Trophies reveal new Borderlands DLC

By Robert Purchese Published 9 December, 2009

A trio of coliseum arenas to best.

Gearbox apparently has beefy plans for Borderlands downloadable content as a leaked list of PS3 Trophies lifts the lid on a new, coliseum-based update.

Judging by the rewards (listed on PS3 Trophies) there will be three coliseums - Hell-Burbia, The Angelic Ruins, The Gully - and each will feature a lesser and a larger challenge.

The appearance of Trophies also suggests the content is close and perhaps poised for the Christmas holidays.

2K Games and Gearbox haven't verified the sightings, but developer bigwig Mikey Neuman was a few short breaths away revealing "some new stuff" yesterday, although he later Tweeted that the announcement had been held back for a "later occasion".

Borderlands, an RPG shooter, received its first DLC shipment late last month in The Zombie Island of Doctor Ned. Should all updates be of that calibre then long may Borderlands prosper.

Head(less) over to our Doctor Ned review to find out more.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Scimac #1 2 years ago

    Nice to hear. I've just about finished the Zombie Island DLC, but I'm getting the impression that there's still no increase in level cap coming.

  • mungolikebeans #2 2 years ago

    What is the level cap?

  • Murton #3 2 years ago

    Not gotten the zombie DLC yet but this looks like it could be interesting too. Wonder what sort of coliseum challenges we're getting, are they PvP arenas or are they more like the Circle of Death/Slaughter quests during the campaign? If the two DLC packs are of the same quality as the game itself then this is one title I don't mind milking me for the proverbial "hard earned" as it will actually prove to be worth it.

    Also, what's the big deal with level caps? Don't people realise that level caps are 100% necessary to balance a level based RPG? The other option is to go the "adaptive level-scaling" as we saw in Oblivion and nobody liked that either. Characters in Borderlands are plenty powerful enough long before they hit 50 so I personally see no reason to increase the max level beyond that, here's hoping that Gearbox don't cave in against the pressure.

  • xAx #4 2 years ago

    can you get the dlc on pc yet?

  • neems #5 2 years ago

    @Earl Bassett - you can play SP or co-op, there is no actual competitive multiplayer as such, it's basically one big campaign set in a pseudo-free-roaming world ala STALKER. It plays like an FPS with action RPG elements; Diablo with guns effectively (you do actually have to aim though).

    Oh, and it's awesome. Personally i found I had to tweak a few settings on the pc version to get it exactly how I wanted, but it's a fantastic game. Cartoon gun porn, with a dash of the old ultra-violence for good measure.

  • sneetch #6 2 years ago

    @EarlBassett
    Is this game worth getting?
    I stayed away from it because I thought it was 100% online. Is that true?

    I loved Fallout 3, is it along those lines?

    I'd say it's well worth getting.

    It's not online only no, you can play completely offline if you want (there might be some kind of activation or something but I don't remember any). Co-op is great fun though.

    It's more a shooter than Fallout 3 (more Diablo style loot based game), you have quests and a (fairly basic) skill system but no branching conversations or moral hand-wringing: if they're out there then they're bad guys and should have bullets inserted into them. At speed. :)

  • neems #7 2 years ago

    "...if they're out there then they're bad guys and should have bullets inserted into them. At speed. :) "

    While on fire.

  • homerramone #8 2 years ago

    The other option is to go the "adaptive level-scaling" as we saw in Oblivion
    Surely this is what it borderland already does - the bad guys wandering around the land seem to be around the same level as me..
    I got to level 35 on 1st playthrough - when I started the second the baby scags at the start we riddiculously hard to kill - even with the guns that seems to slaughter them first time round.
    I therefore started a fresh game - The only challenge I could see in it 2nd time round was finding enough ammo !

  • Peew971 #9 2 years ago

    Zombie Island was fine but until a level cap increase I won't be getting any more Borderlands DLC. I just breathed through the first one :/

  • muscleblade #10 2 years ago

    From the new trophies/achievements it doesnt seem to be a new level cap. Theres no "reach level 60" trophy so.....
    The next DLC after this will probably have a new Level Cap though.

  • makeamazing #11 2 years ago

    If anyone is looking to buy ths, you can get it pretty cheap, was able to get it from play for £17.99... pretty good deal :)

  • octavedoctor #12 2 years ago

    Level Cap Sshmevel tap...

    Hurrah! More DLC. Love this game. Shooting my way through Zombie Island atm during 2nd playthrough.

    more more more!

  • mkreku #13 2 years ago

    @makeamazing : Thanks for the tip! Ordered it right away, great Xmas present for myself :)

  • Murton #14 2 years ago

    @Homerramone: Borderlands doesn't use an adaptive level scaling system but the zone system we see in most RPGs. The reason everything is the same level as the player as they progress through the story is because the game has been paced that way, if you wander off ahead and enter areas you shouldn't (ones that aren't locked obviously) then you'll die in your first encounter because everything is a higher level. Compare to the adaptive level scaling of Oblivion where you could essentially go anywhere you wanted safe in the knowledge that because you're only level 3 you will only face enemies that are level 2-5 in difficulty.

    @Earlbasset: Make no mistake, beyond the Mad Max setting, this game is nothing like Fallout 3. It has better looking and more varied environments, better storyline with less plot holes, none of that moral decision making nonsense, working shooter mechanics, a relatively balanced skill system, is consistently challenging from start to finish and a better weapon selection to sum up all the fun bits, but perhaps most important difference is the build quality, Borderlands feels like a finished game, something which I cannot say about the PS3 version of Fallout which felt more like early beta or even alpha level code with the near constant freezing and crashing.

    Not sure what score EG gave Borderlands but I'd personally give it 8/10 in single player and 9/10 in co-op. In my opinion Borderlands is this years Dead Space, a severely underrated and much overlooked game that is well worth a look at least.

  • etherfiend #15 2 years ago

    Great news, hopefully it'll be co-op/single and not duelling.

    I was so impressed with the game and Dr Ned dlc I voted this number 1 for 2009. It was by far the best game I've played this year (and I'm not much of an FPS fan). Just waiting for a couple of mates to pick it up for some four-way rocking co-op action.

    It kind of is a scalable enemy difficulty but having completed every single mission in the first playthrough and then various killing sprees around it and the dlc I found myself slightly over-powered at the beginning of the second playthrough (lvl 40) however due to the low xp gains from lvl35 mobs it'll soon balance itself out.

  • makeamazing #16 2 years ago

    Borderlands feels like a finished game, something which I cannot say about the PS3 version of Fallout which felt more like early beta or even alpha level code with the near constant freezing and crashing.

    Guess we are going to have to agree to disagree... had no problems with the PS3 version of Fallout.. To be honest they are two different games, and though they both contain shooting, couldnt be further apart in style and gameply experience... and i love both of them :D

  • muscleblade #17 2 years ago

    The Island of Dr. Ned must be the best DLC package ever released. Still Borderlands , but different enough to feel fresh.

  • spookyzombie #18 2 years ago

    @Murton. I was with you up until you said Borderlands had a better storyline than Fallout 3. That's just crazy talk.