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Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord

My siren's name is BRICK, and She is the prettiest.

:siren: Bordergoons discord : https://discord.gg/3A6JHrU :siren:

Official Developer Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4o5g_PGkiA

Teaser Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjXIh--0WQM

Official Announcement Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiEu23G4onM

It's really happening this time guys, honest. Well maybe, who the gently caress knows. We will find out tomorrow. :torgue: Answer: YES

In between BL2 and today, Randy has been busy getting sued by a former lawyer who goes on to accuse him of some crazy poo poo that has no purpose in this thread. To his defense, he claims to be enamoured with camgirls squirting all the juices like a goddamn magician. Whatever the case may be, he better stop loving around with pornography and launch BL3, maybe :iiam:

Borderlands 3 arrives on Xbox One, PS4, and PC*EPIC Game Store Exclusive until April 2020 on September 13, 2019!

:prepop: :wtf::wtf: Borderlands 3 eventually coming to Steam 04/2020. It's almost like people like Steam for reasons??

Versions - The editions are cumulative, spend more get more.
  • PRE-ORDER BONUS: GOLD WEAPON SKINS PACK - Contains a gold weapon trinket and gold weapon skins that are applicable to all guns in the game.

  • Standard - $60

  • Deluxe - $80
    • Retro Cosmetic Pack
    • Neon Cosmetic Pack
    • Gearbox Cosmetic Pack
    • Toy Box Weapon Pack
    • XP & loot drop boost mods - :confuoot: Yeah whatever, probably unique relics or something

  • Super Deluxe - $100
    • Deluxe plus++;
    • 4 campaign DLC packs featuring new stories, missions and challenges
    • Butt Stallion weapon skin
    • Butt Stallion weapon trinket
    • Butt Stallion grenade mod

  • Collectors Edition - $250 :retrogames:
    • Deluxe plus++; Super Deluxe++;
    • Diamond Loot Chest Replica
    • Borderlands 3 character figurines (x10)
    • Sanctuary 3 snap model
    • Vault Key keychains (x4)
    • Cloth galaxy map
    • Character art lithographs (x5)

  • Seasons Pass - ?


Vault Hunters - Left to Right: Amara, FL4K, Moze, Zane
  • Moze as THE GUNNER: When Moze needs backup she Digistructs her mech – Iron Bear – for a sucker punch of additional firepower.

  • Amara as THE SIREN: A confident, capable brawler with the ability to summon ethereal fists, Amara uses her Siren powers to smash her enemies.

  • FL4K as the BEASTMASTER: FL4K lives for the hunt. So do the loyal beasts that follow their master’s every command. Their preferred prey? Unsuspecting bandits, those poor suckers.

  • Zane as the OPERATIVE: Specializing in battlefield gadgetry, Zane is extremely proficient at slipping into combat, creating chaos, and sneaking back out as if he were never there.

BRAND LOYALTY - Each manufacturer specializes in a different delivery method
  • Vladof - Augment these rapid-firing, ammo-hungry guns with under-barrel attachments including tasers, rocket tubes, and additional gun barrels

  • Jacobs - Deliver devastating critical hits to enemies’ soft-and-sensitives, then joy-puke as your bullets ricochet towards other targets

  • Maliwan - Toggle between two elements, charge your weapon, and deal guaranteed elemental damage with your finger glued to the trigger

  • Dahl - Toggle between alternate fire modes depending on your play style, your predicament, and your predilection for bonus damage

  • Hyperion - Aim down the sights to take cover behind your weapon-mounted shield and keep your finger on the trigger for increased accuracy

  • Tediore - Toss your gun like a grenade to reload, then watch it pursue a nearby enemy as a fully loaded version digistructs in your hand

  • Torgue - Switch between regular and sticky-projectile fire modes. Stickies do more damage if a bunch of them detonate on the same target

  • Atlas - Step 1: Hit your enemies with tracker tags. Step 2: Unleash a hail of Smart Bullets that track towards your targets. Step 3: Loot!

