I don't think I've ever really listened to the banter. My biggest problem is Claptrap. He went from being silly but loveable in the first game to downright annoying as hell. That was a bummer alone because I like Claptrap! I have his poster and the figurine.
Wow, really? I found him mostly annoying in the first one (I wasted many a bullet in countless futile attempts to kill him), but from the opening in this I loved him.
His morose home, with all the dead bodies of his friends, the crippling depression, the fact that no one shows up to his birthday party.
I didn't realize I actually needed to high five him in that short quest. I just stood there, and he went on and on with a new phrase.
That's what I always like about these games--the attention to the little things. The amount of dialogue is actually staggering when you consider the bits that people don't normally pay attention to.
ETA: Another thought: There's something in this game apparently labeled "health gate" or "health gating", where apparently even if you're lvl 1, no single enemy's attack, even if it's the toughest boss in the game, can take you from above 50% health to dead in one hit. So if you can rapidly gain health, and at least get above 50% health, you won't die. If you'll notice in that video I linked earlier, the player gets super low in health, down to just a few percentage points of his total hp pool, and this happens multiple times. The reason for this is health gating. He should have died most likely, but health gating prevented it.
OK, that is good to know. I did not realize this was happening.
Those 2 points are there probably for the off times you go into ffyl and there is no one up close. You can put them wherever you want though.
For the average person, maya does more damage with the sniper because of wrecks fire rate increase and phase lock mostly, but her other skills do help, especially reaper (more damage if enemy is above 50% health). She can do max damage the whole time phase lock is active.
Zero has to have a fully loaded clip and be at the last second of deception for max damage.
So basically maya can quickly blast away doing 500k per shot on a target that doesnt move for the whole time its phase locked, while zero might do 2000k on the first shot, he then has to reload and wait for deception for come back, so his damage drops off, not to mention the target is moving all around so you might miss the shot. For most people over time maya wins, unless your some godly sniper who has crazy reflexs and will never ever miss his shot.
TLDR, zero does high burst damage, but Maya is more consistent over time so her damage outpaces zeros when playing as a traditional sniper.
Thanks--and duly noted. I'm not generally a min-maxer, so I've been spreading points out across maya's tiers--actually been ignoring the central tier, which everyone seems to like, more than the others, and so at level 28, only just now unlocked the action skill augment line. Things are getting better.