Borderlands 2.0... or 1.41

The latest title update patch is available now for Borderlands. How exciting you must be thinking (and if you're not, then start). The title update applies fixes to some bugs that were stopping a few players from getting achievements in the latest piece of DLC, but the title also ups the level cap for all players and re-adjusts the game to match. Owners of plain old borderlands will now be able to raise their level from 50 to 58, with enemies and loot scaling up along with them, and owners of the General Knoxx DLC will now be able to take their character to level 69. This may be the last major patch we see for Borderlands as Gearbox continues work on other projects, so if you haven't played Borderlands or were thinking about getting back into it, now seems to be the best time.

Capping It Off

With one more piece of DLC and the recently revealed Game of the Year edition of Borderlands heading our way, Gearbox have decided another raise to the level cap was required. Unexpected however is that the level cap will be free to anyone who owns the General Knoxx DLC and won't actually require you purchase the new pack. The level increase will be heading our way included in a patch with some balance changes a bit before the GotY edition releases and will add an extra 8 levels, taking the max up to 69.

Bordering On Ridiculous

Gearbox have put out a tweet saying... "Borderlands Game of the Year Edition announced! Game + all FOUR DLCs and bonus map for 360, PS3, and PC. Available in October!"... ... I don't really know what else to add to this, it really says it all. So Borderlands will soon be available from retail complete with all 4 DLC packs, which seems a little ridiculous. I think most of the people who want the DLC for borderlands likely already have at least one or two pieces, so now they're left with the option to continue to download the packs individually from the marketplace, or cough up full retail price to buy a game that comes with crap they already have. I don't see this selling very well, but i guess Fallout 3 managed to make sales using this strategy.

Prepare For Robolution

Gearbox today announced a new piece of upcoming DLC for Borderlands... Oops. As previously mentioned the DLC will feature more than 20 new missions and focus around a claptrap revolution that has the vault hunters and Hyperion working together. Claptrap's New Robot Revolution should hit the marketplace in September for a price of 800 Points.

Can't Keep Your Claptrap Closed

Developers are going to have to pay more attention to patch details. Several games have had their DLC outed because of people reading through code, and we now have one more to add to the list... Borderlands. So, Borderlands has a new DLC add-on coming. No idea on the name yet, but Legendrew and various other forum goers at the Gearbox forums have managed to dig up quite a few details about the upcoming add-on. It will contain 21 new missions (9 story and 12 side missions), 10 new locations and a heap of returning characters, plus a new one, labelled as "Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap"... Yes, i can hear you laughing... No, I'm not kidding... Yes, it is awesome. I'll throw the story into a spoiler section below so if you want to skip over it you can, but if you're interested to know whats gonna happen... well:

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Hyperion creates the Ninja Claptrap to prevent vault hunters from stealing all the loot, however the Ninja Claptrap starts a revolution, freeing his clatrap brethren and rising up against their creators. Hyperion then tasks the vault hunters with bringing down the claptraps, who have now taken it upon themselves to reanimate dead bodies (adding an extra part or two along the way). This means the return of some characters including Dr. Ned, General Knoxx and Commandant Steele.

While this is obviously all still unverified, Gearbox employees have been happy to respond in tweets letting us know how they feel about it. CEO of Gearbox, Randy Pitchford, had this to say, "OMG! You're in our files, stealing our secrets! Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Clap Trap will KEEL you!" and Mikey Neumann, Creative Director for Borderlands, left this, "P.S. Legendrew, if I ever meet you-- I'm punching you in the face. Sure, we'll laugh after, but I'm fucking punching you first."