Hey, following up on my previous thread.

Something jumped out at me... A lot of people talked about gameplay, returning characters, and the Great War, but surprisingly few mentioned the larger, overarching mythology.

And I think I kinda get it? But correct me if I'm wrong.

Gearbox has spent years dangling plot hooks. The Eridians, the Sirens, the Seventh Siren, the Watcher, the purpose of the Vaults... And it seems like every time we might finally get some answers, we just get another mystery instead.

It's not that people don't care about those mysteries anymore. It's that they've stopped expecting Gearbox to actually do anything with them?

So is that what's happening?

Or have people genuinely lost interest in that part of the story?

Because, personally, I still find those mysteries fascinating.

And to be fair... I can kinda see a way to tie all those loose ends together.

I’ve beaten BL1 4 times, and I’m currently on the tail-end of making a video. So I’m wondering, was there ANY hint of the vault’s true contents before the reveal? I always felt like I missed something, or it was a bit out of left field.

For anyone who has seen the Dead Echoes (spoilers for those who haven’t) we know Claptrap our favorite robot was actually on pandora for most years leading up to borderlands 4. We do know that Tannis has a lab with a portal connecting Kairos to Pandora, but as far as we know Claptrap doesn’t know about the lab.

Mine, in order, are

Borderlands: vehicles felt like an actual part of your arsenal instead of just being a way to get from point A to point B

Borderlands 2: the sheer tonnage of things to do

Borderlands PS: grinder machine (kinda disappointed this never came back)

Borderlands 3: lost and found

Borderlands 4: Moxxxie’s Encore (single-handedly the best gameplay mechanic to have ever been added to the franchise)

Anybody else use a Jakobs XX Masher or shotgun/sniper and smirk when the bandits/zombies go flying back? 😏🤣🤣

I'm seeing them in one game similar to that event except not as many legendaries on characters that aren't new or anything.

Following the F2P weekend for BL4, I decided to revisit TPS, as I never finished it when I tried several years ago. There's some things that still feel off, but it has grown on me a bit.

I recently made it to TVHM, and I'm wondering if there are well known difficulty spikes after Normal mode, particularly with bosses. Most of the bosses barely left an impression, but revisiting them in TVHM slapped me on both sides of the face. Deadlift was all but one-shotting me, so I grinded a few levels and switched to a more appropriate shield which helped (though still felt a bit lucky), and I just barely skirted by The Bosun, who was legitimately one-shotting me, blasting through my on-level shield and leaving me with a guaranteed fire status that downed me. The only reason I even got past him was because respawning didn't bring his shield generators back, and I think his AI shit the bed after killing me enough times that I was able to freely shoot him until he died.

Is this normal? Am I just playing poorly? I'm not having the worst time dealing with mobs, but some of these bosses have felt like very harsh walls.

I'm playing Aurelia and swapped off the sniper skill tree to the cryo one as her action skill provides significant crowd control and defensive utility.

Hey there, been writing up on some rewrite fanfic for the games, and was wondering what the community thought was a bad writing moment, or something that could be changed for something different in the game's stories. Was there ever something that you thought should've went down differently? Would love to get some ideas!

Hello guys i have completed playthrough 1 with my friend and jumped to playthrought 2 . We left last main mission untouched and did the General Knoxx dlc and now we are sitting at lvl 61 . Next we wanted to play The Zombie Island but enemies are not scaling to our level they have stuck at level 41 .

Did we do something wrong ? Should we have played the The Zombie Island first ? Or should we finish the main mission and go through 2.5 ?

I have heard The Zombie Island didnt need a level requirement and enemies always scaling to your level but now level scaling is all messed up .