A good story would be nice, but imo what it really needs is a non-intrusive story Like you know how in BL2 you can just turn in your objective and leave even if the characters are still talking and it'll still progress the quest? We need that What made BL3 a chore to replay was the fact we need to stand around waiting for the characters to stop yapping
@@echo5827no one is saying they should delete the story, the story is still gonna be there, you can just choose to ignore it for repeated playthroughs It's not gonna be a skip button or anything like that, you can just leave in the middle of the conversation if you aren't interested and the quest will still progress, like in BL2 Simple, because while I still want the story to be good, if it isn't: having a bad story is one thing, but having a bad story you're borderline forced to watch multiple times if you wanna play the game again is another, way more torturous thing I'm also not saying this is a fix-all for the game lol, but that'd it help a looooot
100% more characters over new skill trees. Just added so much more joy and fun into the games. The 4 dlc characters they did in 2 and TPS are some of the most iconic they ever did. I think after doing 4 and coming back to make 2 more the creative juices and ideas are flowing
I'd love to get both tbh, I want to get more characters for sure. adding new skilltrees was amazing tho, just for the extra builds it made possibe in bl3
I've always wanted to see "shiny" guns in the series. Similar to shiny pokemon, these guns would have a swapped color pallet. That's it. It doesn't add damage or anything like that, but it's stupidly rare and it would be super cool to get. Imagine having a shiny herald or cc. I think it could add something to farm for and just something cool to find while playing the game casually.
I think the main problem with the Legendary drops in Borderlands 3 is quantity over quality. After you beat something like the Slaughter Shaft, there will be dozens of Legendaries laying on the ground, but maybe like 5 of them will be actually useful in endgame.
@@TheMC1102 one thing that came to mind: if you add another rarity you wouldn't really need to bump down the legendary drop rate Isn't the main issue that since they drop like candy you don't have anything to pursue? Well now that you pearl's back you do have something to pursue
Which still makes those good drops feel special. Legendaries dropping so much don't mean shit if most of them aren't worth it cuz of shit parts they dropped. BL3 also introduced a crap ton of part variety so having them drop more common is a good thing but also some legendaries have the exact same drop chance as BL2 and TPS legendary drop chances. Nothing wrong with a loot pinata at the end of a fight, keeps the fight rewarding and allows you to get something nice while you're farming something else.
@@Necro-xy5ej In borderlands 2 at the end right before borderlands 3 came out they added a dlc that added a new rarity named rainbow guns into the game. Those were pretty fun.
Digi peak was just too long if they had taken a bunch of the different mini boss sections like Scorch, Black Queen, Assasins, and Doc Mercy and maybe had 2 of them each run and then binary boss or maybe even a chance for another boss. It would make it less grindy and more replayable
What it needs from each game: 1: Atmosphere and pearlecent scarcity 2: Story writing and humour Pre Sequel: double jump and skill tree synergy (best skill trees in the series fr) 3: enhanced gunplay and movement Wonderlands: Enhanced melee combat
Also needs the matchmaking system from BL2/TPS. Let us see the games and choose which one (how many players, maybe a name we recognize, what level, what mission), rather than unceremoniously dropping us into some random lobby.
one of the things i actually do kinda really wanna see in bl4 is the first ACTUAL multiple story system, we have snippets of it in bl2 and bl3 with like clan wars and uhhh really just clan wars honestly, but still! i would love to see actual genuine extra stories you can do that take awhile and such for rewards at the end instead of just multi-stage missions and such, like going to another solar system and finding out theres a huge tid-bit of lore there or something and solving such in a huge quest chain and such.
I want more accessibility settings. Reduced particle spam, reduced explosion shake/distortion, reduced screen flash etc. would make the game so much more bearable for longer sessions
I like BL3 before Mayhem levels where there is just an ongoing onslaught of screen clutter and effects clouding what I am even seeing. It becomes obnoxious. They definitely need to add a center HUD elements option for ultra-wide monitor users too. BL3 and Wonderlands did a terrible job not implementing this when BL2 centered the HUD to 16:9 aspect ratio by default.
I wanna see a fully fleshed-out villain like how jack was the main villain for bl2, not just objective villains like in bl3 (idk what to call the bl3 villains)
@@kinsan89 they dont mean the literal name. I think they mean that the bl3 villains were just there. They werent fleshed out or interesting. just annoying
I never played TPS (I had no money and still don’t) it would be cool if they have claptrap as a vault hunter again, I seen people play him on vids for challenge runs and he’s so cool and funny
All they need to do is take away the positives from BL1, BL2, Pre-Sequal, Bl3, Tales 1, and Wonderlands and shove it all into one game with a coherent, well written story and it'd be a banger. This just make it like this game thing is dumb, just take all the positives from each game and leave out the negative things.
@@zdot_lazy Roland would've been killed in the core anyway, unlike Maya who sacrificed herself to save the little twat who tagged along without permission
probably not going to be a popular opinion but id like if the game was slowed down a bit. i think bl2 was a good spot. bl3 was so fast that every gun practically need to be splash damage because aiming wasnt as big a focus. you can see it in the way snipers function in each game. bl1 had some solid snipers that really shot like snipers but by the time 3 came around they were either shooting like launchers or assault rifles. not every gun has to shot room clearing explosives
Agreed! This! This so much! I forgot because I havent played 3 in awhile. There is so much clutter and things happening in 3 that I could only play for an hour or 2 at a time before my eyes wanted to bleed. And so many enemies, i get what you mean. I want less clutter and allow more diversity/specificity in builds that isnt point, click, everything dead. I want to *feel* like my character. Which is why I liked moze so much. I felt like a walking tank. Mix the slow and fast game play, someplaces have less but hard hitters, some place more, some mixed. Some are further away and harder to hit.
I enjoyed the Melee Weapons in Wonderlands as well. They definitely aren't "needed" to make the game better, but it's another item that we can farm for that they can make even more useful to your build if they expand upon it. I honestly just enjoyed swinging them around, hitting walls and such, oddly satisfying to do when just running to your next objective
To make another similarity to Destiny: You could have the Vault Hunters have unique mobility unlocked in their skill trees. One character could double jump, one could grapple, wall run or climb, quick dashes, enhanced rocket/grenade jumps, enhanced sliding etc. This gives further characterization to their personality but makes it not feel too like a crazy titanfall clone which i dont think BL should be. But start at the baseline of BL3 movement for everyone.
I Love your recommendation yet "not feel like a titanfall clone" Nay - I say borrow heavily from it - I massively miss Titanfall and Respawn is too busy with Apex to give a shit
@@MixlTV2 Idk man, Destiny 2's movement has always felt pretty good to me. Some of the tricks you can do are crazy, and the Strand grapple is one of my favorite things in the game, especially when you use it on a thrown tangle.
Waiting around for story: I started a new BL3 playthrough yesterday (first time playing in a long time), and when I rescued Vaughn there was just so much waiting around. He'd say "lets go!" and then start another topic, and then "let's go!" and then another topic, and then "let's go" and then you had to interact with him to get him to move. So annoying.
5:15 honestly i think 10% drop rate for dedicated is too low, I think something like 25% should be for dedicated drops while putting world drops at like each item has a 1/500 chance to be legendary, bl2 1/10000 is far to low but borderlands 3 is far to high being like 1/15 (I have no stats for this just from experience playing) so I think something like 1/500 would be a good drop rate for world drops while not being too common. Also in bl2 we didn't have anoints so the 10% farming is alright since we don't have to far for specifics as much other than grip and prefix while if anoints are back (they probs will be) then 25% would be a good balance.
pitch idea; A pearlescent grenade called the "The Barrel" , only available after UVHM, billions of damage , no locked element. the slowest movement possible, slower than you can move lots of player knockback, no throw arc , just straight . red text "You troll" and gearbox can take that for free .
One way the legendary issue could be fix is like what they did in borderlands 1, with higher teir legendaries but not needed to the point where the gun is useless like in wonderlands
I know that most legendary guns are not useless but very situational but there is one gun that comes to mind that is just useless it's the gun that drops from the queen of dragons i think her name is but it is just useless even in early game
Or there could be a slider to make it easier or harder with the default being more like BL2 that way most people get the proper experience but more rushed people can expedite the farming
@@teddybearkiller1360 Apparently she was widely disliked in her first appearance in the clone wars movie before she became a cult favorite during the clone wars TV show
@@teddybearkiller1360thing is, she wasn’t terrible at first but she was annoying but after a few episodes she became so good and I’m glad her character was fleshed out over all the seasons plus she funny
She showed some promise in the mysteriouslier designers cut missions where she wasn’t as annoying so hopefully they continue to write her better and make her less selfish and unlikable in bl4
My only gripe with this is that if they take the bl2 route, they matter a lot and would be way harder to farm a viable version of a weapon than an anoint
@@unfunnyusername0_0 You don't really need to farm parts in bl2, its helpful but not super necessary. Anoints were a must with certain builds or guns. I remember farming for an anoint on the flipper and some sniper so I could do a certain build on amara and it was just boring, I never felt that way farming for a certain grip or prefix on something like a harrold. Though farming quest weapons for parts or element like the sandhawk, orphan maker or pimpernel was terrible imo, especially for console players.
I don't hate farming for best parts, it made farming mean something especially for BL1 where you could get a considerably better gun if you got the good parts Then again i farmed Tartarus Station a billion times so it doesn't really count Also i want hybrids, it's like rolling a legendary part on top of a legendary
I didn't play a lot of co-op in BL3 but I liked the idea of individual scaling/difficulty of the enemies. Imagine raid boss farming with friends and the loot drops according to each player's character level, I think that would be sweet! Make it so when a rare item appears everyone can pick it up for themselves but lower the chances the more players in the squad
I think legendaries dropping at 10% and uniques at 33% is a good system. Also I think everyone would agree that the loot from raids should be better than the gear you used to beat them. BL3 was pretty good at this, but man were seraph and pearls in bl2 wack a lot of the time
They need to make it little bit edgy like borderlands 2. It's an M rated game. Make it feel like it. Borderlands 3 Felt like it was written by some 50-year-old that was trying to use teenage lingo. A really good villain and great characters are also such a huge part. GET OUT AVA!! And bring farming back like in bl2. Annoints were kind of annoying honestly in bl3. They were cool but they could make or break a build because of it. I'm adding this now too. Make legendaries feel special again. Bl3 was way too generous with legendaries it made them lose their charm.
Ava was one of the good parts about BL3, that game did characters and side content really well. The problem was the main story and how certain big events were handled, it wasn't just generally awful across the board. Hell, when they went to the Jakobs planet, the story actually got pretty good for a hot minute. There's stuff to learn from BL3's story but you have to understand what was actually wrong with it in order to learn anything, and that's not as simple as it seems.
@@latrodectahespara2728 you like your own comments immediately after posting them and im met with you rewording what i told you to do? and somehow you still lack the self awareness to cease communication with real boys like the 1s and 0s that you are?
"I do not want to be doing acrobatics on the battlefield." "More. Movement. Tech." Wall running and jumping over the enemy to blast a crit spot is doing acrobatics on the battlefield.
