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Poque
Sep 11, 2003

=^-^=

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:

In the first game running an enemy over (on higher difficulties) would blow up your vehicle most of the time because of the damage scaling.

The Knoxx DLC was pure vehicle hell.

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A Moose
Oct 22, 2009



I always hated the missions where you needed to do something with a specific vehicle, because its basically impossible to not explode 2 or 3 times and then have to walk a long rear end way to respawn your dumb escort quest poo poo.

Mr Scumbag
Jun 6, 2007

You're a fucking cocksucker, Jonathan

A Moose posted:

I always hated the missions where you needed to do something with a specific vehicle, because its basically impossible to not explode 2 or 3 times and then have to walk a long rear end way to respawn your dumb escort quest poo poo.

Just use the vehicle you prefer (always the fast one, since it's usually fast enough to evade enemy fire) then when you get to the the last vehicle respawn station before the next objective, respawn the objective-mandatory vehicle.

Katt
Nov 14, 2017

They also continue the tradition of making the best combat vehicle (buggy with missile launcher) the default one you start with. And then you unlock worse and worse iterations on slow rear end trucks. And the game insists on making almost all vehicle missions technical missions.

How hard is it to just give the technical decent weapons? It's a big slow vehicle so it should have the biggest and most devastating weapons. It should be a tank and have like... a massive plasma cannon or a Katyusha style missile battery that just rains death on a large area.

Internet Explorer
Jun 1, 2005





Driving in Borderlands is dumb and it would be a better game if they took it out. I was surprised at how quickly they throw a car at you and have you drive to the other side of the map in 3. At least the Handsome Jackpot DLC seemed to recognize this and has no vehicles.

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 just drive the monowheel with the terramorphous turbo sound, if you need to kill stuff jumping out and shooting is so much quicker.

Katt
Nov 14, 2017

I had a mission in the latest DLC to kills raiders by running then over with a vehicle and they just gave no fucks about my car running them over 10 times.

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
That's in the tentacles DLC, I just adjusted down to Mayhem 1 and used a technical with the bull bar to one hit them

Katt
Nov 14, 2017

Risky Bisquick posted:

That's in the tentacles DLC, I just adjusted down to Mayhem 1 and used a technical with the bull bar to one hit them

Same but still! :v:

BizarroAzrael
Apr 6, 2006

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."
I really like the Old West/feudal Japan hybrid aesthetic they have going for DLC3, thinking about it it's kinda weird it's not been done more since samurai and cowboys are sort of interchangeable in fiction.

Lord Lambeth
Dec 7, 2011


How is the DLC in this game so far? worth getting?

PERMACAV 50
Jul 24, 2007

because we are cat

Lord Lambeth posted:

How is the DLC in this game so far? worth getting?

Very much so, yes.

BizarroAzrael
Apr 6, 2006

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."
Does anyone find shock just an underwhelming element? I got some M10 Redistributiors yesterday and handed one to my Zane, but he still deleted mobs better with the old (M0? I don't know if MR ones were better under the old system) Nuke one. Granted that had SNTNL Cryo on but the new one had about 3x the base damage.

I feel like I remember in the previous games Shock was well rounded, good on shields without serious drawback, maybe they decreased it again armour and flesh now. I think Corrosive is the same, good at its specialty and otherwise crap. Think I like Cryo and Nuke a lot better for that reason.

Monolith.
Jan 28, 2011

To save the world from the expanding Zone.

Lord Lambeth posted:

How is the DLC in this game so far? worth getting?

The Jackpot one is great, the Marriage one was still good but a little less. I think I liked Jackpot better because there was barely any driving.

Highest Cactus
Jul 25, 2007

News: Mysterious illegal cookies seized. "Tastes terrible," says police.

Katt posted:

The weird thing about BL vehicle combat is how bad it's balanced. Eventually your vehicle guns do almost no damage. Likewise kills with vehicles generate no XP for *reasons*

I was cleaning up missions, and one of the DLC ones required you to splat 10 bandits with a car. I had to turn off mayhem just to do it.

