Getting a Face Puncher shotgun makes it easier since it scales off your melee damage bonuses. That way when you literally can't get close enough to punch a guy, you can still deal ranged bonus damage based on your melee build.
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Borderlands 3 |OT| The Three-Sequel!!
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Getting a Face Puncher shotgun makes it easier since it scales off your melee damage bonuses. That way when you literally can't get close enough to punch a guy, you can still deal ranged bonus damage based on your melee build.
Do the random "go kill this enemy" bounty missions count as side missions?
Just returned from Hawaii and played for a little over 12 hours yesterday... Killed Mouthpiece (That was a fun fight!) and got some coffee on the second planet.
Damn, this game is fantastic! Best Borderlands game since BL1, I am having a lot of fun. Does it seem like the hidden chests are a lot less frequent then they used to be?
Damn, this game is fantastic! Best Borderlands game since BL1, I am having a lot of fun. Does it seem like the hidden chests are a lot less frequent then they used to be?
Once you get blitz (and illuminated fist) you can 100% melee mob no problem before endgame. With good gear you can 100% melee mob at endgame. Bosses you generally will have to use guns along with melee and your action skill against but you can melee some of them down.
Others that are out of range yeah you have to use guns and your action skill with them.
No. Those are separate and are not counted in the Side Mission total.
To be clear, I am talking about the kill bounties picked up on Sanctuary.
Well crap. Looks like I'm missing two Claptrack side missions that were supposedly not missable..but are totally missable. Guess I'll have to crank them out in TVHM.
Probably Graveward, as with all world drops. Think it's one of the rarest, though; I've only seen one Lucian's and two Rowan's after many kills.
I agree 100%! An elemental build with Amara with Samsara for life regeneration is a total blast to play.
My perfect Moze combo so far.
1. Arctic Relentless Night Hawkin - 126% cryo efficiency
2. Snowdrift Rocket Boots - 73% bonus cryo damage
3. Molly Gains Mind Sweeper - 25% chance to drop a micro grenade on critical hit
4. Maxed out splash/elemental damage skill tree
I'm running through TVHM now and there's basically no challenge now. Enemies just melt/freeze/corrode in a second. It at least makes going through all this story stuff again tolerable.
1. Arctic Relentless Night Hawkin - 126% cryo efficiency
2. Snowdrift Rocket Boots - 73% bonus cryo damage
3. Molly Gains Mind Sweeper - 25% chance to drop a micro grenade on critical hit
4. Maxed out splash/elemental damage skill tree
I'm running through TVHM now and there's basically no challenge now. Enemies just melt/freeze/corrode in a second. It at least makes going through all this story stuff again tolerable.
I finally got Amara to level 50 and I think I'm done for now. I found the Circle of Slaughters not very fun. They ramp up the mobs way too quickly. The proving grounds were alright but I don't have a huge desire to play them again. I tried playing as Moze but my heart wasn't into it. Really enjoyed my time with this game.
People have already given you some good suggestions but here's one: If you plan to do endgame content like mayhem modes with Melee Amara farm for the equipment that you'll need to farm for them with a different character. Because otherwise you'll spend ages trying to kill a boss on mayhem to farm for legendaries and it just isn't fun.
Aslo here's a good video I found for a melee Amara build:
Yep I'm a having great time, but it is clearly pushing current gen to it's limits.
After finishing TVHMwith Mayhem 3, I am ready for UVHM and whatever other mayhem modes they can add.
Yeah thought so. It's weird how you can't make it glow because it's turning orange immediately. Thanks for the reply though!I think this is the best you can do for neon red :
You could try farming a boss like Graveward (try Mayhem 1 for the XP boost) and see how you fare?
Well, beat it beat it.
Honestly? Even with the big step down in writing and some of the bugs or UI issues, I think this is the best the Borderlands gameplay has ever been. It was just so fucking FUN to play. I had a blast the whole damn time in the combat and the improvements they made to everything surrounding it was fantastic. I honestly do not think an FPS has had better bosses. There are so few duds and so many of them were just super fun. Gun variety, the character's ability trees, a whole host of other stuff was great.
