Can You Beat Borderlands 2 with Only Recompense? 

Why are you in every single Borderlands 2 challenge run comment section?

@@sleepisgay To support the community, possibly learn new strategies for obscure situations, I like this type of content and it’s very entertaining, and leaving comments and likes help support the channel 🙂

@@sleepisgay cause hes a masochist/sadistic bastard whos videos are very fun to watch he also likes to torture himself and mentally abuse himself and its all very fun to watch as you will usually die of laughter CAUSE YOU CANT SPELL SLAUGHTER WITHOUT LAUGHTER

Yeah, it uhh... It was somehow both better and a lot worse than my initial estimates.

Generally, to be an incredibly supportive and wholesome individual. I'm less confused by that, and more confused at the speed at which they appear. How does one find the time to be so expeditiously prolific?!

Honestly, the level investment into Kinetic Reflection would have been a tough sell. It was the lack of Phaselock that hurt the most. I never realized how many of her skills are focused around it until I had to build entirely without it.

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Would having a Moxie weapon allow that skill to heal you? Not using it just holding it.

I'm glad! It was definitely leading into a bit, but I was/am serious with regards to the sentiment. It's really hard to relay just how grateful I am for the opportunity to make something that (hopefully) brings joy to someone's day. The outpouring of kindness from folks has been extraordinary. I genuinely enjoy making these sorts of things. Sometimes they're a lot harder to get through though, and in those times, it's really comforting to think that there's at least that chance of my struggles making the world even just a tad brighter in a roundabout way. So genuinely... Thank you for being here. It means a lot to me.

@@SpuddyCube Well I'm glad I could bring that brightness, and will definitely stick around your channel, and I hope your next works won't be as taxing as this one, Cheers!

I think it depends on the runner, really. Borderlands is a bit buggy at times, but it's relatively consistent. Breath of the Wild has a lot more usable exploits/physics to contend with. It's not as cut and dry. While runs like these are difficult (sometimes incredibly so), they're at least cleaner, ya know? Whereas, BOTW you've got weird tricks like using rocks to fly, the moon jump glitch, balloons, magnetic objects... It's just a lot more moving parts than I want to mess around with. The amount of time spent researching the all shrines no Sheikah Slate run for instance is absolutely incredible, and I couldn't ever see myself taking on something like it. I think it comes down to what your personal flavor of pain is.

Check out OSRS snowflake challenge accounts. Some of those guys are thousands of hours deep. FrostyBard or Limpwurt for starters give a good example.

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The worse one I've seen was on twitch someone made a script to play the game melee only and just sat back and watched as the script fucked up killing the first bullying for like 15 mins 🤣🤣

Srsly, now we’re just seeing if anything that can deal damage can beat he game, I wouldn’t be surprised if I saw a jump damage only run somewhere

Well dang, that sounds like it's going to hurt. Really though, thank you!

Yeah... I really shouldn't have tempted fate like that.

Sometimes things of the sort just prove to be one of the trials we must face to become stronger...

I briefly considered it, but thought that the damage reduction would do more harm than good. I'm less sure of how true that would be in retrospect. As far as the Warder mod, that just came down to bad drops. I spent a while trying to get something better out of vending machines and whatnot, and the best I ever got my hands on was a plus three.

Thank you! It was... somewhere between agony and a total numb. And likely never! The Warrior alone has over two hundred thousand health, even ignoring enemies with regenerating shields.

​@@SpuddyCube But that's the fun part :D

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I don't personally read them, but I hear that there are some really talented fanfic authors. Some that even put the original writers to shame. This was... certainly not that. Also, thank you!

It's too late! No take backs!

Because some part of me genuinely thought that it would be fun... I was wrong on so many levels.

It has been on my list for a while now, and it's one I'm conceptually excited to try. I can't imagine it'll be able to destroy the Thousand Cuts turrets, but I'm curious as to how it handles the rest of the game.

I honestly did enjoy Wonderlands, but part of it could be the disconnect from the rest of the series. It felt like its own thing. And while I think it worked better than three in terms of story, I'm really hoping any potential Borderlands four looks a lot different.

Pain... so much pain...

Well, I'm glad I could provide.

With health regen being what it is in UVHM, I'm pretty confident that you'd require something like the Grog Nozzle to even deal with basic mobs. Your health scaling vs enemies' is _not_ in your favor for such a run. And that's without factoring in things that you can't slag that also have shields... Like the Warden.

Thank you! And that's probably a good suggestion. But that doesn't mean I gotta like it!

Thank you! For the kind words, and the confidence in the channel. I'd personally imagine the next comment will be some time around an eternity from now, but the reception I've received as a whole has been shocking to say the least. I never really thought I'd get this far, but folks have been wonderful to me. So... Thank you! I really appreciate it!

With regards to health? It would help a lot. I'm fairly sure that the damage resistance would hurt the possible DPS where it's needed in certain encounters. In every other instance, I think that it would have made the sustained DPS a lot higher, and the whole thing a lot less painful.

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It's such a good show! We quote it all the time in my residence.

Ah, that's the neat part. I didn't. As far as Iron Cub though, it was a _considerably_ more comfortable run, but also a reminder of how disappointed I first was in the writing. I think I definitely focused too much on that vs the run itself that go around. There were a few fights that required some weird problem solving. There was a lot of waiting for cooldowns. When it got going though, it tore through enemies like wrapping paper.

