The description for the Sucker Born Every Minute Achievement/Trophy says “Paid for a worthless tour of the world’s largest bullet.” Go go the huge bullet and there should be a building closest to the bullet. There will be arrows pointing to a box with a $ sign on it. Simply activate the prompt here to get the Achievement/Trophy.

Hint: Rider Sniper Rifle

In New Haven there there are two hidden chests. When you recieve the quest to enter Trash Coast, head to New Haven. Head toward the blue shack (below the area where the repair kit is). Stand near the door and it will open. Ride the elevator down and to the basement. Defeat the Psychos and open the red chest to find the Rider. Rider is a unique sniper rifle manufactured by Gearbox, the maker of Borderlands. This weapon, along with other details in the room (a trash pile Christmas tree and a grisly leg lamp) are references to the movie “A Christmas Story.”

Hint: Faster Firing Rate

Weapons with exceedingly slow firing rates (i.e. powerful sniper rifles) can be made less laggy if you melee after each shot. This will reset the firing rate timer, allowing you to instantly fire again.

Hint: Elemental Effects

In Borderlands some weapons have an elemental effect. These are usually very useful but there are drawbacks. Enemies might have special resistant shields or an elemental animal will naturally resist what you shoot it with. Here is a rundown of each elemental effect:

Fire – When you tag an enemy with fire they take gradual damage until they die or it goes out. Fire damages enemies more if they’re shield is gone. Additionally, enemies tend to freak out and lose accuracy when burning.

Shock – Shock damage is like the reverse of fire. It deals an incredible amount of damage to an enemy’s shield but loses effectiveness once they’re down to their health meter. Also, enemies don’t usually panic when shocked.

Acid – Possibly the best all-around element. Acid damage easily eats through armored opponents (like Spiderants and Crimson Lance soldiers) and can spread to multiple enemies if they happen to touch each other while panicking. The only drawbacks to it are that Acid-type enemies are about 90% immune to it and if you try Iron-sight aiming the acid splash from your gun-muzzle can throw off your aim.

Explosive – Not so much an element as a bonus. Randomly when you shoot an enemy with a bullet from an explosion-type gun it will explode and deal extra damage relative to the weapon’s base damage. Try to aim for groups.

Eridian – Whenever you find an Eridian weapon try shooting an enemy. Sometimes extra effects not mentioned in the description will occur. The 10101 Cannon is a good example of a Shock/Explosion combination element.
Hint: Quick Money and Items

Want purple and orange items without having to kill a single enemy? Once you get to “New Haven,” head to the save/transport post near “Scooter” and save your game. Then, there are 2 red chests and 3 silver chest in town…4 of them on rooftops, and one that the claptrap rescue opens for you. Just loot them all, keep what you want, sell what you don’t want and then save your game. Log off, then log back in to repeat the process. Check all the vending machines each time as they will offer great items as well.

Here is a rundown of the loot route from at the save/transport post near Scooter:

Red Chest #1 – On the roof of the building directly right of the save post. Go to the side with the yellow barrel, jump few times and you are there.

Silver Chest #1 – From the save post, turn directly left and go up the stairs, keep going in the same direction, cross the wood plank and then jump the railing to the other building. Turn a slight right around the corner.

Red Chest #2 – from Silver Chest#1…some tricky jumps, but not too hard. Simply look out to the red tarp hanging over a little platform and make a running jump to land on the tarp. Then turn around till you see the Red Chest, make another jump (not too high or you will get caught on the red tarp over the chest and fall off).

Silver Chest #2 – After completing the Claptrap Rescue this Silver Chest will be in a little shed across the courtyard from the Bounty Board (you just have to crouch to get in there).

Silver Chest #3 – From the save post go forward and go up the stairs where the dollar sign and arrow are. Hop on top of the washing machine, then on top of the roof with the big antenna. The Silver Chest is behind it.
Cheat: Invincibility

Note: Alter game files at your own risk and always make backups! Go to the game folder (My Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config\) and open WillowGame.ini in a text editor.

Search for bDemiGodMode and change it to bDemiGodMode=true.

Your health will never decrease below 1!.

Cheat: More Inventory Slots

Note: Alter game files at your own risk and always make backups! Go to the game folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\2K Games\Gearbox Software\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config) and open DefaultGame and look for this:

InventorySlotMax_Misc=X

Change X to your desired amount of slots (default 12)

Cheat: Berserker Speed Exploit

Make sure you’re in a fight with more than one enemy and your health is extremely low (10-20). Activate Berserker just before you enter Fight For Your Life! Mode, then kill someone to gain a Second Wind. If done properly, you should be able to run as fast as Brick can in Berserker mode AND you’ll be able to fire your weapons. Note: you’re not able to sprint while using this, but why would you need to anyway? Activating his Berserker mode again and finishing it, OR dying will cancel the effect.

Unlockable: New Game +

Complete the game to unlock a New Game + mode. Some items and stats will carry over into the new game and enemies will be tougher.

Cheat: Duplicate Items

To make a copy of any item you’ll need a cooperative partner in a multiplayer game. Simply drop what you want to make a copy of on the floor, exit the game without saving, leaving your friend free to grab it. When you return, you’ll have your copy of the weapon still, and your friend can hand you the other. This works on all guns, shields, and class mods, and can be done as many times as necessary.

