Borderlands 3
 

Official teaser from Gearbox:

Take-Two Interactive/2K Games/Gearbox Software officially announce Borderlands 3
 

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

Based on an accidental leak from Microsoft, this game is rumored to support cross-platform co-op as an online mulitplayer feature.

Might not include console cross-platform support considering Sony's current stance towards it.

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Apparently there might be a lot of pay to play in this game.

I love Borderlands 2, but I feel like i'm being priced out of playing this game.

It fucking sucks.

I gotta do pre-order perks now? Come on. Everyone will look cooler than me because I choose standard edition? Fuck this man.

I get a DIAMOND LOOT CHEST if i pay $250?

What in the holy fuck is going on in gaming these days? I just want to play retro now. I'm priced out!

This is nothing to do with Boarderland.

But I loved Everquest. I was addicted to it and a year ago or so I go back into it because they launched the progression servers that started you from day one. And it was amazing. And there were no huge paywalls. Ya you can buy xp pots and little shit like that, but ultimately there were no major paywalls. It was fantastic.

Games these days have lost track of that. These companies are wanting to make billions off of us. It's no longer creating the best game, its creating the game that extracts the money from our pockets.

I cant stand it. And i'm not sure i'll play Boarderlands 3 despite 2 being one of my favorite games of all time.

In case any interested parties haven't heard, it releases September 13th. Also, for those on PC, I hate to break some possibly deal-breaking news, but it will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store for 6 months until April 2020. Do with that information as you will.

I don't know but apparently it's in high demand, as it sold out in 20 minutes this morning upon pre-order availability.

Also, here's a link to what is included in this edition:

https://press-start.com.au/news/play...t-have-leaked/

They're paying the streamers. It's a fucking scheme.

I mean, TBF, a lot of people thought the loot chest edition would sell for WAY more than $250.

You're not getting it. I dont want that. I want a game. I dont want added paywalls. I want to play a game with people. I dont want to feel like i have to pull a credit card to keep up. It makes me feel stupid andddddddddddddd I cant afford it. I just cant afford it man. These games are pricing me out.

No sense getting upset until we actually know what their marketplace looks like.

Microtransactions aren't inherently bad. They've got a bad name because too many companies have abused them, by either offering pay to win content or providing a game thats very lacking in content while selling additional stuff in it's store.

Some of the "special" editions do seem a bit pay to win, which I'd honestly be fine with, except that 2K and Gearbox have been saying for a while now and in no uncertain terms that BL3 would not feature microtransactions.

Screw it. I'll get that diamond loot box.

Got it the last time for Borderlands 2. Made for a good collector's item to store some stuff.

Yeah I kinda want the chest this time because I missed out on the last one.

Went to go pre-order today and collector's edition chests apparently sold out 2 hours after the announcement. Bummer.

If anyone's still hunting for the $250 collector's edition, Gamestop got them back in stock. Just grabbed one.

Better hurry.

lol @ Randy Pitchford having a twitter meltdown.

I don't know that I'd call it a "meltdown", per se. He's just a goofball who makes goofy ass posts, which as someone with a pretty skewed sense of humor I totally appreciate and love.

Also, I noticed that (while playing) that they spell Eridium with an "I" (Iridium), just like the real life chemical compound on the Periodic Table of the Elements, as opposed to with an "E" (#OTBTW)

Ah, that goofy goofball with his charming "you fucked me on this". Such hi-jinx!

Now the Claptrap voice actor is accusing Pitchford of physical assault lol

Which one, the one in BL3 or the voice actor from the original, 2 and The Pre-Sequel?

The original.

WOOOO just over a month out sssssooooo hypez

Already determined long ago I'm gonna roll out as Zane.

Always went the gunner class in the first 2 games. Want to try something different this time.

My first main will be Moze, then Amara, and I'll get around to the other 2 when I have the time.

