Damn, Pro Res mode going under 25 at times...
Yes, locked is cool but 30fps is nope. Another game to play on PS5 I guess.
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Borderlands 3 |OT| The Three-Sequel!!
- Thread starter vestan
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Yeah I'm only level 16 but I'm loving Iron Bear, it's saved my ass many times.
Died twelve times to Captain Truant now. The fastest way to actually get him low is to stay close, yet doing that just ends up with my shields being destroyed in a single hit, then the next hit I am in fight for your life mode. Staying far away does absolutely nothing, because walls don't protect you in the slightest. Seriously WTF with the boss damage output in this game? Funny thing too is that I've even watched a few videos on this boss fight, and he NEVER does the carpet bombing, all shield shit attacks on the players in the videos, and their shields barely get damaged at all. It's like I'm stuck in True Vault Hunter mode or something.
I have been stuck at 403 shields now for the last six levels too, and every single time a new shield drops, it's horrible and nowhere near as good as what I am currently wearing.
All of the vendor loot is shit too. Borderlands 2 was nothing like this in terms of loot drops, and I'm about to use the key exploit, because fuck this.
I have been stuck at 403 shields now for the last six levels too, and every single time a new shield drops, it's horrible and nowhere near as good as what I am currently wearing.
All of the vendor loot is shit too. Borderlands 2 was nothing like this in terms of loot drops, and I'm about to use the key exploit, because fuck this.
Oh man, good Gravy.
I have 3 golden keys but they are not showing up in my game. I check in the social area and it says I have them, but in game when I go to the chest its just red and says I have no keys. Perhaps there's a point in the game where you gain the ability to unlock the golden chest? I know the answer is going to super-simple and I'm going to feel lame lol.
Also, in case anyone is having a hard time with Mouthpiece, I threw together a little video of what to watch out for, and how to beat him (plus that one side-quest available afterward).
I have 3 golden keys but they are not showing up in my game. I check in the social area and it says I have them, but in game when I go to the chest its just red and says I have no keys. Perhaps there's a point in the game where you gain the ability to unlock the golden chest? I know the answer is going to super-simple and I'm going to feel lame lol.
Also, in case anyone is having a hard time with Mouthpiece, I threw together a little video of what to watch out for, and how to beat him (plus that one side-quest available afterward).
If I was playing by myself, I'd probably be bored out of my mind, but rolling with two other people is fun. We're at the point where there is so much happening on the screen each fight that it's funny to watch. Hasn't been anything that challenged us yet, though.
You might be the unluckiest person around if youre exploring and the chests you find dont give you anything better
I had no issue with Truant, beat him first try actually... some of the experiences I've read have been super uneven. Just super garbage drops for some people I guess?
I got my keys immediately and when I got to the Golden Chest I used 2 successfully. Under social setting I think it shows I have 8 keys. Not sure what's going with yours?
Rngesus giveth and taketh
Im guessing a mix of crew challenges and side quests. Some side quests are locked till later too
Oh and I had no idea that expanding your bag/ammo now useS MONEY woohoo!!! I spent every damn penny of my 25K when I got there for the first time. And it looks like Eridium is my not cosmetics now? That's cool but I really don't care about that stuff so i won't have to farm eridium unless it has other uses later.
Just got past the first planet. I am level 11 FL4K and having more fun as time goes on with him (and the new build which is way better than what I had been using). Game is super good I'm having a blast. The writing is terribad level but I expected that and eh whatevs. Gameplay is king and the loot...THE LOOT!!!
Just got past the first planet. I am level 11 FL4K and having more fun as time goes on with him (and the new build which is way better than what I had been using). Game is super good I'm having a blast. The writing is terribad level but I expected that and eh whatevs. Gameplay is king and the loot...THE LOOT!!!
Under the social menu, did you go through your "emails" where you get your VIP gun rewards? I think I had to go through all of those before my three keys showed up.
Did you not see the vending machine next to Earl? There is some "anointed" gear sold for eridiums in there which I believe you can't get anywhere else(in the campaign, at least).
Took me a couple tries to beat the guy who electrifies the floor. Wasted a good amount of money on revives lol. Now, I'm just gonna focus on the main story for a bit.
Next to Earl is a vending machine for weapons that takes Eridium. They are all typically very good and anointed.
Press the left stick on a controller, no idea what key it is on pc, but it should be listed on the map screen just above the fast travel selection "button Zone Progress".
