The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned DLC
The first DLC to be released for Borderlands. Dr Ned, not to be confused with Dr. Zed, has run amok on Jakobs Cove, creating zombies and other disturbances. It is your job, along with the help of Dr. Ned, to find a cure for the inhabitants. It is a good addition to the game, however a couple of the missions are a bit monotonous and boring. This includes the "Braaaaaaaaaaains" achievement. I'd recommend going to see TK in Hollows End as soon as possible to start his missions as they require you to kill and collect a lot of zombie brains. See below for more details.
House of the Ned is the first mission you will have to complete. All you have to do is locate Dr. Ned. Once you find him you’ll bag yourself the following:
After this, you’ll need to collect evidence of Dr. Ned’s experiments by collecting two ECHO’s, locating a Comm array and sending the ECHO’s. You’ll have a horde of zombie’s to fight in amongst all of this.
Further through the storyline, you’ll eventually come to battle with Dr. Ned himself. There isn’t much of a tactic to use to defeat him other than to just keep shooting him. You’ll have to fight him in two stages however, the first stage ends with the following achievement:
Then he’ll turn “Undead” where you'll have to defeat him once more.
Now the monotonous achievement. Head over to Hollows End and talk to Undead T.K. He’ll give you missions to find him some brains. You can collect these brains by killing zombies that linger around the island. Aiming for the head will guarantee a dropped brain. Killing zombies via any other parts of the body will not result in a drop. The missions are split into five parts, with each mission requiring you to collect more brains than the last. You may want to pick these missions up towards the beginning of the main storyline. The required amount of brains are as follows:
Mission 1: Collect 10 brains
Mission 2: Collect 25 brains
Mission 3: Collect 50 brains
Mission 4: Collect 100 brains
Mission 5: Collect 250 brains
Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot DLC
This is the second DLC installment for the game. Not so much filled with story-related missions, but more with arena style battles. Prepare yourself for a lot of continuous gameplay. These are extremely tedious and not a favourite with the fans. With a few hints and tips, I’m going to try and make this less of a grind for you.
The first achievement you’ll get is for completing the smaller arenas., which consist of five rounds. Each round consists of five waves of enemies to defeat. The waves will consist of the following enemies:
Wave 1 – Starter Wave
Weak enemies.
Wave 2 – Gun Wave
Enemies will have guns
Wave 3 – Horde Wave
Enemies will consist of mainly Psycho’s
Wave 4 – Badass Wave
Enemies will consist of Badasses and other tougher enemies
Wave 5 – Boss Wave
This wave will spawn a boss previously seen in the main Borderlands campaign, on a stage, assisted by some tougher “henchmen”.
At the end of each wave you will be supplied with health and ammo crates which get dropped into the arena. At the end of each round, new weapons will spawn in the spawning area.
Once you have completed all three arenas you’ll gain:
You’ll then have to move on to the larger arenas which are Hell-Burbia, The Angelic Ruins and The Gully. The arenas do not have to be completed in a specific order, you can decide which order to do them in. These larger arenas are a lot longer than the smaller areans as instead of having 5 rounds of 5 waves, you’ll have to overcome 20 rounds of 5 waves. Each arena can take 2-3 hours depending on your level, skill and arsenal. There is a trick to making this easier. Grab a second controller and start a new game. Load up your first controller (your main account) and add your level X character. As soon as it’s possible, transition over to The Underdome by locating a New-U Station. Your newly created character will be a level 1, which means all enemies that spawn will be around the same level. Now load up one of the arenas. You’ll notice that the enemies won’t be higher than a level 4 or 5 making it a lot easier to kill them with your main character. Now it’s just a case of working your way through each round of every arena. You’ll earn an achievement for every arena you complete. You’ll earn another achievement for completing all 3 of the arena... Was it worth it? Probably not.
The Secret Armoury of General Knoxx DLC
The best DLC for Borderlands by a country mile. It may even be one of the best DLC's Steam has seen as well, but obviously that is open for debate. This DLC continues where the main Borderlands story left off and sees a level cap increase from 50 to 61. It also contains new weapons, shields, class mods and grenade mods, along with three new vehicles and 44 new missions. It is extremely vast with a lot of depth, hence, it may take a while to complete everything.
You’ll start off in the town of T-Bone Junction. Once you exit the building you start in, cross over the road to the Garage and speak with Scooter. He’ll give you a mission to collect some car parts. Simply follow your on-screen marker and collect the Supercharger, Nitrous Tank and Exhaust pipe. Once completed, you’ll have a new vehicle to play with: The Monster. You’ll also bag the following achievement.