I've always been one of those players of the BL games that I couldn't just play and stick with only being one of the 4 (in the first game) to 6 vault hunters, I have to experience them all. To me personally, only ever playing one character per game is kind of like walking into a Baskin Robbins and getting vanilla every time even though there's 30 other flavors. It would get too boring after a while.

Under a month to go!

My copy's en route.

Should be waiting for me when I get home from work.

According to 2K Games, this game managed to break several records during its launch week.

Highest launch week sales in series history, highest launch week sales in 2K Games history, and 2nd franchise in 2K Games history to hit the $1 billion in profits mark.

https://wccftech.com/borderlands-3-s...rst-five-days/

I've seen people in another thread talking about how tough the bosses are, but so far the only one that's given me any kind of real trouble at all is Killavolt.

Pretty major and as yet unpatched bug involves the end game and people unexpectedly getting negative Guardian Rank.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultas...is-a-big-deal/

You've been warned.

Oh and starting the game and bringing up the start screen feels like it takes around a full minute, and that includes 20-30 seconds of watching Claptrap's annoying ass trying to dance.

The boss you mentioned is the one that didn't give me trouble LOL

Who's your character anyway? I'm Moze. Maybe Iron Bear deals more damage than I thought.

As for the one you mentioned, I just hid where he couldn't hit me, and once his armor was down I easily whittled away both his shield bars with a pistol -- a fucking PISTOL LOLOLOL

FL4K, but not the popular build. I hid in the exact same spot you did and whittled him down with elemental pistols as well but that spot is kind of cheese and is indicative of why I said he's hard af. That spot shouldn't realistically be there. Regardless, if you venture out of cover against him it's insane. You can not ever stop moving and must keep eyes on him at all times no matter what and you have to be aware of the few spots you can use as cover from some of the moves you can't escape via running.

He's much easier with appropriate weapons though. A high fire rate smg/machine gun with corrosive and one with electrical damage. Keep running and burn through his armor with the corrosive gun, switch to electric and burn through the rest. If you have a big damage boost skill it can go FAST. Fade Away FL4K will melt him; unfortunately as I said I didn't use the popular build lol.

As for the boss you originally mentioned all you have to do is watch the patterns on the floor and stay in the right spots, jumping around as much as possible. If you can keep off the spots he electrifies the rest of his attacks are trivial.

On another topic, I got a legendary shield drop earlier that made me die laughing. As far as I can tell it is a replica of Typhon's shield that mentions that he approves of it. Yes. I have a synthetic Vercuvian Ham.

Most of the first few bosses I've died only once and figured it out the second time around.

Hitting a stretch now where they've become a bit easier.

I had the porcelain pipe bomb in my inventory and didnt realize what I was carrying. Let the murder fest ensue.

Apparently I was on the receiving end of an annoying bug in that fight that got patched with today's update. Dude electrified the ENTIRE field and I was so fucked.

Game needs a few more fast travel points.

man bad couple days for my character. Hard patch nerfed my 1337 it4m and hotfix just nerfed my skillz0rz. Feels bad man.

also yes more fast travel needed. Would be nice if the end of zone fast travel points that are one way were fully functional and just transported you to the checkpoint right before the boss area instead as to not break anything.

Alright, passing through bounties and bosses for a 2nd time here and there and they've all dropped orange loot. Every. Single. One.

Does this make sense?

Apparently as part of the patch that nerfed overall loot drops, quests and mission bosses that are designed to drop a specific item are now guaranteed to drop their specific item. At least that's my understanding.

I'm farming for a diluvian firestorm grenade before they nerf it.

I'm still dragging ass through my first playthrough. Being v thorough so I know where everything is in the future. Also gives me a chance to see a bunch of the diff specific loot drops and see which ones I want to hold off on until max level.

You're not the only one, although my main reasons are the compulsive need to explore every pixel of every map, doing all side missions as soon as they become available, being without a working controller for about a week and a half, and being out of town since yesterday morning and not returning home until tomorrow late afternoon/early evening.

