Long story short:

• Get To MINAC
• Hide behind a rock near the respawn area
• Go to bed
• Wake up to hundreds of claptrap drops

Xbox 360 Note: Make sure you are using a wired controller or a play n charge kit with the battery pack removed, or your game may pause when the controller goes to sleep.

A little more explanation:

To start off, you are farming for the following items: 25 Oil Cans, 15 Claptrap Bobble-heads, 5 3D Glasses, 5 Panties, 5 Clapfish, and 15 Pizza.  The 15 Bobbleheads will take the longest because of their low drop rate, followed by the Oil Cans, and Pizza.  You may have to use this method two or three times before you get everything, but it takes minimal effort, just a lot of time (don’t worry, you will probably be sleeping).

The idea here is to farm the MINAC, the last boss of DLC4.  If all you want is achievements, it is best to do this on Playthrough 1, since it will be very easy to run a high level character to the end of the DLC.  Even if you haven’t completed Playthrough 1 on DLC4, you should do this for the extra skill point. It is a very quick (30-45 minute process) to get to the end with a high level character.

You can also knock out the “The Collector” achievement by doing the above method multiple times and turning in the quest each time at Tannis.

It really is best to let your game sit over night for 7-10 hours, but if you are getting close collecting enough Bobbleheads/Oil Cans, you can do shorter intervals.

The best spot to sit is going to be behind the rocks here:

The turrets may still be able to hit you, but if you are on Playthrough 1 with any decent shield and a high level character, it shouldn’t be enough to kill you.  If you want to be safe, you can simply take out the turrets on the MINAC before you do your hide-n-sleep.

When you return, there will be gobs of claptrap parts and quest drops all over the place.  If you want them to be in a neater pile, you can stand near the respawn area and the claptraps will typically come and explode in that area, but I find the framerate drop and higher occurrence of freezing with all that loot in one area to be a little annoying. Also, if you don’t hide behind the rocks, you will be constantly dying so you’ll lose your bazillions, though getting money is about the easiest thing you can do in Borderlands.

It’s obviously easiest to simply go to bed and return multiple hours later, but you can come back periodically and pick up the drops, then return to hiding if you don’t find enough.  It took me around 20 hours of idling to get all of my items (2 nights of sleep and some periodic checking in on a third day), but I had already found quite a bit from the normal playthroughs.  The drops are random, and like I mentioned above, the Bobbleheads, Oil Cans, and Pizza are going to take the longest and have the lowest drop rate.  If you want to speed up the process, you can actively kill the spawning claptraps, or do a youtube search for MINAC farming for some slightly different methods, but many of them require modding or don’t really increase the rate fast enough to make up for the fact that you simply put your controller down and go to sleep for the above method.

Thanks to this thread at xbox360achievements.org for the original find.

DLC: Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution

	Tourist	10
	Find all 6 Claptrap Statues
	Muerte la robo-lución	70
	Kill the INAC
	The Collector	50
	Complete a crazy request for Tannis
	The Lubricator	10
	Find 25 oil cans
	Bobble-Trap	10
	Collect 15 claptrap bobbleheads
	It’s so realistic!	10
	Collect 5 3D glasses
	What a party!	30
	Collect 3 panties, 5 fish in a bag, and 15 pizzas

Secret Achievements

	Ned-Trap	20
	Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement.
	Steele-Trap	20
	Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement.
	Knoxx-Trap	20
	Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement.

New Information

• New guns and items in the DLC
• Patch balances game across all DLC, includes new weapons and SPECS (what does that mean?)
• No release date for patch, GBX hoping for DLC4 release (Sept 28), likely to be closer to GOTY (Oct 12)
• Avatar items are coming
• Claptrap toy coming out in October most likely
• DLC may not be last

Articles

Destructoid Hands-on

Destructoid Patch Info

IGN Article

Screenshots

Video

Gamespot

Giant Bomb

Game Trailers

G4

While there is some confusion on whether this is an 19-level increase for those who don’t have General Knoxx, what Borderlands fan doesn’t have arguably the best DLC? **EDIT***  Botman (gbx employee) confirmed that it is simply 8 levels.  Cap is 58 without Knoxx.   Another interesting statement I noticed from Randy Pitchford is that “the vast majority of our customers have not reached the level cap”.  Come on people, max it out!

