Come on, they can't be serious.. 
 
 
They say that in borderlands that there will be 1 MILLION (1,000,000) weapon combinations. 
 
 Wow.

most likely variants of different parts to make that possible 

I'm sure a lot of them are really weak and rather useless while some will be really awesome but also really hard to find out in the lands.

I can see it.  It's enough of a selling point for me to imagine either a complex random generator for that stuff, or for designers to spend months just inputting data for the stats on those things (numbers, not looks...that would be crazy)

As far as I remember from an interview I saw, they basically have a random weapon generator where they just simply supply it with the parts and different effects and then wep. gen. just makes a crazy amount of combination out of them.

" Come on, they can't be serious..   They say that in borderlands that there will be 1 MILLION (1,000,000) weapon combinations.   Wow. "

The weapons are randomly generated, stat and property wise.  So for example, you can find a pistol that fires shotgun shells or a rifle that fires rockets.
The actual amount of is obviously exagerated and most of the differences won't be visably noticable.

This is old news.

" @memo: Right.  It's a combination of a bunch of different elements, sort of like how Diablo generates loot, only it looks to be more random.  The reason it's surprising is that you don't usually find stuff like this in an FPS.  It should be fun just to find new weapons and try them out, even if some will be better than others.  I just wonder how many guns you'd be able to have on you at one time. "

It's similar to Diablo. They'll all look similar but just have different colours with different names and stats. I think it's all randomly generated but I'm not sure.

The weapons are indeed procedurally generated and the 1,000,000 weapons available in Borderlands is just one of the reasons I think it's looking like an awesome game.

Random generation of stats, and variety between weapons, of course there is going to be a ton of weapons to choose from.

Whatever the hype, the amount of ammo types is the real amount of weapons. All the other stuff they add to them to add to the variety are going to be somewhat superficial.
 
Take for instance MGS4, it had dozens of weapons with a bunch of combinations of attachments, but there was really only the Rail Gun, the pistol, the sniper rifle, and the automatic rifle, because those were the most important ammo types.

" Whatever the hype, the amount of ammo types is the real amount of weapons. All the other stuff they add to them to add to the variety are going to be somewhat superficial.  Take for instance MGS4, it had dozens of weapons with a bunch of combinations of attachments, but there was really only the Rail Gun, the pistol, the sniper rifle, and the automatic rifle, because those were the most important ammo types. "

Kotaku posted some names of weapons like Weaksauce SMG, Terrible Shotgun (Fallout 3 rip) and Violent SMG. I know there will be tons of guns called the Violent SMG but with different stats and ammo types but these weapon names still sound pretty funny .

Actually Randy Pitchford was quoted in an interview as saying the current count is about 17.75M permutations for guns.  Obviously they'll probably have to take some out (useless combinations etc). 
 

I heard over 3,000,000 according to a debug build about a month ago. In any case its pretty nuts

Here is a gun that shoots bullets. 
Here is a gun that is like the first gun, except this one shoots electric bullets. 
Here is a gun that is like the second gun, except this one shoots incendiary bullets. 
 
I'm expecting a lot of those.

17.5 million +-

I dont think its really over one million i think it is just over one million ways to customize your gun which is awesome as well

" I dont think its really over one million i think it is just over one million ways to customize your gun which is awesome as well "

" @Psykerstar said:

" I dont think its really over one million i think it is just over one million ways to customize your gun which is awesome as well "

It's over 17 million unique weapons. "

I heard it was 87 bazillion guns? could I be wrong?

" @natetodamax said:

" @Psykerstar said:

" I dont think its really over one million i think it is just over one million ways to customize your gun which is awesome as well "

It's over 17 million unique weapons. "

I will believe it when i see it "

Looking forward to it, I know it'll probably be just like different colors that separate them or silly things like that, but it sounds like a cool idea and a want to see how it's handled.

I have yet to see 2 different shotguns/smgs/assault rifles that look different in this game. color variation and scopes dont count gearbox.

Its more of a way for them to make their game sell a little bit more, everyone knows there won't be a million weapons.