u/Unlost_maniac

I think Halo Campaign Evolved would have been celebrated if only it were just a DLC for Halo Infinite and the whole sandbox were ported into multiplayer for free, with all the assets available in Forge. They could have launched Hail Infinite on PS5 with a whole new season. People that have access to a much larger sandbox, people who weren't scared away by Infinite's shitty launch would have a reason to give it a chance.

This feels like a huge missed opportunity especially since they were going to do campaign DLCs anyways so why wasn't this a campaign DLC. We could have finally had the CE Magnum in Infinite's multiplayer. Campaign Evolved even had the weird pre-order skins those seem like they'd be much better suited in Halo Infinite's shop. I don't like microtransactions but I'm sure you can see what I mean. I feel like this would have been just a smash hit overall cuz people didn't care about the campaign or didn't like it would still have something to gain which is all the stuff added to multiplayer and forge.

Halo 5 had a huge sandbox, one major benefit of that was how the meta would shift drastically between different maps you could make a map. It felt like the weapons you would see used could vary quite a bit between maps where as in Halo infinite, that's not so much the case. This feels like a huge missed opportunity especially since they were going to do campaign DLCs anyways. Why wasn't this a campaign DLC? We could have finally had the CE Magnum in infinite multiplayer.

Imagine if their weird campaign remix feature was just an overhaul to the Infinite campaign launcher and you were able to mess with Halo Infinite's campaign. The 10-year plan lol.

On our first playthrough, me and my friends immediately loved Arjay, we thought this was gonna be our guy, maybe the Lilith substitute (as in quest giver) and we were heartbroken when he died, we were joking about all the awful things we're gonna do to The Order and The Timekeeper for killing our boy Arjay. It actually caught me so off guard, we couldn't believe he had died, we had him for so little time and he was awesome, Gearbox gives us a cool NPC and murders him immediately.

I think we had discussed that maybe we wouldn't like him if we were stuck with him for the rest of the game and so on, he seems to be quickly forgotten, neglected completely. I don't think we found any of his Kairos Guide Audio logs until we were almost finished the game, we had minimal exposure to him. It was sad to see him go...

But no, Arjay was not forgotten, holy shit his return caught us so off guard, even more than his death, and Arjay was pissed. When we first saw him in that suit we thought it had to be Lilith or some new character, Arjay never came to mind, not for a second. Him coming back, trying to kill Amara was nutty, it was shocking to see, felt like his return came right out of left field, and he's evil now??? We wanted to avenge you Arjay and now you wanna kill us. Not cool bro.

He's so angry, cant say I blame him, and only after the big reveal we started finding his logs and at least for me it just felt sad, he was so full of whimsy and this sense of unbreakability, he seems like no matter how fucked things got, he'd still be Arjay, but that clearly wasn't the case. It really sucked having to kill him, with the nature of the main story giving you choice in order of things we wondered if it went any different if we had killed Lictor first, we really had hoped he didn't actually have to die.

I bring this up because with the new FL4K DLC I've come back full swing, played a bunch of C4SH the week before the FL4K DLC and on launch I started Loveless in the new DLC and had a blast, I decided to replay the main story and along the way 100% all the collectibles, I forgot about Arjay tbh, since starting at the DLC it skips the whole prologue, when I started listening to his Kairos guides I not only realized how much more Arjay there was for me to explore but also how awesome of a character he is and just how tragic he is as a character. Borderlands as a series is full of awfulness, shitty worlds and hopeless lives but Id say tragedy is a rare thing in these games, or at least tragedy taken seriously, we have Claptrap, he is tragic but its the whole point of him, its the bit. TK Baha, Handsome Jack's family situation with Angel, Roland and Tina's parents are all serious tragedies, and of course Arjay as a whole.

I think Arjay is a beautifully written character that I have barely seen discussion about, I'm not here to convince you that he's the pinnacle of Borderlands writing but I do find his whole arc and character as a whole to feel impactful, hearing his logs and now redoing mission against the Timekeeper, when Arjay is talking to you, it feels rough, my boy Arjay deserved so much better. He's very understandable in his motives, he's insane and wrong but not fully irrational, he does not have the full picture like we do, his world is so much simpler. Something about his arc stands out in the franchise to me and only after all this time did I come to fully appreciate that, his voice actor did very well.

I do love Borderlands 3 to death but I couldn't help but think about when I logged in after playing Borderlands 4 I noticed on my level 20 something fl4k that every gun and other pieces were legendary and so I was thinking about a way to make them less common and everywhere.

So I was wondering how complicated it would be for mod to take a lot of the legendaries and make them purple uniques sort of like Destiny 2, and then the really powerful and harder to obtain legendaries you could keep orange. I imagine that just changing the color of a bunch of guns instead of actually adjusting drop rates without having to code a new rarity would be more doable and have a decent impact on its own of course functionally it would be pretty similar to how it already is but it would sure make the good legendaries feel more special as you'd be seeing the color orange a lot less. I feel like this could have a good impact on Borderlands 3.