Interesting Notes
  • There seems like there are two modes, classic and instanced loot. It is unclear if this will apply to all platforms, or gamestores in the case of PC.

    https://blog.us.playstation.com/2019/04/03/borderlands-3-hits-ps4-september-13-watch-the-new-gameplay-trailer/ posted:

    You’ll be capable of tackling the Calypso Twins and their fanatical followers alone, but when you team up with other Vault Hunters, you’ll really feel unstoppable. With that in mind, one of the things that I’m most excited about in Borderlands 3 are the improvements that we’ve made to co-op. Regardless of your respective levels or mission progress, you and your friends can play together online or on the couch, and not only will each of you deal a meaningful amount of damage, you’ll also receive your own discrete loot stream. No more loot ninjas! Of course, if you prefer to play with classic Borderlands 2 co-op rules—where loot is shared—you can choose to do so.

  • Extended gameplay trailer drops on May 1st
    https://twitter.com/Borderlands/status/1113425921116188673















Link to PAX LIVESTREAM: Never watch this, it's so bad

OhFunny posted:

[BL2] SHIFT CODE: C35TB-WS6ST-TXBRK-TTTJT-JJH6H

This is the shift code hidden in the teaser trailer for a Salvador skin and 5 keys.

OhFunny posted:

Good news around today. Free BL1 Remastered, updated 4K textures for 2 and TPS next week, and Borderlands 3.

Edit: Two more shift codes for BL2 for 100 and 25 keys respectively from today's announcement.

C3W33-RZ6ZJ-TFJ6C-TTJ33-RFHX5 BL2, 100 Keys

W3KJB-H9CBW-XRBRW-JTBTJ-9JRXK BL2, 25 Keys

Randy the Magician placed some epic dodges on April 1st
https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic/status/1112833886113992706
https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic/status/1112834134085337088
https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic/status/1112834212359536640

Here is his latest shirk
https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic/status/1113443108937785345

yeah ok Randy, sure we believe you. Just take the bags of cash and stop lying to us.


Risky Bisquick fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Apr 4, 2019

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Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord
History! - This is gonna be important so let's recap

BL1 - 2009


This was the original shoot and loot, complete with a stolen art style.

Borderlands is set in the distant future, at a time when various mega-corporations seek control of various planets to colonise and mine for their mineral wealth. Prior to the events of the game, the Atlas Corporation, one of the major mega-corporations, uncovered an ancient alien vault filled with advanced weapons technology, allowing them to rapidly overtake their competitors. Finding similar ruins of the same alien architecture on the planet Pandora, Atlas sought to settle the planet in hopes of finding more alien technology, but were forced to abandon their plans due to a failure to find any alien technology on the surface, and being unprepared for the dangerous wildlife coming out of its winter hibernation during their stay. After their departure, the Dahl Corporation, another mega-corporation, colonized the planet to secure its vast deposits of minerals, using large amounts of convict labor for the mining operations, while initiating their own search for a vault.

Their research team's efforts to find the vault were headed up by Patricia Tannis, a respected xeno-archeologist. Despite losing all of her colleagues to the planet's wildlife and being driven partially insane herself, Tannis found proof that a vault existed on Pandora. Her news was intercepted by Atlas, who sent its private military force, the Crimson Lance, to kidnap Tannis and get the vault's location from her. Faced with their invasion, Dahl abandoned the planet, taking only the wealthy colonists with them, and leaving the remaining population to scavenge for a living amongst the barren wastelands and industrial trash heaps across the planet. To make matters worse, the convict labor was allowed to go free, leading them to form gangs of bandits that terrorize the local populace. Despite the circumstances, the vault transformed into a legend that attracts mercenary "Vault Hunters" to the planet.

:torgue: THAT SENTENCE HAD TOO MANY SYLLABLES, APOLOGIZE!!! :torgue:

Ok sorry no more ripping from Wikipedia. The player characters eventually find all 4 pieces of the vault key needed to open the vault. To no ones surprise the ATLAS hired thugs in Crimson Lance roll in and try to open the vault with the 3 (Tannis lied!??!?) only for THE DESTROYER to exit the vault and tentacle gently caress Steele like this is a cheap hentai anime right off the bat. Killing THE DESTROYER ends this game and seals the vault for 200 more years.

This game brings about PVE Raidbosses, crazy loot,

The game stars: Brick, Lilith, Mordecai, and Roland.

