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Easy “Collect” Achievements

synide — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:13:53 +0000

If you are like me, you beat DLC4 a long time before getting close to collecting all the various items that are tied to the achievements/trophies of Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution. After getting frustrated at the drop rate of bobbleheads and pizza, I found this nifty way to get the items with minimal effort.

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.

Sneaky Little Buggers Achievement Guide

synide — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:33:43 +0000

NeMiiZz121 from youtube put together a pretty straightforward video showing the locations of the five “loot midgets” that you must find and defeat in order to get the “Sneaky Little Buggers” achievement. Check out the video if you haven’t gotten it yet.

Achievement Tip: You’re On A Boat

synide — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:02:21 +0000

You really haven’t gotten the “You’re On A Boat” secret XBL achievement yet? That’s kind of embarrassing, but tell you what, watch the video below, go get it, and I won’t bring it up again. Thank me later. In secret. Oh, and while you’re there, do this other crazy easter egg.

Challenges List

synide — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:50:20 +0000

Keep wondering what that “Challenge Completed” text is that keeps popping up? Borderlands has a secondary set of achievements called challenges. These actually reward you with more than some gamerscore, XP! See below for the list of challenges, or you can find them in-game by tabbing over in your quest log.

· 12 Days of Pandora – Master the technology of Pandora (12 assault rifle kills, 11 pistol kills, 10 shotgun kills, 9 smg kills, 8 sniper rifle kills, 7 melle kills, 6 critical hit kills, 5 explosive kills, 4 shock kills, 3 incideary kills, 2 face melted, 1 grenade kill) – 5000 XP

· Headhunter – Kill 50 human enemies – 1000 XP

· Not Really a People Person – Kill 250 human enemies – 2000 XP

· Misanthrope – Kill 1000 human enemies – 5000 XP

· War Criminal – Kill 2500 human enemies – 20,000 XP

· Lucky Shot – Kill 100 enemies with critical hits – 1000 XP

· Crack Shot – Kill 250 enemies with critical hits – 2000 XP

· Don’t You Ever Miss? – Kill 1000 enemies with critical hits – 5000 XP

· Brain Surgeon – Kill 2500 enemies with critical hits – 20,000 XP

· Relentless – Kill 5 enemies in succession with no more than 7 seconds between each kill – 500 XP

· Chain Killer – Kill 10 enemies in succession with no more than 7 seconds between each kill – 1000 XP

· Killing Spree – Kill 15 enemies in succession with no more than 7 seconds between each kill – 2000 XP

· Conveyor of Death – Kill 5 enemies in succession with no more than 7 seconds between each kill – 5000 XP

· Action Hero – Kill 50 enemies using your Action Skills – 1000 XP

· Beware! Mad Skills! – Kill 250 enemies using your Action Skills – 2000 XP

· Why do you even carry a gun? – Kill 1000 enemies using your Action Skills – 5000 XP

