Borderlands

Cheat Codes:
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Submitted by: RM

Edit the "WillowGame.ini" file in the directory: "\..\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config".
Change the value of the following lines in that file to activate the cheats.


Effect 	                              Effect
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Cannot drop below 1 health point        - Set "bDemiGodMode" to "true"
Weapon slot capacity                    - Set "WeaponReadyMax" to 2 to 4
Increase maximum inventory              - Set "InventorySlotMax_Misc" to a higher number
Shoot own teammates                     - Set both entries of "bIgnoreFriendlyFire" to "false"
NPCs can damage each other              - Set "bIgnoreNPCFriendlyFire" to "false"
Bosses do not regain health after dying - Set "bBossesRegenHealthOnReset" to "true"
Resurrect all players when someone dies - Set "bResurrectAllPlayersWhenOneDies to "true"


Achievements:
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Accomplish the indicated achievement to get the number of Gamerscore points:

Unlockable                         How to unlock
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Paid in Fyrestone (5 points)     - Complete 5 missions in the Arid Badlands.
Made in Fyrestone (15 points)    - Complete all missions in the Arid Badlands.
Paid in New Haven (10 points)    - Complete 5 missions in the Rust Commons.
Made in New Haven (20 points)    - Complete all missions in the Rust Commons.
Speedy McSpeederton (10 points)  - Race around the Ludicrous Speedway in under 31 seconds.
You call this archaeology?       - Apply an elemental artifact.
Ding! Newbie (5 points)          - Earn level 5.
Ding! Novice (10 points)         - Earn level 10.
Ding! Expert (20 points)         - Earn level 20.
Ding! Hardcore (30 points)       - Earn level 30.
Ding! Sleepless (40 points)      - Earn level 40.
Discovered Skag Gully            - Discover Skag Gully.
Discovered Sledge's Safe House   - Discover Sledge's Safe House.
Discovered Headstone Mine        - Discover Headstone Mine.
Discovered Trash Coast           - Discover Trash Coast.
Discovered The Scrapyard         - Discover The Scrapyard.
Discovered Krom's Canyon         - Discover Krom's Canyon.
Discovered Eridian Promontory    - Discover Eridian Promontory.
Ding! Champion (50 points)       - Earn level 50.
Pandora-dog Millionaire          - Earn $1,000,000.
Fence (25 points)                - Sell 50 guns to a shop.
Duel-icious                      - Win a duel against another player.
Group LF Healer (25 points)      - Rescue a groupmate from death in a co-op game.
Weapon Aficionado (20 points)    - Reach proficiency level 10 with any weapon type.
Duelinator (35 points)           - Win a duel without taking damage.
Facemelter (25 points)           - Kill 25 enemies with corrosive weapons.
1.21 Gigawatts (25 points)       - Kill 25 enemies with shock weapons.
Pyro (25 points)                 - Kill 25 enemies with incendiary weapons.
Master Exploder (15 points)      - Kill 25 enemies with explosive weapons.
Fully Loaded (10 points)         - Rescue enough Claptraps to earn 42 inventory slots.	
Truly Outrageous (15 points)     - Kill an enemy with the Siren's action skill.	
Careful, He Bites (15 points)    - Kill 15 enemies with the Hunter's action skill.	
Reckless Abandon (15 points)     - Kill 15 enemies with the Berserker's action skill.	
Down in Front! (15 points)       - Kill 15 enemies with the Soldier's action skill.	


Gain Levels:
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In the first scene, when you're getting the tour with the scrap robot, follow him 
all the way through to the small campsite with the car up on the lift next to the 
burning tires. Collect all the loot (guns, money) along the way and kill all of the
guys. Once everyone is dead simply pause the game and go to exit. It will save your
character (level & loot) and start you at the very beginning upon loading your game.
You can repeat this as many times as you'd like! 


Reload Quickly:
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Watch your reload animation. As soon as the cartridge is removed (or rounds are being 
inserted), perform a melee and the gun will finish reloading. Do this to save time and
possibly your life.


Claptrap locations:
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The Claptraps can be found at the following locations:

1.  Sledge's Safehouse
2.  The Lost Cave
3.  New Haven
4.  Tetanus Warren
5.  Earl's Scrapyard
6.  Krom's Canyon
7.  Old Haven
8.  Trash Coast
9.  The Salt Flats
10. Crimson Fastness


Critical hits:
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It is important to try to get critical hits on enemies so you kill them quicker and get
additional XP. To get a critical hit on a human, shoot it in the head. If you use a sniper
rifle, it will usually kill them instantly. For a Skag, shoot it in the face when its mouth
is open. This varies depending on the type. For the pups, shoot them while they roar at you.
For adults, quickly shoot them while they jump at you. For the spitters, shoot their mouths 
while they fire their poison projectile at you. Critical hits are easiest at close range 
with a shotgun or scattergun.


