Arguably, Zero is the most OP, but every time I play him, I miss Maya's Phaselock to the point where I just wish I was playing her. When you're spec'ing into the elementalist tree, it's a "point and die" button. Either one or more of several things will happen: the enemy will be forced to float away from cover, splash his nearby allies with all elemental damages, instantly die from being too low level, be ignorable while you engage other foes, or take direct damage instead of being stunned. That last one only happens on the largest of enemies and vehicles. Regardless, while it lacks the utility function of Lilith's Phasewalk from Borderlands 1, it still serves a fun, and irreplaceable weapon in your arsenal.Zhukov said:P
- The Chick phase thingy can just stun a single enemy as I understand it. Is that all she does? Does it work on all enemies, including bosses? Sounds potentially OP, which I'm fine with.
You should note that each character class isn't show-horned into a specific role; the zerker can be a tank or a dps role if specced correctly in the skill tree/equipment. In terms of practicality, the soldier is probably the 'easiest' solo character because the turrets can draw aggro while you go around and shoot things in the bum. However, in my opinion, Zero and Maya (Siren) are the most fun, Zero while chain cloaking and stabbing things and Maya drawing in people with phaselocks and causing large elemental explosions.Zhukov said:- So... the soldier guy can throw out a turret, making him basically the same as Roland from the first game. Dull but serviceable.
- The "Gunzerker" seems to basically The Tank. His ability is "shoot more"? Sounds a bit boring.
- The Chick phase thingy can just stun a single enemy as I understand it. Is that all she does? Does it work on all enemies, including bosses? Sounds potentially OP, which I'm fine with.
- Zero, the ninja guy, can cloak? Sounds like the pick of the bunch so far. Is he viable to play solo?
Are there any other differences between classes? Can all classes use all weapons and items?
Are there class specific side-missions? Story content? Dialogue? If so, which class would you say has the best?
Answers, I must have them!
Good to know the Gunzerker build I'm going for will turn out well. I'm aiming for Jakobs pistols though to go with my Gunzerker Dapper Gent skin.Hazy992 said:I thought that too at first, but spec your skill tree for pistols and increasing Gunzerking as much as possible, grab some Vladof machine pistols and just go nuts.Zhukov said:- The "Gunzerker" seems to basically The Tank. His ability is "shoot more"? Sounds a bit boring.
my bet is he's bought the vanilla game, not DLCs, so he's going only by vanilla classesDesert Punk said:You seem to be missing a few classes there. What about Gaige and Krieg?
Maya's power is the weakest at the start, but scales incredibly well. With the right speccing it gets an incredibly low cooldown and holds enemies in the air for quite some time, pulling enemies into it's area and hitting them with tons of elemental damage. Being able to instantly slag a group of enemies and clump them up in incredibly useful. You can also ricochet bullets off the Phaselock, meaning you can lift an enemy, and then mow down the whole group with a combination of elemental damage and a hail of bullets. I can't imagine having gotten through some fights without it.NBSRDan said:There are no missions or areas that are restricted to one character. Each character has a unique skill tree, for example one may be able to get continuous health regeneration while another regenerates upon killing enemies, but the main difference is turret vs. dual-wielding vs. Phaselock vs. stealth mode.
The Soldier is the most powerful, and yes, he is pretty much the same as the Soldier in Borderlands. He has lots of 'support' skills, but is also good single-player.
The Gunzerker's power is mundane in that it boils down to 'get more powerful' without much change in the game mechanics. The cool part is that's very convenient not having to worry about health and ammo pick-ups because you can just regenerate by Gunzerking.
The Smurfette has the least useful power. All it really does is prevent ONE enemy from shooting you for like, two seconds. Seriously, it's ridiculous how little time the power lasts.
The Ninja's power is the one that most affects how you play, because it encourages attacking enemies in different ways. It's piss-weak at first, but once you get it upgraded, a chain of stealth-kills can be very cathartic.
Since he didn't list Gaige or Kreig in his poll, I assumed he didn't have any of the DLC characters anyway to care about them. As far as I can recall, I couldn't find any Kreig audiologs online either annoyingly. I think his trade off was to have a trailer instead, since Gaige didn't get one. If you've seen it, it's hinted at that the woman he mentions is actually Maya, or maybe a past wife or something before his experimentation.-Dragmire- said:Sadly, if you use it at the beginning when you get access to your inventory there is a good chance of the audio being overridden by claptrap's talking.Voulan said:You can find all audio logs for the characters, but not the one that you have at the beginning of the game that explains why they arrived on Pandora in the first place. That is unique to each character and can be found in your inventory, but only able to be listened to once. So, in order to hear that diary-like audio log, you'll just have to start a new character - or find them on youtube.Zhukov said:Can you find all the audio logs with every character, or do you only find ones for the character you are playing as?Phoenixmgs said:I don't think there's any specific side quests for the characters but there are audio tapes or whatever you find giving you some backstory on each character.
Also, I don't think dlc characters have audio logs. Gaige has some that were released on youtube but none in-game, and Krieg... well, I don't think he has any. If he does, I would LOVE to hear them. I really want to know more about the woman he screams about when I max out the Hellborn tree.
I mentioned dlc characters just in case he considered buying it... and I like talking about Krieg.Voulan said:Since he didn't list Gaige or Kreig in his poll, I assumed he didn't have any of the DLC characters anyway to care about them. As far as I can recall, I couldn't find any Kreig audiologs online either annoyingly. I think his trade off was to have a trailer instead, since Gaige didn't get one. If you've seen it, it's hinted at that the woman he mentions is actually Maya, or maybe a past wife or something before his experimentation.-Dragmire- said:Sadly, if you use it at the beginning when you get access to your inventory there is a good chance of the audio being overridden by claptrap's talking.Voulan said:You can find all audio logs for the characters, but not the one that you have at the beginning of the game that explains why they arrived on Pandora in the first place. That is unique to each character and can be found in your inventory, but only able to be listened to once. So, in order to hear that diary-like audio log, you'll just have to start a new character - or find them on youtube.Zhukov said:Can you find all the audio logs with every character, or do you only find ones for the character you are playing as?Phoenixmgs said:I don't think there's any specific side quests for the characters but there are audio tapes or whatever you find giving you some backstory on each character.
Also, I don't think dlc characters have audio logs. Gaige has some that were released on youtube but none in-game, and Krieg... well, I don't think he has any. If he does, I would LOVE to hear them. I really want to know more about the woman he screams about when I max out the Hellborn tree.
One thing BL2 really needs is some unique plot points and dialogues for each character to flesh them out a little. For example, even if you're playing as Maya or Gaige, quite a few characters still refer to you as a "he". And when you run into Lillith as Maya, that fact that you're a siren, the very people Lillith is searching for, goes completely unnoticed. It would have been even better if Jack had individual dialogues for each character - especially Salvador, since he actually personally wronged him and caused issues for Jack.
Something like this would make BL even better than it is.