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[Borderlands] Wonderlands! I Pull Out My Robe and Wizard Gat.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Iolo wrote: »
    It's a shame that fight is so offputting. I've been loving the DLC fights to date. It's basically a series of areas with swarms of baddies warping in. Sort of reminiscent of the old 'Spiderant Hell' from BL1. I've been digging it.

    All the bosses are spongey as hell but the last boss is the worst of them and drops nothing.

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  • IoloIolo iolo Registered User regular
    You are really selling my sticking out this DLC instead of dropping it and going to try Hades. :razz:

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  • ArteenArteen Adept ValeRegistered User regular
    I'm finally getting back into the games after the main story soured me on the franchise at launch.

    I did a quick playthrough of the final BL2 DLC, as I was missing some achievements from it. While not great, it was a decent sendoff to that game.

    I played through the first BL3 DLC, the Casino one. It was fine, but underwhelming, with uninteresting characters. The setting, especially given the characters involved, felt like a dull retread of the Pre-Sequel's Helios sections.

    I just finished up the next DLC, the Hammerlock marriage, and wow was that one excellent. Great characters, great setting, great style. They nailed the Lovecraftian vibe.

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Iolo wrote: »
    You are really selling my sticking out this DLC instead of dropping it and going to try Hades. :razz:

    Eh just drop it to M1 and beat it. The ending is nice at least. Once crossplay comes out Im probably hacking a bunch of the guns on PC version which Ill happily hand out to you guys

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    I would kill for a feature like in Nioh where you can set the game to auto-sell drops below a certain rarity. And it would be nice to 'tag' any other guns on the ground for sale, or breakdown for materials to feed into some kind of gun crafting system.

    because this is silly
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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    I would settle for selling from your bank.

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    It's bemusing to me how big Groundbreaker seems to be as a Guardian rank reward compared to others at that tier.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    New mode announced but not actually described its called Arms race. I truly hope its not fucking vehicle based

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    New mode announced but not actually described its called Arms race. I truly hope its not fucking vehicle based

    Start with commons, then upgrade the quality and parts of the weapons.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Theyve said every gun you pick up will be important and fun fact the new skill tree classmods are locked to this mode so people will have to play it

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    I'm guessing it's gonna be a Roguelike mode where you start from shit and end a run with good guns, and then have to start your next run with nothing again.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    I wouldn't mind that. If it has exclusive drops as completion rewards that would be fine too

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    I think it's a good concept for a game. I'm not sure it'll really catch on in Borderlands. I've been conditioned by the many failures over the years to suspect games that release alternate modes that try and appeal to fans of other genres.

    I'm also not convinced this'll work out when a lot of character builds require very specific drops to make viable. So generalist builds that rely on skills rather than specific guns could end up dominating.

    Or I could be wrong and this'll not be a roguelike mode. But it sure sounds that way.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    After reading a few more articles it sounds like a battle royale but pve? Randy said it wasnt so its likely exactly that

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    That seems like a dumb idea so that's probably it.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Minor news, or alternately news that doesn't matter quite yet, but BL3 has had 3 new Achievements added to the list.

    No descriptions yet, but they've all got a Grim Reaper as the picture so they're maybe-probably connected to the upcoming event.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Lots of buffs today Zane in particular

    Terror annointments and the event weapons have all been buffed

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    Like most legendary mods for Zane got touched. Except the one I use, the Shockerator. I even tweeted at the combat design guy a few weeks ago and mentioned that it might be a good idea to examine the nova the Binary System augment does, and have it adjust to Mayhem difficulty like shield novas do now. And he gave me a heart! HE GAVE ME A HEAAAART.

    I guess the mod got an indirect buff by Duct Tape Mod's cooldown being halved, but jeez.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Apparently Zane is getting more in the patch so these are maybe just testing the water

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    I'm pretty happy with my Zane, honestly.

    My biggest issue is with Fl4k and how his pets are kinda pointless compared to others', and how he has the durability of wet tissue paper.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Got a fearmonger with a neat terror annoint for Zane. 100 percent lifesteal on the drone while terrified. I havent seen one sheild or grenade that inflicts terror yet.
    Also all my Haunt Loot fell into the pit so thats fun

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    https://borderlands.com/en-US/news/2020-10-15-borderlands-3-season-pass-2-announcement/

    Season pass 2. Poorly named to include the developers cut which is the new mode and trees and the dirctors cut which I can only assume is new story content added to the base game and traditional raid bosses. I assune because they wont say yet

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  • EspantaPajaroEspantaPajaro Registered User regular
    Yeah I’m skipping it unless it brings new hunters .

