What happens when I beat The Destroyer?

[SkullFire58]

I don't want any spoilers, but I'm just curious what will happen to my save file. Will I be able to continue Playthrough 1 and finish the DLC, or does Playthrough 2 start immediately after the boss dies?

[bleh..]

you can continue playing where u left off. affter the credits it will take you back to where the destroyer was so you can loot it and after that you can go wherever. next time you try to load you will get a choice of either continueing playthough 1 or starting 2.

[SkullFire58]

Ok, thanks! Just beat it with a friend in co-op. I don't know why it's extremely hard solo, but with one extra person we beat it in under 10 minutes.

[GrimAquatic]

It's not that hard solo.

[SkullFire58]

Originally posted by GrimAquatic:

It's not that hard solo.

Oh... Well, I was a level 35 Soldier and I lost almost $400,000 from deaths. It was down to about 10-15 FPS anyway. Idk.

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i have beated the in ps3 bazillion times if are in ps3 and you want to play with me add me if you have bl2 or bl cods like bo2 mw3 mw2 boring almost completed every game what i have so i could play in mp

[SkullFire58]

Originally posted by Saints:

i have beated the in ps3 bazillion times if are in ps3 and you want to play with me add me if you have bl2 or bl cods like bo2 mw3 mw2 boring almost completed every game what i have so i could play in mp

Thanks but I'm really a solo player. Only co-op if I have to. I don't have PS3 either. I've only had this game for less than a week, so I'm still getting used to it.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by SkullFire58:

I've only had this game for less than a week, so I'm still getting used to it.

Maybe that's part of the problem. I've only killed the Destroyer twice so far, in PT1 and PT2 (my 2nd char isn't there...yet?), and I've considered him a pushover in both tries. Even the first one.

"Getting used to it" sounds bad enough already, and with Borderlands not giving you guaranteed great gear from boss fights, spending more time on farming and side quests usually provides better gear...

The thing is, if you stay behind those rocks, the purple whatevers that he shoots at you will usually not hit. The tentacles can be ignored. So all I did was firing at his eye, crouched reasonably safely in cover and just whittling down his HP without ever moving. Or not much anyway; I might have moved completely behind cover occasionally to regenerate ammo, as I didn't have the massive ammo regeneration that I have now.

Of course, playing a Siren I don't need kills for anything -- in particular, if the purple whatevers actually DO cause some damage that doesn't heal off in time I can just phasewalk for a massive heal boost. That might have helped (I don't remember all that much about the Destroyer fights, due to them being so boring and non-repeatable anyway).

[SkullFire58]

Originally posted by Kargor:

Originally posted by SkullFire58:

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I did actually complete every mission before I did any story ones. I probably should have done the DLC missions first as well. Just from playing zombie island I've got some pretty good gear. It's weird though, the Gaurdian Angel tells you that the Rakk Hive "will be your greatest challenge yet". I killed it in less than a minute. It barely even attacks. The very next boss however is a pain if you aren't prepared. I'll have to try that rock tactic next time I get to it. Thanks!

[GrimAquatic]

Originally posted by SkullFire58:

I probably should have done the DLC missions first as well.

My very first playthrough I made a mistake of completing all DLC before the main story. Not only did it spoil the plot for me (all DLC take place after the Destoryer has been killed), but I outleveled everything by like fifteen levels. Suffice it to say that killing gray Destroyer is no fun.

[Jurassic Fart 2]

Destroyer sucks, worse thanSkagzilla. Skagzilla was simply BORING and TIME-CONSUMING, but my first attempts at Destroyer cost me sixteen deaths, starting with a wallet of over $10,000,000, so that'll tell you how expensive it was for my character (a level 46 Hunter Assassin). The AI with regard to Destoyer behavior is inconsistent; my Destroyer was impaling me with missiles THROUGH the rock I was hiding behind in vain, and the tentacles were regenerating faster than I could shoot them. I hadto go and finish the other DLCs (except for the unplayable freeze-your-compuetr Lockdown Palace of GEN Knoxx) to level up and gain proficiencies before I could say "the HELL with it" and just blast the SH♥T out of his eye (the better weapons {more powerful and higher rate of fire} made all the difference) .

