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Deleted user 28 September 2017 16:48:36

hedben2013 wrote:
They were theorising on the Giant Bombcast that Borderlands 3 should learn lessons from Destiny and emphasise custom characters and showing off/"dressing up" if they want to stay relevant

Christ, I hope they don't go that way. Custom characters I could live with but I loved BL 1 and 2 solo and barely ever saw my own character except in passing each time I got a new skin. Borderlands was a great FPS loot game before Destiny came along, and along with good writing and hunour, the visual style made it stand out (a point which they also conceded on the Bombcast and hoped it won't lose for BL3)

Character customisation is nice, but if they think that is what makes a game relevant, I can't take them seriously.

Not that I did before, of course.

dsmx 28 Sep 2017 16:58:37 8,640 posts
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When they do a sequel they need to bring back the weapon variety to legendary weapons, getting a legendary in borderlands 2 doesn't feel that special since the only way it can differ from anyone else's legendary is what level it is, that is really disappointing considering how annoyingly rare legendary drops are.

themanfromdelmonte 28 Sep 2017 18:04:57 777 posts
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I found BL2's legendaries to be more varied than BL1's. BL2's loots system needed for Purple rarity items to be better and for the drop rate to be higher. They also needed to playtest all the legendaries and make them all useful, seeing an Orange spike and then finding a WTF shield, or a Gub just takes the piss.

For BL3, I'd like to see them have a BL1, random loot pool until you reach the endgame. Then it should change over to a BL2 style assigned drops system mini bosses. So you can farm for specific loot to refine the build of your character before taking on raid bosses. They should get rid of the Slag mechanic and go back to having elemental affects be more powerful. And having the option of playing through the game again, but with the skills of characters from previous games unlock after max levelling, would have been great for Axton, Sal, Maya and Zer0 to have the option of replaying with the skills of Ronald, Brick, Lilith and Mordecai.

Deleted user 28 September 2017 20:48:20

themanfromdelmonte wrote:
They should get rid of the Slag mechanic and go back to having elemental affects be more powerful.

About slag, that always seemed like a multiplayer-heavy feature to me. Sadly I haven't played MP for long, but I imagine it makes much more sense if one player slags enemies that are then finished off by the other three. In single player it's rather pointless as you have to switch to other weapons all the time, the weapon swapping taking too much time of the enemy's slag debuff already. Except for slag grenades, but tbh that fireworks grenade that levels with you that you get from some edition of the game is so powerful that I almost never find any grenade that matches it - and that's before the fireworks levels with me again while whatever else I found doesn't.

As for elemental effects, I don't quite get that criticism. Elemental weapons are already stronger than non-elemental ones in BL2, especially if you have skills that enhance them. I'd actually like non-elemental weapons to be more competitive.

hedben2013 28 Mar 2019 18:25:02 2,261 posts
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Live stream in progress

https://youtu.be/ySeQmS66oC4

Only reason I haven't created a Borderlands 3 thread (don't think there is one yet??) is they haven't named it as a direct numbered sequel yet. "Expect great things" at the end of the show (7pm GMT) though according to Randy...

hedben2013 28 Mar 2019 18:39:35 2,261 posts
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Randy is doing magic onstage and the YouTube live chat is having none of it...

M83J01P97 28 Mar 2019 18:46:22 7,607 posts
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This conference seem terribly unnecessary and is just full of padding and they haven't announced anything exciting at all yet. Almost like all modern 'big' press conferences...

neilka 28 Mar 2019 18:52:59 24,021 posts
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Their trailers have broken 👍

gamecat 28 Mar 2019 18:53:00 1,230 posts
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WTF is this conference, it's an hour of trolling us so far.

edit ok, BL1 minimap, yes.

Edited by gamecat at 18:55:19 28-03-2019

M83J01P97 28 Mar 2019 18:55:17 7,607 posts
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I can't work out if this is a general shit show and they can't get the main announcement to work... or if they are just going a bit too far with the fuckery with all the padding and avoiding talking about what everyone actually wants to know about.

8bitMofo 28 Mar 2019 19:07:33 839 posts
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Running the videos on a Laptop and using Windows player in 2019.

Deleted user 28 March 2019 19:40:07

And not having a backup device for a show with a thousand people

hedben2013 29 Mar 2019 15:18:27 2,261 posts
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In case anyone cares and doesn't already have dozens of unused golden keys for BL2, they gave away 100 during the stream last night

C35TB-WS6ST-TXBRK-TTTJT-JJH6H

Code still works, and can be redeemed onlinewithout having to reinstall the game. I figured I might boot BL2 back up shortly before the release of 3 and see how many legendaries 100 keys equates to

gamecat 29 Mar 2019 15:22:55 1,230 posts
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@hedben2013 zero, only purples from standard Golden keys, there's a few specific legendaries from specific codes though.

hedben2013 29 Mar 2019 18:55:58 2,261 posts
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@gamecat shit I'd forgotten that's how it works, no wonder I still had so many left over.

Ah well I've reinstalled it anyway, getting reaquainted with my lv46 Axton in True Vault Hunter mode. Might even roll a Psycho new character, never tried that one

Tabasco 29 Mar 2019 21:05:22 5,869 posts
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The code above gives 5 keys and a skin. Still useful ;-)

This one give 100 keys (At least for me...)-
C3W33-RZ6ZJ-TFJ6C-TTJ33-RFHX5

Fourwisemen 29 Mar 2019 21:14:45 1,107 posts
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Tabasco wrote:
The code above gives 5 keys and a skin. Still useful

This one give 100 keys (At least for me...)-
C3W33-RZ6ZJ-TFJ6C-TTJ33-RFHX5

Worked for me. May drop on in on that game again, I never did finish the dlc.

Deleted user 29 March 2019 21:22:07

hedben2013 wrote:
Ah well I've reinstalled it anyway, getting reaquainted with my lv46 Axton in True Vault Hunter mode. Might even roll a Psycho new character, never tried that one

Do so. He's not good in the early game, but he becomes a beast around level 15-20. He will become more of an insane beast the higher you level up.

Edited by DrStrangelove at 21:23:22 29-03-2019

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