It was awesome running around for an hour just 1 shot vaporizing badasses with my m10 opq :getin:

BizarroAzrael
Apr 6, 2006

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."
What do fools like doing with Amara M10 now? I think Phazezerker is the way to go, right now I'm leaning on Tues That Bind with Yellow cake, of course, or using the Recursion exploit to get loads of projectiles by applying lots of elements. I can just about beat the Takedown solo, although Team Rocket-ing too many mobs with Recursion seems to mess up the scripting a lot.

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
Don’t be afraid to use what you have to beat harder challenges. Not sure about phase Amara but M10 Cartel Solo True Takedown with yellowcake Zane works, bit of a slog as there are a lot of enemies. Post rebalance I don’t I’ll be able to solo m10 true takedown in any reasonable amount of time. Recursion and quasars will probably be the key to speed runs post patch.

BizarroAzrael
Apr 6, 2006

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."
https://twitter.com/THR/status/1266059126683164678

wedgie deliverer
Oct 2, 2010

Dear god I hope this movie doesn’t happen

Kaysette
Jan 5, 2009

~*Boston makes me*~
~*feel good*~

:wrongcity:
nobody wants this except randy

PERMACAV 50
Jul 24, 2007

because we are cat
they really tapped Captain Torture Porn for this when Paul Verhoeven is still alive

PERMACAV 50 fucked around with this message at 20:08 on May 28, 2020

Wrr
Aug 8, 2010


I'm late to the borderlands party but my god there is essentially just a single writing voice in this entire game. Every character is the same character. I just picked up the wee tot Siren-to-be and she sounds identical to every other character. I'm really struggling not to mute the voices in the game.

I know this is no big revelation but I need to vent about it. I'm embarrassed to play it near my partner, I don't want to subject them to hearing the dialogue.

Katt
Nov 14, 2017

I know everyone hates Mozes character but I really like her when the game becomes a lovecraftian nightmare and she's all "nope! nope! nope!!" Like she signed up to be in a minstream standard soldier FPS game and this is not it.

wedgie deliverer
Oct 2, 2010

Movie news, bad.

Good news though, Handsome Collection is free on Epic Games.

Wrr
Aug 8, 2010


You know how Japanese visual novels will have volume sliders for each specific character? Borderlands should have that. That would be real nice.

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?
Bandits: 100

Everything else: 0

PERMACAV 50
Jul 24, 2007

because we are cat

Katt posted:

I know everyone hates Mozes character but I really like her when the game becomes a lovecraftian nightmare and she's all "nope! nope! nope!!" Like she signed up to be in a minstream standard soldier FPS game and this is not it.

People really underappreciate what a breath of fresh air a relatively gimmick-free character is in this game. She and FL4K are the only characters I have at 57+ cause they’re the only two I can stand to listen to for more than twenty minutes, and even FL4K’s “I am an ALPHA” schtick is getting old. At what point was it decided that FL4K not only can eat but has food preferences, anyway?

Morter
Jul 1, 2006

:coolspot:
Seashells by the
Seashorpheus
Who hates Moze. I'll kill em.

In game, that is.

:mad:

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Is there any place I could see a list of patch notes for older patches? I haven't played since release basically and I'm curious as to what changed. Mostly skill-wise but guns couldn't hurt either.

PoopinClumpin
Jul 4, 2006

Well I finally played through the campaign on each character and there's one throughline "Shoot him in the dick".

PoopinClumpin
Jul 4, 2006

Clarste posted:

Is there any place I could see a list of patch notes for older patches? I haven't played since release basically and I'm curious as to what changed. Mostly skill-wise but guns couldn't hurt either.

It's not exactly what you asked for but the biggest change is the addition of Mayhem modes up to Level 10. The guns haven't changed much except for that the most recent "Cartel Event" till June 04 2020 introduced several guns which are considered overpowered such as The "Yellowcake" launcher.

