Despite the performance issues, annoying jokes, and bugs, I’m nonetheless enjoying and having fun with Borderlands 4. I’m presently engaged on my second full playthrough with my spouse, who can be a giant Borderlands fan, and we’re having a good time. Largely. Every part goes advantageous proper up till we encounter one other rattling loot capsule. These items are the worst a part of the sport and are so dangerous that they really baffle me.
As you discover the open world of Borderlands 4, you’ll discover aspect actions and quests to finish. A few of these are elaborate, however different stuff is so simple as killing a selected goal or activating a safehouse. Certainly one of these supposedly easy and enjoyable little aspect actions includes Loot Capsules. These are small pods which you can bump into after which have to hold again to the closest safehouse to unlock. Doing so opens the capsule, and also you get some loot. Sounds advantageous, proper? Improper!
In Borderlands 4, Gearbox created a brand new mechanic that permits you to decide up objects whereas preventing. That is utilized in numerous methods within the looter shooter, and more often than not, it’s a good approach to boost a fight encounter or make fixing a puzzle only a bit extra fascinating. However if you maintain one thing in Borderlands 4, you may’t mantle or climb up a ladder, drive your hover bike, goal down your sights, throw grenades, or quick journey with that object. It significantly limits your toolbox, and that’s advantageous when it’s used sparingly as a momentary wrinkle you need to cope with.
But that isn’t the case with Loot Capsules, which generally require you to stroll a really lengthy distance again to the “closest” HQ to get your reward. And you need to stroll it. You’ll be able to’t use your cool bike. You simply run again on foot, unable to take most shortcuts as a result of you may’t even use your sick grapple hook when holding an merchandise. It’s so fucking tedious. In the event you get attacked by enemies and should combat your approach out, you’d higher hope that nothing occurs that dislodges that capsule out of your hand, or you might be looking round desperately for it in a second. Has this occurred to me? Sure, why do you assume I’m scripting this weblog? And if you lastly get to your HQ, you may need to resolve some platforming puzzle that even includes tossing the rattling loot pod throughout gaps. If it lands in an space you may’t enter, like a bottomless gorge that kills you, then it respawns again the place you discovered it. Congratulations, you get to do it another time.
Oh, and each time you decide it up, Claptrap begins speaking. Each. Single. Time. Typically, he’ll discuss over himself. And there are solely so many strains. And so they go on and on. I don’t even hate Claptrap like lots of people do, however I shortly reached my breaking level after only a few capsules.
These rattling capsules annoy me a lot, and I cope with them so usually that I’ve began to overthink how they even work. In a sci-fi universe that lets me digitize dozens of weapons and retailer them on my individual simply, why the fuck can’t I simply retailer the capsule, too? Why should I lug it again? Why can’t I accumulate it like all the assorted shields, weapons, and different loot I stuff into my digital trousers with no difficulty? Who thought this was enjoyable? I’d love to speak with them as a result of I’m genuinely curious how this was left within the recreation. Actually, it baffles me.
Right here’s the funniest half about all of this: I’d be advantageous with the bullshit and the capsules if the reward was price it. In my expertise, that is by no means the case. I’ve opened shut to 2 dozen of this stuff or extra whereas enjoying alone and with mates. I’ve by no means gotten a single legendary weapon. By no means. It’s normally the identical crappy loot you usually discover in random chests, which don’t require a tenth of the hassle to open. I’ve talked to mates about it they usually’ve reported the identical factor: Nugatory loot that you just trash the second you see it.
At this level, I’ve began to disregard them when enjoying Borderlands 4 alone. And once I do decide one up, I simply gnash my tooth the entire time as I hear the identical rattling Claptrap line once more. Not less than I take pleasure in the remainder of the sport. Largely.