I have made what I believe to be pretty solid progress though, as I'm presently in the return to Pandora part of the story.

omg overlevelling makes some of the later bosses straight bastards unless you get lucky af on your weapon drops. I ran into a straight brick wall earlier until I managed a masterful 15 minute ballet of dodging and attacking occasionally and managed to finally win....After like 3 hours of corpse flopping.

LOL It's the one series where I love to overlevel. Finished the story finally at damn near lvl. 44 out of the current cap of 50.

Speaking of the ending, all I'll say is it left me, and I'm sure plenty of others with one big question that may or may not be answered in a DLC.

Also where TF are Fiona and Dr. Zed :(?

There are a lot more than just one question hanging at the end if you paid attention to the lore, especially all the logs from

Oh I know that, but that's the one that rests on my and I'm sure a lot of people's minds. Wanted to know if she's properly gone so that if so, I could mourn her loss and felt kinda deprived of that.

Also, I'm like one non-weapon slot away from having the idiotically named "On Fleek" trophy. Plus, it seems that dark orange rarity is back, as I got a weapon from the chest on Sanctuary that definitely had a dark orange background around it.

I haven't seen anything about dark orange rarity anywhere. You sure it wasn't one of those new anointed guns?

Today is the 10th anniversary of the series. And to celebrate, Borderlands 3 will have in game events starting today and running for 5 weeks.

Bonus Boss Loot starts today. The major bosses of the game have an increased chance to drop their legendary.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10...ar-anniversary

No, not pink rarity. I see what happened. When you get a weapon or piece of gear that's higher than your current level, the background of the image in your inventory appears as a darker shade of its rarity color.

Anointed guns aren't pink. They are also orange and have an extra class specific skill and a label that says something like "Anointed Beastmaster".

Oh OK. Well in that case I don't believe I have encountered any of those as yet. Probably will pretty soon now that I'm on Mayhem III TVHM at lvl. 50.

Cleaning up Crew Challenges before starting M3TVHM now that I'm lvl. 50.

After that, might search Moze builds and see what the best weapons and gear for said build would be.

I did all the crew challenges as I cleared each map thankfully. Also in regards to anointed weapons, I am pretty sure the vending machine directly next to crazy earls eridium shop sells some of it.

I admit, I'm a freaking dumbass. Some of the anointed weapons actually have "Anointed" as their fucking prefix.

Also, just trying to clarify, is anointed stuff weapons that drop or spawn with an light surrounding the color beam and/or does anointed stuff have anything to do with the Cult of the Vault symbol on the top middle of the stat cards?

Yes, the vault symbol in the bar above the weapon name denotes it is an anointed weapon as far as I can tell. Not sure if the light beams on drops change or not for them though as I haven't really paid attention.

I think I've noticed it happening with every anointed weapon I've seen. Like blue rarity for example has the typical blue beam but anointed blue have blue beams and like an aura of light that surrounds it or something.

Took down GenIVIV and Aurelia one last time before the challenge ended. No golden guns from either. Yet, I open my first grey chest in the game and poof, there's one. Huh.

Hopefully the special enemies will be much kinder starting tomorrow.

Week 2. The rare spawn hunt is now underway.

Seems appropriate that I got ZerØ's trophy for killing all the Targets of Opportunity by killing Handsome Jackie, LOL.

also, holy shit, the DP Laser-Sploder wrecks everything, even on Mayhem III. Finally a dependable weapon.

Just having some fun with the Guardian Rank XP exploit which involves dashboarding out of the game and reloading it immediately thereafter. If the maps appear out of order, that means it's working and you get like 6x normal XP.

So, because I've been trying to get Warden's legendary Freeman rocket launcher to drop, I paid him another visit and got a freaking QUADRUPLE legendary drop. Guess it's bound to happen every now and again when you go from your previous game only having like 17M weapons/gear/etc. to over 1B, but still...LOL

Finally finished.



In a bind right now because I'm going to go after some of the quick trophies and set it off to the side and focus on Outer Worlds next week. But, the Halloween event is looming and I want to check that out.