I know the studio is far along in the developing process but I really hope someone sees this video and implement as much of this as possible. Would make the game amazing
That side quest point is so true. An example is "safe and sound" has the unique heartbreaker shotgun and the mini boss "Blue" to farm if you want a legendary shield. Always do that mission.
The quest design in BL2 is just great in general. I don’t remember any base game quests that were badly designed or boring or felt pointless. The DLCs are another story (circles of slaughter were annoying) but the base game story and it’s side quests, and dragon keep, and some of the headhunters were all really good and fun. Usually do them even if there’s no reward because they’re just fun.
@@chatarrra7457 circle of slaughters are annoying tbh, but I did love the bar room blitz mission in torgues dlc. That mission kept me coming back idk why
I agreed for the most part, but not with the movement options: Wallrunning and double jumps are actually what kept me away from later cod games, just because they became so wacky. And things like hooks just cause lvl makers to add huge empty spaces where they "need" to be used, just dilluting the gameplay.
One thing they did for BL3 that I really hope returns in a better form is Crazy Earl's Veteran Rewards. Having quest rewards show in vendors like they did in wonderlands was okay, but having a dedicated vending machine that regularly rolls quest rewards instead of just as item of the day makes using those items at endgame so much more viable since you don't have to farm for an obscene amount of time to get an on level variant for endgame, or ignore side quests until you're already at max level to try them out at their peak. Now I'm not saying that *have* to add a copy-pasted Veteran Rewards machine to BL4, but in my mind, an ideal solution would be for quest rewards for a given region/planet/DLC to be a part of the common pool for vendors in said region, and maybe if they wanted to make a distinction between blue and purple unique items, they could by having the purple unique items be part of the item of the day rotation while leaving blue uniques in the common pool.
I’m so glad you’re still making videos, I watched you religiously during school before I had started to work ( I loved playing Borderlands 2 and the builds and guide videos. You made amazing and very helpful for grinding out and getting all my characters to OP8 while I was watching your video.) I saw that borderlands 4 trailer and I had to see if you were still making content. I can’t wait to see what the future of borderlands has to bring. Much love keep up the hard work and I have a lot of videos to catch up on 😂
What we really need Increased price tag Higher tiers dlcs to purchase Microtransaction Battle passes Loot boxes Season passes that dont give you everything Tons of cameos and callbacks Reduced gore and strong language for the kids And a gatcha system full of scantily clad women of questionable age
I don't want any limitations on what kinds of gear you can have equipped. All fetch quests must be worth doing like cool weapons and armor plus major experience and money boosts.
Its probably gonna be focused around or shell be the siren you play as in bl4 im 100% sure ava will either be in it it playable playable makes the most since sadly
I'd love it if legendary was JUST a degree of strength and rarity within weapon types. Have unique weapons like the infinity exist with a specific part of the weapon making it into that gun and give us a dedicated place to acquire it, but ALSO give the weapon the ability to drop as an epic or legendary instead of rare. The main focus of the weapon can remain on its functionality and it can be more common(or even guaranteed) from a dedicated source, but then have the slightly stronger legendary variant be something you farm for. This could potentially open up the ability to get hybrid weapons like in bl1, which would be a lot of fun to grind for IMO
I'm the biggest fan of the BL1 loot system, but with the style of dedicated drops of BL2. Basically generic loot feels good in BL1 because of the parts system. Just a Torgue purple can be very good, and then it could be an anarchy or a stinger smg. Or you could get legendary parts/hybrids. The legendaries were rare and had no dedicated source, but you could farm uniques that could then spawn with legendary parts. And the legendary world drops in general were common enough to find a few per playthrough rather than relying solely on dedicateds (or farming specific world drop loot pinatas like loot midgets). Plus getting the gun being used by an enemy just feels right. The problem with BL2 loot system is you basically only ever want to farm specific dedicated drops and then you use nothing else (perhaps because the fast ball and harold are too good, but that is beside the point). In BL1 if you found a perfectly parted purple gun, you could use it for like 30 levels, cause generic guns with good parts were really that good. The legendary part was usually just a modifier to make a purple even better. Same reason why there were tiers of orange for legendary, better parts - darker orange and better stats. It wasn't just: find specific legendary and no matter the parts it is amazing.
In general, grab the best of all worlds, the movement, various action skills, takedowns, the weapon diversity, and mini events (the cartel and Halloween), from BL3, and add it to everything that BL2 did perfectly, the repetiviness, the okay story, iconic characters, very good DLC, and DLC characters. I really have high hopes for BL4, I only not played wonderlands, but I would hope, gearbox is done experimenting and just focus all their attention to the stuff they had done really good and put it all together on a game
@@gordonfreeman1163 All the more reason that Gearbox needs a huge win here with all these flops lately. I really hope they manage to pull themselves out of this floppy rut.
@@sarlon51 they do need a huge win, but it's not realistic. They lack the means to secure that sweet W. Don't feed yourself unlikely hopes, you won't be much disappointed that way.
Endgame Mobbing Challenges!!!! Digi Peak, Slaughter, Trial chambers, just give me a room of mobs to clear, that is challenging but can be routed and improved. Raid bosses are important, but i think mobbing challenges are almost as fun at endgame if done well. People even do this with regular maps in bl2 because it's so fun, i regularly see people post "Southpaw steam and power vs Twister Gaige in 3:57" or similar videos.
I would love to have increase chance of dedicate drops while lowering world drop legendaries; I mean in BL3 I have farmed Road dog (of whatever his name is) for the hellwalker and after 30 kills, got basically nothing, yet, you can go to warden and it showers you with legendaries
To be honest, if you make pearls super rare and difficult to obtain, there's no reason why they shouldn't be super powerful. You can always just choose not to use them.
The problem with the whole "you can just not use them" isn't as true as it may seem. Like sure you physically can not use them, but most people will subconsciously try to make the game they are playing easier for themselves even within the boundaries of a certain challenge. So locking yourself off of pearls in this case would end up like "well I could just go get a pearlescent" and then you at that point you might as well get all that you need and until there is no challenge. The balancing of this kind is to protect the player from themselves, as they could get bored if it was too easy.
@@xd3athclawx554 Definitely agreed. "you can choose not to use it" is a terrible defense for stuff that's really overpowered. Pearls should be overall strong to reward the grind, but endgame build gear should not be a straight wall of cyan gear for every VH, it'd just be boring.
@@darthvaderreviews6926 Yeah I think having some sort of limiter on the amount you can have equipped at once would be good for the game. Would make builds more dynamic with the different items to use.
Ive been playing Borderlands since 2009 and I disagree with the legendary drops point (to a degree). Most people are going to playthrough the game once and maybe, just maybe a second time. Let these people get at least a legendary or two over their playthrough. Make them unique, yes, make them rare, yes, but weapon variety is literally what makes borderlands, Borderlands. Let the average player enjoy the best parts of the game in regular playthroughs. Its fun to try new things. Whenever i hear this point i think people are thinking in the context of endgame or Mayhem levels, but thats not what most people will see. Most people arent even going to see a pearlescent and try less than 5 legendary guns over the course of their playthrough. Legendaries are fun, so make it so people can actually enjoy them and see them. What if they guaranteed a legendary drop if the player hasnt obtained a new one in the past few hours? That way you dont punish players who like to farm for whatever reason, and dont punish players who will NEVER farm for gear.
Completely agree with this. Also for people like me who have a kid and job with limited time to game, I don’t want to do a dozens of runs for one weapon. I don’t even play BL2 anymore because I don’t have the time to grind for the legendaries, but BL3 lets me do it so much faster.
I think gearbox should make bl4 legendary chances set by players in a setting so everyone can be happy with what they want so everyone can stop arguing about them being to easy or to hard to get.
I would love that but it wouldn’t stop the arguing. Do you know how in Elden Ring if you beat say margit but you used the tools the gave you to do it you’d just be met with elitists who won’t shut up about how “you didn’t play correctly, you played on easy mode you’re robbing yourself of the true game, blah blah blah” you’d essentially get the same thing with that mechanic you want. Imagine you switch the drop rates for an easy Harold and you make the mistake of telling others and they start dog piling on you about how you played the game you bought
@@nathanhendrickson790 well I'm not saying to make drops easy they should make a limit on how easy like bl3 easy is the highest and bl1 legendary drops or bl2 is the lowest idk something like that I really think this is a brilliant idea I need to work for gearbox lol.
@@Zer04887 I agree it is a brilliant idea and I hope it’s a thing. I’m just saying we’ve been on the internet long enough to know people will dogpile on anything lol
Nah every mission should be a repeat of the Raid difficultly of Grandma Flexington's story like definitely would be a great story (I hated that mission and I got bored every time I went to do it)
I know it sounds like a conspiracy on my end, but I don’t get how they can fix the issue in BL2, but not have dedicated drops at launch for any of the games following it. Practically every player seems to love them. So to me it feels like something they intentionally hold back, to implement later when they see the game has issues. That way they get the “hey look they’re listening to the community!” points from people when it’s something that should be there day one
Dedicated drops are nice but borderlands has always been a game with 4 player co-op as an option and dedicated drops doesn't really sound exciting with 3/4 players
@@elmilkmannI feel like no one wants to go down the list and assign every boss a weapon. It's a tedious job and apparently gearbox doesn't think it's required.
13:29 actually if you play moze the modifiers can make her stronget like infinite gernades, stronger mindsweeper, and the spinner just makes the chance of it to drop a mindsweeper is higher🌚
I always thought this exactly. Just add the atmosphere from BL1 and the game would be amazing. For some reason, not sure if just me, but I always loved how the guns looked in BL1 compared to BL2.
Would be funny to have a secret enemy that hits you with a splash weapon that just brings your entire system to a screeching halt. Also, please dear god no wall running. Sounds cool on paper until you accidentally jump near a wall and are suddenly running alongside it, multiple times in a row and the actual usage of it is rarely seen.
I think something that would be fun to play with is gun crafting like you can break guns down to learn or have parts and make your own custom weapons but not to overpowered just something nice that would bring a bit of creativity to the game and bring that creativity out of the fan base. Love your content joltz
My biggest issue with BL3 aside from the atrocious story was the rng on top of rng for weapons. There were way too many legendarys in a pool of weapons so 9 times outta 10 you weren’t excited to see a legendary until you saw if it was a “good” or “bad” one. Next it has to also have the right anointment on it which for most of BL3 there wasn’t a way to reroll so it was so tedious to get the weapon you want with a good anointment. Furthermore, you had to hope you got decent weapon parts and the right element. Rng on top of rng on top of rng. It killed the game for me and it’s the reason why even to this day I still have characters that never got to full lvl. I got so tired of grinding my weapons just to have the lvl cap extended a few months later to then force me to regained weapons. The odds of you getting the right legendary, with the right anointment, with the right parts, with the right element was so small that after an hour or two I was just tired. So for the love of god in BL4 add more ways to get gear you specifically want. Ppl might disagree with me but I don’t frankly care. If anointments return I want them to be choosable with an in game currency like Iridiam etc. If the weapon comes in all elements there should be a person you can bring the weapon to and have them change it for you. Obviously, this wouldn’t be free. Example could be if you bring a guy 15 conference calls you can melt them together to make a custom elemental one. So if I keep getting corrosive or fire and I want a shock or radiation I can do it that way. This extends to class mods as well. If I’m playing a character why am I getting mods for other characters. BL2 had it perfect and I don’t want to have a rng mess to just get a gun I want that suites how I’m playing the game 😂
One thing I feel like BL4 wouls benfit from is a part merger. Your Torgue gun doesn't have matching grip? No biggie, go to the town gun mechanic and scrap a pistol you don't need. To not make it too broken, the guns should be equal level
I love the manufacturer parts system in these games, it's weird that they never really explain or capitalized on them in-game. It would be cool to have a catalog of all the parts which would fill up as you found or recycled weapons, and then being able to swap out equal level parts like you said.