Item Storage using an Alternate Character:
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An effective, but annoying, way to store your extra stuff is to create an alternate 
character that is only for holding your extra stuff. Just create a new character, load 
a co-op game with both your main character and your new level 1 character and give them
the items you want to put up. Log back in to your level 1 character and give the items 
back to your main character when you need them. This can be really useful when you find
weapons and items that are above your level, or are saving them to give to a friend's 
character.


Duplicate Items:
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To make a copy of any item you'll need a cooperative partner in a multiplayer game. Simply
drop what you want to make a copy of on the floor, exit the game without saving, leaving 
your friend free to grab it. When you return, you'll have your copy of the weapon still, 
and your friend can hand you the other. This works on all guns, shields, and class mods, 
and can be done as many times as necessary.


Easy Escape After Defeating Sledge:
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After you've defeated Sledge (and collected the artifact), exit and save your game. When 
you start you're game again you'll begin at the save point at the very beginning of the 
mission. This way you don't have to backtrack on foot and you'll save a lot of ammo too.


Berserker Speed Exploit:
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Make sure you're in a fight with more than one enemy and your health is extremely low 
(10-20). Activate Berserker just before you enter Fight For Your Life! Mode, then kill 
someone to gain a Second Wind. If done properly, you should be able to run as fast as 
Brick can in Berserker mode AND you'll be able to fire your weapons. Note: you're not 
able to sprint while using this, but why would you need to anyway? 
Activating his Berserker mode again and finishing it, OR dying will cancel the effect.


Extra item space:
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Create a new "bank" character for use in Co-op mode. When you want to store an item, 
start a Co-op game with your main character and the "bank" character. Transfer the items
to be stored to the "bank" character until you need them, then transfer them back. 


New Haven: Secret vendor:
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Notice the garage door across from the normal weapons vendor in New Haven. There is a 
hidden vendor behind it. To get the door to open, try fast travelling to the gun machines
in New Haven, Rust Commons West, and Middle of Nowhere. Return to New Haven and the garage
door might be open.


"Bandit Treasure" quest:
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Fast travel to Old Haven and follow the left wall after you get in to reach a pile of dead 
bandits. Notice the glowing bandit or glowing key nearby that starts the quest.


Unlimited guns and money:
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Find a respawning weapons case. For example, in New Haven, there are five weapon crates 
that respawn every time you load the game. Three are on the roofs (above the truck stop,
west staircase over the bar, and above the west gate -- jump from canopy). The repaired 
claptrap opens another crate behind some steel plates, and there is one more weapon crate
north east behind a junk hill under a large canvas canopy. Note: There are a few bandits 
and aliens that spawn here. Collect the contents of the crates, quit the game, resume and
collect them again. Repeat this until you get your desired weapon and sell the excess 
guns to get as much money as desired.


Treacher's Landing: Barrel scene:
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Go to Treacher's Landing, then the secret dock in the southeast. Shoot the yellow barrel
to the right of the dock. Then, shoot the green barrel in the far trash pile to the east
of the boat. Shoot one of the blue barrels on the boat. Finally, shoot the red barrel in
the water to the left of the boat.


Pulp Fiction reference:
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The names of the ships in "That Sinking Feeling" mission are Righteous Man, Great Vengeance,
and Furious Anger. Each of those names is found in the biblical lines quoted by Samuel L. 
Jackson's character in Pulp Fiction.


Demigod Mode (Invincibility):
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Go to My Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config\ and open WillowGame.ini. Search 
for "bDemiGodMode" (without quotes) and change it to bDemiGodMode=true. You'll take damage,
but you'll stay on at least 1 health no matter how long you're getting attacked for.


Easy 20,00 EXP:
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As soon as you are able to get a vehicle, find a safe place away from enemy spawn points 
and find a way to keep the trigger held down (tape? rubber band?). Just walk away for a 
few hours and after you have unloaded 100,000 shots from the vehicle you will get 20,000
exp.


