Darth Walrus posted:Preparing to transition to a male body, in fact. i’ve heard that before is that something that’s actually in the game or is it something that’s been JKR’d after the fact because their VA is a trans dude?
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watho posted:i’ve heard that before is that something that’s actually in the game or is it something that’s been JKR’d after the fact because their VA is a trans dude? Ciaran Strange has been out as a trans dude since before his role as Lorelei was announced, so it's not, like, a retcon, at least not for that reason.
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Mar 9, 2021 07:28
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watho posted:i’ve heard that before is that something that’s actually in the game or is it something that’s been JKR’d after the fact because their VA is a trans dude? Pretty sure it's in the game. I think I remember them mentioning that the war put their plans to transition on hold, but it's been a while.
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Mar 9, 2021 07:31
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Cease to Hope posted:Ciaran Strange has been out as a trans dude since before his role as Lorelei was announced, so it's not, like, a retcon, at least not for that reason. no i know that. i meant it as like “oh poo poo people are mad at us for casting a trans man as a woman uhhhhhhh they’re actually nb and was about to start hrt before the war broke out” or are there echo logs or something in the game confirming it? like it’s pretty sick either way i’m curious if it’s a retcon or not Devorum posted:Pretty sure it's in the game. I think I remember them mentioning that the war put their plans to transition on hold, but it's been a while. oh sick hell yeah
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Mar 9, 2021 07:37
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watho posted:i’ve heard that before is that something that’s actually in the game or is it something that’s been JKR’d after the fact because their VA is a trans dude? I didn't know this before, but she talks about it in an echo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-R1aBVadwo
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Rinkles posted:I didn't know this before, but she talks about it in an echo oh hell yeah. it’s BL3 quality writing but still cool
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Mar 9, 2021 07:40
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I remember people speculating about Lorelei before release because of casting Strange and her whole pink and teal aesthetic
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Mar 9, 2021 07:47
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Finished the main story on Gunner a little back and will take her into the DLCs the next time they're on sale. In the meantime I've been poking at FL4K and he seems...kind of weak? The pet doesn't seem to contribute very much damage outside of Gamma. It's nice that I already have a ton of guardian ranks from Gunner. Is the uh, melee Siren spec any better?
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Mar 9, 2021 20:58
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everything feels weak compared to moze's 30s or more of god mode
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Mar 9, 2021 21:02
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Can confirm having played Moze to endgame, Zane is kinda trash in comparison
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Mar 9, 2021 21:15
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after having a pretty fun but sometimes frustrating time of scraping by as moze i looked up some of the inner workings and learning how fire in the skag den and that tree’s capstone scaled and worked together was a true “oh well that’s loving stupid” moment and it kinda killed my drive to keep playing
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Mar 9, 2021 21:16
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Pyrolocutus posted:Finished the main story on Gunner a little back and will take her into the DLCs the next time they're on sale. In the meantime I've been poking at FL4K and he seems...kind of weak? The pet doesn't seem to contribute very much damage outside of Gamma. It's nice that I already have a ton of guardian ranks from Gunner. I liked FL4K but also played through solo, so having the pets be able to revive me from FFYL was handy.
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Mar 10, 2021 04:12
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The content drop has been pushed back to March 8th because Texas.
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Mar 11, 2021 19:06
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Hey, couldn’t find a dedicated series thread so I’ll ask here: I just finished a run through of the normal mode story campaign on TPS after getting to max level in BL2, and I didn’t really have as much fun as with 2. Is it worth continuing toward max level / doing TVHM/UVHM?
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Depends. It becomes even more apparent in the secondary playthroughs just how much less there is to do in TPS than BL2. So you're gonna have to do a fair amount of leveling outside the main questline, espcially in UVHM (so probably Darksiders farming). That said, some of the classes are really fun, and you only scratch the surface of what's possible in NVHM. I leveled 3 characters to 70, I think, and had blast much of the time, but TPS does a lot to make you want to hate it. Who'd you play as?
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Played as Jack because I did a lot of YouTube research on who was considered the most fun and powerful. I played BL2 as Maya and ended up wishing I was Salvador once I got to the boss farming stage of character life.
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He gets to be pretty OP, though I didn't actually get very far with him myself. Athena is my fave (of the franchise), and Nisha is a guilty pleasure, cause you can build her to play with minimal skill which is just dumb but in a fun way. I assume you have claptastic voyage? Cause it's a meaty dlc, with lots of cool gear.
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Dross posted:Hey, couldn’t find a dedicated series thread so I’ll ask here: I just finished a run through of the normal mode story campaign on TPS after getting to max level in BL2, and I didn’t really have as much fun as with 2. Is it worth continuing toward max level / doing TVHM/UVHM? no
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TPS does have some fun with the framing device of Athena recounting the story (which it expresses confusingly by making it the same as echo comms) going into the second and third runs. Doesn't add much to actual gameplay though.
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Man I'd give my left nut for them to port the mayhem mode scaling to the earlier games. TVHM/UVHM and slag mechanics are just a terrible loving endgame for the series.
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Gunner might have a lot of oomph, but my god this ricochet talent on Siren plus a powerful shotgun. I'm blowing up enemies everywhere 
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Finished Claptastic Voyage. That was definitely more fun than the majority of the main game. I think I’m going to skip the replays and move on to 3. Which character is a good pick for solo play but also has some multiplayer utility (I’m assuming I can find XBL games that aren’t full of dupers and exploiters)
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Dross posted:Finished Claptastic Voyage. That was definitely more fun than the majority of the main game. I think I’m going to skip the replays and move on to 3. Which character is a good pick for solo play but also has some multiplayer utility (I’m assuming I can find XBL games that aren’t full of dupers and exploiters) All of them are fine. Fl4k has the worst survivability, Amara has the worst endgame at the moment, Moze has a godmode button but her meta builds tend to involve a lot of self-fragging, Zane is all-around good but reliant on a few specific comms to do work at high Mayhem. That said, they're all perfectly capable of soloing even the hardest group content in the game, and all of them are stronger than any BL2 or PS character while leveling (with the possible exception of Maya once Cloudkill was buffed to be ridiculous).
