each level brings with it a skill point to be spent in one of three specialities.Įach of the four classes: Soldier (guns), Hunter (sniper). Soaking up XP through missionsand kills is instantly engaging, and while your weapon proficiencies increase through use. And as a skillbased shooter it holds up admirably: quests to clear out bandit camps play out like any givervFPS, so much so that the inescapable inadequacies of the early weapons will leave you feeling strangely underpowered. This has caused Borderlands to resurrect a degree of loot-fever not seen since Hellgate: London.

There'll also be one with acid pellets, and one that sets people on fire. There's a version of that shotgun spitting out 12 pellets instead of 11, that counts as a different gun. They guns are procedurally generated of course individually customisable components slotted together by an Al system to create millions of possible combinations. Players will only see about a 1,000 guns during their play anyway.' Loot Is King 'The total doesn't really matter any more, admits Pitchford, 'it's beyond counting. Now Gearbox mutter numbers in excess of 17 million. Originally said to be 'around 500,000' the number rose with every press release. It's telling that Pitchford won't even put a number on the weapon count any more. That's more damage than I'd ever done to anybody in Borderlands, I noted, before chasing after skags - the doglike jaws with feet that prowl the game world - with my powerful new thing. 'If you hit someone with all 11 pellets, that's the full 77 damage.' 'Oh, that's how much damage each of those shotgun pellets inflicts,' he explained. Calling Randy Pitchford over to my PC, I point at a number on the screen that was excitedly alternating between '7' and 'xll'.

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