BL:TPS - 2014


The game shows Jack JOHN working to save Helios space station from the DAHL Corp's Lost Legion. Jack eventually becomes accustomed to murdering people and being a psychopath and changes into what we know as Handsome Jack by the end of the game when he opens the vault on ELPIS. The game ends with Lilith going NBA JAM on his face with the vault symbol and jack swearing up and down he will murder everyone on Pandora with THE WARRIOR. It ends with a cut scene :siren: FLASH FORWARD :siren: to a vault guardian at the end of BL2 saying they aren't yet finished, who saves Athena from being executed with bullet time by Lilith [after the events of BL2] for helping Jack unleash THE WARRIOR and the events that setup up Jack Handsome Jack going full Mortal Kombat chest punching Roland. Clappy's DLC shows how Jack got the H-source which had the source code and secret projects for the Hyperion Corp and how he Ended the CL4P-TP line :rip: I skipped the part where Jack used THE DESTROYER's eye as the Eye of Helios super laser :prepop:

The game stars: Athena, Wilhelm, Nisha, CL4P-TP, with bonus guests Jack the Doppelganger Timothy, and Aurelia.

This game was literally Borderlands 2 in-space, lazers pew pew, oxygen butt slam :torgue: Great game, mechanics, skill trees, it just didn't get sales to garner more support and DLC, which by the way CLAPTRAPS DLC is probably top 3 after :torgue: and Tina Tina's . People were mad it was basically a new story with the same engine/textures, which they aren't wrong. Oh and it was full of Australian accents because moon people are obviously from Australia :raise: Yeah whatever, pew pew lasers zap pow zap pow. Also of note: This game shows the history of making of a Constructor bot, Jacks watch, and a bunch of other lore specific things like Terramorphous.

BL2 - 2012


This is where poo poo gets real. Loot and Shoot, with RAID BOSSES??!?! GAME GAME+ GAME++, GAME++smashface level difficulty??!? :torgue: Answer: YES. Spend all the loving money, buy this game and all the DLC and don't leave your home for months. This game is the good poo poo

So 5 years after the TPS storyline, Handsome Jack now runs Hyperion, is opening the Pandora vault, and will probably kill everyone on pandora he doesn't like. Good story right. Guardian ANGEL contacts the vault hunters and leads them on their merry way, where they slowly encouter all the vault hunters from borderlands 1 in various places. The Crimson Raiders, led by Roland and Lilith, are the resistance fighting against Hyperion and Jack. They are holed up in a place called Sanctuary which is under assault from Helios station. Sanctuary happens to be an old DAHL mining ship, but Scooter can't get it airborne the engine is stalled.

The vault hunters meander around looking for Lilith, and Roland, who eventually task them with finding the vault key. A Train to Catch introduces us to Tina Tina (VA: Ashley Burch) and a Wilhelm who feigned protecting the vault key. They took Wilhelm's power core to Sanctuary where Guardian ANGEL told them to insert Wilhelm's power core into Sanctuary's shield generator. PLOT TWIST: Guardian ANGEL sabotaged Sanctuary and Helios station is now sending non-stop moonshots to turn Sanctuary into dust. Lilith decides to get eridium drunk and teleports Sanctuary to safety.

The Vault Hunters now go visit Wildlife Exploitation Reserve where they meet up with Mordecai and his bird, who jack poisons with Eridium and eventually kills. Mordecai understandably freaks out. Now they are off to another area where they meet Brick, who leads Slabs as the Slab King. At this point you've recruited everyone for this merry adventure and are off to stop Handsome Jack charging the vault key.

You recruit CL4P-TP who wants to kick it to Jack, and eventually stumble upon Guardian ANGEL who is Handsome Jack's daughter. He has seemingly emprisoned her for being a witch siren and is force feeding her eridium to supercharge the vault key so they can open it on a timeline before the next 195 years. Angel (VA:Britanni Johnson, who also looks just like her) wants you to kill her to stop Jack from opening the vault after a change of heart. After killing Angel to stop the key charging, Jack appears using his pocket watch cloaking device (TPS explains how he got it) kills Roland, and slaps some sort of control necklace onto Lilith to control her.

