn ...
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How do I get a Seraph Crystal?
There's someone much like Crazy Earl in Oasis behind a locked door. He tells me to leave until I've killed a seraph guardian or I get some sort of guardian crystal.
I just beat the DLC and did many ...
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Is jumping faster than sprinting?
Is it faster to jump constantly while sprinting, or just sprint? It seems to me that Jumping is faster but I'm not sure.
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How can I get lots of Torgue Tokens?
Best I can tell the slot machines are a poor way to get Torgue Tokens due to the high cost and infrequent payouts. Normal enemies rarely drop them. There's some re-doable quests (I think they give ...
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Is it possible to rob Marcus a second time?
After completing a main story quest, you're teleported back to Sanctuary into a room that is full of chests and other lootable boxes. The obvious thing to do is to take it all. Apparently, this room ...
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How many elemental effects can I stack?
Is there a maximum number of elemental effects I can (practically) stack in Borderlands 2, or can I keep stacking them on as long as my rate of fire, elemental effect chance and Damage over Time ...
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Does Zer0's "Execute" damage depend on deception time?
Since normal melee damage is affected by the time left for your deception mode, I wonder whether the same is true for Zer0's "Execute" skill.
EDIT: Thanks Keith for pointing that out ... so how is ...
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How do the playable characters rank in terms of weight and resistance to knockback attacks?
I've read this Reddit /r/Borderlands post, 'Is it just me, or is Krieg "heavy"?' and its comments, and learned that Krieg is heavier than most (or all) of the other characters and more resistant to ...
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Collecting all skins and customizations
I found several class and vehicle skin upgrades/customizations/unlocks, e.g.:
Do they carry between games? Do some always drop in the same locations? Do they always appear in the same places or after ...
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How can I beat Hyperius the invincible?
So two friends and I (2 sirens with Res, one gunzerker) have been trying to kill Hyperious for a couple hours. At best we could get him down to about 1/4th health.
We have The Bee and the Conference ...
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Why did I just get 10 golden keys?
Just received 10 keys for Borderlands 2. I did not preorder the game. I own Borderlands, but I don't think that has any correlation to the golden keys in game.
Where did these keys come from?
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What determines which 2 guns you pull out when gunzerking?
I now have more than 2 gun options, and some are better than other for Gunzerking. It seems I can't change weapons once I am Gunzerking, and I always pull out a 2nd weapon to compliment the one I ...
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How does a 'Warlord' turn into a 'Duke of Ork'? How do I prevent it from turning into one?
I've been fighting against an enemy identified as a 'Warlord'. While fighting him, I noticed that he turns into a 'Duke of Ork'. He also appeared to deal and absorb more damage as a Duke of Ork:
This ...
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Where is Jimmy Jenkins?
There is a strange challenge ("JEEEEENKINSSSSSS!!!" under "Miscellaneous") that involves killing Jimmy Jenkins. Where is he?
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How do I know what manufacturer's parts are on a gun?
I've seen loading tips like "assault rifles with a Vladof barrel fire faster as you keep the trigger held"; this clearly refer to the "Spinigun" triple gatling barrel assault rifles. Aside from that ...
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Where can I store items?
Are there places to safely save overflow inventory/stuff? I saw I can expand "bank" storage from Crazy Earl, but where is the bank, and what can I store there? How much? Are there multiple locations?
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What specific effect(s) does the borderlands 2 weapon modifier "increases weapon stability" have on a gun?
I want to know the actual effect that the 'increases weapon stability' modifier, which appears to come from a Grip or pistol gunstock, has on a guns performance. Does it just reduce pre-shot scope ...
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What are the different kinds of shrines and how do they work?
I've encountered an "Ammo Shrine" while playing through the 'Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep' DLC:
How does it work? Also, are there other types of shrines in TTAoDK? If yes, what does each ...
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Where can I farm legendary loot midgets in Borderlands 2?
I would like to farm legendary loot midgets to get better weapons. However, I have no idea where they would spawn. Do they spawn in particular boxes? If so, where can I find these boxes.
A linked ...
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Can I eliminate low-res Texture Pop-in?
Borderlands 2 has an annoying "performance" trick where it first loads ugly, extremely low-resolution images over new items like Ammo or new guns before high-res textures are loaded over them. It's ...
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