@@SpuddyCube Your purity to the IC run was astounding, I just cheated whenever Cubby didn't want to hit things. While the bl3 story sucked, I kinda didnt realise how much when you pointed out Siren powers existed right at the start... and the middle.... and the end. I also totally feel the pain when four (4) vault hunters stand next to T&T and just let them chow down on our friend. Twice.

That would come with the requirement of punching somebody though, which is pretty frequently an issue with Assault on Dragon Keep related content.

It does at least _sort of_ work as a means of damage reduction if you're holding a Grog. It also works for a quick kill on a specific raid boss, but otherwise... yeah.

@SpuddyCube see I don't use meta weapons so do you think it would still be viable

I can't say that I'm familiar with the show, but I appreciate it! Thank you!

I can't say that I have previously. Briefly looking into it, I'm not much of a podcast person, but I love the aesthetic. That part of the video might bear a closer resemblance to one Gideon Gleeful though.

@@SpuddyCube I see, I'll look into it, anyway the character that you reminded me of is this flock of Crows that thinks as one entity and often moves the crows in a way such as to resemble a person, they are called "the omen" and they don't do much more than follow simple orders and do fetch quests.

That sounds awesome! This is from a podcast?! It comes across like peak TTRPG material.

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Honestly, all sound like great features. I've always been a fan of the creepy sort of style rather than horror. Coraline, as a for instance. And inclusivity is always appreciated. I'll have to see about sitting down to at least start up an episode.

I thought the same thing initially. Aside from the difficulty of Pete, and beating the Bar Brawl in time... There's no way to start it that I'm aware of. The mission relies on you attacking someone first. The Death Race is unlocked after the fact, so it's a good ways in and inaccessible.

I feel like most people forget it's a skill, because it's really not great. It can theoretically be made better with some specific gear and skills, but it requires such heavy investment into a really suboptimal playstyle that it never sees the light of day.

Uhh... Enough to dissuade anyone from ever wanting to actually pay it. Funds are obviously nice to have, but I would feel terrible actually charging for something like that. Especially given that I don't know how many hours it would take, or if I could even complete it. There are many runs I would love to try. I can't say that it's one of them. Something like a game crash would be _devastating_ to experience. Maybe some day though. I would imagine it would be better to organize as a series of streams. At least have some company while losing what's left of my mind. And thank you! Glad you liked it, and I look forward to producing more! Hopefully some runs that are at least a tad less painful first for some time to recover.

But it's a unique item! Also, I was worried about the twenty percent damage reduction. I'm at least fairly sure it would reduce the rate at which I would be able to do damage when it would be the most helpful. I also haven't played through Hammerlock's DLC in ages. I'd have to get far enough to kill the Bulwark, which would have been its own nightmare... Probably. I love Alistair, but his DLC in the second game was dreadfully dull.

Thank you! I'm glad some good could come of it. I feel like if I ever commit to that run though, it's gotta be unmodified. It is up there for one of the worst possible runs for the game. I can't imagine trying to even structure the video for something like that. Health values are high enough that even basic enemy fights would be a marathon. But if it's gonna be done, it's gotta be done right.

@@SpuddyCube That's fair. A run like that is borderline insanity, but I get your point. Well, best of luck in future sufferings!

@@tsbohc Thanks! I'm going to need it...

While Recompense is really bad, I would suggest giving Cloud Kill a try if you've never used it. It's... genuinely overpowered. Used right, it can carry you even up into OP levels fairly comfortably. That tree also has a lot of elemental support, so it should compliment Maliwan quite nicely.

I think it would have most of the same pitfalls, due to Kinetic Reflection being a kill skill. I personally went with life tap for what was effectively seven seconds of damage reduction on kill. It really didn't help that much. The need for Sustenance means hitting level thirty five before the build would be done. All of this to say that I don't think the run would be _that_ different. There are items such as the Antagonist or the Impaler that would fit thematically, but aside from the complications of acquisition, I think they would make things a bit too easy/problematic. Thank you though! That means a lot. I'm glad you could enjoy it! And that someone else had a similar question. As far as writing, I thought about it a lot when I was younger, but I'm pretty happy to write more recreationally. I don't know that I would be good enough at it to produce work at a professional level, but it's a lot of fun to try.

See it started by sounding fun. Then it became painful. Then it was fun... And it was a really vicious cycle all the way up until the end.

The only place I know confidently that fits the bill is the vault of the warrior, and it gets really inconsistent with rakks, unless you're running something like a Deathtrap Gaige. And even then, that's at the end of the main story.

As far as I'm aware, none of the obtainable Moxxi weapons give nearly enough to make a significant change to the overall run. Rubi would be a bit better, but I'm pretty sure you'd need to shoot something to get it. Obviously, the Grog Nozzle would be a heck of an improvement, but you'd have to melee someone to receive that.

It's quite the experience, really. Quite painful, but an experience none the less.

They absolutely would make the entire run a lot easier, but that would also technically be using a gun. Those two do also have some specific requirements for getting them that would otherwise be against the rules, but Moxxi weapons in the general sense would have made things more manageable.

Theoretically, but it would require getting through a lot of Torgue's DLC, and then dodging a lot of vehicles along the road. It'd be really inconsistent for the purpose of calculations and require a lot of focus for execution.

I appreciate that!

I hadn't considered that. I'm well aware that you deal reduced damage against higher level enemies. I guess I hadn't thought about it working the same way in reverse. It's certainly possible.

That is a very distinct possibility. Really though, he's been nothing but kind, and I appreciate him as a person/part of the community. I managed to get a pretty clean shot of Brick knocking a loader off of a cliff. It seemed like too good of a chance to pass up.