Perhaps the GOTY Edition Strategy Guide that surfaced last month will release along side this excellent value for anyone who hasn’t experienced Borderlands yet.

Not much information other than the above has been announced, though several sites are reporting that a huge map of Pandora will be included.  See inside for what IGN is showing as the boxart, and the official Press Release.

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MEDIA ADVISORY

2K Games and Gearbox Software Bring Carnage and Mayhem

to Video Game Consoles this Fall with Borderlands™ Game of the Year

New York, NY – August 30, 2010 – 2K Games and Gearbox Software announced today that the superextravasplosive, mega-hit Borderlands™ will offer a Game of the Year edition this fall. Borderlands™ Game of the Yearwill be available for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for $59.99 and Windows PC for $49.99 starting October 12, 2010.

This new addition to the critically acclaimed Borderlands experience will provide fans with the ultimate outlet to lock, load and face the madness. More than 17 million unique weapons and loot empower gamers to blissfully blast their way through all of Pandora’s inhospitable environments and leave behind a bloody wasteland of indigenous monsters, zombies, Claptraps and evil corporate mercenaries. Level up with the Borderlands experience seamlessly by playing alone or with friends through extensive split-screen or online co-op integration for the most ultimate Role-Playing Shooter fun ever created.

Borderlands Game of the Year edition will come with tokens for download of the recently announced add-on pack, Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution, as well as the three previous best-selling destructive downloadable adventures – the living dead-filled The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, the ultimate video game survival of the fittest test Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot, and the utterly fantastic The Secret Armory of General Knoxx. Also included, will be a complete and comprehensive map of the Borderlands territories.

With this definitive collection, gamers will now have the perfect chance to join in and experience what millions of Borderlands fans already adore. They’ll find a highly addictive video game that calls for unleashing furious anger upon a sinister corporation’s well-armed armada and Pandora’s local inhospitable inhabitants, while searching for the secret of The Vault that is chock full of extra bonuses and add-ons.

Borderlands, rated M for Mature by the ESRB, is currently available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 system and PC. The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned*, Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot* and The Secret Armory of General Knoxx* add-on packs are all available separately on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360 for 800 Microsoft Points and on the PlayStation®Network and PC for $9.99.

2K Games is a division of 2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

For more information, please visit www.borderlandsthegame.com.

* Requires standalone Borderlands product in order to be played.

Update: Release date confirmed for September 28th

The DLC will be called ClapTrap’s Robot Revolution, and it charges players with the task of taking down a rebellious robot known as the Ninja Assassin. An army of ClapTraps wages war against the Hyperion Corporation, and players are stuck in the middle. The DLC will release on September 28th for 9.99 and players will get:

• 20 new missions
• 2 extra skill points
• 3 additional backpack slots

For those of you who must know more, the most recent PC patch for Borderlands included a TON of spoiler information about the DLC.  I have not looked too deeply through this, as it is mostly information on the actual quests and characters you will be seeing, so it is about as SPOILER HEAVY as you can get.  Read at your own risk: http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=108873

Screenshots:

Borderlands PC Update 1.30 Notes

360: This update will be deployed automatically on 2/23

PS3: This update will be deployed automatically on 2/25

PC: This update will be available on 2/25

Addressed issues:

