{"id":13390,"date":"2011-08-08T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"borderlands-2-features-salvador-the-dual-wielding-dwarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13390-borderlands-2-features-salvador-the-dual-wielding-dwarf","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands 2 features Salvador, the dual-wielding dwarf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heap of new Borderlands 2 info was dumped on the internet over the weekend, courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/p\/borderlands.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Game Informer\">Game Informer<\/a>-reading guys at <a href=\"http:\/\/gematsu.com\/2011\/08\/borderlands-2-detailed-in-game-informer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Gematsu\">Gematsu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the game introduces a bunch of totally new protagonists, including the dual-wielding dwarf &ldquo;Gunzerker&rdquo;, Salvador, while the first game&rsquo;s motley crew of bounty hunters will feature as NPCs this time around.<\/p>\n<p>The game also adds Eridium, a sort of does-everything compound that can be bolted onto gear to improve stats, as well as traded as currency.<\/p>\n<p>Co-op play remains 4-way, while enemies are &ldquo;more varied&rdquo;, and AI is &ldquo;greatly improved&rdquo;. Interestingly enough, Gearbox is apparently chucking the original game&rsquo;s weapons for something entirely new, with each manufacturer&rsquo;s catalogue of shooters featuring their own &ldquo;unique styling&rdquo;, as well as custom decals and other enhancements.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s also a new vehicle called a &ldquo;Technical Bandit&rdquo;, although nothing much more is said about it.<\/p>\n<p>Although Borderlands 2 doesn&rsquo;t yet have an official launch date, it&rsquo;s expected to hit the dust around fiscal 2013, which starts in April 2012.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16332-Borderlands-2-introduces-Salvador-the-dual-wielding-dwarf\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Borderlands 2 features Salvador, the dual-wielding dwarf\"><strong>Borderlands 2 features Salvador, the dual-wielding dwarf<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New details comin\u2019 at ya like a Kamikaze Claptrap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}