I’m probably missing something, but what is fun about having to cheese a boss to beat them? I went up against this fire dude and died over… and over… and over, until I realized I shouldn’t jump into his arena, and instead just pepper him from a little shack with a vending machine in case I needed more ammo. Even critical hits didn’t hurt him that much. That little battle turned me off big time.

Yeah, that guy is really easy to beat, man.

I don’t know if I’d necessarily say that Flynt was a cinch to beat, but he was much easier to defeat when playing co-op. While I don’t know your character’s special abilities, I love using Phaselock on tougher enemies !

I’d give it another chance, Jim. Borderlands 2 is definitely a game that is best played co-op/multi-player (I thought the same of the first game though so maybe I’m biased).

Y’all are nuts.

Last night I went in and think I figured out what the problem was. I followed Claptrap immediately and did his quest first instead of hitting some of the side quests before taking on Flame Guy. That helped me level up a bunch more and get some better weapons.

One of my issues though hasn’t been addressed. Your starting backpack is what, twelve slots? yet there are guns everywhere to pick up. I want to pick them all up and figure out which to keep later, instead of having to do the comparison right away. I can only imagine that it slows stuff down a lot when you’re playing co-op.

That, and the PC inventory management still sucks and is still designed for a 360 controller.

Still, after getting ‘over it’ with the boss, I lost an hour last night when only planning on messing around for a few minutes. And that’s solo play. Everyone on my PC list is already too far ahead of me so it’ll be a solo thing forever.

David Hughes: Everyone on my PC list is already too far ahead of me so it’ll be a solo thing forever.

Ditto what David said. I can start a new character, or if you’re close enough to a level 12, David and I can jump into your game.

As for the UI, I admit that I’m playing with a 360 controller so I don’t know how difficult it is with mouse and keyboard.

As for inventory, at first I picked up pretty much everything and then David got upset at me for taking too long. Over time, I pretty much know what weapons work best for me so I usually sell or don’t pick up what I don’t want or need.

Once you figure out which stats you’re most worried about and what gun brands you’re willing to use, the comparison stuff doesn’t take up a ton of time. Most of the drops are garbage. Harder early game, before you’ve built up a gun library.

For the inventory management, you can drag and drop equipment into item slots from your backpack pane. You can also click equipment slots on the main pane and it’ll show what you have in your backpack that’ll fit that slot. There’s two icons next to the item pictures, a star and an x, and you can use those to tag what you’ll keep and what you’ll trash. Makes it very easy to visually spot your gear from your junk, and helps to make quick changes on the fly.

You’ll start being able to expand your bag before long, but you’ll run into the full bag issue every so often during solo play. They tend to make sure you’re never too far from a vending machine, but boss focused areas might be a stretch. That stuff is actually a lot easier in co-op, especially if all the players are different classes.

I’ve only had trouble soloing one boss so far, and losing that fight is an actual potential story element. Had to fight him again somewhere else after I lost. Once you get the hang of weapon/shield behavior and your elemental types, everything is pretty straightforward.

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