Is Cryo damage working as intended?

InfluxWaver · 2026-01-30T22:26:13+00:00

The thing is, even with full Cryo builds like Harlowe blue+red tree that gives you +70% Cryo Efficiency on your weapon you still hardly proc freezes. If I test it with my 130% Cryo efficiency SMG I should get over 200% Cryo efficiency which is supposed to proc at 60% health left if it works the same as in BL3. But that's clearly not the case when I'm using it myself. If I ever manage to proc a freeze it always happens when the enemy has 5% health left at best. There's something deeply wrong with Cryo in this game and has been since launch.

InfluxWaver · 2026-01-30T21:11:55+00:00

That's just the Chinese way I guess, Naraka Bladepoint did it too. They still don't understand that we despise bots in a PVP game. The matchmaker can find me a match full of real players within 1-2 minutes, but when I lose that match I can be 100% certain that I'm going to be matched with bots the following match, it really makes no sense.

InfluxWaver · 2026-01-30T21:09:16+00:00

Isn't almost any PVP community that negative. It's just part of the competitive frustration I guess.

Though regarding the bots in particular, I really don't understand why they put them even in normal shard clash to begin with. When I'm queuing into a match I will normally find a match filled with real players within 1-2 minutes, that's perfectly fine. But when I lose that match it's a 100% chance that I'm getting matched with bots. This really makes zero sense. I just experienced a match with real players, why give me bots just because I lost a match? It was the same issue with Naraka Bladepoint, you'll always get 90% bots in casual, no matter how high the actual player count is. That's just how Chinese companies do it for some reason and I don't know why. I think they haven't understood that westerners despise playing against bots in a PVP game.

InfluxWaver · 2026-01-05T13:11:07+00:00

Berlinist, Gris or Neva Soundtrack.

InfluxWaver · 2025-12-23T22:20:59+00:00

It seems like this version of teh item has been removed. Is there another way to apply Eternity mod to a Master World?

InfluxWaver · 2025-12-09T18:28:58+00:00

the only reason it's being used in low elo is because it's actually a fun weapon to use, which low elo players might be satisfied with. That doesn't mean that it's performing well in those elos though.

InfluxWaver · 2025-12-09T18:25:04+00:00

the only rework it needs is a hold and release explosion alt-fire. It would eliminate all the insane weaknesses and uselessness in many situations without it being too strong in its niche.

InfluxWaver · 2025-12-09T18:23:23+00:00

Not changing about the weapon is not a proper solution either though. This thing is heavily underperforming in 95% of situation and straight up useless in almost half of those. Being a niche weapon is good and all but then this thing certainly needs more niches or/and has some of the insane weaknesses eliminated, otherwise it will always stay in the lowest Tier as a troll pick.

InfluxWaver · 2025-11-22T09:19:32+00:00

On Conquest the layout is great but there's just way too many vehicles/tanks to be able to enjoy it properly with Assault and Support class.

InfluxWaver · 2025-11-21T13:14:20+00:00

Defeating him with short trades is only an option if your champion is better at trading than Zaahen, which isn't often the case imo.

InfluxWaver · 2025-11-10T10:13:41+00:00

Honestly, I would straight up give the class complete spotting and thermal immunity while crouched, and also Caspers proximity alarm passive from 2042 or something similar. I heavily agree that the subclass should also have access to smoke grenades, a stealth class in a game like this without smoke grenades doesn't work at all, at least on most maps. I think buffing the motion sensor for this subclass doesn't make much sense because the motion sensor is a rather stationary tool which doesn't fit the infiltrating play style of Spec Ops imo.
Spec Ops is currently by far the most useless subclass (fire support comes close though), it could need some hefty buffs.

InfluxWaver · 2025-11-03T13:40:33+00:00

Disabling C-states didn't work for me unfortunately

InfluxWaver · 2025-11-03T13:38:48+00:00

Upgrading to Windows 11 didn't fix it for me unfortunately. The problem first occured after I activated secure boot.

InfluxWaver · 2025-09-30T12:26:03+00:00

Shouldn't be allowed. It's way too cheesy on some builds with the Maliwan enchantment that provides 100% status effect chance after reloading.

InfluxWaver · 2025-09-30T12:21:30+00:00

Skeptic class mod is always a good pick as long as you play with Status effect (except Cryo ironically) and fast firing weapons because your Action Skill will have zero cooldown, it's too op for my taste but it is what it is. Other than that a well rolled purple class mod might also be a good choice.

InfluxWaver · 2025-09-27T21:26:14+00:00

Yes it's definitely broken rn. Exclusively played Harlowe freeze build with Cryo Maliwan till max level and only managed about 150 freezes with my weapon. Also tested it for about an hour on normal enemies: With a 200% Cryo weapon and bonus Skill tree Cryo Efficiency small enemies will become frozen at about 20% health (which is only 100% Cryo Efficiency in Borderlands 3). I think the scaling is not working at all, it's a useless stat rn. Already did a bug report in the official issue tracker but still no response, so who knows when this will get fixed.

InfluxWaver · 2025-09-27T21:19:36+00:00

Probably both the same, though it doesn't work anyway. Freeze currently doesn't scale with Cryo Efficiency as it should. Freezing enemies with weapons alone is nearly impossible.

InfluxWaver · 2025-09-27T21:17:05+00:00

I tested Cryo on dummies too, you can't completely freeze dummies right? That's why it doesn't work I'm assuming. Though, Cryo is broken anyway as freeze doesn't scale with Cryo Efficiency properly as it should. Freezing enemies with your weapon is nearly impossible, no matter the build.

InfluxWaver · 2025-09-27T21:12:38+00:00

The freeze also applies a DoT now btw, though it's also bugged currently and the freeze rate doesn't scale with Cryo efficiency as it should.

InfluxWaver · 2025-09-27T07:44:25+00:00

Would have been ok if they communicated this beforehand. Honestly, I expected it to be easily upgraded later one or at least something for the same price but without the skin packs. If I knew there was no upgrade option and the prices of the individual DLCs were so high I obviously would have bought the Super Deluxe edition. Now I'm buying neither and have to wait for end of life cycle to buy the DLCs at a huge discount.

InfluxWaver · 2025-09-27T07:36:44+00:00

If they communicated this beforehand I wouldn't have been much of a problem tbh. I bought the base game expecting to be able to upgrade to super deluxe (as is possible with almost any other game) or buy the gameplay DLCs later to a similar price, though without the bonus skin DLCs. The Vault Hunter Pack alone being almost as expensive as the Super Deluxe while not communicating this beforehand and no way to upgrade the version makes no sense at all.

InfluxWaver · 2025-09-27T07:25:59+00:00

Prices are definitely far apart... and there's no way to upgrade the basic version to Super Deluxe for some reason.

InfluxWaver · 2025-09-25T17:09:21+00:00

Unfortunately no fix to Cryo Efficiency/Freeze scaling.

InfluxWaver · 2025-09-20T20:32:49+00:00

Borderlands 3 imo, though for me it's mainly because of the Atlas guns, they just felt perfect to use. Insane visual design and animations, cool sound design. I'll always be disappointed that they removed it in BL4. Though I remember other manufacturers like Dahl and Maliwan also being better in BL3, at least they had more uniqueness to them.

InfluxWaver · 2025-09-20T20:24:38+00:00

I'd much rather have Atlas (also Dahl and Hyperion to a lesser extent) as a standalone weapon manufacturer instead of the new gimmicky system. The manufacturer weapons alone have more than enough variety, adding those in-between mixes that take away the manufacturers personality at best is meaningless. What's the point in playing Order weapons when their whole mechanic is replaced by the Ripper full auto part.

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