I actually feel the opposite and think the best benefit of a crafting system would be an (expensive) option to scale gun's levels up, so you can choose to level up older legendaries you got before max level. On the other hand, I don't want a weapon modification system to remove the hunt for godrolls from the series. Either only certain parts should be swappable _(eg. scopes)_ or crafted guns should be slightly weaker than an organic drop with the same parts
@@darthvaderreviews6926i think that the crafting should make the hunt for god rolls easier. Maybe limit it so that you need the replacement parts to come from the same gun. I.e if you want a DPUH with a torgue grip you would need to salvage all the replacement parts from other Unkempt Harolds. That way you dont have to waste hours upon hours of time trying to get the best thing, only to end up with a massive pile of unwanted drops. Also, the item card should have a little hammer on it to show that it was crafted, that way people who farmed it 'legit' can still have bragging rights.
@gordonfreeman1163 maybe not the same amount of world drops, but keeping the slightly higher drop rates for dedicated drops, actually GIVING stuff dedicated drops and just how awesome some of them were should stay. I mean cmon, bl3 had some AMAZINGLY fun guns like the kaosin, soulrender, lightshow, hellwalker, boom sickle, ION cannon (pre-nerf), roisen's thorn and so many others... and some duds but that's every borderlands game
Totally agreed with this list! Something I wanna mention that could tie into proper/fair difficulty scaling is to remove or tweak the REALLY annoying enemies, like rabid skags and stalkers. Same with enemies/bosses that have tedious immune phases.
I think that legendaries in BL3 would have been great if there was a pearlescent type tier. At Mayhem 0, legendaries felt just right. Once you got into the higher tiers though, it was easy for legendaries to flood the game. If they took the strongest of the legendaries, brought them up to pearlescent, and made them exclusive to higher mayhem modes, it would have done wonders for the game. Also, I like being able to see legendary items on the map. Give us an option to disable that, and make no legendary cosmetics so we don't get our hopes spoiled when we see one I disagree with pearlescent 1-per character limits. I feel like pearlescents just need to have enough synergy that you're only going to run ones that are good for you. Think Uniques from Diablo 4. Higher tier than Legendaries, but only stronger if your build is going to fit it. As opposed to stuff like the plasma blaster from BL3's Arms Race, which was just the go to weapon for every build. I also think that BL3 has the perfect movement set. I don't think we really need anything more.
Any fan with at least 100hours of BL experience would make a better CEO than Randy Pitchford. You can rest assured none of these things that we all agree on will make it into the game.
@@biohazard724 If the CEO of a gaming company said "We must have dedicated drops at the launch of BL4" at a team meeting it would happen. He's not programing the game but he does have influence on the overall direction.
Yup. I love Joltz but we all know this video is just wishful thinking. As long as that guy is in charge of Gearbox, and as long as they didn't change the writing team, BL4 is guaranteed to be much much worse than 3.
I feel like legendarys being so common only really becomes an issue lategame, where they drop by the dozen. Having a steady stream of weapons with unique properties throughout the story was something I actually quite enjoyed in bl3 because they are automatically viable due to being a higher level than your old gear and keep things fresh with their gimmicks. I think overall lower drop chance, but a guaranteed legendary drop after killing a boss for the first time would make bosses more exciting without flooding players with useless gear. And if they go with making more non legendary uniques then I’d prefer if they had another color or some obvious indication that they are special. A little red text only visible in the card is way too subtle to be noticeable in a pile of loot or even in the inventory. Alternatively they could keep legendaries the way they were in bl3 and bring back pearlescent for endgame, that way you can have cool weapons all throughout your game and also something rare to get really excited about if it drops. Also please don’t make vending machines as expensive as in wonderlands, not having cash to try something that looks interesting because it might mean you can’t afford an upgrade to your build half an hour later just felt really shitty.
If they just... married the BL1 loot system with the BL2 loot system. Like, bring back hybrids, make legendaries special and a fair amount of rare again, retain dedicated drops. I think this would make everyone very happy.
I’ve been playing all the borderlands games in order with my friend. We went from Pre Sequel to borderlands 2 and i was so used to the low gravity and moonscaper strategy i keep trying to boost around
Regarding that last point: How cool would it be if BL4 hypothetically had wall running, grapple points, double jumps, and even some fourth thing... but each Vault Hunter had their own special passive movement ability? Say, this game's Siren gets to wall run, but this game's sniper/marksman type has the grapple points, and the soldier gets to double jump. You'd have maps laid out so that your chosen character has different ways of approaching the objective and moving around arenas, making your choice of character feel that much more unique and special.
Gearbox should just hire Joltz as a consultant - biggest BL creator being involved in BL4 would give the community a lot of needed confidence and would be an easy W for them
when it comes to the grappling hook, it could be a character skill like you can grapple short distances or as a stunning attack (for example if you hook an enemy you pull yourself to them and drop kick them which maybe gives them a slight "micro stun" which allows you to shoot them down without being in too much danger, obviously some enemies should be resistant to this, and it does some solid damage, perhaps something in the lines of Zer0's Execute
However the only other thing I would say that we actually do need for the game is build variety like we have in Borderlands 3. Borderlands 2 is great minus the fact that there's only two maybe three maximum viable strategies for the end game. For Borderlands 3 basically any bills was viable but a Borderlands 2 if you don't have specific weapons and your skill points put into specific builds then you're not going to have fun you're just going to be meta
Something that could help with the legendary drop system would be a setting before you start a play through like with coopetition and cooperation that either scales up or scales down the chances of getting legendary drops, like a casual/hardcore play through of the game
I feel like the ability to swap on certain parts after obtaining the item with the part. For example the lets say you get a gub with bandit grip and a different gub with a Torgue grip. I feel like from then on any GUB you get should have a menu where can swap between those parts and any others tou "unlock" for the weapon.
I think when it comes to rarities of legendries or such I like them being more common or just not extremely rare, I like your BL2 series and whenever I think of trying one myself I just cant imagine doing 100s of runs for perfect rolls or tons of runs just to get something I am just too bored. I think what would be a decent compromise is having an option to turn on like a system that increases drop rates each farm you dont get a legendary drop or so yknow? That, and/or a crafting system where if you dont feel like farming the same thing over and over you can run around doing various things then get to pick a dedicated drop. So you still spend your time farming just not necessarily in the same way. I'd also enjoy something that can either switchout gun parts or at least display more about it(like stats) in game so you can understand how gun parts work. Maybe a way to hypothetically build a gun and every time you get a drop of that gun and inspect it, it will compare to your desired parts and tell you what's different.
Story, plot, gameplay feel (mechanics).... I'm neither here nor there on. My biggest issue with BL3 was demotivating farming. Constant Level increases with shrinking friends list because they had no intention of farming that long again for imperfect loot. I would like a way to bridge the GRBX formula of "level cap/fk your time and effort." - A workbench to change parts/accessories/skins on. Maybe allow greater storage and manipulation based on storyline. > As story progress, storage of accessories from 1-3 maximum each and you can modify higher quality weapons each chapter... from White at game start to Legendary/Pearl after defeating raid bosses and story. > After character story completion, maybe eridium used to increase weapon levels as option instead of re-farming. > the weapon the accessory taken from is scrapped. The accessory overwritten is scrapped. > Legendary effects on weapon or accessory are locked to weapon. But MAYBE can add special "legendary accessories" that can be farmed or earned to stack. - Less Garbage Loot. (goes hand in hand with workbench, still a looter shooter, but with ability to upgrade/change weapon, makes less need for just scattered crap, and makes each piece a bit more interesting to check out)
The legendary loot fix for those that want the rare hunt vs. those who don't have the time: Make it a gamemode choice similar to the BL3 ability to have instanced Loot. Alternatively (in addition?) could be after X number of farms of a dedicated drop enemy it automatically gives say a "Legendary Voucher" or whatever that the player can cash in for that associated legendary or be sold for currency (bonus: hints at the dedicated legendary). That way those who just wanna try out Legendary gear but for whatever reason can't farm much get their opportunity while those that enjoy the hunt for it are still able to get the drops organically. The voucher doesn't replace any dropped loot either, it's a freebie alongside normal drop pool. Might also make it a one-time thing per playthrough if not an optional setting overall.
I feel like if there are a buut-ton of legendaries that are super rare, then you could have high chances of getting a legendary from certain enemies but low chances of getting a legendary you want without going to the dedicated drop spot.
i feel like having different movement tech for different characters would be interesting so you can explore different routes for things and really expand on trying different play styles.
Replay-able missions for endgame content in case we want to farm a certain mission reward or if you just really like playing a certain mission. Once you beat the game then you could go back and replay a certain mission
I think it would be really cool to have a large lineup of vault hunters that you could swap between through out the game, like you can change every time ur in sanctuary or smth
14:07 on the topic of movement tech, I think it would be really fun if some of the VH abilities were based around movement. Like let's have an ability where a VH throws out a giant flying pet or robot that if you tap the key it just moves forward by itself to do damage, but if you hold the key you tether to it and fly forward really fast with it. The character could be melee focused and its a tool to close the gap or do melee damage at range. Also they just shouldn't bring back the face puncher or blade fury, if there is going to be a melee gun make it a Torgue launcher that shoots massive exploding fists.
I'd like to see maybe each character have their own movement tech associated with them. Like maybe only one has a grappling hook and one has a double jump. Maybe a double jump would seem boring to a grappling hook but maybe in their skill tree they can have modifiers to your movement ability that increase it's versatility or combos well with other abilities you gain, like maybe when you goomba stomp an enemy it does more damage and it launches you higher than a normal jump and you can use your double jump to get even higher or to maintain that height a little longer.
Combining weapons and other gear like on TPS using moonstones is better than being able to buy legendaries straight from vendors. Having radiation, frost and iridium damage types as well as fire, thunder, corrosion. BL3 vehicles were pretty awesome. Make stealth a more viable option like Zero in BL2. Would be nice to have a hook that can be used for grappling, holding onto ledges. Jump pads with low gravity was fun on TPS.
A good example of dedicated loot drops and quest rewards is the bfffs quest in fight for sanctuary because at the end of the quest you get a legendary and every enemy you have to kill in that quest has a dedicated drop. The rainbow rarity of weapon.