I'm not sure about the fate of Lilith in the ending. Like there's literally 2 different halves of me, one that believes she's KIA, the other just MIA. Maybe we'll find out soon.

Also, the voice actress of Moze has a Twitch channel and is streaming BL3 playing as Moze. So awesome. 😁

Bloody Harvest kicks off this Thursday October 24th and runs until December 5th.

Well, I've done about all I can do for the time being.

Only things I got left to do are my circles of slaughter and the Eridian trials. Couple co-op trophies lingering but I think I got a buddy or 2 grabbing this on the cheap. Also at level 47. But, some time at Mayhem 1 or true vault hunter mode will get me to 50 quick.

Fell victim to the Eridian Slab and Pandora locations trophies but managed to get them.

Tried to cheese the Slaughterstar 3000 Circle of Slaughter solo via the invincibility glitch with the last stand artifact the other day, got to giant blue boss solo and he knocked me out of the arena. LOL

Also, while trying to keep Amara moving through the main story last night, was playing through the mission Blood Drive and had to completely quit and restart the game because of what I assume was a bug where you turn a valve to make steam come out of some pipes beneath a grate which is supposed to carry you up to the next area but which wasn't doing so despite my activating the valve.

A couple of welcome hotfixes as recently the drop rate of terror anointed gear was significantly nerfed and regular anointed drops were buffed, as well as the fact that normal ghosts will now drop 2 hecktoplasm and badass ghosts will now drop 3 per kill.

On a final note, they've also made a visual change so that when a launcher wielding enemy fires at you, it no longer pollutes most of the screen and makes it nearly impossible to target enemies.

If the purpose is to just keep killing Captain Haunt over and over and over and over and over and over again, and do nothing else, I sure hope these next events are more thought out and have a lot of other options to do.

The side challenges of tracking down and killing 4 rare spawns was fun. But, there needs to be a lot more missions.

I think the Maliwan Takedown event starting next Thursday should prove a lot more enjoyable. That plus we're getting a major patch to address big issues, and yes, it thankfully includes addressing issues with Moze.

"Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot" DLC official reveal trailer
 

Just when I thought I was out, I get pulled back in.

Holy fucking balls the Takedown is insane, especially on Mayhem 4.

Somehow a group I was in made it to Wotan (evidently another way of saying "Odin") the Invincible before getting bitch slapped to death one by one LMAO.

‘Borderlands 3’ Has Gone Three Months With Zero Microtransactions, A True Anomaly
 

So I downloaded and played through the Handsome Jackpot DLC yesterday, and let's just say my Amara has lots of new toys to mess around with. :cool:

Finished Handsome Jackpot.

This was fun. A lot of content and story. New characters were cool. Worth the money.

All-new Edition of The Borderlands Show goes live tomorrow morning, February 11th @ 8AM PST/11AM EST that is expected to potentially reveal or partially reveal the new DLC set to release in March, as well as quite possibly some news on a future level cap increase.

The new, HUGE update, along with the weekly hotpatches, is finally here, and it is fucking glorious!


As always, you're required to wait a few seconds at the main menu until the "HOTFIXES APPLIED!" sign appears in the background behind your vault hunter before you loaf the game for the new changes to take effect.

Platinum'd this last night...……...finally.

Buddy and I did the last couple Circles of Slaughter and we got our 100 hearts in minutes.

I still need the target range trophy to plat the vanilla game, and the Debt Collector trophy from the DLC to hit 100%. I swear, I don't know how many times I've loaded in to the area of The Spendopticon where he has a chance to spawn and yet he never has. I've tried literally dozens of times consecutively and nothing. No idea what the issue could be as I've completed the side quest.

My buddy had the same issue with the Debt Collector. Just keep reloading and keep your fingers crossed.

As for the firing range, grab a buddy and tag team it or go looking for the infinity pistol. Loot tinks got 'em, but you gotta go offline for them now, I think.