Work your way through the storyline until you come to the mission “Prison Break: Try Not to Get Shanked” where you have to kill Mr. Shank, acquire a teleporter and find and save Athena. This is all located at Lockdown Palace.
Again, working your way through the storyline you’ll come to the mission “Armory Assault” which consists of destroying the Atlas Armory. During this mission you’ll have to face General Knoxx. Just remember to aim for his head and make sure you stay behind cover when he fires his Shock Rockets as one shot from these will deplete your shield completely. Use an elemental weapon for maximum effect. After you’ve defeated him you’ll be exposed to an abundance of weaponry. You’ll be overwhelmed with weapons crates to rummage through, but you’ll only have 2 and a half minutes to grab what you can before the Armory blows. There is a glitch to stop the timer though. After you’ve killed Knoxx and entered the code into the door, walk towards the last partition of flooring. Moving around slightly on this, then crouch. This will cause you to ‘glitch’ through the floor and drop into the room below. The timer should now be stuck, so loot away! If you want to finish the mission and you’ve used the glitch, simply kill yourself, a rocket will suffice, and you’ll spawn back up by the vending machines near where you started.
This is not the end of the game however, as there’s still a lot of work to do if you want to gain 100% of the achievements in this DLC. Head back to the T-Bone Junction Bounty Board and you’ll see the mission “You. Will. Die.” Which requires you to kill Crawmerax the Invincible, which is almost exactly what he is. He is one tough mother. Head on over to Crawmerax’s Lair where you meet Crawmerax himself. He is the toughest enemy you’ll encounter in the game, with him being 4 levels higher than your current level (level 65 if you’re level 61), along with being very time consuming. You’ll need a full team of 4 to take him down, given that your equipped to the nines and have the right strategy and balance of characters.
Hints:
Crawmerax has 4 attacks:
Bite/Claw Attack – Lunges at the player, can be exerted from a great range
Glob Storm – Expels a dozen or so purple globs at the player. He will try and predict where the player is moving to.
Cry For Help – Unleashes a roar or cry, then burrows underneath the ground and reappears in a different part of the battlefield, spawning lesser enemies such as Green Craw Worms, Crew Maggots and Armoured Craw Worms.
Monstrous Dive – Again, burrows underground then careers into the sky, unleashing a huge shockwave that causes major damage to the player and depletes shields.
Crawmerax’s weak points are located on the eye, on the upper back, behind each of the large claws and in between each of the small pincers. These require a great degree of accuracy. He seems impervious to elemental damage, so using elemental weapons aren’t of much use. Try and use weapons that have high damage, fire rate and accuracy. Shooting his eye can disorientate him, so take advantage when he is. Be wary of the smaller enemies he spawns as these can be just as dangerous, especially if they gang up on one player. I’d recommend taking at least 2 Soldiers with you with a high influence of ammo and health regeneration in their skill trees, after all, you’ll be needing a lot of ammo and health.
This can be glitched and can even be done on your own using this glitch. As with the Mad Maxxi’s Underdome Riot DLC above, load a low-level character as the host adding your higher-level character to the game. Head over to Crawmerax’s Lair, but don’t go up the elevator just yet. Instead, leave your low-level host down below and with your high-level character continue up the elevator. Once you reach the top onto the battlefield, run to the left side of the map and down the small drop. Crouch down and Crawmerax will get stuck. I can only assume that he is stuck trying to attak the low-level character down below. Still, his loss is your gain. Make sure you do not move, otherwise you’ll ruin the glitch. Then it’s simply a case of repeatedly shooting him until he dies. You may want to use a Soldier with a generous ammo regeneration class mod. Use the video below as a reference.
The next achievement could fall under a “Collectible” achievement, but to fair, you’ve only got to find 5 people, or midgets. They are as follows:
Crimson Shorty – Inside a Crimson Lance Chest at the end of Road’s End
Dumpster Diver – Inside a dumpster in Motorhead’s garage. He can only be reached once the mission “Little People, Big Experiments” has been completed.
Meat Popsicle – Inside a refrigerator in Lockdown Palace. Has been known to spawn in various fridges, so check them all.
Mini Steve – Could pop up anywhere but more commonly found in a weapons chest near the Claptrap in Lockdown Palace
Truxican Wrestler – In one of the first lockers as you enter Lockdown Palace
See the video below for better instructions on where to find these five little guys:
I’m sure you would have unlocked this during the campaign at some point as there is a lot of driving required. If not, all that’s needed is to destroy one of the enemy Lancer’s which you’ll find along any of the highways outside of T-Bone Juction. Make sure you’re in a Racer, lock onto an enemy Lancer and fire your rockets. They’ll only need a few hits and you’ll be done.