I'm with you on the legendary drop rate. I also started on BL1 couple months after it's release, and seeing a legendary every once in awhile was very special. Especially in vending machines. It's why I still play the first one today now on my switch.
n1 - good story is whatever, i dont personally like bl2's story all that much but the pacing is much better than bl3's, as long as it's serviceable it's fine as no one plays for the story anyways n2 - dedicated drops are a must, i would take this one step further and have all world drops be exclusively tied to a loot luck system where you can effectively buff them or debuff them at will, this will solve a lot of player outcry about legendary drop rates (as lets be real, bl3 still has rare dedicated loot it's mainly the world drops that give the idea that there's a lot going on) n3 - legendary being rare / chasing after rarities i think this mindset is fundamentally a bit dogwater as something being "rare" does not make it worth too chase, there are plenty of beyond super rare items in other games that require beyond getting 10 perfect shams or revolters, but they're simply not worth too chase as they are not good, this is also my problem with pearls being shoved back into the game as most of them are not outright better than my legendary that i farmed for so there's no point in having them in the game n3.5 - the legendary drop chance arguments are heavily influenced by the part system, if we had bl2's part system still i think 30% is perfectly fine as it's very very very boring to farm for literal perfect parts on each gun you want to the point where i've had friends play for 40hrs and when i tell them the chance of getting certain items perfect, they stop playing altogether, whether we like it or not it is a turn off for new people getting into this series & it's a needless added layer of rng to further increase player time without increasing player respect for bl3's lesser part system btw i would want the drop rates around 20-15% n4 - pearl argument as stated above in n2, i only want pearls back if they are outright better than any legendary i could farm for in that slot, meaning ANY pearl pistol must outright be better than my legendary one otherwise there's no point in having them in the game as it's just chasing "rarity" for rarities sake & you should go play other games that have way rarer items than borderlands n4.5 - "if pearls were truly the top tier best of the best item rarity, then wouldn't it be pretty overpowered if you just had a full set of pearlescent gear" yeah, if they're "super duper rare" i outright expect them to be op once you have spent a possible 100-200hrs+ of your time farming just one of them, it's a PvE game let it have it's fun n4.75 - as a destiny player, a long time destiny player (6.6k hours in D1 & 2.4K hours in D2), the one exotic system is absolute dogwater, "oh but it offers a lot of diversity for builds" trust me, it doesn't, the "diversity" you speak of is vapid since in reality that system fundamentally limits item rarity & power, what's powerful about having 1 pearl? nothing, unless pearls are fundamentally changed to literally break the game and have dedicated drops tied to them, there's no reason to even suggest this change you also speak on immune phases in n5 which in destiny was fundamentally caused by powercreep tying way way back to exotics n5 - raid bosses the only way these work at release is if gearbox can decide on an end game level system, having a repeat of bl2 where we get them and then have most of them be absolutely terrible to farm purely because of the OP level system is dogwater, i literally don't even consider them to be raid bosses at that point, more like damage test walls for other parts of the game; so chances are we don't get them done right n6 - takedowns are nice but if they are to remain endgame i would want a difficulty increase option & a base increase to the loot dropped by the bosses, especially if we return to a more varied part system n7 - dlc characters / 4th skill tree i said this before on an epicnng video, but ideally i want both, gaige was and is a terrible character to do a playthrough with & fl4k's 4th skill tree missed hard, so rather i would want a dlc character pack that releases ~1-2 years after the game that contains a couple really well designed vault hunters & 4th skill trees for everyone, to give players a reason to not only buy the packs to begin with but also to re-runs of the game with the base characters n7.5 - "i still remember jumping on krieg for the first time in borderlands 2" yeah and i remember jumping on gaige and being dissapointed i even spent money on the game, that character is worth less than a 1820's free ice cream from a man with a white van that smells like chemicals; all to say, not fun & you have to keep in mind that 50% of the dlc's characters released, have been bad n8 - good optimization has always been a must for me, something that K6 recommended in one of his community idea videos for bl4 was also a particle settings options to reduce the number of overall particles in your game n9 - end game scaling has to be nothing like OP levels for me, that system was & still is absolute garbage, i have all 6 characters at OP10 & after finishing it i stopped playing the game for literally 5 years, it's such a garbage endgame system; mayhem levels are better imo because of mayhem scaling which acts as like a patch to the weakest parts of characters making them strong; earnable end game increases tho? i would say i'd prefer something like digi-peak but shorter, i do not want to do a whole ass digi-peak run just to increase my difficulty especially since i just put in tens upon hundreds of hours playing through all the side missions, optionable collectables for exp & main quest content n9.5 - basically end game should feel like you're a menace to the game world, you shouldn't feel weak at endgame otherwise you're just playing helldivers 2, you SHOULD feel STRONG at end game, you are the badass who made it there & crushed some of the most powerful entities and corporations in the universe to get there n9.75 - i'm sorry brother but that "cheesy farm for max gear" argument in relation to the slider is just hypocritical, you do cheesy farms for exp and gear all the time so don't even use that as a justification for your false anger towards the mayhem slider system n9.8 - you DO NOT get OP10 by "earning it" LMFAO, you even post video evidence doing cheeses to the OP levels time after time because it's a badly designed system designed for dumb people who just want the number to go higher n9.9 - "no more modifiers please, i dont want to be doing acrobatics on the battlefield, i want to fight the enemy in front of me not the enemy around me" is such a soft argument since you just said you wanted endgame scaling to be earnable, so what? you're all of a sudden good enough now to earn you endgame levels but not good enough to have some spatial awareness? absolute dogwater position n10 - more movement tech W
Some kind of smithy station would be nice. the ability to swap weapon parts with other drops of the same or other rarity parts up to like purple rarity. there could even be some minigame where you assemble the weapon yourself and maybe you fail and your drop is worse or you get some kind of bonus, buffing the weapon on a good success. maybe iridium screws and barrels make the weapon iridian tier
I really like the stormblind complex in bl3. It made playing the game and relying on anything that drops to feel good at high levels and honestly made legendary drops feel legendary again. It was always unique and you could get really op gear to take into the main game, so it was worth playing. Id love to see more mobbing based end game experiences like this that had me using any/everything I can grab and bring excited for things like blues and purples again.
I think, building on your idea of the double jump, I agree. I think whatever "Operative" style character we get (think Zer0, Mordecai, Zayne and Fl4k) should have an air dodge type ability or an air dash. These are supposed to be the movement savants. They should be fluid and fast, like a ninja. We got that in Wonderlands Redux, and I thought it was amazing
i think it will be cool to have like, unique history events or cutscene based on the character that you choose, but not something that privates you from getting a drop, just a thing that differs the vault hunters other lthan ike dialogs.
About legendary drop rates, i liked the concept in that one bl2 mod where you have 10% drop chance in normal and then +10% for each higher playthrough. Early on every legendary you get is good but its rare and later on u can search for specific parts
Dedicated drop system is one of top reasons borderlands 2 stands out.. It's quite an adventure to do side quests for specific weapons which you wouldn't do otherwise
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What would you guys like to see in Borderlands 4?
DEDICATED LOOTPOOLS!!!
Good writing
The old engine
A better story than Borderlands 3. If it can even be salvaged at this point.
i would like to see ava have 0 voice lines.
Number 1 - Randy must stay away from the entire project, at all times.
This. Please.
ALLAH PLEASE FIRE PITCHFORD
I'm still pissed that the "dark souls storytelling" tweet was made by him, because that's genuinely the only good thing that man has ever created
That's 1 through 10
I feel like they made typhon as mockery from Randy 😂
A good story would be nice, but imo what it really needs is a non-intrusive story
Like you know how in BL2 you can just turn in your objective and leave even if the characters are still talking and it'll still progress the quest? We need that
What made BL3 a chore to replay was the fact we need to stand around waiting for the characters to stop yapping
Exactly. When youve played the game more than twice you just.... know where to go.
Me and my friends love skipping the dialogue. We get wacky combinations sometimes and that adds on to it
If you delete the story from wonderlands you're still not playing it. That's not gonna make the game good
@@echo5827no one is saying they should delete the story, the story is still gonna be there, you can just choose to ignore it for repeated playthroughs
It's not gonna be a skip button or anything like that, you can just leave in the middle of the conversation if you aren't interested and the quest will still progress, like in BL2
Simple, because while I still want the story to be good, if it isn't: having a bad story is one thing, but having a bad story you're borderline forced to watch multiple times if you wanna play the game again is another, way more torturous thing
I'm also not saying this is a fix-all for the game lol, but that'd it help a looooot
@@echo5827 Outright good story is extremely unrealistic.This is the best case scenario.
No more return to Lilith 150 times...
The whole point is that echos are like hyper advanced cell phones, yet I still need to walk to lilith to talk to her.
Well
"Aboard Santuary
(On the opposite end of the ship)"
Sup killer?
just remove lilith and ava let them die off screen no one would care
100% more characters over new skill trees. Just added so much more joy and fun into the games. The 4 dlc characters they did in 2 and TPS are some of the most iconic they ever did. I think after doing 4 and coming back to make 2 more the creative juices and ideas are flowing
I'd love to get both tbh, I want to get more characters for sure. adding new skilltrees was amazing tho, just for the extra builds it made possibe in bl3
I've always wanted to see "shiny" guns in the series. Similar to shiny pokemon, these guns would have a swapped color pallet. That's it. It doesn't add damage or anything like that, but it's stupidly rare and it would be super cool to get. Imagine having a shiny herald or cc. I think it could add something to farm for and just something cool to find while playing the game casually.
Imagine farming for that shiny special affix, sounds awful and fun at the same time
the gold double anarchy ;)
This would be good if it has perfect parts and the highest dmg and stats. Whats the point of farming a skin? This ain’t pokemon
Or like a "stat track" from CS either way, totally agree
A Shiny 94% Sham :)
I think the main problem with the Legendary drops in Borderlands 3 is quantity over quality. After you beat something like the Slaughter Shaft, there will be dozens of Legendaries laying on the ground, but maybe like 5 of them will be actually useful in endgame.
And by extension, using anything but legendaries is worthless
@@TheMC1102 one thing that came to mind: if you add another rarity you wouldn't really need to bump down the legendary drop rate
Isn't the main issue that since they drop like candy you don't have anything to pursue? Well now that you pearl's back you do have something to pursue
Which still makes those good drops feel special. Legendaries dropping so much don't mean shit if most of them aren't worth it cuz of shit parts they dropped. BL3 also introduced a crap ton of part variety so having them drop more common is a good thing but also some legendaries have the exact same drop chance as BL2 and TPS legendary drop chances. Nothing wrong with a loot pinata at the end of a fight, keeps the fight rewarding and allows you to get something nice while you're farming something else.
@@Necro-xy5ej In borderlands 2 at the end right before borderlands 3 came out they added a dlc that added a new rarity named rainbow guns into the game. Those were pretty fun.
@@James-zo1uy I did like their set effects
Mailwan Takedown was basically a more perfected Digistruct peak
Yes
Digi peak was just too long if they had taken a bunch of the different mini boss sections like Scorch, Black Queen, Assasins, and Doc Mercy and maybe had 2 of them each run and then binary boss or maybe even a chance for another boss. It would make it less grindy and more replayable
You can do more than just farm early game do there?
More easy doesn't mean better...