· Your Kung Fu is Best – Kill 2500 enemies using your Action Skills – 20,000 XP

· Seasoned Killer – Kill 500 Enemies – 1000 XP

· Numb to the Voice – Kill 1000 Enemies – 2000 XP

· Terror of Pandora – Kill 4000 Enemies – 5000 XP

· I am become death… – Kill 10,000 Enemies – 20,000 XP

· Pocket Change – Earn 10,000 Dollars – 1000 XP

· Money, it buys Happiness – Earn 250,000 Dollars – 2000 XP

· The Rich get Richer – Earn 1,000,000 Dollars – 5000 XP

· How Much For the Planet? – Earn 9,999,999 Dollars – 20,000 XP

· Duelist – Win 10 Duels – 500 XP

· Smack Down! – Win 50 Duels – 1000 XP

· Bragging Rights – Win 250 Duels – 2000 XP

· Invincible – Win 1000 Duels – 5000 XP

· Skag Slayer – Kill 50 Skags – 1000 XP

· SIT! STAY! PLAY DEAD! – Kill 250 Skags – 2000 XP

· I hate dogs – Kill 1000 Skags – 5000 XP

· You Are The Skagpocalypse – Kill 2500 Skags – 20,000 XP

· Spiderant Slayer – Kill 50 Spiderants – 1000 XP

· Bug Crusher – Kill 250 Spiderants – 2000 XP

· I hate bugs – Kill 1000 Spiderants – 5000 XP

· The Exterminator – Kill 2500 Spiderants – 20,000 XP

· Rakk Slayer – Kill 50 Rakk – 1000 XP

· It if flies, it dies – Kill 250 Rakk – 2000 XP

· Rakk Flak – Kill 1000 Rakk – 5000 XP

· If I can’t fly, no one flies – Kill 2500 Rakk – 20,000 XP

· What is that thing? – Kill 50 Guardians – 1000 XP

· The Vault is mine – Kill 250 Guardians – 2000 XP

· Xenophobe – Kill 1000 Guardians – 5000 XP

· Dominant Species – Kill 2500 Guardians – 20,000 XP

· Spray and Prey – Get 50 kills with the combat rifle – 1000 XP

· Size matters – Get 250 kills with the combat rifle – 2000 XP

· Make Chunks – Get 1000 kills with the combat rifle – 5000 XP

· One Man Army – Get 2500 kills with the combat rifle – 20,000 XP

· Draw! – Get 50 kills with the Pistol – 1000 XP

· Size matters – Get 250 kills with the Pistol – 2000 XP

· Make Chunks – Get 1000 kills with the Pistol – 5000 XP

· One Man Army – Get 2500 kills with the Pistol – 20,000 XP

· Get off my lawn! – Get 50 kills with Shotguns – 1000 XP

· Taste the red mist – Get 250 kills with Shotguns – 2000 XP

· Instant Autopsy – Get 1000 kills with Shotguns – 5000 XP

· Buckshot Legend – Get 2500 kills with Shotguns – 20,000 XP

· Boom – Get 50 kills with Launchers – 1000 XP

· BOOM – Get 250 kills with Launchers – 2000 XP

· KaBOOM! – Get 1000 kills with Launchers – 5000 XP

· KABOOOOOOOOM!!!! – Get 2500 kills with Launchers – 20,000 XP

· One shot, one kill – Get 50 kills with Sniper Rifles – 1000 XP

· I’ll wait back here… – Get 250 kills with Sniper Rifles – 2000 XP

· Brain Ventilator – Get 1000 kills with Sniper Rifles – 5000 XP

· Finger of God – Get 2500 kills with Sniper Rifles – 20,000 XP

· Punchy – Get 50 kills with Melee – 1000 XP

· Brawler – Get 250 kills with Melee – 2000 XP

· Boxer – Get 1000 kills with Melee – 5000 XP

· Heavyweight Champion – Get 2500 kills with Melee – 20,000 XP

· Hot! Too Hot! – Get 50 kills with Incendiary – 1000 XP

· Toasty! – Get 250 kills with Incendiary – 2000 XP

· Plays with matches – Get 1000 kills with Incendiary – 5000 XP

· Pyromaniac – Get 2500 kills with Incendiary – 20,000 XP

· Zap! – Get 50 kills with Shock attacks– 1000 XP

· Nikola is a friend of mine – Get 250 kills with Shock attacks – 2000 XP

· Put forks in sockets – Get 1000 kills with Shock attacks– 5000 XP

· Shocker – Get 2500 kills with Shock attacks– 20,000 XP

· Chemistry Rocks! – Get 50 kills with Corrosive attacks – 1000 XP

· Why is the floor all gooey? – Get 250 kills with Corrosive attacks – 2000 XP

· Mixes household chemicals – Get 1000 kills with Corrosive attacks – 5000 XP

· Chemist – Get 2500 kills with Corrosive attacks – 20,000 XP

· Boom goes the Dynamite! – Get 50 kills with Explosive attacks – 1000 XP

· Too bad about the Tinnitus – Get 250 kills with Explosive attacks – 2000 XP

· Crosses border for fireworks – Get 1000 kills with Explosive attacks – 5000 XP

· Demolitionist – Get 2500 kills with Explosive attacks – 20,000 XP

· Road Rage – Get 50 kills with a vehicle – 1000 XP

· Vehicular Manslaughter – Get 250 kills with a vehicle – 2000 XP

· School bus driver – Get 1000 kills with a vehicle – 5000 XP

· Hell on Wheels – Get 2500 kills with a vehicle – 20,000 XP

· What’s in here? – Open 50 lootable objects – 1000 XP

· Scavenger – Open 250 lootable objects – 2000 XP

· Wilderness Survivor – Open 1000 lootable objects – 5000 XP

· No stone unturned – Open 5000 lootable objects – 20,000 XP

· Ooo! Shiney! – Open 5 chests – 1000 XP

· Treasure Hunter – Open 25 chests – 2000 XP

· Swag Master – Open 100 chests – 5000 XP

· Envy of Pirates – Open 500 chests – 25,000 XP

· How much for the gun? – Sell 50 items – 1000 XP

· Gun runner – Sell 100 items – 2000 XP

· Arms dealer – Sell 400 items – 5000 XP

· Merchant of Death – Sell 2000 items – 20,000 XP

· Impulse buyer – Buy 5 Items – 1000 XP

· Good Consumer – Buy 50 Items – 2000 XP

· I want it all! – Buy 200 Items – 5000 XP

