I never did complete Borderlands with the UGVM crew. We were doing quite well, having travelled through the Arid Badlands and the Dahl Headlands. But then Nicholas arrived and I couldn't commit to a regular time to play, and it all fell apart. We kept a spreadsheet to keep note of who had passed which mission, and this informed us who should host each time - since the host defines the story progression.
I've started again with John and Kieron. It's not the ideal game to play with our group. The potential for Kieron to wander off and get lost is huge, and there are often times when a specific action is needed which doesn't get done because nobody is actually paying any attention. After six hours play, Kieron still hasn't bothered to understand how you pick up and turn in missions, and John doesn't know what his special skill does.
But it's great fun. There are frequent breaks in action while the two newbies faff around in the shop trying to work out how to buy new weapons, but once we're on the road it's very amusing watching Kieron pummel enemies into the ground as a berserker. At the end of our first play session we had levelled up to 8, and had been repeatedly killed by Bone Head who seemed to be able to one-hit kill us. Our constant individual running into the same arena didn't help. In our second session, we completed a couple more side-missions, levelled up a bit more, then actually hatched a plan before taking him on. I threw a turret and shield down and helped to regenerate health; John had a weapon which set Bone Head on fire; we set up at opposite ends of the arena so he couldn't shoot us all at the same time. Despite this, it was still a bit tense, and it was almost a disaster as after he died a couple of his henchmen were still running around to kill us.
But now we have vehicles. The first vehicle mission was to jump the creek and open the gate so that we could access the rest of the Arid Badlands. Somehow Kieron and I glitched through the gate, meaning that the game told us we'd passed the mission when we hadn't. John didn't actually open the gate, and we were left in limbo for a while until we did it all properly.
We've got a fair few missions on the go at the moment, but we finished with the Circle of Death arena round 2 - a hard fight, but made easier with incendiary weapons. We may need to level up a bit before going further though ...
I've started again with John and Kieron. It's not the ideal game to play with our group. The potential for Kieron to wander off and get lost is huge, and there are often times when a specific action is needed which doesn't get done because nobody is actually paying any attention. After six hours play, Kieron still hasn't bothered to understand how you pick up and turn in missions, and John doesn't know what his special skill does.
But it's great fun. There are frequent breaks in action while the two newbies faff around in the shop trying to work out how to buy new weapons, but once we're on the road it's very amusing watching Kieron pummel enemies into the ground as a berserker. At the end of our first play session we had levelled up to 8, and had been repeatedly killed by Bone Head who seemed to be able to one-hit kill us. Our constant individual running into the same arena didn't help. In our second session, we completed a couple more side-missions, levelled up a bit more, then actually hatched a plan before taking him on. I threw a turret and shield down and helped to regenerate health; John had a weapon which set Bone Head on fire; we set up at opposite ends of the arena so he couldn't shoot us all at the same time. Despite this, it was still a bit tense, and it was almost a disaster as after he died a couple of his henchmen were still running around to kill us.
But now we have vehicles. The first vehicle mission was to jump the creek and open the gate so that we could access the rest of the Arid Badlands. Somehow Kieron and I glitched through the gate, meaning that the game told us we'd passed the mission when we hadn't. John didn't actually open the gate, and we were left in limbo for a while until we did it all properly.
We've got a fair few missions on the go at the moment, but we finished with the Circle of Death arena round 2 - a hard fight, but made easier with incendiary weapons. We may need to level up a bit before going further though ...