The following achievement is going to cost you a lot of money, 8 million of your hard earned Borderlands Dollars to be exact, so get saving. Once you have this amount head to the Sunken Sea. At the bottom of the map is a small village. You can’t miss it as it has a huge bullet sticking out of the ground. Enter the village and towards the bullet. You’ll see a small money deposit box. Press X and once you’ve deposited the money in there, the achievement will unlock. Then you can sit back and enjoy the tour... Although I wouldn’t get your hopes up.
You’ll just need to finish off any missions that you haven’t finished to unlock the “Completionist” achievement. The list of 44 missions are as follows:
Atlas Informant Mission:
Scooter? But I Don’t Even Know Her (35)
Scooter’s Missions
Boost The Monster (35)
Greasemonkey (35)
You’ve Got Moxxi: Roadblock (38)
You’ve Got Moxxi: Moxxi’s Red Light (35)
OMG APC (37)
Moxxi’s Missions:
Prison Break: Road Warrior (37)
Prison Break: Over The Wall (37)
Prison Break: Try Not To Get Shanked (37)
Athena’s Missions:
Rendezvous (37)
Code Breaker: Analysis (37)
Athena Set Up Us The Bomb (38)
Bridging The Gap (38)
Armory Assault (38)
Loot Larceny
This Bitch Is Payback (37)
This Bitch Is Payback, pt. 2 (38)
Knoxxed Out (38)
Lance ECHO Mission:
Code Breaker: Time Is Bullets (37)
Marcus Kincaid’s Missions:
Core Collection (35)
Mop Up (38)
Super-Marcus Sweep (38)
Local Trouble (38)
It’s Like Christmas! (38)
Agent 01’s Mission:
Wanted: Dead! (35)
Claptrap’s Mission:
Claptrap Rescue: Lockdown Palace (37)
Moxxi’s Missions:
Thrown For A Loop (38)
Stain Removal (38)
T-Bone Juction Bounty Board Missions:
Big Crimson Brother Is Watching (35)
Drifter Lifter (38)
Road Rage (37)
Power Leech (37)
Bugged (38)
You. Will. Die (61+)
Circle Of Duty: New Recruit (38)
Zach’s Missions:
Circle Of Duty: Cadet (38)
Circle Of Duty: Private (38)
Circle Of Duty: Corporal (38)
Circle Of Duty: Sergeant (38)
Circle Of Duty: Medal Of Duty (38)
* Thirsty The Midget’s Missions:
Purple Juice! (37)
Little People, Big Experiments (37)
Radar Device Mission:
** Lost Lewts (37)
* If you’re having trouble finding Thristy the Midget, you can find him in the Sunken Sea, in a small house underneath a Hyperion billboard in the lower right hand corner of the map.
** To complete the “Lost Lewts” mission you need to find the Radar Device. This is located in a small shack in Road’s End. Head south from the Catch-A-Ride towards the north of the map until you see a rocky path sticking out into a chasm towards the center of the map. It is in a shack on this part, but can only be accessed by foot.
Having completed everything on this DLC you will also have ranked up to level 61, earning you these 2 achievements:
Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution DLC
Viva la Robolution! The 4th and final DLC that was brought out for Borderlands, and not a bad effort in my opinion. Not quite as vast as the General Knoxx DLC, but still plenty to do. The only thing that lets it down are the achievements. There is a lot of collectibles to collect, with some that very rarely drop. Luckily for you, I have some tips that will make these collectibles less strenuous.
We’ll start with the story related achievements first. While journeying through the story, collect every single item of loot your enemies drop (excluding weapons and ammo) as this will make the final grind for the achievements a lot shorter. So if you see any 3D Glasses, Oil Cans, Panties, Fish in a Bag, Pizzas or Bobbleheads, pick them up!
The first mission you’ll receive is from Patricia Tannis. She wants you to collect some Claptrap parts for her. Follow the waypoints until you have all of them. Once you’ve done this the missions thereafter become very similar to the “Braaaaaaaaains!” achievement in The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned DLC in which you have to collect more and more Claptrap parts every mission you complete.