What it needs from each game:
1: Atmosphere and pearlecent scarcity
2: Story writing and humour
Pre Sequel: double jump and skill tree synergy (best skill trees in the series fr)
3: enhanced gunplay and movement
Wonderlands: Enhanced melee combat
If they do this itll completely change how we view gearbox and it will be the best and most successful borderlanda game ever imo
@tonymitchell9464 unlikely, but this is the best of all worlds
Yeah a combo of the melee from Wonderlands and TPS double jump would be amazing.
Also needs the matchmaking system from BL2/TPS. Let us see the games and choose which one (how many players, maybe a name we recognize, what level, what mission), rather than unceremoniously dropping us into some random lobby.
You win. That's the perfect borderlands
one of the things i actually do kinda really wanna see in bl4 is the first ACTUAL multiple story system, we have snippets of it in bl2 and bl3 with like clan wars and uhhh really just clan wars honestly, but still! i would love to see actual genuine extra stories you can do that take awhile and such for rewards at the end instead of just multi-stage missions and such, like going to another solar system and finding out theres a huge tid-bit of lore there or something and solving such in a huge quest chain and such.
brilliant idea
But many people don't care about story
I want more accessibility settings. Reduced particle spam, reduced explosion shake/distortion, reduced screen flash etc. would make the game so much more bearable for longer sessions
I like BL3 before Mayhem levels where there is just an ongoing onslaught of screen clutter and effects clouding what I am even seeing. It becomes obnoxious.
They definitely need to add a center HUD elements option for ultra-wide monitor users too. BL3 and Wonderlands did a terrible job not implementing this when BL2 centered the HUD to 16:9 aspect ratio by default.
I wanna see a fully fleshed-out villain like how jack was the main villain for bl2, not just objective villains like in bl3 (idk what to call the bl3 villains)
Calypso Twins?
@@kinsan89 they dont mean the literal name. I think they mean that the bl3 villains were just there. They werent fleshed out or interesting. just annoying
Cringe. You call the Calypsos cringe.
@@CharlesUrban i met people who called them better villans than jack.
I miss my precious time i wasted with those people
Plot Points.
If they made BL4 like TPS with 1000% more content that'd be the perfect game for me.
justice for TPS
TPS had my favorite skill trees
I never played TPS (I had no money and still don’t) it would be cool if they have claptrap as a vault hunter again, I seen people play him on vids for challenge runs and he’s so cool and funny
Would love Athena back
All they need to do is take away the positives from BL1, BL2, Pre-Sequal, Bl3, Tales 1, and Wonderlands and shove it all into one game with a coherent, well written story and it'd be a banger. This just make it like this game thing is dumb, just take all the positives from each game and leave out the negative things.
No whiny characters who get beloved characters killed with no remorse
Lilith?
She got Roland killed acting like a teenage daughter
@@zdot_lazy Roland would've been killed in the core anyway, unlike Maya who sacrificed herself to save the little twat who tagged along without permission
@@zdot_lazy Roland didn't have a shield, He wasn't helping himself much
@@Blackknightkirk so by that logic then it was Maya’s fault for not having a shield herself.
probably not going to be a popular opinion but id like if the game was slowed down a bit. i think bl2 was a good spot. bl3 was so fast that every gun practically need to be splash damage because aiming wasnt as big a focus. you can see it in the way snipers function in each game. bl1 had some solid snipers that really shot like snipers but by the time 3 came around they were either shooting like launchers or assault rifles. not every gun has to shot room clearing explosives
Agreed! This! This so much! I forgot because I havent played 3 in awhile.
There is so much clutter and things happening in 3 that I could only play for an hour or 2 at a time before my eyes wanted to bleed. And so many enemies, i get what you mean. I want less clutter and allow more diversity/specificity in builds that isnt point, click, everything dead. I want to *feel* like my character. Which is why I liked moze so much. I felt like a walking tank.
Mix the slow and fast game play, someplaces have less but hard hitters, some place more, some mixed. Some are further away and harder to hit.
Bl 1 you could actually snipe with hand cannons that had scopes i want that back
Skill issue and a lame way to play borderlands
I enjoyed the Melee Weapons in Wonderlands as well. They definitely aren't "needed" to make the game better, but it's another item that we can farm for that they can make even more useful to your build if they expand upon it. I honestly just enjoyed swinging them around, hitting walls and such, oddly satisfying to do when just running to your next objective
Krieg gameplay 😢
To make another similarity to Destiny: You could have the Vault Hunters have unique mobility unlocked in their skill trees. One character could double jump, one could grapple, wall run or climb, quick dashes, enhanced rocket/grenade jumps, enhanced sliding etc. This gives further characterization to their personality but makes it not feel too like a crazy titanfall clone which i dont think BL should be. But start at the baseline of BL3 movement for everyone.
I like this
I Love your recommendation yet "not feel like a titanfall clone" Nay - I say borrow heavily from it - I massively miss Titanfall and Respawn is too busy with Apex to give a shit
Destiny movement sucks ass ngl, we need some Titanfall/Bo3/AW movement, no shade to destiny
@@MixlTV2 Idk man, Destiny 2's movement has always felt pretty good to me. Some of the tricks you can do are crazy, and the Strand grapple is one of my favorite things in the game, especially when you use it on a thrown tangle.
@@supercato9613 late game Destiny 2 maybe yeah. I haven't played in forever so I'm gonna assume ur right tbh
Waiting around for story:
I started a new BL3 playthrough yesterday (first time playing in a long time), and when I rescued Vaughn there was just so much waiting around. He'd say "lets go!" and then start another topic, and then "let's go!" and then another topic, and then "let's go" and then you had to interact with him to get him to move. So annoying.
Ikr? Unplayable without dialogue skip
Have you progressed to Sanctuary yet?
You can skip that entire section now and start in sanctuary if you create a lvl13 character 'starting' from the DLC instead of just new game.
What if it was freaky lands 4 and everyone was freaky
Thats just every borderlands game fr tho
randall pitchford (freakazoid)
Good idea
I'm over here stroking my drop rate I got lotion on my farm right now I'm just farming my legendary I'm dedicated as fuck man I'm a freak man like
thatd be pretty freaky
5:15 honestly i think 10% drop rate for dedicated is too low, I think something like 25% should be for dedicated drops while putting world drops at like each item has a 1/500 chance to be legendary, bl2 1/10000 is far to low but borderlands 3 is far to high being like 1/15 (I have no stats for this just from experience playing) so I think something like 1/500 would be a good drop rate for world drops while not being too common. Also in bl2 we didn't have anoints so the 10% farming is alright since we don't have to far for specifics as much other than grip and prefix while if anoints are back (they probs will be) then 25% would be a good balance.
pitch idea;
A pearlescent grenade called the "The Barrel" , only available after UVHM, billions of damage , no locked element. the slowest movement possible, slower than you can move lots of player knockback, no throw arc , just straight .
red text "You troll"
and gearbox can take that for free .
One way the legendary issue could be fix is like what they did in borderlands 1, with higher teir legendaries but not needed to the point where the gun is useless like in wonderlands
I know that most legendary guns are not useless but very situational but there is one gun that comes to mind that is just useless it's the gun that drops from the queen of dragons i think her name is but it is just useless even in early game
Imo they need to make legendarys depend on different parts more. Imagine farming for the perfect legendery hybrid instead of just the legendery.
Or there could be a slider to make it easier or harder with the default being more like BL2 that way most people get the proper experience but more rushed people can expedite the farming
So like in the first game
If they decide to make Ava a main character again I really hope they pull a clone wars Asoka situation where she ACTUALLY becomes a good character
WHOA BUDDY! ASOKA WAS ALWAYS A GREAT CHARACTER. Plus they kinda did that with dlc6
@@teddybearkiller1360 Apparently she was widely disliked in her first appearance in the clone wars movie before she became a cult favorite during the clone wars TV show
@@teddybearkiller1360thing is, she wasn’t terrible at first but she was annoying but after a few episodes she became so good and I’m glad her character was fleshed out over all the seasons plus she funny
@@BioshockDrill she was written that way, she was supposed to be an annoying, bratty kid learning to grow up
She showed some promise in the mysteriouslier designers cut missions where she wasn’t as annoying so hopefully they continue to write her better and make her less selfish and unlikable in bl4
Delete anoints. Bring back weapon parts.
My only gripe with this is that if they take the bl2 route, they matter a lot and would be way harder to farm a viable version of a weapon than an anoint
@@unfunnyusername0_0 You don't really need to farm parts in bl2, its helpful but not super necessary. Anoints were a must with certain builds or guns. I remember farming for an anoint on the flipper and some sniper so I could do a certain build on amara and it was just boring, I never felt that way farming for a certain grip or prefix on something like a harrold. Though farming quest weapons for parts or element like the sandhawk, orphan maker or pimpernel was terrible imo, especially for console players.
@@APerson-si8jr to solve the side quest problem, maybe have set parts on only side quest weapons
Absolutely yes
I don't hate farming for best parts, it made farming mean something especially for BL1 where you could get a considerably better gun if you got the good parts
Then again i farmed Tartarus Station a billion times so it doesn't really count
Also i want hybrids, it's like rolling a legendary part on top of a legendary
The audio is AMAZING in this video! 10/10👍
I didn't play a lot of co-op in BL3 but I liked the idea of individual scaling/difficulty of the enemies. Imagine raid boss farming with friends and the loot drops according to each player's character level, I think that would be sweet! Make it so when a rare item appears everyone can pick it up for themselves but lower the chances the more players in the squad
I think legendaries dropping at 10% and uniques at 33% is a good system.
Also I think everyone would agree that the loot from raids should be better than the gear you used to beat them. BL3 was pretty good at this, but man were seraph and pearls in bl2 wack a lot of the time
Seraph were fine as a rarity, just tuned horribly like a good bunch of BL2 weapons
They need to make it little bit edgy like borderlands 2. It's an M rated game. Make it feel like it. Borderlands 3 Felt like it was written by some 50-year-old that was trying to use teenage lingo. A really good villain and great characters are also such a huge part. GET OUT AVA!!
And bring farming back like in bl2. Annoints were kind of annoying honestly in bl3. They were cool but they could make or break a build because of it.
I'm adding this now too. Make legendaries feel special again. Bl3 was way too generous with legendaries it made them lose their charm.
Holy crap that's basically what I said. Great minds think alike!
Ava was one of the good parts about BL3, that game did characters and side content really well. The problem was the main story and how certain big events were handled, it wasn't just generally awful across the board.
Hell, when they went to the Jakobs planet, the story actually got pretty good for a hot minute. There's stuff to learn from BL3's story but you have to understand what was actually wrong with it in order to learn anything, and that's not as simple as it seems.
@@latrodectahespara2728 dont ever chip in again. ever.
@@sneaky5141Coulda kept that one to yourself, bud.
@@latrodectahespara2728 you like your own comments immediately after posting them and im met with you rewording what i told you to do?
and somehow you still lack the self awareness to cease communication with real boys like the 1s and 0s that you are?
"I do not want to be doing acrobatics on the battlefield."
"More. Movement. Tech."
Wall running and jumping over the enemy to blast a crit spot is doing acrobatics on the battlefield.