  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    Got back to this after not playing it for a while, still working through the story.
    I've been playing as Zane, and sticking with two abilities instead of abilities and grenades, but of course there's those upgrades that make your abilities throw grenades in some way so I'm still getting use out of my grenade mods. But it's kind of funny because like, since I'm not using the grenades myself, it makes it a bit harder to get a feel for what they do, especially the weirder ones. There'll just be some weird bullshit on the battlefield and I'm trying to figure out what's the enemy type that's been doing that, and eventually I clue into "oh that's the grenades my drone is dropping." I actually got a yellow grenade mod from this halloween event. No idea what it actually does, but it has this VFX with a bunch of those skeleton ghost heads, and I spent a while trying to figure out why sometimes ghosts spawned that I couldn't shoot and just disappeared after a few seconds.

  • kaidkaid Registered User regular
    Arteen wrote: »
    I'm finally getting back into the games after the main story soured me on the franchise at launch.

    I did a quick playthrough of the final BL2 DLC, as I was missing some achievements from it. While not great, it was a decent sendoff to that game.

    I played through the first BL3 DLC, the Casino one. It was fine, but underwhelming, with uninteresting characters. The setting, especially given the characters involved, felt like a dull retread of the Pre-Sequel's Helios sections.

    I just finished up the next DLC, the Hammerlock marriage, and wow was that one excellent. Great characters, great setting, great style. They nailed the Lovecraftian vibe.

    The fantastic flustercuck is really good too. That and the hammerlock one are the best of the DLC so far.

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Yeah I’m skipping it unless it brings new hunters .

    Theyve said explicitly they arent doing new hunters since well before launch

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  • EspantaPajaroEspantaPajaro Registered User regular
    Yeah I’m skipping it unless it brings new hunters .

    Theyve said explicitly they arent doing new hunters since well before launch

    Then I saved myself some money !

  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    Honestly, I think I prefer the idea of adding new trees and talents to existing hunters than spreading dev time too thin making even more hunters.

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    I'd prefer more hunters, but s'not a dealbreaker, especially if it gives their team more time to work on other stuff like the balancing hotfixes they've been doing lately.

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  • yossarian_livesyossarian_lives Registered User regular
    Honestly, given just how little characterization the vault hunters actually get I’m surprised they didn’t give us more from the start. Unless balancing all of the skill trees is a limiting factor during development.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Honestly, given just how little characterization the vault hunters actually get I’m surprised they didn’t give us more from the start. Unless balancing all of the skill trees is a limiting factor during development.

    Voice acting costs probably didnt help. They all speak much more now.

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  • yossarian_livesyossarian_lives Registered User regular
    A handful of lines hardly strikes me as a significant cost for any AAA title. Especially since the vault hunters come across as NPCs rather than protagonists.

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    I mean, one tree for each vault hunter, that 1.33 vault hunters worth of trees!

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    A handful of lines hardly strikes me as a significant cost for any AAA title. Especially since the vault hunters come across as NPCs rather than protagonists.
    Game development is one of those thing where whenever someone says that something will be quick, cheap, and easy, I'm pretty sure they're wrong.

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    cB557 wrote: »
    A handful of lines hardly strikes me as a significant cost for any AAA title. Especially since the vault hunters come across as NPCs rather than protagonists.
    Game development is one of those thing where whenever someone says that something will be quick, cheap, and easy, I'm pretty sure they're wrong.

    Also gearbox is historically bad about VA relations

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    cB557 wrote: »
    A handful of lines hardly strikes me as a significant cost for any AAA title. Especially since the vault hunters come across as NPCs rather than protagonists.
    Game development is one of those thing where whenever someone says that something will be quick, cheap, and easy, I'm pretty sure they're wrong.

    Also gearbox is historically bad about VA relations
    FTFY.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Sorce wrote: »
    cB557 wrote: »
    A handful of lines hardly strikes me as a significant cost for any AAA title. Especially since the vault hunters come across as NPCs rather than protagonists.
    Game development is one of those thing where whenever someone says that something will be quick, cheap, and easy, I'm pretty sure they're wrong.

    Also gearbox is historically bad about VA relations
    FTFY.

    I think the actual people working there are great. The management is awful for sure

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  • HefflingHeffling No Pic EverRegistered User regular
    https://borderlands.com/en-US/news/2020-10-15-borderlands-3-season-pass-2-announcement/

    Season pass 2. Poorly named to include the developers cut which is the new mode and trees and the dirctors cut which I can only assume is new story content added to the base game and traditional raid bosses. I assune because they wont say yet

    I am really sick of these "Announcements of announcements!". Tell me something or fuck off.

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Heffling wrote: »
    https://borderlands.com/en-US/news/2020-10-15-borderlands-3-season-pass-2-announcement/

    Season pass 2. Poorly named to include the developers cut which is the new mode and trees and the dirctors cut which I can only assume is new story content added to the base game and traditional raid bosses. I assune because they wont say yet

    I am really sick of these "Announcements of announcements!". Tell me something or fuck off.

    I am honestly infuriated they wont just fucking tell us what the mode is. The trees I get the slow reveal on but this is what you hope will keep us playing for another year tell us already and give details later

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited October 2020
    The gametype name brings to mind old-school CS/Killing Floor/etc., where you have to do well in a round to earn cash to buy better weapons to do well in a round, and so on.

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