As far as the story and writing goes, I think my main feeling is frustration. There is a really good story and really good characters in there trying to get out but the writers just couldn't get there. When you reach the end and everything is sorta revealed, it was a great moment or plot point...but up until that point it didn't really earn it? Like, I might just write up a huge post or essay about what the game did to miss the mark with what it was trying to do. Because there were so many things they just didn't go hard enough into or leaned on enough to make the moments of character as impactful as they could have been. The Calypsos as streamers could have dovetailed so beautifully with their backstory and the idea of family, showing how they get people to love them so much they would die for them, making commentary on how die-hard people in parasocial relationships with entertainers are, making the Calypsos almost vindictive in their treatment of the Children of the Vault.
God. I wish I could like...fucking take the whole game and just workshop it and rewrite it and re-release it. Tyreen and Troy showed moments of what they could have been, some parts where greatness could be found, but the writers either tried too hard to make Tyreen a Jack 2 without letting the parts of her identity that naturally came forward at the end happen or didn't commit enough to the gimmick of either streamer or cult leader. They didn't commit fully to the streamer aspects, so they felt shallow and the jokes weren't as strong.
I will say that from Eden 6 on I think the game feels like it's written by different writers. I thought it was much better from that point on, but that the good parts didn't hit hard because everything up til then hadn't been earned with good set up.
Still. I still like the Calypsos even if I'm disappointed they were not allowed to be better characters. I love that somehow, in some way, Borderlands still remains one of the most progressive video games as far as representation is concerned. I love it even if the Vault Hunter being a non-entity hurts a lot of the game because of contrived circumstances only happening to move plot forward and not naturally or taking into consideration that I am literally standing right there. I kill every boss and yet somehow they can't even animate my character getting kicked off a building or stuck in a Vault to explain why I did nothing when certain events happen.
But also the music slaps.
Honestly? Even with the big step down in writing and some of the bugs or UI issues, I think this is the best the Borderlands gameplay has ever been. It was just so fucking FUN to play. I had a blast the whole damn time in the combat and the improvements they made to everything surrounding it was fantastic. I honestly do not think an FPS has had better bosses. There are so few duds and so many of them were just super fun. Gun variety, the character's ability trees, a whole host of other stuff was great.
As far as the story and writing goes, I think my main feeling is frustration. There is a really good story and really good characters in there trying to get out but the writers just couldn't get there. When you reach the end and everything is sorta revealed, it was a great moment or plot point...but up until that point it didn't really earn it? Like, I might just write up a huge post or essay about what the game did to miss the mark with what it was trying to do. Because there were so many things they just didn't go hard enough into or leaned on enough to make the moments of character as impactful as they could have been. The Calypsos as streamers could have dovetailed so beautifully with their backstory and the idea of family, showing how they get people to love them so much they would die for them, making commentary on how die-hard people in parasocial relationships with entertainers are, making the Calypsos almost vindictive in their treatment of the Children of the Vault.
God. I wish I could like...fucking take the whole game and just workshop it and rewrite it and re-release it. Tyreen and Troy showed moments of what they could have been, some parts where greatness could be found, but the writers either tried too hard to make Tyreen a Jack 2 without letting the parts of her identity that naturally came forward at the end happen or didn't commit enough to the gimmick of either streamer or cult leader. They didn't commit fully to the streamer aspects, so they felt shallow and the jokes weren't as strong.
I will say that from Eden 6 on I think the game feels like it's written by different writers. I thought it was much better from that point on, but that the good parts didn't hit hard because everything up til then hadn't been earned with good set up.
Still. I still like the Calypsos even if I'm disappointed they were not allowed to be better characters. I love that somehow, in some way, Borderlands still remains one of the most progressive video games as far as representation is concerned. I love it even if the Vault Hunter being a non-entity hurts a lot of the game because of contrived circumstances only happening to move plot forward and not naturally or taking into consideration that I am literally standing right there. I kill every boss and yet somehow they can't even animate my character getting kicked off a building or stuck in a Vault to explain why I did nothing when certain events happen.