Jack uses Lilith to charge the key, the vault hunters attack Jack, and as they defeat him the key finishes charging and Jack releases THE WARRIOR while spewing blood everywhere. You take out THE WARRIOR using the bee and the sandhawk like a proper minmaxer, moonshot THE WARRIOR using a console, and let Lilith kill Jack (it's only right). Trying to destroy the vault key it activates and shows a galaxy full of planets and vault keys. There are more vaults than 1, cutscenes.

The game stars: Sal, zer0, Axton, Maya, with bonus guests Krieg, and Gaige.

This game is an 11/10, a difficult slaughter for sure, but drat if I can't say I didn't enjoy the masochism of playing Axton/others to OP8 :suicide: All the DLC are great, except hammerlock, that guys DLC is a walkabout with witch doctors that piss you off.

TFTBL - 2014


So this is different, it's a sort of interactive movie story experience. Some choices impact how the story turns out. It started kind of slow, but it grew on me. I recommend dropping the :10bux: or whatever this costs on sale, or simply watching a let's play on youtube for free, the story is actually pretty good. You can read a detail account here

I'm spoilering this because I don't know how many of you played this, but based on the movie trailer above showing Mustached Rhys, it could be pretty important to the BL3 storyline.

Essentially it boils down to Rhys getting turbofucked as a Hyperion lackey and trying to buy a vault key, which is a fake made by Fiona. Rhys stole the money from Hyperion and needs to get the money back. Rhys eventually sticks a Nakayama ID into his cyborg implant, which turns out to be HANDSOME loving JACK, [the cloned AI version Nakayama made in TPS]. So yada yada yada, they eventually team up and find a secret ATLAS lab for the GORTYS project where they assemble a child like robot who can open a 'travelling vault' when fully assembled. After the the quest to assemble the GORTYS goes wrong in every fashion possible, they assemble the robot and summon the vault. In the course of the slide show movie experience your choices let you assemble a crew to fight THE TRAVELLER who defends the vault. Some choices are integral to get the best possible story outcome and cut scenes. Anyhow eventually Rhys and Fiona open the eridium chest in the vault together and disappear.

Notes: Rhys fully owns ATLAS corp, stealing the deed from Jacks Office. Jack isn't dead [YOU SHOULD NEVER KILL JACK VIA CHOICES ITS WRONG AND YOU KNOW IT]. [Scooter dies, but you better play that CATCH A RIDE banner in space.


The game stars: Rhys and Fiona.

Risky Bisquick fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Mar 28, 2019

Caidin
Oct 29, 2011
Wait wait wait

Risky Bisquick posted:

History! - This is gonna be important so let's recap

BL1 - 2009

Anyhow eventually Rhys and [maybe, depending on your choices] Fiona open the eridium chest in the vault together and disappear.



You can do things so Fiona doesn't open the box with Rhys?

DreadCthulhu
Sep 17, 2008

What the fuck is up, Denny's?!
I finally finished BL2 this year, only what... 7 years late to this party? Anyways, it was great, and the expansions were awesome. My only disappointment is that I soloed the whole thing, since there weren't that many people to play with at low levels that longer after the game's release. Hoping to catch the BL3 train this time.

Also, that camgirl story, holy poo poo. Who needs Netflix when this sort of high quality drama exists in real life.

Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord

Caidin posted:

Wait wait wait


You can do things so Fiona doesn't open the box with Rhys?

Actually I was :wrong: Regardless of choice it’s both.

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
C35TB-WS6ST-TXBRK-TTTJT-JJH6H

This is the shift code hidden in the teaser trailer for a Salvador skin and 5 keys.

Edit: also this Twitter thread has some close up shots of the mask. You can see Rhys standing stop the Atlas Corp logo here with Zero and Maya to the right.

https://twitter.com/mentalmars/status/1110908827019472896?s=19

OhFunny fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Mar 28, 2019

Resting Lich Face
Feb 21, 2019


This case of an intraperitoneal zucchini is unusual, and does raise questions as to how hard one has to push a blunt vegetable to perforate the rectum.
I REALLY want this game to be good and I REALLY don't loving think it will be. I hope I'm wrong.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Resting Lich Face posted:

I REALLY want this game to be good and I REALLY don't loving think it will be. I hope I'm wrong.