• Invalid weapons or items can no longer be loaded into the game
• Brick’s Centurion class mods now regenerate health correctly
• Brick’s Bombardier class mods now regenerate rockets correctly
• Roland’s Tactician class mods now regenerate shields correctly and display the correct bonus values
• Roland’s Rifleman class mods now apply damage increase to all machine guns
• Certain powerful legendary item names should now be displayed in the appropriate color
• Opening the bank in the Mad Moxxi DLC no longer prevents other players from moving
• Multiple copies of DLC missions can no longer be obtained
• Corrected some incorrect icons in the ammo vendor
• Fixed a crash caused by killing the final boss while zoomed in with a scope
• The “Careful, he bites” achievement should now properly unlock when playing in French
• Added icons to the server browser that indicate which DLCs the server has installed
• The server browser now displays the name of the DLC a server is playing instead of the plot mission
• Adjusted scrolling in menu options in long server lists
• Added a notification if a player attempts to continue a game saved in DLC that is no longer installed
• Fixed DLC notification dialogs that were not closing properly
• Alt-F4 no longer closes the game if it is not in focus (PC Only)
• Fixed an issue which resulted in corruption in saved games (360)
• Added support for allowing multiple user login on PS3, so that friends can play on another player’s system in splitscreen. (PS3)
• Fixed graphical distortion and crashes some PS3 users may be experiencing (PS3)
• Zombie Island achievements now unlock properly in splitscreen (360, PS3)

Balance adjustments:

• Chests in New Haven have been adjusted to contain more appropriate loot
• The duration of daze effects has been reduced to 6 seconds, and the amount by which it decreases the speed of enemies and their projectiles has been reduced
• Damage from shock elemental effects has been increased
• Repeater pistol damage has been slightly increased, accuracy slightly decreased
• Sniper Rifle critical hit bonus has been increased

• No release date yet.  ”Very Very Soon”
• 10 bucks – Standard DLC price
• The level cap has been confirmed at 61.  Turning it up by 11
• Skill points will accumulate from all 11 levels.
• Weapon Proficiencies are not raised
• You can play in first playthrough or second.
• There are 44 new missions
• There are 10 new achievements for 250 more Gamerscore.  Check them all out HERE
• There are new weapons, and a new weapon coloring called “pearlescent”
• New weapons go up to level 60
• A level 64 boss enemy “Crawmerax the Invincible” appears after you complete the main story, and has a higher pearlescent drop rate.
• People without the DLC will be able to see the new items from friends, but not use them.
• NPCs now have better, more lifelike animations.
• The DLC continues the story of Borderlands, picking up right after the ending.
• The new area is called “The Parched Fathoms” and is a dried out lake.  Dry, sandy, more of the same
• The Atlas Corporation is pissed at you, and sends the Crimson Lance after you.  Expect lots more Lance battles.
• The goal is to get to the Armory and defeat General Knoxx
• Athena is a Crimson Lance defector that helps you similar to the guardian angel
• Scooter and Marcus return, as well as Moxxi from DLC2
• There are three new vehicles, all earned through quests.
• Vehicles only work in the new DLC, you can’t take them to other areas
• One is a 4-person vehicle called “The Lancer”.  The positions are  Driver, Gunner, Mine-layer, and a “Blast Seat” to knock off close range enemies.
• A second is “The Monster” and is a “souped up version of the runner”
• Third vehicle is a racer built for speed.
• There are “20-30 new enemies”.  I figure this means 8 or 9 all with variations.
• “Lance Assasins” are one new enemy.  Fast acrobatic ninjas with swords.
• “Lance Probe” is a flying sentry enemy and poses higher threats to vehicles
• “Lance Combat Medic” new enemy can throw down healing turret to heal other enemies.
• “Lance Rocketeer” is a jetpack-equipped flying asshole.  Oh noes.
• “Lance Shock Trooper” uses shock weapons and is resistant to shock element.
• “Lance Pyro” has a flamethrower, resistant to fire element.
• All new enemies have Badass variations
• New chest variations are available
• Lance Chest is twice the size of Red Chests, and have a higher chance for the best drops
• New “Drifter” enemy looks just like a HL2 walker.  Dangerous to vehicles.
• Midgets have domesticated skags and now ride them
• Riders are two enemies in one.  Kill one, the other must be killed as well.
• “Badass Skag Rider” = Badass Skag + Badass Midget.  Run.
• “Skag Rapporee” is an Alpha Skagg with THREE midgets riding it.  Yes.
• “Devastator” enemy is a large mech.  Looks tough.
• One boss is named “Ajax”, flies on a jetpack.

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