But also the music slaps.
So I was playing on controller with my wife just cus why not (she does) and I just tried playing SP on KB/M tonight and holy fuck.
Picked this up and I'm really loving it, BL3 is the first core BL I sink my teeth into despit always saying I should give the series a try, played a decent amount of hours in 2 despite not finishing the campaign and I adored Tales from.
Gameplay loop feels very rewarding and although the story is kinda meh, it works since I'm mostly just talking with friends. Certainly rekindled my interest in the looter shooter genre.
Gameplay loop feels very rewarding and although the story is kinda meh, it works since I'm mostly just talking with friends. Certainly rekindled my interest in the looter shooter genre.
Any way to farm unique Epic guns?
I lost my favourite weapon tonight after stupidity dropping it to make room for a legendary after boss farming. It was a Epic SMG that was unique in that it's bullets shot in the shape of a heart. It also had pyro and a huge mag or 61. I believe it was called Heartmaker but spelled in l33t speak.
Thanks.
I lost my favourite weapon tonight after stupidity dropping it to make room for a legendary after boss farming. It was a Epic SMG that was unique in that it's bullets shot in the shape of a heart. It also had pyro and a huge mag or 61. I believe it was called Heartmaker but spelled in l33t speak.
Thanks.
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Agreed. The game is a juggernaut so I'm wondering if PS5/Next-gen Xbox will get them running at 60fps in split-screen mode. Would be very welcomed tbh as I do want to pick this up on console at some point to play with family together.
Thanks! It's called LoveMachine. I'll have to see if any of my PS4 friends have a level 50 version.
Edit: If anyone here has it for trade I have a bunch of level 50 legendary guns to swap for it. :)
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Anyone dealt with any hacking on PC? Any repercussions/bugs?
As I said last night I joined a game with the idea of just leveling my Gunner, I was at level 11 when I noticed one player was AFK so I just started messing around a bit and ran into the other two players in the group, we killed some fodder and all of a sudden all of us went to level 50, all of the skill trees were complete with skill points, we had 100,000,000 in currency, 700 Guardian Rank points, and multiple legendaries were dropping from everything we killed (literally hundreds of legendary gear was on the map...albeit at a much lower level than 50). I could also jump incredibly far, it was nuts but it feels super cheap too. I went back to my game and all the skill/guardian rank points remained, as well as the currency and any gear I picked up but the super jumping was gone at least.
As I said last night I joined a game with the idea of just leveling my Gunner, I was at level 11 when I noticed one player was AFK so I just started messing around a bit and ran into the other two players in the group, we killed some fodder and all of a sudden all of us went to level 50, all of the skill trees were complete with skill points, we had 100,000,000 in currency, 700 Guardian Rank points, and multiple legendaries were dropping from everything we killed (literally hundreds of legendary gear was on the map...albeit at a much lower level than 50). I could also jump incredibly far, it was nuts but it feels super cheap too. I went back to my game and all the skill/guardian rank points remained, as well as the currency and any gear I picked up but the super jumping was gone at least.
The jumping puzzles in this game are the fucking worst. I'd rather deal with Dark Souls controls, fucking hell.
I'd say about 30-40 hours if you do most of the side quests alongside the main story missions. Took me about 32 hours.
Just turn on automantle and you should have no problems.
Flak question:
So gamma burst sucks in proving grounds.
should I spec into stalker and hunter tree?Should I mainly use fade away/jabber or spider/rakk?
also, I do not see the mayhem mode pedestal in the sanctuary. I just started tvhm, just got to the sanctuary.
So gamma burst sucks in proving grounds.
should I spec into stalker and hunter tree?Should I mainly use fade away/jabber or spider/rakk?
also, I do not see the mayhem mode pedestal in the sanctuary. I just started tvhm, just got to the sanctuary.
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What's wrong with it? It slays. I ran gamma burst my whole playthrough and didn't have any problems with it until i started to move into mayhem 2.
So I power leveled my friend's Moze to 50 and then ran with him to finish the last few missions on normal. Open up the last story chest and lo and behold a 50 MIRV Hex. Lucky for him.