I think Gearbox knows what makes these games good. I don't expect the shooting to be much better, but a studio with no experience at Borderlands was able to make a pretty good half-sequel to 2, so I think that bodes well. In the end, if it's as good as 2 but with new classes I'm probably going to be happy with it.

Orange Crush Rush
May 7, 2009

You don't need thumbs for revenge
Can they just make the guns less a loving pain in the rear end to use. They went too overboard on the Gimmicks in 2/TPS, it just made too many manufacturers feel awful to use.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

:frogsiren:
I really hope its not a live service Destiny/Division type game or Battleborn 2 but in Borderlands colours.

Gulping Again
Mar 10, 2007
There's not actually going to be a game. It'll be cancelled in six months because Randy stole the budget and went down to Brazil to make the sequel people really want: swap2.avi

Your Moms Ahegao
Sep 3, 2008

Is Sega funding this like they did with Borderlands 2?

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Your Moms Ahegao posted:

Is Sega funding this like they did with Borderlands 2?

Nope, which is why it's going to be pretty bad. As much as I liked BL2, Pre-Sequel just burned me out of any new BL games ad probably is closer to what we'll get given they won't have millions to embezzle from SEGA to make this game.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Are they making any games for anyone else that they can steal the budget from?

DaveKap
Feb 5, 2006

Pickle: Inspected.



It's me, I'm hype for this game without knowing anything about it.

Here's the thing. BL3 won't have the same writers (bye bye Birch,) won't be developed by a completely different out-of-house team (you can thank 2K Australia for TPS,) and will be a necessary win for Gearbox to stay alive after the dismal showing of Battle, the Borne Identity. Gearbox's publisher is 2K Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive. This is not a few rich EA executives forcing Anthem out ahead of its timeline and dooming Bioware to be unable to make up for the poor showing of their previous game, it's the dudes who delayed RDR2 until it was decent enough to be released to journalistic praise. Or gently caress, remember Evolve? They actually let that thing go Free to Play and it was actually pretty fun when you got in with a group of friends! Whatever BL3 ends up being, I don't think it will compare to BL1, 2, or TPS and that's a good thing.

DaveKap fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Mar 28, 2019

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

:frogsiren:

The Lone Badger posted:

Are they making any games for anyone else that they can steal the budget from?

Gearbox published We Happy Few.

Orange Crush Rush
May 7, 2009

You don't need thumbs for revenge

DaveKap posted:

It's me, I'm hype for this game without knowing anything about it.

Here's the thing. BL3 won't have the same writers (bye bye Birch,) won't be developed by a completely different out-of-house team (you can thank 2K Australia for TPS,) and will be a necessary win for Gearbox to stay alive after the dismal showing of Battle, the Borne Identity. Gearbox's publisher is 2K Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive. This is not a few rich EA executives forcing Anthem out ahead of its timeline and dooming Bioware to be unable to make up for the poor showing of their previous game, it's the dudes who delayed RDR2 until it was decent enough to be released to journalistic praise. Or gently caress, remember Evolve? They actually let that thing go Free to Play and it was actually pretty fun when you got in with a group of friends! Whatever BL3 ends up being, I don't think it will compare to BL1, 2, or TPS and that's a good thing.

There's been rumors that the writing team that wrote Tales got picked up by Gearbox when Telltale was going tits up, so that plus Burch being gone should help.
At the very least we shouldn't get another repeat of Janey "Hey nice to meet you I'm gay and also I'm gay I'M GAY DID YOU KNOW I WANT TO HAVE LESBIAN SEX WITH MOXXY BECAUSE I AM TOTALLY GAY GAY FOR WOMEN BECAUSE I'M GAY now don't touch me silly boys I'm too GAY for you, oh yeah I'm a mechanic as well and did I tell you I'm a lesbian yet" Springs.

Zedsdeadbaby
Jun 14, 2008

You have been called out, in the ways of old.
loot games loot games loot games *bangs knife and fork on table*

Tinfoil Papercut
Jul 27, 2016

by Athanatos
SHOOT ME IN THE FACE

Orange Crush Rush
May 7, 2009

You don't need thumbs for revenge

Zedsdeadbaby posted:

loot games loot games loot games *bangs knife and fork on table*

It's still kind of crazy that no one has really tried to make a looty and shooty on the level Borderlands is.
Like for all the flaws it has, and how hosed Gearbox and Pitchford are, there still aren't any other options here so yeah we gotta buckle in I guess lol

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

:frogsiren:
Borderlands doesn't do the loot aspect part that well, there might be hundreds of different guns but 95% of them are hot garbage, legendary weapon drop rates are beyond a joke ranging from between 0.5% to 5% and even then not all of those legendary weapons are good.