You need to clear everything listed under "Challenges", all missions, discover all areas, find all red chests and interact with all eridian writing once you can.
that sounds pretty typical for my entire experience playing the borderlands games, not so much presequel because i could recycle all my weapons into slightly better ones. But this games scaling is very strange because normally enemies that are higher level than you are unstoppable, strong enough that you do 0 damage if their 2-3 levels higher. But so far, I used a level 4 purple gun until I was like 13 because it would melt everything, and i just hit 20 and all my stuff is level 14~. Everything I've found since then has been awful, in 1 and 2 I would start using the golden chest to get new equipment but since this is a new release, I dont exactly have the limitless keys I usually do(the exploit would get tedious). Any 'high' level enemies still take damage and dish out a little bit extra but I wouldnt be able to really tell apart a level 15 or level 20 enemy if I was level 16 for example, which I love btw.
The entire game feels so much easier and fluid compared to previous entries, me and my co-op partner haven't died to anything yet and just beat our 3rd planet. I was dreading killavolt but he was easy too. Even Legendaries are way more plentiful, my friends typhon chests have been giving him tons of cosmetics and he's nearly decked out entirely in legendaries.
I have been doing all of the side quests in any given area before moving on, I am now level 18 on Athenas and no, I am not getting any upgrades. I got a single legendary shotgun a while back, and even that was more of a sidegrade to the level 12 shotgun I am still using. The shields I keep seeing drop are 200 or lower, most of the weapons that are not green or gray are sniper rifles, and I've been trashing dozens of them already because not a single one is an upgrade.
Chests rarely ever drop anything above green unless it's a Typhon chest, and those do not scale to level. They seem tied to the general level of the area, so if I do them later...I get crap of course. The blues that do happen to drop mostly have no good modifiers, or they are Malawan, which I can't stand for bosses since you have to charge them up first.
Again, something seems really wrong. It is not nostalgia goggles either, but Borderlands 2 regularly dropped upgrades as you played. They might not have always been massive, but each time a blue or purple dropped, it typically was better if it was a level or two higher than what you currently had. That's not been my experience at all so far with this game.
The "get close" actually really useful, this seems to be the closest I've gotten to him dying. I've been stuck on him for ageeesss thank you 🙏
It sounds like you're ignoring the boss mechanics and just facetanking the boss and expecting positive results from that.
You can dodge the bowling ball. It's designed to keep you from camping in one spot. Just pay attention to his attack patterns and keep mobile.
Also there are like a million adds in that fight, so FFYL should only mean "free shields".
I can't believe I'm saying this, but this game needs to take a page out of that most recent Bubsy game's book and add a verbosity, except instead of turning down quips, I want to turn down the amount of reacting to elemental effects, because oh my god, this game needs to shut the hell up once in a while. Between your character and the enemies just screaming literally all the time, it just gets so grating. That Killavolt fight was straight "AHH OOOH NO AAAAH EEEEEH AAAAHNAOOO NOOOOO AAAAAHA EEEEEEYAAAA RRAAHHHERRRG NOOOOO EEEEEEEEHE AAAAAAAH OH NOOOO NOO NOOOO AHHHHH" for minutes on fucking end.
Well, if you want to actually straight up fight the boss as they intended, and not exploit it, that's the easiest way I've found, but then I get two-rounded and die anyway. If grunts are around it's not too bad, but I kept dying with none in range. You can however exploit the hell out of the fight and take no damage if you really want. I don't like cheesing bosses like that, but I'm reaching a point to where I feel like I need to. I feel severely ill equipped for this fight, yet it's a progression boss so I have nowhere to go to "farm" better gear anyway.
I've done it once just to see if it worked, but I haven't been using it really myself yet since not only is it tedious, but you wouldn't really want to do this until level 50 anyway, if you were going to do it. Unless you're just stuck with no upgrades...
Except that's not what I am doing. You can run to the side of the ice shit that travels the halls, but how do you avoid the five orbs that explode and puke lava everywhere? Tried shooting them, tried shooting his generator, and they just stay up until they eventually blow up. Staying in the halls magically causes those (the tracking) orbs to blow me up anyway and running around the map does nothing either. It just prolongs the fight. I've consistently gotten rid of his shields by staying close, while I've done nothing but die at range. And in case you missed it, I can't hit adds that aren't near me. They are usually camping in the halls, and only occasionally drop down into the pit.
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So if you shoot sticky projectiles and then switch firing modes to impact all the grenades detonate immediately
I've put in multiple golden key codes and they show up immediately... until yesterday.
Put in 4 different golden key codes on the Shift website, all three say redeemed for my PSN account, but none of them showed up in game.
