Game Informer has grabbed an exclusive look into more news about borderlands, giving us even more juicy information to go off of!
Alright fans of Borderlands, Game Informer has found a way to nab an exclusive look at the game’s sequel. Only a few days ago, a few details on the magazine appeared online, allowing us a sneak peak into a fresh batch of information that has been made available.
Here are the new details!
- Each manufacturer will have their own visual styling/theme. The purpose of this is to be able to easily identify a weapon’s manufacturer and quality by simple looking at it. No manufacturers will have the same looking gun
- Gearbox wants to make 4 seating standard on each vehicle
- Class mods and Artifacts will be returning
- BL2′s skill tree will maintain the 3 Branch system and have more defined abilities rather than simple stat boosts. It is unknown how many skills will occupy each branch.
- 2 Gunzerker Skills were mentioned. One, increases the fire rate of any weapon the longer the trigger is held down. A second, while Dual-wielding, increases accuracy with same class weapons, or doubles damage for different class weapons.
- Co-op will stick to four players.
- Different vehicle varieties, one of these being called a Bandit Technical.
- Eridium can be used to enhance weapons or are the only Currency to purchase the most powerful weapons in the world.
- Bearded dwarf guy is Salvador, the Gunzerker. Special ability is dual-wielding, any weapon can be duel-wielded.
- The original vault hunters will be support NPC’s.
- Bandits now have their own weapon brands.
- Weapons can have custom decals and enhancements chosen by the player.
- Enemies are more responsive, and actually interact with each other much better than previously.
- The player will also have interactive dialogues, similar to those you find in Left 4 Dead.
They also added:
- Each Manufacturer will have their own visual styling and theme, this purpose is to simply be able to easily identify weapon manufacturers adn quality by simply looking at it, similar to how we do in real life. No manufacturer will have the same looking gun.
- NPC’s will be fully animated and move aorund their locations, interacting with not only each other but objects within their locations.
- BL2′s skill tree will maintain the 3 Branch system and have more defined abilities rather than simple stat boosts. It is unknown how many skills will occupy each ranch.
Borderlands 2 was recently announced, and you can read our announcement of it here. Coming back onto all platforms, fans are clambering for more information. Keep checking back for more!
