[Scotty]

"Explodes like a grenade when reloaded."

...WHAT.

[The E]

With those weapons, it's like this. Once they're dry, or you hit the reload button, the gun will be thrown like a grenade, and then explode, while a new model of that gun is being spawned in your hand. It's quite awesome.

[Zacam]

I'm a little jelly of your weapons. The slot machine hasn't given me anything useful and only enough back to recover about 2/3rds what I put into it.

Course, my two characters on this playthrough (they did a thing to fix the golden guns for premier, so I restarted) are lvls 8 and 13 respectively, so...

[Mongoose]

With those weapons, it's like this. Once they're dry, or you hit the reload button, the gun will be thrown like a grenade, and then explode, while a new model of that gun is being spawned in your hand. It's quite awesome.

that is amazing

[deathfun]

With those weapons, it's like this. Once they're dry, or you hit the reload button, the gun will be thrown like a grenade, and then explode, while a new model of that gun is being spawned in your hand. It's quite awesome.

that is amazing

It's better when you get the Orange shotgun which actually flies, homes in and then explodes
Rocket launchers do that too
It's ****ing awesome

(Shotgun also keeps shooting if it's got ammo in it)

Also, a Mirv grenade that spawns Mirv grenades? That's just too much awesome Orpheus

[Mongoose]

I'm suddenly picturing this scene from Venture Brothers, where a random henchman runs out of ammo and then tries throwing his normal pistol at the guy he's shooting at.

[watsisname]

I liked the scene in the opening of Casino Royale, where the bad guy runs out of ammo and throws his pistol at Bond, who grabs it out of the air and throws it back at him, nailing him in the head.

I'm finding that BL2 has me enjoying a greater variety of gun manufacturers.  In the original I just used Maliwan.  Every time.  Volcano Sniper?  Combustion Hellfire SMG?  Pestilent Defiler?  **** yeah, those were the only guns I ever needed.  And the occasional explosive bouncing betty grenade, for when you absolutely positively have to kill every mother****er in the room.

In Borderlands 2 my choices are more varied.  For snipers I am still loyal to Maliwan.  Sometimes you just gotta light that ***** on fire (or lightning, or paint them with acid, or slag, or just blast him into little bits which rain from the sky for hours), and sometimes you have to do it from a mile away.  For Rocket Launchers I'm down with Tediore.  Why?  Because when when I'm using a rocket launcher the last thing I want to waste my time doing is reloading.  With Tediore, there's no such thing.  Gotta reload?  NO PROBLEM.  Just throw the rocket launcher, watch it sprout fins, and WHOOSH, off it goes.

Shotguns?  I like my shotguns with a BOOM.  Need a bigger boom?  Gotta go with TORGUE.

Torgue guns are about EXPLOSIONS and MACHISMO and ENGINES and EXPLOSIONS and LOUD NOISES and EXPLOSIONS. You know what sucks? SUBTLETY. You know what’s awesome? NOTSUBTLETY. And also EXPLOSIONS. Every single shot fired from a Torgue gun EXPLODES.

And then there's the revolvers.  Ahhh, revolvers.   For them I've fallen in love with Jakobs, because there's just something inherently satisfying about pulling the trigger and hearing a big THWACK, the gun kicks back in your hand, and whatever was on the receiving end no longer has a head.  Or, to quote the wiki,

The Jakobs corporation has held to certain values through the years. Family. Honor. Always aiming for the head. When you need to kill your enemies with a single shot, you buy Jakobs: the corporation’s founder, Montgomery Jakobs, always believed in damage above all else. Accuracy? Pah. Recoil reduction? Don’t make me laugh. Elemental effects? Just a bunch of silly fireworks and nonsense. No, the Jakobs corporation believes that there’s nothing better in the world than a big-ass bullet that can tear a man’s head clean off.

[Ravenholme]

Torgue rocket launchers are just insane.

[The E]

Insane rocket launchers, you say?

[Hades]

I found this in as a random drop when playing with Ravenholme, Dave, and a Mericet guy. I think it's ETEC.

THEY ARE THE MOST JEALOUS.

[The E]

It isn't ETEC. All E-Tec guns have that bright purple rarity colour.

[Hades]

Ahh, right.

It's still awesome though!

[Ravenholme]

Hades has this terrible habit of stealing all the good loot 

[deathfun]

I think I'm going to have to take pictures of MY loot
No gold weapons, but a Slag Sniper Rifle that deals 15k damage?
Too bad it's Hyperion

[Hades]

Hades has this terrible habit of stealing all the good loot 

It was on accident, I am just a premature button pusher.

Plus I gave you that e-tec sniper rifle!

[The E]

Finally a good sniper rifle again



E-TEC get!

[watsisname]

Insane rocket launchers, you say?

Does that rocket launcher have a bayonet on it?  WHY DOES IT HAVE A BAYONET ON IT?!

[The E]

For punching people, duh

[MP-Ryan]

I haven't had a chance to play yet, but I need to dig up a screenshot of my Hunter's inventory from the first game.  I had every pistol and sniper rifle ultra rare in dark orange.  I could solo Crawmerax with the lectric sniper rifle, which is how I got them in the first place.

Looking forward to getting going in this.