And you could take a step further if you did want to do complicated things like replacing crappy quest rewards with decent legendaries again making them purple or blue taking some more powerful legendaries and increasing their drop rate on top of all the previously discussed ideas and even moving some of the best guns into a new rarity.

I appreciate the work modder put into the overhaul mods but I'm thinking something that's actually compatible with the base game and other people playing it so for the most part it would just be affecting you and you could just kind of turn it off at any time to find out for you breaking anything which would kind of keep it timeless. Those overhaul mods aren't really my thing because I want my saves and progress to exist essentially forever.

Yeah sure this is probably the pointless, just curious what people think about this idea. This could even be a patch gearbox just does one day out of nowhere for Borderlands 5 or something who knows.

Before you comment, yes I do know these are unreliable, I'm not bothered. I have a bunch of Micro SD cards and SD cards ranging all sorts of sizes, a bunch of USB sticks too. I just wanna connect all of these to my PC without Daisy chaining hubs and adapters, and without spending shitloads of money. I will just be putting games on these, I don't care if the load times are slow, I'll be filling them with small indie titles that don't really benefit from faster load times anyways.

My motherboard has one spare PCIe x16 and two PCIe x1 slots, I've been looking into adapters and so on and it's seemingly very hard to find what im looking for but I keep getting closer, I'll be looking up one adapter only to find the adapter I couldn't find in the prior search across Amazon and AliExpress and literally that over and over, but never any great solutions, man its hard finding something that can hold 2 micro SD cards, usually pricey, like an NVME to dual micro SD cards but seemingly you have to flick an actual physical switch to choose which micro SD is being accessed.

I just don't wanna have a mess, I found a USBC Hub that is pretty cheap, like $13 CAD and can hold and run two micro SD cards at the same time, which is crazy cuz searching for that with countless search terms and wordings never found me anything like that, but when looking up USB C hubs that can connect to a Sata and NVME drive I found a USB C hub that does neither of those hut holds 2 micro SD cards, so strange.

There has to be something I can't find, something obvious. There's gotta be a way to make use of my 3 unused PCIe slots to hook this stuff up. I just want a relatively clean setup, or for it to be all in one place and be expandable. It would also be pretty expensive to Daisy chain a bunch of adapters, I've been scouring Reddit and YouTube and have not seen what I'm looking for.

Bonus points if I can hook up other storage devices too, like NVME drives, small hardrives and ssd's, I just wanna put all my storage devices to use. I do know I could just go buy a new SSD or hardrive that's huge, not interested. I wanna put these to use and as I accumulate many more I wanna put those in too.

There is lots to be said, many valid criticisms but that's not what this discussion is for, I wanna know the things you guys like. Personally I really enjoy the part system and how the under barrel attachments and alternate firing modes are actually good and usable, Im really happy they made that change. Borderlands 3 is easily the best Borderlands game to me personally but there are two things I would change if I could, make cross manufacturer parts a thing like 2, TPS and 4 (but more like 4) and make the under barrel attachments and alternate fire modes not suck apart from some niche circumstances.

Im just happy that loot is exciting again in 4, so many more guns are viable and it's a lot of fun to try out the different combos. And Borderlands 3 Maliwan guns were just not fun for a lot of people and like The Order guns in BL4 except you can find parts that make it more functional or more preferable.

This isnt functional or helpful but if you emote next to someone who just leveled up their Guardian Rank you will get an effect that makes you run faster and jump pretty high, and glow silver. Now if you get that boost and then level up your own Guardian you will also have the Golden effect and you will jump so much higher, the two effects add and dont override so you run faster and jump so insanely high.

Wish i remembered to get footage of this

Clark gets his two employees to come in with him and bring a camera for what he vaguely labels as "research" and doesn't elaborate. I really do think based on Clark's reaction to Big Clark when Big Clark picks up the camera is odd and tells us he already knew and had made peace with Big Clark. I think if that was the first time he saw Big Clark he'd be freaking out and screaming, I think Clark wanted to get a look inside of Big Clark's nest, and figured since Big Clark didn't hurt him maybe he wouldn't hurt "his" employees aswell but realized how wrong he was which is why he fully ran after Kat because he needed to get to her first to stop Big Clark from killing her, especially after he sees his nest.

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They frame it as if Clark wanted video proof to bring to Mary but he doesn't bring it to her, he didn't actually go and prove it to her, I think that was a misdirect and he wanted video of what the hell went on down in that pit.

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It's also important to note that Clark said there was a pool room, and "well kinda" and where does he end up trying to get to Kat? a Pool Room. Its interesting how he hasn't been on the othersside of that, cuz if he had he'd know about the one way mirror and even crazier if he made it to the pool room avoiding that and the nest considering how much he mapped out, but I'm gonna assume he only mapped the main floor he was on.