I know the studio is far along in the developing process but I really hope someone sees this video and implement as much of this as possible. Would make the game amazing
That side quest point is so true. An example is "safe and sound" has the unique heartbreaker shotgun and the mini boss "Blue" to farm if you want a legendary shield. Always do that mission.
The quest design in BL2 is just great in general. I don’t remember any base game quests that were badly designed or boring or felt pointless. The DLCs are another story (circles of slaughter were annoying) but the base game story and it’s side quests, and dragon keep, and some of the headhunters were all really good and fun. Usually do them even if there’s no reward because they’re just fun.
@@chatarrra7457 circle of slaughters are annoying tbh, but I did love the bar room blitz mission in torgues dlc. That mission kept me coming back idk why
I agreed for the most part, but not with the movement options: Wallrunning and double jumps are actually what kept me away from later cod games, just because they became so wacky.
And things like hooks just cause lvl makers to add huge empty spaces where they "need" to be used, just dilluting the gameplay.
One thing they did for BL3 that I really hope returns in a better form is Crazy Earl's Veteran Rewards. Having quest rewards show in vendors like they did in wonderlands was okay, but having a dedicated vending machine that regularly rolls quest rewards instead of just as item of the day makes using those items at endgame so much more viable since you don't have to farm for an obscene amount of time to get an on level variant for endgame, or ignore side quests until you're already at max level to try them out at their peak.
Now I'm not saying that *have* to add a copy-pasted Veteran Rewards machine to BL4, but in my mind, an ideal solution would be for quest rewards for a given region/planet/DLC to be a part of the common pool for vendors in said region, and maybe if they wanted to make a distinction between blue and purple unique items, they could by having the purple unique items be part of the item of the day rotation while leaving blue uniques in the common pool.
I’m so glad you’re still making videos, I watched you religiously during school before I had started to work ( I loved playing Borderlands 2 and the builds and guide videos. You made amazing and very helpful for grinding out and getting all my characters to OP8 while I was watching your video.) I saw that borderlands 4 trailer and I had to see if you were still making content. I can’t wait to see what the future of borderlands has to bring. Much love keep up the hard work and I have a lot of videos to catch up on 😂
What we really need
Increased price tag
Higher tiers dlcs to purchase
Microtransaction
Battle passes
Loot boxes
Season passes that dont give you everything
Tons of cameos and callbacks
Reduced gore and strong language for the kids
And a gatcha system full of scantily clad women of questionable age
Lol
borderlands if randy pitchford got his way
Crazy that BL3 for 5 years ago
Was* lol
@@Man___Dantime flies
I don't want any limitations on what kinds of gear you can have equipped. All fetch quests must be worth doing like cool weapons and armor plus major experience and money boosts.
No Ava, no explanation needed just a complete lack of her.
What about an early mission where you have to kill her?
no she can stay... just raise her IQ to atleast room temp
Its probably gonna be focused around or shell be the siren you play as in bl4 im 100% sure ava will either be in it it playable playable makes the most since sadly
You, sir, just spoke my mind!
"Oh, Ava? She's dead."
"Wasn't there an investigation into how? Or why?"
"No. There was a party though."
It has to have a GOOD main villain, good humor, no shoving characters down our throats like Maya's apprentice in 3 (forgot her name)
I'd love it if legendary was JUST a degree of strength and rarity within weapon types.
Have unique weapons like the infinity exist with a specific part of the weapon making it into that gun and give us a dedicated place to acquire it, but ALSO give the weapon the ability to drop as an epic or legendary instead of rare.
The main focus of the weapon can remain on its functionality and it can be more common(or even guaranteed) from a dedicated source, but then have the slightly stronger legendary variant be something you farm for.
This could potentially open up the ability to get hybrid weapons like in bl1, which would be a lot of fun to grind for IMO
I'm the biggest fan of the BL1 loot system, but with the style of dedicated drops of BL2. Basically generic loot feels good in BL1 because of the parts system. Just a Torgue purple can be very good, and then it could be an anarchy or a stinger smg. Or you could get legendary parts/hybrids. The legendaries were rare and had no dedicated source, but you could farm uniques that could then spawn with legendary parts. And the legendary world drops in general were common enough to find a few per playthrough rather than relying solely on dedicateds (or farming specific world drop loot pinatas like loot midgets). Plus getting the gun being used by an enemy just feels right.
The problem with BL2 loot system is you basically only ever want to farm specific dedicated drops and then you use nothing else (perhaps because the fast ball and harold are too good, but that is beside the point).
In BL1 if you found a perfectly parted purple gun, you could use it for like 30 levels, cause generic guns with good parts were really that good. The legendary part was usually just a modifier to make a purple even better. Same reason why there were tiers of orange for legendary, better parts - darker orange and better stats. It wasn't just: find specific legendary and no matter the parts it is amazing.
In general, grab the best of all worlds, the movement, various action skills, takedowns, the weapon diversity, and mini events (the cartel and Halloween), from BL3, and add it to everything that BL2 did perfectly, the repetiviness, the okay story, iconic characters, very good DLC, and DLC characters. I really have high hopes for BL4, I only not played wonderlands, but I would hope, gearbox is done experimenting and just focus all their attention to the stuff they had done really good and put it all together on a game
I seriously hope they manage to do Borderlands 4 right. Gearbox needs a big win after the movie flopped.
Wonderlands flopped. New Tales flopped. The movie flopped. It's hard not to see a pattern.
@@gordonfreeman1163 3 sold well but Id argue the game itself flopped
@@gordonfreeman1163 All the more reason that Gearbox needs a huge win here with all these flops lately. I really hope they manage to pull themselves out of this floppy rut.
@@sarlon51 they do need a huge win, but it's not realistic. They lack the means to secure that sweet W. Don't feed yourself unlikely hopes, you won't be much disappointed that way.
Im positive that the movie was solely just to bring in new players
Destiny gives you one weapon and one armor for their highest tier, so giving you one Pearl Gun and one Pearl Accessory could be interesting.
Endgame Mobbing Challenges!!!! Digi Peak, Slaughter, Trial chambers, just give me a room of mobs to clear, that is challenging but can be routed and improved.
Raid bosses are important, but i think mobbing challenges are almost as fun at endgame if done well. People even do this with regular maps in bl2 because it's so fun, i regularly see people post "Southpaw steam and power vs Twister Gaige in 3:57" or similar videos.
I would love to have increase chance of dedicate drops while lowering world drop legendaries; I mean in BL3 I have farmed Road dog (of whatever his name is) for the hellwalker and after 30 kills, got basically nothing, yet, you can go to warden and it showers you with legendaries
My number one thing would be a campaign skip/adventure mode like Diablo. Where you don’t have to play through the story to level new characters.
They did finally add this to bl3 in the most recent update
@@dxtrum what does this feature do in a bit more detail?
@@ChArLie360115gives you the option to start a character at max level with the story complete if you already have a max level character
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If you beat the campaign and have a character reach max level, you can create a new character straight to Level 72
@@ChArLie360115 "If you finished the game and reached max level with a character, you can create a new character to the max level"
To be honest, if you make pearls super rare and difficult to obtain, there's no reason why they shouldn't be super powerful. You can always just choose not to use them.
The problem with the whole "you can just not use them" isn't as true as it may seem. Like sure you physically can not use them, but most people will subconsciously try to make the game they are playing easier for themselves even within the boundaries of a certain challenge. So locking yourself off of pearls in this case would end up like "well I could just go get a pearlescent" and then you at that point you might as well get all that you need and until there is no challenge.
The balancing of this kind is to protect the player from themselves, as they could get bored if it was too easy.
@@xd3athclawx554 Definitely agreed. "you can choose not to use it" is a terrible defense for stuff that's really overpowered.
Pearls should be overall strong to reward the grind, but endgame build gear should not be a straight wall of cyan gear for every VH, it'd just be boring.
@@darthvaderreviews6926 Yeah I think having some sort of limiter on the amount you can have equipped at once would be good for the game. Would make builds more dynamic with the different items to use.
i agree, highest rarity should equal best guns
@darthvaderreviews6926 Except getting that "wall" is going to take eons if they make the gear extremely rare, so this is a dog shlt take.
Ive been playing Borderlands since 2009 and I disagree with the legendary drops point (to a degree).
Most people are going to playthrough the game once and maybe, just maybe a second time. Let these people get at least a legendary or two over their playthrough. Make them unique, yes, make them rare, yes, but weapon variety is literally what makes borderlands, Borderlands. Let the average player enjoy the best parts of the game in regular playthroughs. Its fun to try new things. Whenever i hear this point i think people are thinking in the context of endgame or Mayhem levels, but thats not what most people will see. Most people arent even going to see a pearlescent and try less than 5 legendary guns over the course of their playthrough. Legendaries are fun, so make it so people can actually enjoy them and see them. What if they guaranteed a legendary drop if the player hasnt obtained a new one in the past few hours? That way you dont punish players who like to farm for whatever reason, and dont punish players who will NEVER farm for gear.
Completely agree with this. Also for people like me who have a kid and job with limited time to game, I don’t want to do a dozens of runs for one weapon. I don’t even play BL2 anymore because I don’t have the time to grind for the legendaries, but BL3 lets me do it so much faster.
I think gearbox should make bl4 legendary chances set by players in a setting so everyone can be happy with what they want so everyone can stop arguing about them being to easy or to hard to get.
Please
I would love that but it wouldn’t stop the arguing. Do you know how in Elden Ring if you beat say margit but you used the tools the gave you to do it you’d just be met with elitists who won’t shut up about how “you didn’t play correctly, you played on easy mode you’re robbing yourself of the true game, blah blah blah” you’d essentially get the same thing with that mechanic you want. Imagine you switch the drop rates for an easy Harold and you make the mistake of telling others and they start dog piling on you about how you played the game you bought
@@nathanhendrickson790 well I'm not saying to make drops easy they should make a limit on how easy like bl3 easy is the highest and bl1 legendary drops or bl2 is the lowest idk something like that I really think this is a brilliant idea I need to work for gearbox lol.
@@Zer04887 I agree it is a brilliant idea and I hope it’s a thing. I’m just saying we’ve been on the internet long enough to know people will dogpile on anything lol
Nah every mission should be a repeat of the Raid difficultly of Grandma Flexington's story like definitely would be a great story (I hated that mission and I got bored every time I went to do it)
I really hope they have dedicated drops day one, would legitimately be devastated if Joltz retired :(
I know it sounds like a conspiracy on my end, but I don’t get how they can fix the issue in BL2, but not have dedicated drops at launch for any of the games following it. Practically every player seems to love them.
So to me it feels like something they intentionally hold back, to implement later when they see the game has issues. That way they get the “hey look they’re listening to the community!” points from people when it’s something that should be there day one
Dedicated drops are nice but borderlands has always been a game with 4 player co-op as an option and dedicated drops doesn't really sound exciting with 3/4 players
@@elmilkmannI feel like no one wants to go down the list and assign every boss a weapon. It's a tedious job and apparently gearbox doesn't think it's required.
