Does anyone know how to get internet to my xbox, without directly connecting to the internet, and without buying a expensive wireless adapter? I read somewhere that you can do this?

Any USB wireless adapter should work with the 360. No need to spend $99 on the branded version.

Ah, the magic of


Here's a nice step-by-step article

I was thinking about this today : When was the last time a game seemingly came out of nowhere with almost no hype surrounding it and immediately became a must-play hit? There are so many new IP games that barely register as a blip on the radar and even highly regarded, well reviewed games without a built-in audience like Mirror's Edge and Dead Space note only modest sales despite coming from gaming's top selling publisher. To see how hugely successful and popular Borderlands is, it's kind of astonishing, especially since almost nobody was more than casually aware of it when Superfro started this thread a mere 2 1/2 weeks ago. Every game developer must dream of this sort of overnight success. My hat's off to these folks who made this game, it's a hell of a fine product and they certainly deserve the success they are currently enjoying.

speaking of this game, there was an update this morning when I fired it up, so maybe they fixed some of those achievement issues.

Nope, not yet:
They have said that they have a fix though, and that it will automatically give you any of the glitched achievements once you load that character.

bummer. it'll be funny one day to sign on and get a few achievements when you start if they fix it as you say.

next time I see you on I will hit you up..I really just want to get to level 50 before starting over with a different character. I have a 42 Soldier, so it would fit perfect with your friend and you..esp since a lot of the soldier mods are for team play....like one that gives 30% bonus to team experience. I just never use it because by myself I use the one that doubles my clip sizes and adds 40% bonus to damage.

Ahem. Me and kms_md knew where it was at.

Still, I get your point and do agree.

I'd been looking forward to the game, and as the date drew closer I knew I was going to end up buying it outright. What I wasn't ready for, was the fact that like 15 people on my friends list would also get it day 1. I thought it could catch on if it worked as they were saying it would, but I had no idea it'd be the wildfire that it was. Really really awesome for Gearbox. Even better, they seem like they're really in tune with their audience and plan to support the game quite a bit, which is good as now they don't really have a choice anyway.

found the first real glitch in game play for me and a buddy. did the sledge mission but it said he was ineligible, despite us playing co-op the entire way. he didn't get the xp for that and now it won't let him get xp for any of the upcoming regular missions. he'll get credit for the side missions, though. suck.

Also, question. We did the mission (can't remember names) where you have to switch on the power at those two power line poles. then you run to turn on the master switch. it told us we now have the ability to transport, but neither of us was paying attention. what was that?

the poles that you go to too reset your stats...and also where you start when you start your game after you have turned it off...you can now teleport to anyone you have already been to in the world....sort of a fast travel thing. Saves a LOT of backtracking and fighting of lower level enemies that give you no exp.

those are the poles where you can change your outfit right? how do you do that? i went to one and couldn't figure it out. i thought i tried everything.

thanks foxdvd. figured it out. i thought i checked one of those things but apparently i didn't because it's pretty simple.

after you go to one, and after you have done the quest to power them up, it should just pop up with a list of place you have already been. You might need to hit RB or LB to scroll to that menu once in it.

If anyone with an xbox wants to get the "And They'll Tell Two Friends" achievment, which requires you to play with a member of Gearbox or someone who has played a member of gearbox, add me to your friends list, and invite me to a game..it takes 1 second to get, and I have it.

FOXDVD is my gamer tag

I am level 43 on my second play and so if you are also on your second play, and want to level grind you can invite me as well, or if you are low level and want to power level your character send me a request, and it will take you minutes in my game to level up a 1-10 level character to level 15-20...

i have it. if i see you on i'll do a quick invite.

What I don't get about Borderlands: the economy seems to be based on paper money (for small denominations) and garden gnomes (for large denominations). What's up with that?

well, that glitch my buddy and i experienced had a work around. he did those missions on his own, and then we could continue along with the game, both getting credit for missions.

So is this game the "new" Red Faction? It sure sounds like it. While I enjoyed RF's Multiplayer, the Single player left me frustrated and kinda annoyed.

I was thinking of picking up Borderlands until it started sounding like Red Faction.

This game is NO Red Faction. The single player is the game of the year so far, ahead of Batman. I am sure Modern and Dragon Age will give it a run for its money, but I have not even played MP yet.

I'm enjoying Borderlands, but, no.

Agreed, Borderlands is fun, but not even as good as Sacred 2 was for a "Diablo" rip off....with guns. There is absolutely NO story, and very little to the guns and leveling up. It's just barely addicting enough to warrant playing it

It's a decent time waster until some games with substance come out (COD, Assassins 2 etc) but not GOTY.

GOTY and I am sticking to it...