Do we actually have any reason to think it's evil, they show us all the photos that people took with the thing and it got lots of attention and then ends up deep underground in this once demolished mall. We don't actually see it hurt anyone right? Or get told about that, we just assume cuz it's all creepy and at the end it starts bashing into the wall.

What if it just wanted a friend, what if it genuinely just misses having that attention and people being around so when it finally sees someone again it awakens and starts following and gets sorta upset like a confused animal or young kid when the main dude is trying to escape so it starts bashing the walls or whatever.

This could be completely stupid, just a thought I had. Maybe I missed some things, maybe this is some already discussed and disproven idea, idk. I haven't done any reading or watched any videos about it cuz I wanted to think about it without bias or influence for a day and before diving in, put our my thoughts here.

Do you guys think this is possible? Like physically what could've happened if the giant actually got camera boy, is it physically capable of that? I mean it's only mode of attack to the wall it was trying to break was bashing itself back and forth. What if it would just follow him, get close to him and stand there hoping for a photo or something idk.

Normally I'm quite adverse to meta stuff, in standard I just build silly stuff like draw burn, changelings and my glass canon gruul aggro, but with Pauper I'll try almost anything.

I looked at the top few decks and they don't look all that interesting to me, I'm curious how screwed am I to go with other decks? My friend is building mono blue terror and there's a couple guys who'll 100% build the top meta decks.

Is there any sort of silly meta crusher deck or something that flies under the radar? I've always wanted to try pauper but it's never been a tunk around here until my LGS said they'll do a pauper night to see how it goes. I'm pretty excited but I'm overwhelmed with options. I saw a slimes against humanity list that looked fun, I saw mono green infect, and some other random ones. There's a bunch of black hand attack cards that look fun but I'm not sure how effective that would be.

I'm hoping to stand a proper chance, I would ideally like to not run meta stuff but if I gotta for pauper I absolutely will. I just don't wanna be mirror matching people. I've always liked the idea of a meta crusher deck but I don't think I'm smart enough or knowledgeable enough to make something like that, let alone it be effective lol.

What's the most fun deck, what do I build and play?

They would print all the Arena Alchemy cards that conjure bullshit and a booster pack would have 1 conjure card and 7 different cards that can be conjured but they have a silver border, an account stamp and a big old "THIS ISNT REAL, THIS ISNT HURTING THE RESERVE LIST INTEGRITY IN THE SLIGHTEST" disclaimer on each of the tokens.

They would reprint Oracle of the Alpha and the rest of the pack would have the power 9 but exactly as described previously.

And they would all have real magic backs so when you shuffle them in, and no sleeves are used they get properly hidden AND worn down! Just like back in the UNC years of yester, that way unc oldheads would be fully immersed and these new gen zoomer kids who never got to experience the glory days of un can suffer with y'all.

And this set would feature a lot of un cards that do awful inconvenient things like swapping seats and opponents with someone, an enchantment that lets you blindly cast cards from an opponent's hand, doing combat phases back to back each turn and the worst, a magic player having to shower, or even better, if it's a Yugioh players first time playing magic they'll be doubly cooked. The car would get benefits if you've showered today.

I see people's decks tend to run New Beginnings, Bookmark, that red power up card and a few other null cards. Do the starter decks contain those?

I bought 10 booster boxes of UFO and me and my friend were learning the game and building decks, but we noticed just most of the colours were incapable of doing much, cosmic and dark were crazy good and every other colour couldn't do much against those two with Ice being the closest, although we only had opened 2.5/10 booster boxes, I assumed I had seen 99% of the cards, but I finished off the third box and found a couple new cards in the "weaker colours"

I do wanna eventually get other sets, but I see these null cards tend to be a good way to just round out your deck, and I know constructed formats aren't supposed to be built out of one set but that's all I got rn. Me and that friend play a shitload of Magic the Gathering if that helps.

Or is there a better way to get these cards? No LGS anywhere near me has ever had Metazoo cards, not even sealed stuff so that's not an option.

I'll take any advice you got, whether about deck building, what to buy, deals, websites I should be checking out, resources and so on. With that being said I have a couple bonus questions, is building Multi colour decks worth it? It seems mono is so much more consistent since the mana system is really wonky compared to Magic, but there are those orbs that tap for two different aura types, leading me to believe some colours are sorta meant to go together.

I tried Earth and Ocean together and it sorta worked but I built it forgetting the Aura cost is that total, not like magic where seeing 3 and a symbol means 3 of whatever and 1 of that symbol, so I had to rebuild to lower curve stuff to make it work better. Is there any other set I should be targeting? Is it worth buying Cryptid Nation stuff? I love cracking packs but I also don't mind if I should just buy those staples on some game store's website that sells them