Your best bet seems to be to compare loot against:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fkCwu0zeX1BBGcNEzWGZDr2kQ0IOPSoZQK2FD-zpw1M/edit#gid=0
and/or
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Uv7rBP_MD_khcTunos9Xv4N4ezYmrTGftlkzaTguF8/edit#gid=1163577598

Hope that helps.

Greenplastic
Oct 24, 2005

Miao, miao!
Mayhem 2.0 and the cartel yellowcake/o.p.q. debacle kind of killed the fun for me, since I like some variety. I hope the new update fixes that stuff!

I must say, even though it's great they are updating all the time, I kind of miss how I experienced BL2. I came in late enough that the game was kind of locked in, and all the warts became something I just accepted and worked around, carving out a playstyle that could even rely on bugs to work. Now, everytime I settle into a build or gear I know it might become unusable soon.

Still love the game though, especially the dlcs

PERMACAV 50
Jul 24, 2007

because we are cat
The absolute last thing I have to do for the event is kill Franco Firewall with a spike one more time. I don’t even know how I did it the first two. Any tips?

Highest Cactus
Jul 25, 2007

News: Mysterious illegal cookies seized. "Tastes terrible," says police.

Sex Hobbit posted:

The absolute last thing I have to do for the event is kill Franco Firewall with a spike one more time. I don’t even know how I did it the first two. Any tips?

Get him low and kite him around until he spikes. The spikes (floating lightning balls) will follow you too, get them to fly next to him, and shoot that out of the air to damage him for the kill.

Listerine
Jan 5, 2005

Exquisite Corpse
Or just keep farming him and spamming him with AoE damage and you'll get lucky with a kill, which is how you probably got the first two. I had a lot of difficulty seeing the spikes with all the visual noise so I gave up trying to target the spikes and just kept killing him over and over with Yellowcake.

Hakarne
Jul 23, 2007
Vivo en el autobús!


Fuuuuck I just got back into bl3, got a lucky opq at 50, favorite variant of my favorite weapon type, found out its going away on the 4th (so loving dumb). Powerleveled to 57 and now I'm going to faaarm. Ideally I'd like 1 good one for Zane and Fl4k as those are the only characters I really care for.

What anointments should I look for for Zane and Fl4k? And preferably is there one that's really good for both. I haven't played since before the first dlc so I'm kinda overwhelmed.

Also anything else I should get before it disappears forever?

Edit: Also is there a good guide of guns I should make sure not to destroy now? I'm churning through stuff and just trying to throw it in my bank to look up later, would be nice to know what does more than tickle enemies.

Hakarne fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jun 2, 2020

PERMACAV 50
Jul 24, 2007

because we are cat

Listerine posted:

Or just keep farming him and spamming him with AoE damage and you'll get lucky with a kill, which is how you probably got the first two. I had a lot of difficulty seeing the spikes with all the visual noise so I gave up trying to target the spikes and just kept killing him over and over with Yellowcake.

Is there a way to farm him specifically or do I have to keep running the whole thing over and over again? (I spent most of this month ignoring the event :sweatdrop: )

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Sex Hobbit posted:

(I spent most of this month ignoring the event :sweatdrop: )

same but that's mostly gearbox's fault

BizarroAzrael
Apr 6, 2006

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."
No way to make particular underbosses show but when you reach Joey you can see which two are with him, and when you get the one you want keep killing them, then let Joey kill you, you can kill them again after respawn until you kill Joey. If you don't get one you want, restart. You have to fight an underboss at the mansion entrance again, but then you can drop down and start the Joey fight again with another pair of underbosses.

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Hakarne
Jul 23, 2007
Vivo en el autobús!


BizarroAzrael posted:

No way to make particular underbosses show but when you reach Joey you can see which two are with him, and when you get the one you want keep killing them, then let Joey kill you, you can kill them again after respawn until you kill Joey. If you don't get one you want, restart. You have to fight an underboss at the mansion entrance again, but then you can drop down and start the Joey fight again with another pair of underbosses.

Holy poo poo will they keep dropping their loot? OPQ system here I come!

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