[X360 PS3 PC] Borderlands 2

So I've been playing the Pirate's Booty DLC and I got to the first superboss...

(Not really storyline spoilers, just covering it up in case anyone wants to find out about him themselves.)

So it's a guy named Hyperius the Invincible, and he's introduced as an over-powered Hyperion engineer, and sure enough, when you first see him, he just looks like an engineer with a glowy force-field. Not much to look at.

Then the fight starts and he summons five robots that look like Hyperion Loaders that follow him around and look like they're releasing some kind of energy into Hyperius. Not 100% sure, but they look like they provide a force field that reduces damage. He's not immune while the robots are active, and they don't look like they heal him.

Hyperius himself is slow. His walking barely breaks crawling speed, but apparently he doesn't need to move fast, because he has this shockwave attack that does tens of thousands of damage, and as far as I can tell, is unavoidable. His minions launch easily-avoidable missiles, but they're durable as hell. By the time I managed to kill all five, I had about a quarter of my pistol ammo left and had only taken out about 1/25 of Hyperius' health.

Upon killing all five of Hyperius' goons, he actually grows in size and starts chasing me around the arena, doing that jackhammer fist thing that a lot of Hyperion engineers do and it doesn't take him long to kill me. Unfortunately, there's nothing left to Second Wind off of, and Hyperius is towering over me while I pointlessly unload SMG ammo into his nuts.

So now my problem is this: With as powerful as that unavoidable shockwave is, I need to use a crazy-durable shield, but I won't be able to do a lot of damage. On the other hand, I could use The Bee (legendary shield that boosts attack but has low defense) to do craploads more by comparison (but still really low on Hyperius' lifebar) and get killed in about two hits. Either way, ammo still seems to be a huge issue because by the time I died on my best run, I only had about a third of my ammo left and had only taken off about 5-10% of Hyperius' life.

And I can't go online to get teammates because my connection is garbage. I have to solo this bastard. What the hell Gearbox?

APPEND: Oh good. As it turns out, he's bugged so that no matter how many people are fighting him, he's scaled up to 4-player difficulty. How nice.


APPEND2: Looks like there's a viral mod on the loose in the online community. Highly suggest all players read this.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=393111

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Oh sh*t. I'm already past thousand cuts and i'm close to the end dude I don't want more infections happening. Damn Modding bastards...

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I agree...modding and hacking is getting to ridiculous now.
I'm still not level 50 with any character and I got the game midnight launch. Few days later, friend tells me he is bored of the game and already had all 4 characters level 50...Really...and why do I have more achievements then you?

Tell your buddy I've got six Level 50s and I'm not bored with the game yet. lol flesh-stick grinding Two Sirens, two Gunzerkers, a Commando, and a Mechromancer. I also have two Assassins, but they're only around Level 30. I just don't like that class as much as I thought I would.

Still can't beat that damn Hyperius jerk though. Probably going to try the Tediore-spam method, but I would probably need a decent Tediore Allegiance relic for that.

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Yeah, I've stopped playing for a while due to the fact that A.) this Graveyard.sav virus kinda scares me and B.) it's kinda getting a bit repetitive as of right now :/



AND,
I like to play Borderlands with other people


I tend to feel lonely rather easily

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^ Likewise, I wanna play with other people as well especially when I got an awesome orange grenade mod that I heard is the best from Boom, little midget.

I actually deleted that friend when he told me that. I've actually taken so long cause I've been doing the challenges. Found all the Vault symbols and almost done every map challenge except for Tumbaa and Pimon....Pimon never spawns for me >.<

Yeah, I recommend the hell out of that grenade mod. The Bonus Package is the first orange I ever got, and I held onto it for quite some time. It was only Lv 4 when I got it, but I kept using it until about Lv 15-20. I should probably go back and try to get a decent-level one now.

I haven't done many of the area-specific challenges, but I've got most of the other "levelable" challenges done. Most of them I don't mind, but one of the biggest roadblocks I have left is getting another 1500-2000 sniper rifle kills when I'm really not much of a sniper.

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The shield challenges are the most annoying in my opinion. Grenades are easiest if you use them a lot.