He ain't gon retire
13:29 actually if you play moze the modifiers can make her stronget like infinite gernades, stronger mindsweeper, and the spinner just makes the chance of it to drop a mindsweeper is higher🌚
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I really want the borderlands 2 artstyle back
Please do a follow-up video of the best community/comment ideas. I could listen to these videos all day. Love the ideation and creativity.
My ideal Borderlands 4:
-The gunplay of BL3
-The story of BL2
-The loot system of BL1
Perfection.
I always thought this exactly. Just add the atmosphere from BL1 and the game would be amazing.
For some reason, not sure if just me, but I always loved how the guns looked in BL1 compared to BL2.
The npc to player interaction of TPS, it was cool that a lot of dialogue was unique to the vault hunter you chose
@@Glue_Eater06 for me, the skilltrees of TPS as well. I think they were my favorite from the whole series
Bl4 needs a map reset option, if we’re still savequit farming I’m going to lose it 😂
Factttts
You can technically do it with Mayhem Mode in BL3 but I don't want that, I wanna reset the damn map ENTIRELY.
Would be funny to have a secret enemy that hits you with a splash weapon that just brings your entire system to a screeching halt.
Also, please dear god no wall running. Sounds cool on paper until you accidentally jump near a wall and are suddenly running alongside it, multiple times in a row and the actual usage of it is rarely seen.
I think something that would be fun to play with is gun crafting like you can break guns down to learn or have parts and make your own custom weapons but not to overpowered just something nice that would bring a bit of creativity to the game and bring that creativity out of the fan base.
Love your content joltz
My biggest issue with BL3 aside from the atrocious story was the rng on top of rng for weapons. There were way too many legendarys in a pool of weapons so 9 times outta 10 you weren’t excited to see a legendary until you saw if it was a “good” or “bad” one. Next it has to also have the right anointment on it which for most of BL3 there wasn’t a way to reroll so it was so tedious to get the weapon you want with a good anointment. Furthermore, you had to hope you got decent weapon parts and the right element. Rng on top of rng on top of rng. It killed the game for me and it’s the reason why even to this day I still have characters that never got to full lvl. I got so tired of grinding my weapons just to have the lvl cap extended a few months later to then force me to regained weapons. The odds of you getting the right legendary, with the right anointment, with the right parts, with the right element was so small that after an hour or two I was just tired. So for the love of god in BL4 add more ways to get gear you specifically want. Ppl might disagree with me but I don’t frankly care. If anointments return I want them to be choosable with an in game currency like Iridiam etc. If the weapon comes in all elements there should be a person you can bring the weapon to and have them change it for you. Obviously, this wouldn’t be free. Example could be if you bring a guy 15 conference calls you can melt them together to make a custom elemental one. So if I keep getting corrosive or fire and I want a shock or radiation I can do it that way. This extends to class mods as well. If I’m playing a character why am I getting mods for other characters. BL2 had it perfect and I don’t want to have a rng mess to just get a gun I want that suites how I’m playing the game 😂
One thing I feel like BL4 wouls benfit from is a part merger. Your Torgue gun doesn't have matching grip? No biggie, go to the town gun mechanic and scrap a pistol you don't need. To not make it too broken, the guns should be equal level
I love the manufacturer parts system in these games, it's weird that they never really explain or capitalized on them in-game. It would be cool to have a catalog of all the parts which would fill up as you found or recycled weapons, and then being able to swap out equal level parts like you said.
BL3 had such a deep weapon parts system and if BL4 expands on that it would allow for endless amount of weapon customization.
I actually feel the opposite and think the best benefit of a crafting system would be an (expensive) option to scale gun's levels up, so you can choose to level up older legendaries you got before max level.
On the other hand, I don't want a weapon modification system to remove the hunt for godrolls from the series. Either only certain parts should be swappable _(eg. scopes)_ or crafted guns should be slightly weaker than an organic drop with the same parts
@@darthvaderreviews6926i think that the crafting should make the hunt for god rolls easier. Maybe limit it so that you need the replacement parts to come from the same gun. I.e if you want a DPUH with a torgue grip you would need to salvage all the replacement parts from other Unkempt Harolds. That way you dont have to waste hours upon hours of time trying to get the best thing, only to end up with a massive pile of unwanted drops.
Also, the item card should have a little hammer on it to show that it was crafted, that way people who farmed it 'legit' can still have bragging rights.
@@zythesly this is exactly what i would want too
Number 1 Make it like Borderlands 2 Story and Villain.
Number 2 Borderlands 3 Weapons.
And Finally DLCs , Raid Bosses and Pearls
and maybe new raritys glitch or rainbow
All that needs to be said
We don't need BL3's legendaries though
@gordonfreeman1163 maybe not the same amount of world drops, but keeping the slightly higher drop rates for dedicated drops, actually GIVING stuff dedicated drops and just how awesome some of them were should stay.
I mean cmon, bl3 had some AMAZINGLY fun guns like the kaosin, soulrender, lightshow, hellwalker, boom sickle, ION cannon (pre-nerf), roisen's thorn and so many others... and some duds but that's every borderlands game
Borderlands 3’s maps too
I just wanna know what happend to fiona and the og tales crew, plz just a crumb anything 😢
Totally agreed with this list! Something I wanna mention that could tie into proper/fair difficulty scaling is to remove or tweak the REALLY annoying enemies, like rabid skags and stalkers. Same with enemies/bosses that have tedious immune phases.
I think that legendaries in BL3 would have been great if there was a pearlescent type tier. At Mayhem 0, legendaries felt just right. Once you got into the higher tiers though, it was easy for legendaries to flood the game. If they took the strongest of the legendaries, brought them up to pearlescent, and made them exclusive to higher mayhem modes, it would have done wonders for the game.
Also, I like being able to see legendary items on the map. Give us an option to disable that, and make no legendary cosmetics so we don't get our hopes spoiled when we see one
I disagree with pearlescent 1-per character limits. I feel like pearlescents just need to have enough synergy that you're only going to run ones that are good for you. Think Uniques from Diablo 4. Higher tier than Legendaries, but only stronger if your build is going to fit it. As opposed to stuff like the plasma blaster from BL3's Arms Race, which was just the go to weapon for every build.
I also think that BL3 has the perfect movement set. I don't think we really need anything more.
Any fan with at least 100hours of BL experience would make a better CEO than Randy Pitchford. You can rest assured none of these things that we all agree on will make it into the game.
That's not what ceos do.
@@biohazard724 If the CEO of a gaming company said "We must have dedicated drops at the launch of BL4" at a team meeting it would happen. He's not programing the game but he does have influence on the overall direction.
Yup. I love Joltz but we all know this video is just wishful thinking.
As long as that guy is in charge of Gearbox, and as long as they didn't change the writing team, BL4 is guaranteed to be much much worse than 3.
I feel like legendarys being so common only really becomes an issue lategame, where they drop by the dozen. Having a steady stream of weapons with unique properties throughout the story was something I actually quite enjoyed in bl3 because they are automatically viable due to being a higher level than your old gear and keep things fresh with their gimmicks. I think overall lower drop chance, but a guaranteed legendary drop after killing a boss for the first time would make bosses more exciting without flooding players with useless gear. And if they go with making more non legendary uniques then I’d prefer if they had another color or some obvious indication that they are special. A little red text only visible in the card is way too subtle to be noticeable in a pile of loot or even in the inventory. Alternatively they could keep legendaries the way they were in bl3 and bring back pearlescent for endgame, that way you can have cool weapons all throughout your game and also something rare to get really excited about if it drops. Also please don’t make vending machines as expensive as in wonderlands, not having cash to try something that looks interesting because it might mean you can’t afford an upgrade to your build half an hour later just felt really shitty.
who is ready for ava to be the playable siren 💀
That's what I was thinking aswell if she is I can't wait to see people's reaction
cant wait for the seething from grown ass men to begin then :3
Can't wait to drop myself in the nearest pit as Ava
@@duchessHadacolicFound Randy's alt account.
@@meme_aids i dont like magic.
If they just... married the BL1 loot system with the BL2 loot system. Like, bring back hybrids, make legendaries special and a fair amount of rare again, retain dedicated drops. I think this would make everyone very happy.
I’ve been playing all the borderlands games in order with my friend. We went from Pre Sequel to borderlands 2 and i was so used to the low gravity and moonscaper strategy i keep trying to boost around
Regarding that last point: How cool would it be if BL4 hypothetically had wall running, grapple points, double jumps, and even some fourth thing... but each Vault Hunter had their own special passive movement ability?
Say, this game's Siren gets to wall run, but this game's sniper/marksman type has the grapple points, and the soldier gets to double jump. You'd have maps laid out so that your chosen character has different ways of approaching the objective and moving around arenas, making your choice of character feel that much more unique and special.
@6:30 bad take for a game with no pvp. Let players become op in a single player setting if they want to.
Real asf.
Gearbox should just hire Joltz as a consultant - biggest BL creator being involved in BL4 would give the community a lot of needed confidence and would be an easy W for them
100%
yeah i wish they consult with many BL creator, they know the lore, and the gameplay
Consult with the people who actually playing the game
when it comes to the grappling hook, it could be a character skill
like you can grapple short distances or as a stunning attack (for example if you hook an enemy you pull yourself to them and drop kick them which maybe gives them a slight "micro stun" which allows you to shoot them down without being in too much danger, obviously some enemies should be resistant to this, and it does some solid damage, perhaps something in the lines of Zer0's Execute
However the only other thing I would say that we actually do need for the game is build variety like we have in Borderlands 3. Borderlands 2 is great minus the fact that there's only two maybe three maximum viable strategies for the end game. For Borderlands 3 basically any bills was viable but a Borderlands 2 if you don't have specific weapons and your skill points put into specific builds then you're not going to have fun you're just going to be meta
Borderlands just need to learn that when it's a mature game, it shouldn't add woke jokes, they need to know who their audience is unlike 3.
Could you define "woke jokes" for me please? I am having trouble trying to depict them
@@maridomi8303 jokes that are forced to not hurt anyone.
“Woke jokes”: Jokes that automatically induce an acute feeling of cringe and involuntary groans from the player.
Jokes intended for a “modern audience”
@@stuarthall9854Bingo
Something that could help with the legendary drop system would be a setting before you start a play through like with coopetition and cooperation that either scales up or scales down the chances of getting legendary drops, like a casual/hardcore play through of the game
I feel like the ability to swap on certain parts after obtaining the item with the part. For example the lets say you get a gub with bandit grip and a different gub with a Torgue grip. I feel like from then on any GUB you get should have a menu where can swap between those parts and any others tou "unlock" for the weapon.
I think when it comes to rarities of legendries or such I like them being more common or just not extremely rare, I like your BL2 series and whenever I think of trying one myself I just cant imagine doing 100s of runs for perfect rolls or tons of runs just to get something I am just too bored. I think what would be a decent compromise is having an option to turn on like a system that increases drop rates each farm you dont get a legendary drop or so yknow?
That, and/or a crafting system where if you dont feel like farming the same thing over and over you can run around doing various things then get to pick a dedicated drop. So you still spend your time farming just not necessarily in the same way.
I'd also enjoy something that can either switchout gun parts or at least display more about it(like stats) in game so you can understand how gun parts work. Maybe a way to hypothetically build a gun and every time you get a drop of that gun and inspect it, it will compare to your desired parts and tell you what's different.