All 21 mission in this DLC are listed below:
Patricia Tannis' Missions:
Are You From These Parts? (37)
Fight For Your Right To Part-E (37)
Parts is Parts (38)
We All Have Our Part To Play (40)
A Part Of Something Larger Than Yourself (40)
Mr. Blake's Missions:
New Contact (37)
Operation Trap Claptrap Trap, Phase One (38)
Operation Trap Claptrap Trap, Phase Two: Industrial Revolution (38)
Operation Trap Claptrap Trap, Phase Three: TripWIRED (40)
Operation Trap Claptrap Trap, Phase Four: Reboot (40)
Helping is its own reward... Wait No it isn't! (40)
Hyperion Tourist Information Board Missions:
Spa Vs. Spa (37)
Like Shootin' Rakk in a Barrel (38)
One-UpmanPipp (38)
Finger Lickin' Bad! (38)
Not My Fault (38)
Marcus Kincaid's Missions:
Burnin’ Rubber (38)
Taking Stock (38)
Eleven Rakk And Spices (38)
Old Spicy (40)
Claptrap's Missions:
It's a Trap... Clap (38)
To complete all of Tannis' missions, you'll need to collect the following:
Are You From These Parts: Explore the Hyperion Dump for Claptrap parts which will be marked on your map. There should be 5 to collect in total.
Fight For Your Right To Part-E: Collect the loot from enemy Claptraps which spawn near the Tartarus Station. You'll need Gears, a Motherboard and Wires.
Parts is Parts: Collect 75 Clap-Components using the method explained for "Fight For Your Right To Part-E".
We All Have Our Part To Play: Collect 100 Clap-Components.
A Part Of Something Larger Than Yourself: Collect 150 Clap-Components.
These are fairly simple, just work your way through the story and you’ll have to defeat several bosses from the original Borderlands storyline including General Knoxx, Dr. Ned and Commandate Steele. For each of them you defeat, you’ll gain an achievement.
You’ll also need to defeat the Interplanetary Ninja-Assassin Claptrap a.k.a INAC to complete all the story related achievements.
Now that the easy ones are out of the way, we’ll take a look at the dreaded collectable achievements. As stated above, the drop rate for the loot items are horrible. It differs from person to person. Some people have stated that the Bobbleheads are rare drops, whereas another person has stated that the Oil Cans are rare. So it really is a case of getting lucky. There is an easy workaround though, which may send your PC into a induced spasm of over-heating, but that’s the risk you take when leaving it on for a prolonged amount of time as this guide will require you to do.
So, the claptrap’s are what you need to farm. They are the ones that drop the loot you’re after. You could do this the old-fashioned way and farm the clap-trap’s normally, but their re-spawn rate is awful and you’ll be waiting a long time. The quickest and easier way is this:
Once you’ve fought your way through the DLC’s storyline and having tackled the reincarnations of Dr. Ned, General Knoxx and Commandante Steel, you’ll stand against the huge MINAC. Do not kill him just yet. Instead, take out all of his Gatlin guns so that it has none left. This may be a bit tricky, but work off it’s pattern and use the cover provided. Watch out for the claptrap’s that the MINAC releases as these will deplete a lot of your health if they explode next to you. Once you’ve done this, it’s time to start the fire up and get your marshmellows out because you’re going to be doing a lot of camping. If you sit in the correct position, you’ll be out of sight from both the MINAC and the claptraps. The place you want to camp is in the video below:
This position is directly to the right of where the shed/shack is (you’ll be able to see the shed/shack in the distance) and behind a red weapons crate. Why camp here? As stated above, you’ll be immune to any damage and the claptrap’s will explode all over the place, dropping their precious loot. You can leave the game running for hours/days/months on end and you won’t have lost any health. Once you’ve had enough of camping, finish off the MINAC by shooting it’s “eye” and collect the hundreds/thousands of loot items scattered around the battleground. There should be a sufficient amount to fulfil the required amount of loot items for the following achievements, if not, just start up the mission again.
Failing that, you can use this alternative method by following the video below, which is similar, but uses a different camping location:
After doing all of the above, you should be left with just one more achievement. It is a collectable one, but fear not, you only have to find 6 statues. You may have come across a few already, but if not, simply follow the text and/or video guide below:
Hyperion Dump – To the left as you enter the Hyperion Dump
Sanders Gorge - Hard to miss, right as you enter Sanders Gorge
Dividing Faults – Again, hard to miss, right as you enter Dividing Faults and down the stairs
Scorched Snake Canyon – Just to the left as you enter Scorched Snake Canyon
Tartarus Station – On the way to Wayward Pass, on the mission Operation Trap Claptrap Trap, Phase Four: Reboot
Wayward Pass – After defeating General Knoxx, as you exit the area.
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