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  Steve 4:31 PM on March 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Borderlands: Threading the Needle… 

  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.

   

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  Steve 4:22 PM on March 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Borderlands: The Eridian Rifle 

  

  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!>

   
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  Steve 10:12 AM on March 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Borderlands: Scope on an Eridian Flaregun? 

  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…