[Jurassic Fart 2]

Forgot the WORST thing about the Destroyer, my most bitter gripe: You don't get to f♥cking see what's actually in the m♥therf♥cking vault, which was the whole POINT of the game. He dies, the credits roll, and when that's over, there's a REALLY sh♥tty meager amount of weak-♥ss lame weapons and niggling paltry cash laying about…MAYBE. At least, that's what happened to me on Playthrough 1. I'm taking my time and haven't completed Playthrough 2, as I'm experimenting with other player classess, et cetera. See, you've been promised the whole d♥mned game that there is unimaginable wealth and the greatest technology in civilized space in the vault, and when you've beaten OTHER bosses, you sometimes get to access awesome weapons caches (Claptrap Robolution has some great ones, and YES, I know it's a DLC), so you ultimately have to let the Destroyer take you as you grab your ankles, clench your teeth, and screw your eyes shut tight, 'cause you get NOTHING like what you expected. NOTHING, a huge disappointing let-down, anticlimactic. It's like almost reaching that "special magic moment" (petit morte) with a sexual partner and then being tossed out of the house before you get there.

[Jurassic Fart 2]

BTW: You can't use the word "n-i-g-g-l-i-n-g" on Steam Community forums; the moe-rawns seem to think it's a racially-oriented slur. READ A F♥CKING DICTIONARY, ya idjits!!!

[SkullFire58]

Originally posted by Gremlin.Bitten:

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I hated that too! If they didn't know or want to show the inside on the Vault, they could have atleast shown your character enter so you know you didn't do all this for nothing. It's like in Far Cry 3, they give you a choice to either leave the island with the friends that you spent the whole game rescuing, or, slit all their throats and rule a whole island for two minutes. At least in that game you had a choice. I haven't play Borderlands 2 yet, but if this is how it also ends, I really hope they won't keep failing you for the series to continue. There could be other vaults in the universe, or different planets?

[Bacchus]

Originally posted by SkullFire58:

Originally posted by Gremlin.Bitten:

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I hated that too! If they didn't know or want to show the inside on the Vault, they could have atleast shown your character enter so you know you didn't do all this for nothing. It's like in Far Cry 3, they give you a choice to either leave the island with the friends that you spent the whole game rescuing, or, slit all their throats and rule a whole island for two minutes. At least in that game you had a choice. I haven't play Borderlands 2 yet, but if this is how it also ends, I really hope they won't keep failing you for the series to continue. There could be other vaults in the universe, or different planets? [/quote]
It's what they do. MORE vaults. MORE guns new hunters and never ending story.

[Jurassic Fart 2]

Yeah, but THE WHOLE F♪CKING POINT OF THE GAME, your character's ultimate GOAL, was to get all the wonderful sh♪t that was promised. If these ♪ssh♪les wanted to do the "continued next game" b♪llsh♪t, then they should have had the playing character remove a note from the door to an empty vault that read, "You're two hundred years too late, sucker! Atlas moved the treasure to the stronghold on Promethea!" Ist gefukkt, verlich scheiß! This is exactly the kind of crap that made me boycott OTHER games and their sequels. Buying this game is like taking the accursed Bullet Tour (I googled the tour and so did not make that mistake). And now I'm really p♪ssed off because I can't get any more Knoxx missions. That DLC is totally f♪cked up. I had to edit the save file to "complete" the Lockdown Palace mission because the idiots that coded that portion of the map didn't know what the flying f♪ck they were doing (a great many AMD/ATI GPU users have wickwedly chapped red-♪ss about the same thing) because the computer freezes. ANYway, I didn't get to rescue Claptrap OR meet Athena, and APPARENTLY she gives you access to Road's End before the Lockdown Palace mission is turned in, and nobody will give me SH♪T for missions, now. I can't access Crawmax-er-whatever, either, and there's nothing else to do but fume impotently about the two locked access points. Thing that really p♪sses me off is not getting rare, unique, and [hopefully] powerful weapons that I could benefit from in Playthrough Two. Funny thing RE playthroughs: The game menu looks like it has room for like eight or so playthroughs, but I've never heard of anyone doing more than TWO playthroughs. Why make the menu look lile that, all that wasted space on the form, if it's not used?