Borderlands killed my soldier, Rolando, once and for all. He was level 32 and I had finally found him a set of 4 weapons with elemental damage that I liked.

He had a caustic shotgun that turned bandits to slime in no time flat.  He had a shocking machine gun that depleted shields and dealt heavy damage at an ungodly rate.  His SMG did 4x fire damage and was great for settings those hard-to-see critters ablaze.  His new shocking sniper rifle was adequate and thoroughly useful.

I’d just put two points in a skill that regenerated health for him after every kill.  His class mod increased the magazine size for every weapon for everyone in the game by over a quarter.  He was a nice guy but he didn’t take no shit from no skags.  He will be missed.

Yes, I saved the game and no, I didn’t interrupt it.  I was playing with someone else at the time and that character (Brock) is intact, while mine is pushing up daisies.  And to make matters worse, WordPress is being a total bitchass about the formatting of this post. Reported the bug on the Gearbox forums.