BORDERLANDS 2 CAMPAIGN OF CARNAGE VAULT PROFESSIONAL
BORDERLANDS 2 CAMPAIGN OF CARNAGE VAULT SERIES

I enjoyed (and profited from) the Captain Scarlett DLC a bit more than Mr. As a result, I was usually disappointed when a mission or boss resulted in the tokens instead of something more useful, like actual money or eridium.

Instead, I kept looking in the machines, finding red-downward arrows across the board signifying less powerful equipment, and moving on. This would have been a nice idea if the weapons in those machines were kept significantly more powerful than whatever the player has equipped. Finishing quests or beating the bosses gives you Torgue tokens, which can be used to cash in for weapons (of Torgue manufacture, of course) at special vending machines. The DLC also includes a new form of currency.

The critical path can last around three hours, but several side quests dot the landscape. This is actually a proper campaign from start to finish, consisting of several quests, new enemies, appearances from familiar characters like Moxxi and Tiny Tina, and a handful of large environments.

BORDERLANDS 2 CAMPAIGN OF CARNAGE VAULT SERIES

That's not to say that the DLC is just a series of boss fights. To rise the ranks, you'll have to take out the others who are ahead of you: countless standard enemies, and a bevy of bosses. Torgue has his own list of who counts as a badass, and whether you've completed the game or not your name to him is mud. The plot centers around becoming the #1 ranked badass on Pandora.

They cheat as a matter of course, and every match has the underdog severely outgunned by his or her opponent. They're described as doing awful things to make them more worthy of our contempt. The villains are grotesque in appearance and personality. The hero, the Vault Hunter(s), is thrown into the middle of the action without much agency. It was a decent parody, though I admit that I may have missed a gag or two that relies on more knowledge of the wrestling world.īut like a good pay-per-view event, the spectacle requires heroes and villains. Torgue as a clear reference to 'Macho Man' Randy Savage, and the plot twists are narrated with the breathless, feigned surprise you'd hear from WWF announcers. Children of the 80s will instantly recognize Mr.

BORDERLANDS 2 CAMPAIGN OF CARNAGE VAULT PROFESSIONAL

This is all delivered with the sensibilities of a professional wrestling match.

The flavor text of the Carnage parodies the flavor text from the Borderlands variants, with those variants reading 'Holy crap! It shoots rockets!'.Piston will be your sponsor, if he doesn't stab you in the back first.

The Carnage is a returning weapon from Borderlands.

Absorb shields are able to convert the Carnage's projectiles into rocket ammunition.

If the Carnage spawns with the vertical grip accessory ('Casual' prefix), it will consume three ammo per shot and fire 3 rockets per shot.

Conveniently, that skill increases Krieg's gun damage, which will improve subsequent shots with the same Carnage.

Since a Carnage inflicts only splash damage, kills with it will activate Krieg's Blood Bath skill.

Because it fires rockets, the Carnage does not receive bonuses from certain bullet-based skills such as Gaige's Close Enough and The Nth Degree.

The Carnage does not benefit from grenade or rocket launcher damage bonuses and inflicts no additional damage with a direct hit.

This weapon is also able to damage the user if the projectiles explode too close to them. The Carnage is essentially a Torpedo in shotgun form but with increased projectile velocity and a larger blast radius. Fires rockets with increased projectile velocity and splash radius.

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