· Self-contained economy – Buy 500 Items – 20,000 XP

· Lots of shots – Shoot 2000 Times – 1000 XP

· Keep firing – Shoot 10,000 Times – 2000 XP

· Who made that man gunner? – Shoot 25,000 Times – 5000 XP

· I fired every bullet ever – Shoot 100,000 Times – 20,000 XP

· Hang Time – Get 2 seconds of vehicle hang time – 500 XP

· Airborne – Get 3 seconds of vehicle hang time – 1000 XP

· This is not a flight simulator – Get 4 seconds of vehicle hang time – 2000 XP

· Orbit Achieved – Get 5 seconds of vehicle hang time – 5000 XP

Berserker Speed Glitch

synide — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:31:18 +0000

Want your Brick to go faster? It’s easy! Just go berserk, hit the menu, then when you return you will have canceled your berserk, but not the speed bonus! This only works as host unfortunately. Check the video out to see it in action.

Game Tip: Mule Bank

synide — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:24:03 +0000

Backpack getting a little too heavy? Starting your own legendary shop? Well you’re going to need somewhere to store your rainy day legendaries, can’t be carrying all that precious cargo around on your main, now can you? Well make a mule! Just create a new character, load a co-op game with both your main character and your new level 1 character and give the level 1 the items you want to store. It’s as simple as that. If you want a really epic bank, you might want to get some more slots by rescuing claptraps.

Update: Make sure to heed RedBeardRaven’s advice from the comments:

I think it should be noted that you have to have a new profile loaded to be able to be the mule. You do not have to have xbox live gold for this to work properly, but if you want to trade from your mule directly it could make it easier. Also, do not just open a new character without a profile loaded, or else the loot that you transfer over will be lost after you end the game.

Farming in New Haven

synide — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:53:12 +0000

Now that everyone is starting to get their 50s, the next thought on everyone’s mind is, “Where do I get the guns?”. Many people are suggesting that New Haven is the easiest place to farm, with it’s 5 chests (2 red) within close proximity and next to no enemies. Check out the video below to see the spots. Simply exit to the menu and reload once you hit them and repeat.

Power Leveling: 1-30 in 10 minutes

synide — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:27:28 +0000

This subject is tricky. Many believe this to be cheating. However this is a normal feature of the game that Gearbox couldn’t possibly have overlooked. Make up your own mind, and read the tutorial and video below if you want them quick levels.

Tutorial:

Have a high level friend start a game (Playthrough 1) and go to Eridian Promontory (fast travel)
Have the low level character join the game
Have the high level character kill everything, and the low level character will level extremely quickly.

It’s that simple, a simple function of the game, so I’m throwing my hat in with the “not cheating” crowd. You can of course do this in any area, but the most exp will be found in EP. I’m not sure just how far you can reasonably get with this, or at what point it no longer becomes worth it to grind instead of doing story quests, but it’s safe to say that it’s at least level 30, cutting out a huge chunk of time you would have to play as you level multiple characters. See below of the video of it in action:

Game Tip: Grenade Jump

synide — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:13:07 +0000

While this could be considered relatively useless for practical purposes, the fact that there is grenade jumping in the game’s physics is interesting information. Try it out next time you are waiting for your teammates to get out of the freaking menu, and you want to get on top of that otherwise inaccessible rooftop. Looks like it works best with sticky nades, best tried with low-power grenades, as the power doesnt affect how high you can jump, but does affect how much you’re going to hurt yourself from the blast. Check the video below for some interesting usage.

Game Tip: Fast Travel in Playthrough 2

synide — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:06:52 +0000

When Fast Traveling in Playthrough 2, you will notice that most areas are unlocked from the start. This can be very helpful to speed your way to later areas. For instance once the Vault was ready to be encountered, I simply fast-traveled right to the end-boss, instead of trekking through multiple areas and enemies. There was also a neat glitch when I did this. The cinematic had a gun reticle enabled, and I could switch weapons and shoot invisible bullets at the center of the screen. Useless but neat. Comment below on other areas that you were able to save time on in Playthrough 2 Fast Travel.