FROM: Javamancy, the Weblog
Just in time to wrangle over the bits ‘n pieces left around the U.S. healthcare reform legislation: today is the second celebrated/marked Ada Lovelace Day!
Ada Lovelace was reported to have died from excessive bloodletting, which may have been triggered by a diagnosis of uterine cancer.
Has anybody noticed that, while The Secret Armory of General Knoxx has introduced quite a few tweaks for the main game, including replacing several of the more-fun red weapons chests with the less-fun white weapons chests, it has provided faster movement when one of the newer Eridian weapon types is equipped, but it has not updated the older Eridian weapon types with better movement.
Things that make you go, “Hmm…” 
Blurry... yes. But there's that $1.98 line item for 2 Filet-o-Fish sandwiches... Hmm...
Got visual (and wallet) confirmation earlier today that the 99¢ Filet-o-Fish promotion has been continued in several McDonald’s [MCD] outlets! 
Other than a somewhat brief quote from Take Two Interactive’s [TTWO] Ben Feder about continuing Borderlands support via add-on content, there is less than any real information about a potential upcoming fourth DLC pack for the popular “RPG shooter” game. And it is certainly possible that his statement may have been taken out of context or merely misunderstood. Is he referring to new content, or repackaging of the existing three DLC packs?
At this point, many of you have tasted a bit more of Borderlands‘ third DLC, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx.
As you’ve been sampling the new vehicle types, you may have been wondering: What is the deal with the Racer?
Sure, it’s fast (in general), but its turbo boost is too short-lived, its armor is abysmal, and its rocket launcher doesn’t track.
So why is Mad(ame) Moxxi so hot-to-trot about it, for the mission to rescue Athena?
Yep, you guessed it!
It’s a plot device that involves driving a Racer, and timing the use of its booster at an opportune moment, to get into the prison where Athena is being held. And the challenge is actually a two-parter! So don’t use the Racer just once, and then discard it in favor of a Monster or a Lancer vehicle…
And, when you’re dealing with the first challenge, note how it really does resemble threading a needle. 
Wow! You’re not dead yet?
With all of the fascination with the Eridian glob gun and the Eridian flaregun, in The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, you’d think that the fun would’ve been done ‘n over with, on the lightning-type weapon side…
And you’d be wrong.
There’s yet another new Eridian weapon type available, and it’s a lightning weapon. Called the Eridian rifle, it fires bouncing electrical balls, giving you the ability to do those trick angle shots, similar (but not identical) to the Eridian blaster, that fun lightning wave weapon that gives you those nice flashbacks of One-Eyed Jack’s revolver.
For the Soldier, you can really rack up the extended magazine clip for the Eridian rifle; for the Siren, you can have fun with accelerating the electrical balls for that fantastic light show that confounds and amazes your targets… just before they drop dead from the shocks.
You can just imagine it:
“Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha–”
<Zzzzzzap!> <Plunk!>
I recently encountered a few Eridian flareguns with variations on their modifications. An interesting one was a scoped version. Does it make sense, even with the limited magnification (essentially none to 1.0X) on the Eridian scopes, to bother using the scope on a weapon that doesn’t sustain direct fire at long ranges?
Perhaps it’s nice to offer that little comfortable feeling to characters that typically use ranged or scoped weapons, like the Hunter…
This is one of those deceptively simple achievements… but there’s a cost. Literally.
This is the secret achievement introduced in The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, where you are, say, going on a day trip through the desolate wastelands. And, let’s just say, you wanted to squeeze in a tour of the World’s Largest/Greatest/Whatever Bullet/Slug/Whatever.
Lo and behold! There ’tis! Such a sightseeing opportunity!
All you have to do is hit the X button to start the tour.
Ka-pow! There’s your sign. And you’ve just snagged yourself the secret achievement: Sucker Born Every Minute.
Steve 10:40 PM on March 25, 2010 Permalink |
No, March 24 was not the day Ada Lovelace was purported to have died. Not actually sure why that day was selected.