Quick Money and Items:
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Want purple and orange items without having to kill a single enemy? Once you get to "New 
Haven," head to the save/transport post near "Scooter" and save your game. Then, there 
are 2 red chests and 3 silver chest in town...4 of them on rooftops, and one that the 
claptrap rescue opens for you. Just loot them all, keep what you want, sell what you don't
want and then save your game. Log off, then log back in to repeat the process. Check all 
the vending machines each time as they will offer great items as well.

Here is a rundown of the loot route from at the save/transport post near Scooter:

-=Red Chest #1 =- On the roof of the building directly right of the save post. Go to the 
side with the yellow barrel, jump few times and you are there.

-=Silver Chest #1 =- From the save post, turn directly left and go up the stairs, keep going 
in the same direction, cross the wood plank and then jump the railing to the other building.
Turn a slight right around the corner.

-=Red Chest #2 =- from Silver Chest#1...some tricky jumps, but not too hard. Simply look out 
to the red tarp hanging over a little platform and make a running jump to land on the tarp.
Then turn around till you see the Red Chest, make another jump (not too high or you will 
get caught on the red tarp over the chest and fall off).

-=Silver Chest #2 =- After completing the Claptrap Rescue this Silver Chest will be in a 
little shed across the courtyard from the Bounty Board (you just have to crouch to get
in there).

-=Silver Chest #3 =- From the save post go forward and go up the stairs where the dollar 
sign and arrow are. Hop on top of the washing machine, then on top of the roof with 
the big antenna. The Silver Chest is behind it.


Defeating "The Destroyer" Boss:
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This creature is from another dimension and is massive with a health level to match. This
creature is a mountain of flesh with several tentacles that can re-spawn as the battle 
progresses. It has a blue-lighted cave that seems to be its eye. Most of the tentacles have
large glowing orbs about halfway down their length. Shooting the orbs will destroy the 
tentacles. Start the battle by running toward the creature and then hiding behind a pillar
that is located to the right or left just out of range for the tentacle's reach. From here, 
take out all but one tentacle that you can see easily from that point. Destroy the ones you 
cannot see easily by peeking around and taking shots at the orbs, but return to your hiding 
point. This pillar will shield you from missile-like attacks, and later from the eye that 
shoots a beam weapon. If you get reduced to zero health, you can take out one of the orbs on
the tentacle that you can see easily to be revived before you get killed and have to respawn.
It is like killing another enemy. This is the reason why you must keep one tentacle. If you 
do get killed, the creature recovers all health but you will respawn in front of the creature.
Once again, you can run to your pillar of protection hiding place. A few times in the battle, 
the tentacles will spawn and you have to take them out again. The tentacles are the source 
for the missile-type weapon it attacks with. As you reduce the number of tentacles it also 
reduces the about of missiles flying at you. With the tentacles nearly gone, you can now focus
your attack at the mouth/tongue and its eye for the critical shot. Continue this process when
the tentacles respawn. Having weapons that have unlimited ammunition or having ones that 
create ammo is very useful with the large amount of health level that this Boss has.


Unlimited pistol ammunition:
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The pistol that regenerates ammuntion can be use to gain ammo for any pistol. Equip the 
regenerating pistol to build up ammunition, then switch to any other pistol.


Easy experience:
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Successfully complete the game. Make sure you are about level 40 with your first character.
Start a split screen game with a new character that you want to level up quickly. Find a 
location with lots of enemies that are easy to kill (for example, the lost cave with the 
crabs and leveled up Skags). Make sure your high level character was saved in the area you
wish to go to, and load them as the host with the other character as the second player. 
Leave them by the new-u station and go to town with your high level character. Your other
character will gain levels almost instantly. This begins to slow down about the mid to high
level 20s, but you will be able to level them up to about level 35 relatively quickly. When
start a single player game with the lower character, you will start out with an extremely 
high level character and be able to play through the game easily and collect more loot. 
This is a great way to make many different characters.


More Inventory Slots:
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Go to the game folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\2K Games\Gearbox Software\Borderlands\
WillowGame\Config) and open DefaultGame and look for this: 
InventorySlotMax_Misc=X
Change X to your desired amount of slots (default 12)


Elemental Effects:
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In Borderlands some weapons have an elemental effect. These are usually very useful but
there are drawbacks. Enemies might have special resistant shields or an elemental animal
will naturally resist what you shoot it with. Here is a rundown of each elemental effect:

-=Fire=- When you tag an enemy with fire they take gradual damage until they die or it 
goes out. Fire damages enemies more if they're shield is gone. Additionally, enemies tend 
to freak out and lose accuracy when burning.