They were free codes and there will be more sooner or later, but it's definitely annoying to lose out on that many.
thanks
side note, has anyone lost items on PS4? My friend (friend A) and I both lost items today on ps4. I was playing solo with a full inventory, traveled back to sanctuary and my 2nd gun slot was empty. Luckily it was just some green/blue sniper i was messing with before planning to sell. Friend A's loss was worse. He was playing with another friend (friend B) of ours and friend B got a 300% melee shield to drop.Friend B gave it to friend A who equipped it then friend B as host, quit the session. When friend A loaded back into his game, he had no shield equipped and it seems to have been lost.
OMG no I did not see that!!!! I'll have to check it out tonight :)
But with respecs fully available and cheap, you should level up choosing the best first tier skills for 5 levels, the figure out which tier 1 and 2 combo you want to pursue and respec as necessary. Then figure out which mid tier skill you want to mess with and respec into that. Etc, etc.
Building down a tree over 20+ levels toward a goal, taking skills that don't help you very much NOW while leveling isn't as beneficial IMO.
Only 2 bosses I've had real trouble with were Killavolt (who was 2 lvls higher when I faced him for some reason) and Katakawa Ball thing. He is a cunt, absolute cunt. Insane defense and damage output.
Yeah, that's weird. I'm level 17 and just got off Athenas, and I've been consistently getting upgrades all along, like, it's been difficult at times deciding what to sell or what to keep. So dunno what's up with your luck but that hasn't been my experience at all.
damn anointed perks just have to be equipped and not even out to work? lol that guess highest lvl mayhem will require these. Also glad to know that perks don't stack so I dont waste eridium later on getting dupes
Just got finished fighting him. My strategy was to basically get him stuck at the bottom of the stairs and just bombard him with everything I had. His AOE attacks normally miss and hits the wall near him. I kinda cheesed it but took him out first try.
The positional audio stuff in this game drives me nuts. If I'm facing a character who's speaking then I get the full audio, but if I turn my back the volume cuts down significantly and I can barely hear what they're saying. I wish I could disable that.
You shoot the tracking orbs to kill them.
You need to stay mobile. You can use the halls for cover but be on the lookout for the bowling ball and jump into the center courtyard when that nears (or just shoot it, apparently). Also even a white shock weapon can be useful in bringing down his shield, at which point you can go to town on his weakpoint.
Or you could just circle strafe him and continually shoot him in the back with a shotgun, endlessly staggering him, which is apparently a thing.
Being forced to sit through endless dialogue and cutscenes just for the next objective to unlock is starting to make me fatigued just like in every previous BL game. Which is a major shame because the gunplay and loot are super fun. I just couldn't care less about any of the characters and anything they have to say because it's all written so poorly and everything is so loud and screamo that I'm at that point where I'm getting extra bored.
On top of having to go through 3 different screens to fast travel to a different map, or only tracking one quest at a time makes this feel like I'm playing a throwback to 2009.
tl;dr: when I'm playing the game: 8/10, anytime I'm forced to not play -8/10
On top of having to go through 3 different screens to fast travel to a different map, or only tracking one quest at a time makes this feel like I'm playing a throwback to 2009.
tl;dr: when I'm playing the game: 8/10, anytime I'm forced to not play -8/10
I literally shot every orb to see if I could destroy them and they never expired. Not once. Also, I just reset the game until a vendor had a decent upgrade...got the boss down to half health yet again, then he carpet bombs the area with lava and even with a few grunts dropping down, I would gain second wind, shoot him once or twice only to lose all of my life again and this kept happening until there were no more grunts in the area. Circling him and shooting his back is what I've been doing, and it works until he just randomly pukes elemental effect all over the screen that cannot be avoided.
Use Torgue and Jakobs weapons to kill things in only a few bullets. Never had ammo issues while using mostly those weapons. Other manufacturer's weapons waste all of your ammo because they suck..
Are you buying ammo SDUs from Marcus? The game practically throws money at you and once you get the first few SDUs for the weapons you use ammo pretty much ceases to be a concern.
I had a lot of trouble with Katagawa Ball but the only really dangerous move he has is his rocket barrage, which is basically a one hit even if you're moving in the open. Knowing his timing was a godsend. Also useful were corrosive shotguns. And you can destroy the side pods which, IIRC, reduce the number of rockets.
His phase 2 and 3 were a joke because he no longer could shoot rockets.
Check this out.
And not only is the fire patch move easily avoidable, being a fire globe arcing slowly through the air, it's not particularly dangerous and you can stand in it for a few seconds without losing shields.
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Maybe I'm spec-ing it wrong? I dunno. I'm level 15 and I rarely ever use the mech. Maybe it'll become more useful to me later in the game.
i try to have guns of different types to spread out my ammo use. Like it has been mentioned, make sure you're upgrading your SDU for gun types you prefer. There are also shields that have a chance to absorb bullets as well you can look out for