Forcing people to use cheat engine to up the drop rates is a terrible solution to this problem, Diablo 3 shits top tier stuff at you for just showing up nowdays and guess what, it works like a charm, people love to be rewarded for poo poo not punished and forced to grind for hours or use external methods.

DaveKap
Feb 5, 2006

Pickle: Inspected.



Judge Tesla posted:

Borderlands doesn't do the loot aspect part that well, there might be hundreds of different guns but 95% of them are hot garbage, legendary weapon drop rates are beyond a joke ranging from between 0.5% to 5% and even then not all of those legendary weapons are good.

Forcing people to use cheat engine to up the drop rates is a terrible solution to this problem, Diablo 3 shits top tier stuff at you for just showing up nowdays and guess what, it works like a charm, people love to be rewarded for poo poo not punished and forced to grind for hours or use external methods.
Which is something The Division 1 took, and The Division 2 is taking, proper hints from. Meanwhile, Anthem poo poo the bed so hard it's like they were trying to be as anti-good as possible. Borderlands had plenty of good loot times but where it really failed was giving the player impetus over how the rolls rolled and not balancing entire genres of gun to be any fun to play. This, again, is something The Division 2 is doing a damned fine job of and Diablo 3 eventually got right too. It takes work and dedication. No idea if Gearbox is ready to have that guy who understands all this but ... gently caress it, if I have to cheat engine Borderlands 3, so be it. I'll gladly call it poor design from the top of a mountain but I still want to play the damned game.

Edit: One more consideration to consider. PvP is a separately balanced pool in The Division 2, completely absent from Diablo 3, and likely an afterthought in Borderlands 3 just as much as it was in 1 and 2. As such, there is little-to-no reason not to allow the player to become an overpowered beast when given an adequate enough time to make a cool build. That and difficulty balancing (loving bullet sponges in NG+ and NG++ of BL2, what the gently caress guys?!) go a long-rear end way towards understanding the looty genre. ... ... gently caress I hope they get this right.

Edit2: And revamp the loving second wind. It rendered snipers 100% useless. gently caress.

DaveKap fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Mar 28, 2019

orcane
Jun 13, 2012

Fun Shoe

Pylons posted:

I think Gearbox knows what makes these games good. I don't expect the shooting to be much better, but a studio with no experience at Borderlands was able to make a pretty good half-sequel to 2, so I think that bodes well. In the end, if it's as good as 2 but with new classes I'm probably going to be happy with it.
Are we talking about the same Gearbox here? Like, the studio that listened to official forum grognards who wanted the loot as grindy and the higher difficulty levels as dumb as possible?

Judge Tesla posted:

Borderlands doesn't do the loot aspect part that well, there might be hundreds of different guns but 95% of them are hot garbage, legendary weapon drop rates are beyond a joke ranging from between 0.5% to 5% and even then not all of those legendary weapons are good.

Forcing people to use cheat engine to up the drop rates is a terrible solution to this problem, Diablo 3 shits top tier stuff at you for just showing up nowdays and guess what, it works like a charm, people love to be rewarded for poo poo not punished and forced to grind for hours or use external methods.
They'll fix the loot. And by that I mean since I fully expect this to be an online-required game as a service type deal, you won't be able to use Cheat Engine and savegame editors to fix drop rates and guns anymore :v:

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
I would like an unlimited inventory because that's what I always want because I'm a hoarder who wants to pick UP EVERYTHING.

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Maybe this time the final boss won't fall on the only orange rarity item I see the entire campaign and I'll get to use one

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

How 'bout them hawks news huh!
GEARBOX! IT’S MR TORGUE. PUT ME IN THE GAME!