-=Shock=- Shock damage is like the reverse of fire. It deals an incredible amount of damage
to an enemy's shield but loses effectiveness once they're down to their health meter. Also,
enemies don't usually panic when shocked.

-=Acid=- Possibly the best all-around element. Acid damage easily eats through armored 
opponents (like Spiderants and Crimson Lance soldiers) and can spread to multiple enemies
if they happen to touch each other while panicking. The only drawbacks to it are that Acid-
type enemies are about 90% immune to it and if you try Iron-sight aiming the acid splash 
from your gun-muzzle can throw off your aim.

-=Explosive=- Not so much an element as a bonus. Randomly when you shoot an enemy with a 
bullet from an explosion-type gun it will explode and deal extra damage relative to the 
weapon's base damage. Try to aim for groups.

-=Eridian=- Whenever you find an Eridian weapon try shooting an enemy. Sometimes extra 
effects not mentioned in the description will occur. The 10101 Cannon is a good example
of a Shock/Explosion combination element.


Faster Firing Rate:
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Weapons with exceedingly slow firing rates (i.e. powerful sniper rifles) can be made less
laggy if you melee after each shot. This will reset the firing rate timer, allowing you 
to instantly fire again.


Rider Sniper Rifle:
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In New Haven there there are two hidden chests. When you recieve the quest to enter Trash
Coast, head to New Haven. Head toward the blue shack (below the area where the repair kit
is). Stand near the door and it will open. Ride the elevator down and to the basement. 
Defeat the Psychos and open the red chest to find the Rider. Rider is a unique sniper 
rifle manufactured by Gearbox, the maker of Borderlands. This weapon, along with other 
details in the room (a trash pile Christmas tree and a grisly leg lamp) are references to
the movie "A Christmas Story."


Sucker Born Every Minute Achievement/Trophy:
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The description for the Sucker Born Every Minute Achievement/Trophy says "Paid for a 
worthless tour of the world's largest bullet." Go go the huge bullet and there should be
a building closest to the bullet. There will be arrows pointing to a box with a $ sign 
on it. Simply activate the prompt here to get the Achievement/Trophy.


Defeating the final Boss:
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Make sure you have a decent shotgun and full ammunition. If you destroy the purple 
tentacles at first by shooting the spheres, you will get rid of the missiles it launches.
Next, jump behind the red tentacles at the very back of the map. You will end up next to 
a wall and two of the large tentacles. You can do this on either side. The eye that shoots
the beam will not be able to hit or damage you. The only thing time that you may get hit 
is if the purple tentacles with the spheres come back or it does the "energy wave". Get 
behind it and shoot at the red tentacles. You will be able to kill the destroyer in less
than two minutes. 


Get Eridian weapon early:
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Have a Siren character. Return to Fyrestone in the Arid Badlands. After you kill the 
Mothrakk, a Eridian weapon will drop. You must search everywhere to find it. 
Note: To kill the Mothrakk easily, when it is low on health, shoot warning shots to draw
it towards you. Kill it while it tries to get close. The weapon should be Eridian Cannon
(Berserker), Thunder Storm (Soldier) or Ball Blaster or Wave Blaster (Siren). 


Gameinfo:
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A sci-fi / action RPG from acclaimed developer Gearbox, Borderlands
combines the best in first-person action with player customization 
and vehicular combat for incredible layers of gameplay depth. The 
game features a groundbreaking content generation system allowing 
for near-endless variety in missions, environments, enemies, weapons,
item drops and character customization. Borderlands allows for multiple
players to share the same game experience simultaneously online in co-op
gameplay. Players can freely join or leave each other's games at anytime,
or choose to play in the full single-player mode. The game also boasts 
lifelike character animations, impressive real-time physics, and customizable
vehicles.


Features:
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* Choose from an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of weapons, each with their
  unique manufacturers, specifications and advantages. A revolutionary new 
  content generation system provides for near infinite tools of destruction.
* Borderlands is built from the ground-up to be an exciting and intuitive co-
  operative multiplayer experience that rewards players for executing advanced 
  strategies and tactical maneuvers 
* Players earn experience and gain proficiency in a number of specialties as
  they do battle with enemies 
* Get behind the wheel of and engage in intense vehicle-to-vehicle combat, 
  complete with extensive damage modeling and spectacular explosions 
* Experience the action and creativity derived from the pedigree of one of 
  gaming’s most innovative and respected developers.