Hint: Easy 20,00 EXP

As soon as you are able to get a vehicle, find a safe place away from enemy spawn points and find a way to keep the trigger held down (tape? rubber band?). Just walk away for a few hours and after you have unloaded 100,000 shots from the vehicle you will get 20,000 exp.

Hint: Item Storage using an Alternate Character

An effective, but annoying, way to store your extra stuff is to create an alternate character that is only for holding your extra stuff. Just create a new character, load a co-op game with both your main character and your new level 1 character and give them the items you want to put up. Log back in to your level 1 character and give the items back to your main character when you need them. This can be really useful when you find weapons and items that are above your level, or are saving them to give to a friend’s character.

Hint: Easy Escape After Defeating Sledge

After you’ve defeated Sledge (and collected the artifact), exit and save your game. When you start you’re game again you’ll begin at the save point at the very beginning of the mission. This way you don’t have to backtrack on foot and you’ll save a lot of ammo too.

Cheat: Gain Levels and Money Before Entering Borderlands

In the first scene, when you’re getting the tour with the scrap robot, follow him all the way through to the small campsite with the car up on the lift next to the burning tires. Collect all the loot (guns, money) along the way and kill all of the guys. Once everyone is dead simply pause the game and go to exit. It will save your character (level & loot) and start you at the very beginning upon loading your game. You can repeat this as many times as you’d like!

Cheat: Gain Levels and Money Before Entering Borderlands

In the first scene, when you’re getting the tour with the scrap robot, follow him all the way through to the small campsite with the car up on the lift next to the burning tires. Collect all the loot (guns, money) along the way and kill all of the guys. Once everyone is dead simply pause the game and go to exit. It will save your character (level & loot) and start you at the very beginning upon loading your game. You can repeat this as many times as you’d like!

Hint: Reload Quickly

Watch your reload animation. As soon as the cartridge is removed (or rounds are being inserted), perform a melee and the gun will finish reloading. Do this to save time and possibly your life.

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Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot, if you couldn’t tell, is a bit of a spoof on the Mel Gibson flick Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Rather than offering a series of fetch or kill quests, as has been the standard fare for most of Borderlands, Mad Moxxi puts the player in a series of arena battles.

This is essentially Gearbox Software’s take on the popular Gears of War 2 Horde or Call of Duty: World at War’s Zombies modes. The first set of challenges offers five rounds of five waves each. As you progress, the enemies get tougher and eventually other game modifiers will begin to stack. The modifiers are randomized and some of them are quite fun. Some will challenge you to only use rockets or SMGs. Another changes the gravity to make players float through the air.

Though this is a bit of a “me too” add-on — it seems every shooter must have a co-op arena mode these days — the unique rules of Mad Moxxi are enough to set Borderlands apart from the pack and carve its own niche.

Borderlands could never stand alone as a pure shooter and the net code was never strong enough to make an idea like this a compelling one. That problem is compounded by the fact that enemies don’t drop loot and you don’t get experience points for killing them. Beat a set of five waves and you’ll get a small set of mediocre loot. Beat a quest and you’ll get some XP, but other than that you’re just killing enemies.

It feels like Mad Moxxi misses the point. This was always a game about level grinding and loot pickups. You get neither here.

You can still play Mad Moxxi with up to four players cooperatively. In fact, if you don’t have a group of friends willing to pony up the $10 asking price, you’d be better served skipping this add-on entirely. The arena battles do not scale to the number of players properly at all. Playing with one or two players makes this series of challenges nearly impossible. Even with three it is difficult.

The task gets easier with each player added thanks to another nifty addition to the formula called the penalty box. If you die and still have teammates alive, you go to the penalty box above the arena and can continue raining down bullets. If everyone enters the penalty box before a wave is complete, the challenge is failed and you’re either set back a few rounds or reset to the beginning. Alone, you get no penalty box. Die and it’s all over and without proper scaling, XP, or loot drops it just isn’t any fun at all.

Though nobody in the IGN office had fun with the Mad Moxxi download, we could all agree that the style and music offered here is as good as ever. At the end of each set of waves players are challenged to a boss fight and when that happens, a rockin’ techno beat kicks in. I’ve had it stuck in my head for days now.

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Unlockables

New Game +
Complete the game one time to unlock New Game +. All the enemies are super powerful on this playthrough.

Achievements
Complete each achievement to receive the specified gamerscore.

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Gearbox Software has revealed via GameSpot that its new role-playing shooter title Borderlands will release in North America on October 20th.

During an interview with the site, 2K Games’ president Christoph Hartmann spoke about releasing a brand new IP alongside the likes of high profile games such as Sony’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.

“I don’t think we have to be afraid of competition or shy of what’s out there,” said Hartmann, confidently. “I think this holiday season is a little bit lighter in triple-A games than last year. It’s actually a good holiday to put something out. … There’s always risk and opportunity. The risk is you have a hard time standing out against established IP. The opportunity is you have a lot of traffic here and it can be a much bigger product at retail than it would be otherwise.”

Check out the E3 demo of Borderlands down below.

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