I got that grenade mod too. I also got a few other oranges like Clayton's Orange Rocket Launch and Mick Zaford's revolver. That revolver is seriously badass. Also for some progress on my story.

I got past the part where Roland and Angel die and that was really, REALLY fucking sad and nostalgic. I got some meh items but I got a purple Super pistol from the volcano in Eridium Blight. I can tell these chapters are going to be a pain in the ass with places like Lynchwood with a near infinite respawn of bandits. I originally had a gunzerker but since I started using the mechromancer I started liking that class a LOT more. Also, I cannot fucking wait to go back to Fyrestone.

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I've only gotten 4 Orange items
2 lame ones around level 10-20 the Impaler Shield when I killed the Warriorin the first play through. And just recently, Lobbed Bonus Package level 43

Been trying to farm the Warrior for a Conference Call shotgun for the longest time. I want one so I can start farming Terramorphous for his customization heads more easily and the setup I used to beat him the first time resulted in too meny close calls for my taste.

I've only gotten one orange drop from the Warrior. It was the first very time I beat the game. Guess what it was. Handsome Jack's Mask. Yes, a second one. Big help there.

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Well, he always drops that stupid mask >.<

I agree with what you said except I want to farm Vermivirous the Invincible for the Kawaii head for Maya as well

No, I know Jack always drops his mask, I mean the Warrior dropped a second one. It didn't give me the "Already Unlocked" message on it when I picked it up, but when I used it, it didn't give me the HEAD UNLOCKED message, either. Really didn't expect it to unlock a new head or anything, I just didn't know why it wouldn't say Already Unlocked when it totally was.

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That stupid graveyard.sav thing doesn't really bother me. I just hope some of my friends don't get hit with it.

I found the shield and grenade challenges rather easy. They're only annoying because of the types required, some being more common than others. The one challenge that's pissing me off is the one where you get a Second Wind from Shock Damage over Time.

Opposite for me. With the exception of AoE and MIRV grenades (and Transfusion during emergencies), I don't use grenades very often. Bouncing Betties piss me off the most though, because it really irritates me when an entire horde of enemies will walk right through a BB grenade and I'll only damage maybe two of them.

The one for Amp shield kills is okay, and if you can get your hands on The Bee, it becomes cake. Plus, I usually try to keep a decent Absorb shield in my inventory anyway if I think I'm going into a gunfire-heavy area. The one for Nova shield kills is annoying though, because I have to lose a shield, run to safety, fully charge my shield, run back, lose my shield, and so on and so forth.


Ugh, to this day I still only have the first level completed in that category. I think I used an electric sniper rifle for that and never bothered with it again.


Oh, and speaking of challenges, I think I may have stumbled onto something while working on one. I was in the back of a Bandit Technical, working toward the Passive Aggressive challenge (killing enemies as a passenger) and I was using a sniper rifle so I could work on Surprise (killing unaware enemies with snipers). I killed the first guy and I noticed something: None of the nearby enemies were aggro'd toward me. I killed their buddy right in front of their faces and they weren't hostile. So I killed another, and another, and none of them were hostile, so every kill went toward my Surprise challenge because I didn't alert them.

Tried this with a few different enemies. It worked on Bandits and it worked on Bullymongs. It sometimes worked on Skags, but I could never get it to work with Spiderants, mainly because to get them to even pop out of the ground, you need to get close enough to aggro them.

Not sure if this is a glitch, an oversight by the developers, or what.

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I'll have to give that a shot. Have yet to try getting passagenger kills. Assuming you can only do that on the bandit vehicle. I've been working on the Nova shield challenge or a while. So close to finishing it so that I can move on. I was surprised not to see a Booster Shield challenge. I had been doing that for a while thinking it was a challenge xD

Correct. The challenge even says "(not a gunner)". They have to kills while sitting in the Technical's truck bed.

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Shouldn't be too hard especially when you can do them on normal and one shot kills by surprise surely will be easy

Howie, I got the conference call on my 3rd time farming the Warrior. Cum at brah.
Also I bested the Warrior. FUCKING FINALLY and let lilith kill Jack. Got some good purples and a giant chunk of Eridium. Now.....To play the second playthrough.

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