Story, plot, gameplay feel (mechanics).... I'm neither here nor there on. My biggest issue with BL3 was demotivating farming. Constant Level increases with shrinking friends list because they had no intention of farming that long again for imperfect loot. I would like a way to bridge the GRBX formula of "level cap/fk your time and effort."
- A workbench to change parts/accessories/skins on. Maybe allow greater storage and manipulation based on storyline.
> As story progress, storage of accessories from 1-3 maximum each and you can modify higher quality weapons each chapter... from White at game start to Legendary/Pearl after defeating raid bosses and story.
> After character story completion, maybe eridium used to increase weapon levels as option instead of re-farming.
> the weapon the accessory taken from is scrapped. The accessory overwritten is scrapped.
> Legendary effects on weapon or accessory are locked to weapon. But MAYBE can add special "legendary accessories" that can be farmed or earned to stack.
- Less Garbage Loot. (goes hand in hand with workbench, still a looter shooter, but with ability to upgrade/change weapon, makes less need for just scattered crap, and makes each piece a bit more interesting to check out)
The legendary loot fix for those that want the rare hunt vs. those who don't have the time: Make it a gamemode choice similar to the BL3 ability to have instanced Loot. Alternatively (in addition?) could be after X number of farms of a dedicated drop enemy it automatically gives say a "Legendary Voucher" or whatever that the player can cash in for that associated legendary or be sold for currency (bonus: hints at the dedicated legendary).
That way those who just wanna try out Legendary gear but for whatever reason can't farm much get their opportunity while those that enjoy the hunt for it are still able to get the drops organically. The voucher doesn't replace any dropped loot either, it's a freebie alongside normal drop pool. Might also make it a one-time thing per playthrough if not an optional setting overall.
I feel like if there are a buut-ton of legendaries that are super rare, then you could have high chances of getting a legendary from certain enemies but low chances of getting a legendary you want without going to the dedicated drop spot.
i feel like having different movement tech for different characters would be interesting so you can explore different routes for things and really expand on trying different play styles.
Replay-able missions for endgame content in case we want to farm a certain mission reward or if you just really like playing a certain mission. Once you beat the game then you could go back and replay a certain mission
I think it would be really cool to have a large lineup of vault hunters that you could swap between through out the game, like you can change every time ur in sanctuary or smth
14:07 on the topic of movement tech, I think it would be really fun if some of the VH abilities were based around movement. Like let's have an ability where a VH throws out a giant flying pet or robot that if you tap the key it just moves forward by itself to do damage, but if you hold the key you tether to it and fly forward really fast with it. The character could be melee focused and its a tool to close the gap or do melee damage at range. Also they just shouldn't bring back the face puncher or blade fury, if there is going to be a melee gun make it a Torgue launcher that shoots massive exploding fists.
I'd like to see maybe each character have their own movement tech associated with them. Like maybe only one has a grappling hook and one has a double jump. Maybe a double jump would seem boring to a grappling hook but maybe in their skill tree they can have modifiers to your movement ability that increase it's versatility or combos well with other abilities you gain, like maybe when you goomba stomp an enemy it does more damage and it launches you higher than a normal jump and you can use your double jump to get even higher or to maintain that height a little longer.
Combining weapons and other gear like on TPS using moonstones is better than being able to buy legendaries straight from vendors. Having radiation, frost and iridium damage types as well as fire, thunder, corrosion. BL3 vehicles were pretty awesome. Make stealth a more viable option like Zero in BL2. Would be nice to have a hook that can be used for grappling, holding onto ledges. Jump pads with low gravity was fun on TPS.
i want a social area to hang out with lots of people in, with group emotes an stuff.
man this vid gives me nostalgic vibes to when borderlands 3 was coming out. time flies so fast
A good example of dedicated loot drops and quest rewards is the bfffs quest in fight for sanctuary because at the end of the quest you get a legendary and every enemy you have to kill in that quest has a dedicated drop. The rainbow rarity of weapon.
I'm with you on the legendary drop rate. I also started on BL1 couple months after it's release, and seeing a legendary every once in awhile was very special. Especially in vending machines. It's why I still play the first one today now on my switch.
n1 - good story
is whatever, i dont personally like bl2's story all that much but the pacing is much better than bl3's, as long as it's serviceable it's fine as no one plays for the story anyways
n2 - dedicated drops
are a must, i would take this one step further and have all world drops be exclusively tied to a loot luck system where you can effectively buff them or debuff them at will, this will solve a lot of player outcry about legendary drop rates (as lets be real, bl3 still has rare dedicated loot it's mainly the world drops that give the idea that there's a lot going on)
n3 - legendary being rare / chasing after rarities
i think this mindset is fundamentally a bit dogwater as something being "rare" does not make it worth too chase, there are plenty of beyond super rare items in other games that require beyond getting 10 perfect shams or revolters, but they're simply not worth too chase as they are not good, this is also my problem with pearls being shoved back into the game as most of them are not outright better than my legendary that i farmed for so there's no point in having them in the game
n3.5 - the legendary drop chance arguments are heavily influenced by the part system, if we had bl2's part system still i think 30% is perfectly fine as it's very very very boring to farm for literal perfect parts on each gun you want to the point where i've had friends play for 40hrs and when i tell them the chance of getting certain items perfect, they stop playing altogether, whether we like it or not it is a turn off for new people getting into this series & it's a needless added layer of rng to further increase player time without increasing player respect
for bl3's lesser part system btw i would want the drop rates around 20-15%
n4 - pearl argument
as stated above in n2, i only want pearls back if they are outright better than any legendary i could farm for in that slot, meaning ANY pearl pistol must outright be better than my legendary one otherwise there's no point in having them in the game as it's just chasing "rarity" for rarities sake & you should go play other games that have way rarer items than borderlands
n4.5 - "if pearls were truly the top tier best of the best item rarity, then wouldn't it be pretty overpowered if you just had a full set of pearlescent gear" yeah, if they're "super duper rare" i outright expect them to be op once you have spent a possible 100-200hrs+ of your time farming just one of them, it's a PvE game let it have it's fun
n4.75 - as a destiny player, a long time destiny player (6.6k hours in D1 & 2.4K hours in D2), the one exotic system is absolute dogwater, "oh but it offers a lot of diversity for builds" trust me, it doesn't, the "diversity" you speak of is vapid since in reality that system fundamentally limits item rarity & power, what's powerful about having 1 pearl? nothing, unless pearls are fundamentally changed to literally break the game and have dedicated drops tied to them, there's no reason to even suggest this change
you also speak on immune phases in n5 which in destiny was fundamentally caused by powercreep tying way way back to exotics
n5 - raid bosses
the only way these work at release is if gearbox can decide on an end game level system, having a repeat of bl2 where we get them and then have most of them be absolutely terrible to farm purely because of the OP level system is dogwater, i literally don't even consider them to be raid bosses at that point, more like damage test walls for other parts of the game; so chances are we don't get them done right
n6 - takedowns
are nice but if they are to remain endgame i would want a difficulty increase option & a base increase to the loot dropped by the bosses, especially if we return to a more varied part system
n7 - dlc characters / 4th skill tree
i said this before on an epicnng video, but ideally i want both, gaige was and is a terrible character to do a playthrough with & fl4k's 4th skill tree missed hard, so rather i would want a dlc character pack that releases ~1-2 years after the game that contains a couple really well designed vault hunters & 4th skill trees for everyone, to give players a reason to not only buy the packs to begin with but also to re-runs of the game with the base characters
n7.5 - "i still remember jumping on krieg for the first time in borderlands 2" yeah and i remember jumping on gaige and being dissapointed i even spent money on the game, that character is worth less than a 1820's free ice cream from a man with a white van that smells like chemicals; all to say, not fun & you have to keep in mind that 50% of the dlc's characters released, have been bad
n8 - good optimization
has always been a must for me, something that K6 recommended in one of his community idea videos for bl4 was also a particle settings options to reduce the number of overall particles in your game
n9 - end game scaling
has to be nothing like OP levels for me, that system was & still is absolute garbage, i have all 6 characters at OP10 & after finishing it i stopped playing the game for literally 5 years, it's such a garbage endgame system; mayhem levels are better imo because of mayhem scaling which acts as like a patch to the weakest parts of characters making them strong; earnable end game increases tho? i would say i'd prefer something like digi-peak but shorter, i do not want to do a whole ass digi-peak run just to increase my difficulty especially since i just put in tens upon hundreds of hours playing through all the side missions, optionable collectables for exp & main quest content
n9.5 - basically end game should feel like you're a menace to the game world, you shouldn't feel weak at endgame otherwise you're just playing helldivers 2, you SHOULD feel STRONG at end game, you are the badass who made it there & crushed some of the most powerful entities and corporations in the universe to get there
n9.75 - i'm sorry brother but that "cheesy farm for max gear" argument in relation to the slider is just hypocritical, you do cheesy farms for exp and gear all the time so don't even use that as a justification for your false anger towards the mayhem slider system
n9.8 - you DO NOT get OP10 by "earning it" LMFAO, you even post video evidence doing cheeses to the OP levels time after time because it's a badly designed system designed for dumb people who just want the number to go higher
n9.9 - "no more modifiers please, i dont want to be doing acrobatics on the battlefield, i want to fight the enemy in front of me not the enemy around me" is such a soft argument since you just said you wanted endgame scaling to be earnable, so what? you're all of a sudden good enough now to earn you endgame levels but not good enough to have some spatial awareness? absolute dogwater position
n10 - more movement tech
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Some kind of smithy station would be nice. the ability to swap weapon parts with other drops of the same or other rarity parts up to like purple rarity. there could even be some minigame where you assemble the weapon yourself and maybe you fail and your drop is worse or you get some kind of bonus, buffing the weapon on a good success. maybe iridium screws and barrels make the weapon iridian tier
I really like the stormblind complex in bl3. It made playing the game and relying on anything that drops to feel good at high levels and honestly made legendary drops feel legendary again. It was always unique and you could get really op gear to take into the main game, so it was worth playing. Id love to see more mobbing based end game experiences like this that had me using any/everything I can grab and bring excited for things like blues and purples again.
I think, building on your idea of the double jump, I agree. I think whatever "Operative" style character we get (think Zer0, Mordecai, Zayne and Fl4k) should have an air dodge type ability or an air dash. These are supposed to be the movement savants. They should be fluid and fast, like a ninja. We got that in Wonderlands Redux, and I thought it was amazing
i think it will be cool to have like, unique history events or cutscene based on the character that you choose, but not something that privates you from getting a drop, just a thing that differs the vault hunters other lthan ike dialogs.
About legendary drop rates, i liked the concept in that one bl2 mod where you have 10% drop chance in normal and then +10% for each higher playthrough. Early on every legendary you get is good but its rare and later on u can search for specific parts
Dedicated drop system is one of top reasons borderlands 2 stands out.. It's quite an adventure to do side quests for specific weapons which you wouldn't do otherwise
you know i really hope they watch this i always like your input
i really hope they see this and implement it its a great chance for experienced user and creator to resonate their game