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Cease to Hope posted:All of them are fine. Fl4k has the worst survivability, Amara has the worst endgame at the moment, Moze has a godmode button but her meta builds tend to involve a lot of self-fragging, Zane is all-around good but reliant on a few specific comms to do work at high Mayhem. Let's just say that I'm happy to have the "full heal on Second Wind" Guardian perk unlocked already for Fl4k. I'm also disappointed that Amara melee doesn't seem to be too huge but maybe I just need to look up where to find enabling legendaries.
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Pyrolocutus posted:Let's just say that I'm happy to have the "full heal on Second Wind" Guardian perk unlocked already for Fl4k. I'm also disappointed that Amara melee doesn't seem to be too huge but maybe I just need to look up where to find enabling legendaries. I'm trying to brew around melee for Amara just now, since she has a cryo affinity option. Pretty much want to freeze fools to boost the melee damage they take from a Facepuncher. I think I want to farm a 300/90 one for that, which seems annoyingly slow for a weapon that shows up so often randomly. Main problem as I see it is that Wotan has a cryo resistance. Playing Arms Race is frustrating but it does get you engaging with a much wider range of weapons than when you're maxed out and only using legendaries. I wish more of the gimmicks and loops of the non-legendaries made it to end game usage, or at least into on-meta stuff. Like the interuptable Jakobs reload, I've had a great time with those shotgun were I can alternate between reloading and blasting. And there's Atlas guns generally, there's some neat stuff beyond the (OP)Q System, like pistols sometimes fire explosive shells or in bursts and I only just found out, both pretty pleasing. Meanwhile Torgue guns just seem to be awful without Moze's skillset, and lack variety, it's a real shame.
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Trucking through the xpacks on Moze and while I thought the first one was a little bland, the remaining ones seem good so far. My only big issue so far is that the zones are super-linear, which makes sense for a tighter story than the main game, but holy hell is it rough for backtracking to find collectibles. Each of them needs at least one more fast travel spot. BizarroAzrael posted:I'm trying to brew around melee for Amara just now, since she has a cryo affinity option. Pretty much want to freeze fools to boost the melee damage they take from a Facepuncher. I think I want to farm a 300/90 one for that, which seems annoyingly slow for a weapon that shows up so often randomly. Main problem as I see it is that Wotan has a cryo resistance. Yeah, I saw the Facepuncher "dedicated" enemy is a dude in the closed off prison on Eden-6 (not the main prison), and as far as I can see I need to start from Defiance, run to the logging camp, ride the conveyor, and then drop off to the prison just to get the dude. Ugh. My Oozing Potent Roisen's Thorns is carrying me on Gunner, but yeah I can see the Torgue thing.
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Pyrolocutus posted:Yeah, I saw the Facepuncher "dedicated" enemy is a dude in the closed off prison on Eden-6 (not the main prison), and as far as I can see I need to start from Defiance, run to the logging camp, ride the conveyor, and then drop off to the prison just to get the dude. Ugh. He's also annoying to farm once you get there. Facepuncher is in the common pool, though, so you're better off farming every other non-DLC piece you need for the build. You'll get plenty of Facepunchers along the way to doing that.
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Talking of farming: https://twitter.com/Borderlands/status/1377652051304415233?s=20 Sounds like you'll only be farming for parts/stats now, which I find is much easier than getting the right anoint. More details coming from their stream.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Talking of farming: That is fantastic.
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Omg yes please!
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the maurice machine seems pretty cool as a concept for sure. the anoint reroll is welcome as well and i’m glad that there’s a proper use for eridium now but also anointments are still like really bad at a conceptual level. being able to reroll them is a pretty good band aid solution tho
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took them long enough
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more like xurice
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watho posted:the anoint reroll is welcome as well and i’m glad that there’s a proper use for eridium now but also anointments are still like really bad at a conceptual level. What specifically is the problem with anointments as a concept? Item specific perks are common in a lot of games, so I'm curious what the objections are- to anointments as a thing, or Borderlands implementation in particular?
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Listerine posted:What specifically is the problem with anointments as a concept? Item specific perks are common in a lot of games, so I'm curious what the objections are- to anointments as a thing, or Borderlands implementation in particular? Most of them are very bad relative to the one or two best options in a slot, so it doesn't really allow for the kind of gameplay variance that one might think and just ends up turning the thrill of getting the drop you wanted into the bummer of getting a heavily suboptimal version of the drop you wanted. Diablo 3 figured this out several years ago with the enchanter. Dross fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Apr 1, 2021 |
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yeah mostly what Dross said, there’s usually one or two anoints that are objectively way better than anything else so it’s less of a fun layer on top of the normal loot system and more of a “oh no the weapon that dropped had great parts but a bad anoint so it isn’t actually an upgrade”
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Listerine posted:What specifically is the problem with anointments as a concept? Item specific perks are common in a lot of games, so I'm curious what the objections are- to anointments as a thing, or Borderlands implementation in particular? Anoints are really badly balanced and they also tend to turn your class ability into the button you press to turn on your anoints rather than the button you press to do your class's cool thing.
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