Hasta La Gadget!

Gearbox is looking to increase the level cap in Borderlands 2 from 50 to 61. The new level cap is set to go live on April 2nd for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 gamers alike. Those of you who have purchased the Borderlands 2 Season Pass will be able to get to the new level cap for free, while the regular Borderlands 2 gamers will have to shell out $4.99 to take advantage of it.

There will also be a new mode added onto Borderlands 2 called “Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Mode”. It will be available for free for all players. To access the mode, you’ll have to beat “True Vault Hunter Mode” and be at least level 50. A new weapon tier will also be added to the game. The new weapon tier, called Pearlescent, should be familiar to those of you who’ve played the original Borderlands. It is set to be the rarest loot in Borderlands 2.

Gearbox is also looking to bring a new, playable character to Borderlands 2. The character, Krieg, is a new, psycho Vault Hunter that will bring a new level of bloodiness to the game. He will have 3 skill trees: Bloodlust, Mania, and Hellborn. His action skill is Blood Axe Rampage, a skill that regenerates his health when he’s murdering an enemy. His Bloodlust skill tree focuses on dealing damage, his Mania skill tree focuses on taking damage, and his Hellborn skill tree focuses on elemental damage.

The Krieg DLC is set to launch sometime late in May for $9.99. Unfortunately, the Krieg DLC isn’t available in the Borderlands 2 Season Pass because its not part of the main campaign. Speaking of main campaign DLCs, the fourth Borderlands 2 DLC, speculated to be called “Bunkers & Badasses”, is set to be released sometime in June. The new DLC is being developed by Gearbox itself instead of by 3rd party developers.

[via IGN]

Borderlands 2 to bring new character and higher level cap is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The latest DLC for Borderlands 2, Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt, launched earlier this week, giving fans a new line of quests to complete and a new area to explore. This is the third DLC pack released for the game in nearly as many months, but all was not well after Hammerlock launched. Gearbox has been releasing compatibility packs alongside the additional Borderlands 2 content so players who don’t buy can still play with those who did, but the latest compatibility pack has been causing some major headaches for players.

As it turns out, some players on Xbox 360 couldn’t download the compatibility pack, and therefore couldn’t play with friends who bought the DLC. That’s a pretty big issue if you have friends who picked up the Borderlands 2 season pass (as many did) and had the DLC from day one, but thankfully it seems that Gearbox has at least partially fixed the issue. Gearbox’s support website says that the compatibility pack is downloading properly for some players, and that the company is still working with Microsoft to make sure the issue is squashed once and for all.

In the meantime, if you’re one of the folks still having issues downloading the compatibility pack, Gearbox recommends going to Xbox.com and adding the pack to your downloads queue from there. If the issues still remain after trying that, then Gearbox wants you to “submit a request for additional troubleshooting help.” Gearbox didn’t say when the problem will be fixed for everyone, but it sounds like the company is making some real progress, so it shouldn’t be too much longer.

Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt is the third of four planned DLC packs for Borderlands 2. The first three DLC offerings in the Borderlands 2 season pass have been released in rather quick succession, but so far, we haven’t seen the level cap increase so many players have been asking for. Gearbox says that level cap increase should be coming soon, so sit tight Borderlands 2 players.

[via Eurogamer]

Gearbox partially fixes Borderlands 2 compatibility pack issues on Xbox 360 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Unless the game is an exclusive for a certain console, chances are if it is developed for the PlayStation 3, you will probably see an Xbox 360 version and vice versa, and most of the time the Nintendo Wii gets left out of the mix. If you were hoping that things would change with the Wii U, you might be disappointed as according to Gearbox’s CEO, Randy Pitchford, it looks like Borderlands will not be making its way onto the Wii U, which will probably be a bummer for many gamers who were hoping for a possible Wii U version of the game.

According to Pitchford, “We get asked if there is going to be a Wii U version of Borderlands, and the reason why there’s not is because we couldn’t think of a natural, obvious, ‘OMG, I want that for what the Wii U brings to the table’ feature.” Interesting Gearbox is also developing another FPS, Aliens: Colonial Marines for the Wii U, so what’s the difference then? Pitchford had this to say, “But with Aliens, the first thing we thought was ‘Holy sh*t, I can have a motion controller in my hands!’ When it’s there in my lap it feels like I’m part of the movie.” From what we can infer, if Gearbox can find a way to make use of the Wii U’s features that will complement the game, perhaps we will see Borderlands make its way onto the console in the future.

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Just a friendly reminder to all of you Borderlands 2 players out there: Mr. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage is available today across all platforms. This is the second DLC expansion to Borderlands 2, following the release of Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty last month. It can be had on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC for $9.99 or 800 MSP – that is, unless you purchased a Borderlands 2 season pass, in which case you can just straight up download it.

Mr. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage sounds a like lot Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot from the first game, with players heading off to the Badass Crater of Badassitude to participate in arena combat against waves of enemies. Unlike Underdome Riot, however, Campaign of Carnage features its own mini-campaign, complete with a number of side missions to complete.

That’s on top of the new enemy types and a new currency called Torgue Tokens that can be redeemed at special vending machines for powerful loot. It sounds like Mr. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage should be a great addition to the base game, but sadly, the level cap isn’t going up in this DLC. We have no idea when that will happen – if that’ll happen at all – but there are two more DLC packs planned for Borderlands 2, so players might get their level cap increase in one of those.

Of course, Gearbox could also simply opt to raise the level cap without a DLC release, as the studio did with the original Borderlands. Either way, there are many players out there ready to level up their characters further, so we’re hoping that the level cap gets bumped up above 50 soon. Will you be picking up Mr. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage, or is this one you plan on skipping?

Borderlands 2 Torgue DLC on all platforms today is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It’s a good day if you happen to be a Borderlands 2 player, as Gearbox has issued a patch that apparently fixes the exploit some unsavory folks have been using to sabotage the characters of other players. If you’re not familiar with this exploit (or you’ve simply been playing on something other than Xbox 360), it allows other players who enter your game to potentially wipe out your saved characters. Not a good thing by any means, and it’s easy to see why Gearbox rushed to get a patch out the door.

The patch should be available through Xbox Live now, and this fix is the only thing the patch contains. The patch notes say that the studio has “Added security to prevent data loss tied to malicious violations of the Xbox Live Code of Conduct through an unsupported third-party program,” so hopefully this is the last we hear of this particularly nasty exploit. After all, we can’t imagine that it’s a lot of fun to have your level 50 character disappear simply because they died in-game (which happens pretty frequently for us at least).

Of course, while this exploit may have been quashed with this update, there’s still the issue of badass rank resets. Given the fact that character resets are a little more severe than rank resets, we can see why Gearbox got a fix for the former issue out sooner, but there are still plenty of players on all three platforms who are having their badass ranks – and the benefits that come along with them – vanish. Hopefully Gearbox will deliver a fix for that issue soon, because it’s been plaguing players since the game’s launch.

Still, despite the fact that there are remaining bugs to fix, at least one terrible exploit has been wiped out. Were you one of the unfortunate players who had their characters wiped, or did you manage to avoid this exploit? Keep it tuned here to SlashGear, as we’ll update you when Gearbox releases new patches for Borderlands 2!

Gearbox issues update to fix Borderlands 2 character sabotage is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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