Zedsdeadbaby
Jun 14, 2008

You have been called out, in the ways of old.
Nah

The less of Borderlands 2's poo poo is in the game, the better

The gameplay rocked but the writing and characters gives me second-hand embarrassment

Snapes N Snapes
Sep 6, 2010

Please don't support Gearbox and Randy.

Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord
I play games instead of sleeping because I've got my priorities straight.

central dogma
Feb 25, 2012

Come to the Undead Settlement in the next 20 mins if u want an ash kicking

Risky Bisquick posted:

I play games instead of sleeping because I've got my priorities straight.

:waycool:

And I thought Borderlands 3 was coming out this summer. They renamed it to Rage 2, tho.

DLC Inc
Jun 1, 2011

I hope they've been watching and stealing as much from id Software as possible, idk if I can go back to the floaty jumping and janky gunplay from the old games. If Rage 2 ends up being good then there's going to be competition for 1st person open world shooterman game though the difference will be in how much better gun loot is in this one.

Bringing back Zero would be cool but I'd rather have the guy with the bird back. Melee-focused character in Borderlands never felt great to me.

Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord

DLC Inc posted:

I hope they've been watching and stealing as much from id Software as possible, idk if I can go back to the floaty jumping and janky gunplay from the old games. If Rage 2 ends up being good then there's going to be competition for 1st person open world shooterman game though the difference will be in how much better gun loot is in this one.

Bringing back Zero would be cool but I'd rather have the guy with the bird back. Melee-focused character in Borderlands never felt great to me.

Have I got news for you, supposedly the new Siren is Melee like a hybrid Maya/Brick

OhFunny posted:

I would like an unlimited inventory because that's what I always want because I'm a hoarder who wants to pick UP EVERYTHING.

I would do this in TPS because of the grinder, that machine is the best/worst.

RBA Starblade posted:

Maybe this time the final boss won't fall on the only orange rarity item I see the entire campaign and I'll get to use one

In TPS this is addressed you get them pretty frequently I found. They also introduced a 'glitch rarity' where these are essentially deep magazine purple guns that can get glitched on reload to be better than Legendary/Pearlescent. As an example, I was using essentially a deep mag Jakobs quad (3 shots) with a 90% chance to not use ammo when you fire using Timothy. It's about as hilarious as a pre-nerf conference call.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

:frogsiren:
I'm curious to what ability the supposed new Siren will have, Lilith had Phase Blast which was just a huge AoE explosion, Maya had Phase Lock which immobilized a single target but could be modified to do all sorts of stuff, Angel had Phase Shift which let her control computers, it wasn't really clear, nobody knows what Steele could do as she died instantly to the Destroyer.

If she's melee then Phase Blade or something?

Wungus
Mar 5, 2004

I'm excited to play another sniper, Mordecai was the goddamn best and zer0 had his moments.

kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009

I'm excite

Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord
Supposedly this is the source inspiration for The Beastmaster/Hunter

Coldbird
Jul 17, 2001

be spiritless
So that leak text about the new characters also showed up elsewhere, but it was longer, and had a section about how the new loot system would work - it said that there will now be gun parts which you combine into guns.

Could go a ways toward mitigating the RNG of the previous games and how one wrong number could super gently caress up an otherwise good weapon...?

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/news/borderlands-3-characters-gameplay-classes-abilities-story-location-leak-2013515

quote:

- Guns are reworked. You'll have changeable gun parts of various rarities/stats. You'll be able to alter the type of gun, the firing rate, the reload speed, the stability, and element as you find new parts.
- All elements returning except Slag, Laser, and Ice. New elements are rumoured and the only lead says "nuclear" is one of them.

Again, it’s a leak, could all be bullshit.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

:frogsiren:
Slag weapons are the main reason I stuck to Maya when I dared venture into UVHM like a fool.

Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord
Slag disappearing makes sense it was part of the eridium refinement process Hyperion was doing on Pandora. It would be cool if different planets have their own exclusive weapon type. Pandora gets Slag, Elpis gets Cryo/Lasers, Promethia gets Nuclear.

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Orange Crush Rush
May 7, 2009

You don't need thumbs for revenge

Judge Tesla posted:

Slag weapons are the main reason I stuck to Maya when I dared venture into UVHM like a fool.

Slag was the reason I used Salvador so long. Basically always had a Slagga in my offhand.

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