User blog comment:Beagle.Pup/When you started to play this Game/@comment-4184394-20110727053645

Started out as Mordecai back in December 2009. For the first couple of hours (playing solo) I was amazed at the ammount of guns and possibilities, that AND killing enemies with sniper headshots, needlessly enjoying it (I've never seen this style of gameplay before). When I reached Lvl 13 is where it got freaking brutal. I tried to go into Sledge Safehouse without doing any Side Missions to level up since I thought they were just, you know, side missions(not relevant to the main storyline).

There's only 3 word to describe what it felt like:

IT. WAS. HELL.

The bandits in there got my sheild down in 3 hits and even when I got through all the bandits, psychos, badass psychos, bruisers, and mutant midgets the Roid Rage Psycho and his herd of squeeling midget pets killed me again(and again, and again, and again). After I got out and did the side missions, I finally got the Headstone Mine key and went to kill Sledge. Sledge was a LOT more difficult especially since he was able to get my sheild down in one smash of his hammer but after about 8 tries I finally killed him. After that, it was pretty much smooth sailing (and blowing crap up for the fun of it). I'm now on PT2 with an invetory of 48 with mostly legendaries and 2 Pearlescent sheilds, Ironclad and Rose (thanks Craw).