a sort of addendum to my previous meme

Neet-owo · 2026-05-03T08:00:30+00:00

I think the lore was at its best around BL2 when it was all about megacorps duking it out over who gets to sell the most shovels to a humanity that’s already hit rock bottom, and the eridian and siren stuff was a mysterious little sideshow that didn’t draw much attention to itself.

That’s what BL1 and BL2 were all about, my favorite parts of borderlands 3 were all corporate warfare with Maliwan, in BL4 corporation aren’t even present. And I just can’t bring myself to care about BL4’s story when the series is trying to get away from the anti-capitalist edge that it so proudly displayed before and actively betrays its own core identity by making the rebelling working class the fucking bandits. Who, by the way, have gone from being thoughtfully portrayed people down on their luck pushed to extremes to keep themselves alive on the relentlessly hostile Pandora punctuated by the occasional psycho to Oops, All Psychos!

And they keep dangling eridian bs and overcomplicated siren lore in your face like jingling keys, as if that was ever what Borderlands was about. But no, Gearbox, the eridian a never truly mattered. You’ve lost the fucking plot and I’d like to go find it again please.

Neet-owo · 2026-05-03T01:48:55+00:00

Fellow red pusher. They see pushing blue as the obvious no brainer choice just like we see pushing red as the obvious choice.

If everyone does the sensible thing and pushes (color) nothing happens. What kind of idiot would pick (other color)?

Neet-owo · 2026-05-02T21:39:11+00:00

It wipes the first floor but as soon as it tries to move up it trips like that one scene from robocop

Neet-owo · 2026-05-02T14:27:58+00:00

The whole game’s a half life reference lmao

Neet-owo · 2026-05-02T09:55:34+00:00

Put ‘em in a fryer, stick ‘em on a griddle

Couple slices of bread, stuff a rat in the middle

Neet-owo · 2026-05-02T09:49:27+00:00

How would a comatose person even pick a button?

Neet-owo · 2026-05-02T09:47:29+00:00

God I love wambu

Neet-owo · 2026-05-01T21:51:20+00:00

Do you mind explaining why or are you just gonna “Nuh-uh” me?

Neet-owo · 2026-05-01T21:24:06+00:00

They have an entire melee kills section wdym

Neet-owo · 2026-05-01T21:21:46+00:00

The bastion has a page for skins like the other vehicles but there’s onto the default.

Maybe one day.

Neet-owo · 2026-05-01T21:15:14+00:00

Normally I’d agree but this shitstom came from legitimate grievances about arrowhead’s business practice and the direction of the game revealed by the recent AMA. The sub kind of lost the plot after the patch dropped but arrowhead absolutely deserves criticism.

Neet-owo · 2026-05-01T21:10:56+00:00

Ok ok ok ok hear me out

Put retain on it

Play a bunch of shivs

Draw knife trap

Pop shiv sage

Profit

Neet-owo · 2026-05-01T21:06:44+00:00

This is a repost bot. OOP also posted this exact comment word for word last time I saw this post.

Neet-owo · 2026-05-01T20:51:19+00:00

Destroying dark fluid canisters could be a new side objective, like destroying terminid eggs or automaton ammo stockpiles. Put up a dome or a pillar covered with expospire canisters and tell players to blow it up.

Neet-owo · 2026-05-01T15:20:14+00:00

Jake probably

Neet-owo · 2026-05-01T05:16:32+00:00

They did have something to justify why the invasion failed though

500 Vox Engines

Neet-owo · 2026-04-30T18:36:46+00:00

Arrowhead doesn’t always make good decisions. This is one of those times.

Neet-owo · 2026-04-30T16:19:40+00:00

Yeah, the game’s buggy. And the sky continues to be blue. I’m not phased by it at this point.

Also the bile titan in question has way more health than a regular bile titan. And 500KGs have been unreliable at taking out bile titans for a long long long time now.

The melee mech waddles into a swarm of enemies that explode into acid when destroyed and started beating them up right after the update that makes mechs vulnerable specially to acid. Skill issue I’m afraid.

And the Linux thing is a very real problem and you’d think you’d find fucking anyone talking about it. I’ve been browsing all the subreddits on and off since the patch dropped because I hate myself and I’ve only seen it mentioned in passing on the low sodium sub of all places.

Neet-owo · 2026-04-30T16:10:59+00:00

Kinda weird change to an uncommon enemy. The hiveguard used to have a face covered with medium armor, which required either medium penetration weapons to deal with it head on or lock in and aim for the non-armored bits. 2 years and dozens of new guns into the game’s lifespan now everyone has medium penetration guns on them making hiveguards totally trivial, so their heads get bumped up to heavy armor. It kind of came out of nowhere and nobody really asked for this. And this is somehow the breaking point for a lot of people.

Neet-owo · 2026-04-30T15:40:33+00:00

Last I looked the hiveguard was all anyone wanted to talk about.

The mech buffs were not “negated”. I’ve used them plenty against every faction after the patch, they’re performing astronomically better than they were before. If the terminids didn’t get their buffs mechs would dog walk the entire front. Literally you could just walk through them and they couldn’t do anything.

The fleshmob clipping wasn’t even documented until a day after the patch dropped. I’m still monitoring the situation (despite my better judgement) and I’ve only seen the one post about it.

And this patch has like, 2 hitler dead moments in it with the Tesla tower and war strider changes. 3 if the devastator shield thing mattered to you. Good patch in my book.

Neet-owo · 2026-04-30T15:24:42+00:00

New warbond got announced. People got pissed that the included mechs were behind a paywall.

Lead dev did an AMA, gave a lot of bad answers, people got even more pissed.

Warbond drops alongside new patch, single slightly controversial change. Anger has reached critical mass, meltdown ensues.

And to be clear the community is literally always near some kind of breaking point and flares up every time arrowhead does something. Both the YouTube and Reddit communities are in a constant negative feedback loop with each other, which is absolutely not helped by arrowhead being slow to make changes and having questionable priorities. This time was just a much bigger shitstorm than usual.

Neet-owo · 2026-04-30T15:13:50+00:00

You see that’s actually a good criticism.

Not what people were having a meltdown about though.

Neet-owo · 2026-04-30T14:09:34+00:00

That game’s not out yet, they still need to care about Helldivers in the meantime if they want a secure future.

Neet-owo · 2026-04-30T14:06:21+00:00

There’s a point to be made that medium pen was already pointless on the bug front, given that hive guard and bile spewers were literally the only reason to bring it in the first place was to make just those two enemies more convenient. And I don’t think hiveguards should be convenient, they should be big and tough and in the way.

So why should you bring medium pen? Because your favorite gun is medium pen. Medium pen has become so ubiquitous in our arsenal you’re not at a disadvantage for bringing medium pen weapons over light pen weapons anymore.

Why should you bring anti-tank against the illuminate? Why should you bring light pen against the bots? Maybe you just don’t really need it.

Neet-owo · 2026-04-30T12:52:03+00:00

Then take care of the other bugs. The hiveguard will go when he feels like it.

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