If they just drop Wonderlands now, no story DLC or attempt to bring the game up to a favourable place with fans, I won't even consider buying Borderlands 4.
Agreed, it helps to give each character their own unique playstyles. BL3 feels similar with any character, save for their action skills, because all characters use any weapon the same way. Meaning there is always an objectively best weapon for any character to use, limiting how individual each players experience can be.
it also needs interesting classes like in bl2 where having other classes in party was very beneficial after bl2 it feels like classes dont depend on each other and r meant for solo
Solo is better. The classes in bl3 are better balanced. In bl2 you have only 1 or 2 op classes and the rest are very boring and weak. In bl3 you can make alle classes strong.
A Arsenaltable where you can save your builds. I hate that when i want to chamge my build or test 2 different builds i always have to delete my build and put all skill point again.
Somebody needs to send this video to Gearbox. You have addressed everything that BL4 needs to succeed. Your also one of the only people I know of to bring up the RNG problem. The constant RNG stacking the series has gone through has gotten out of hand and needs to be addressed just as much if not more than anything else on this list. I think BL2 had it the most right in that regard so a system close to that would be ideal.
Gearbox PLEASE tone down the visual effects for Borderlands 4. It's incredibly excessive in the most recent releases. I can't tell what I'm looking at most of the time.
More multiplayer stuff. I don't mind all the solo stuff. But making more stuff that you need a second or third player to do would be fun. Also updating and keeping constant content for arms race.
Not to be a downer, but I think Gearbox has made it pretty clear they don't intend for people to play the games the way the dedicated fans do. Most casual (one playthrough story) players don't farm for gear and aren't interested in more difficult and varied content at end game. Of the 28 million or so people who bought BL2, probably 50-100k players make up the main community that continues to replay it. That's less than 1% of the people who purchased the game. DLC's would be another story for sure, but we saw what they did with the Wonderlands DLCs so I'm not particularly hopeful at this point. I hope they really focus on the story, because much of those other things CAN be fixed post launch. They really shouldn't risk it at this point with the state of the previous two releases at launch, but once the story is written/recorded etc. they really can't go back and fix things (thinking Maya cutscene in BL3). It seemed like they'd already figured some things out by the time the BL3 DLCs launched. The writing for those were not nearly as bad as base game. Let's hope that trend continues. I think they tried to offer different options at least in TTWL. Casual players could complete the story relatively easily without any farming. The legendary drop rate was way lower than BL3 (at base LL), and those that wanted better gear had to go find dice and could boost their LL (so a "choose your own experience to some degree"). Those that wanted Raid bosses got a few, and those that like slaughters/trials got way more chaos chamber than they likely ever wanted. The story and writing were better relative to BL3 and they finally did away with TVHM/New Game +. (I wish they hadn't, but the writing was on the wall in BL3) My hopes for what will likely carry over to BL4 are improved story, level design, and boss mechanic design. All were present in Wonderlands and so hopefully will carryover. I'd be shocked if dedicated drops were set at launch. Also, they reduced the number of legendary items significantly from BL3, which is good since the game is RNG to the max anyway. UI needs an overall as well. The bank and character skill-trees were rough!
everything borderlands 4 needs: to not listen to people who want to push out content before hey have time to work on it. plain and simple xD a great story, patches that arent nerfs straight away. a big part of what makes borderlands games great for starting off is seeing positive changes and not nerfs with no communication to the community, or just saying these guns are outclassing others. I feel in a pve game there should be guns that simply outclass others its always how it should be for players who may not be so good at the game or have no time to farm perfect gear they can grab those easy guns and have some fun with the little spare time they have. events that frequently get added into the game, or have some way of being permanent but with a twist in order to activate it so you have to work a little to play these events. my original theory for adding events permanent for borderlands 3 was Mourice tokens (sorry if I mispelled his name) each enemy drops a Mourice token, badasses drop 2 and bosses drop 3. after collecting 100 tokens you can play an event of your choice by exchanging these tokens for Mourice tickets which enable an event to be active for 24 hours or until you complete it. they should be easily farmable in slaughters or higher mobbing areas more sufficient than bossing. the event will end in 24 hours reguardless if you completed it or not, but if you complete it, it will consume the ticket and you will need to get another one. you can also get more than one ticket at once if you choose not to use yours. this is an idea they could still impliment into borderlands 4 and I think would have a big positive replayability for special type dungeons or event styled additions to the base game. raid bosses in my opinion are fun to play but not quite needed. I understand others feel differently so the base game at least should probably have one. dlc matters a lot. having a dlc you can beat in 10 minutes is not good. have a story focused dlc. (I understand arms race can be beaten in less time than any of the dlc in wonderlands but I still loved the hell out of it and would personally like a dlc similar to it) another styled dlc they could add is a nonstop enemy rush dungeon, the longer you live the better quality loot you get at the end as your death brings you to a loot room similar to wonderlands chaos chambers. (I said quality not quantity) borderlands still needs a grind imo and its not good if you kill a badass and get 5 godrolls after all. hence why I said quality instead of quantity. in wonderlands there is no such thing as a perfect class mod cause there is so much build diversity you can make nearly any build revolve around any armor piece no matter how bad it may look to you. instead this way the numbers of the items stats would be outstanding if you can live certain time frames, but you would only get 1 to 2 pieces of gear potentially. these are few of my personal ideas I still want to see added to the game. character creation matters to me and I would like wonderlands styled creation added but I understand borderlands wont have that since there is a dedicated character story to each character you play unfortunately. I think there should be more passive healing than wonderlands had since you nearly had to heal by hitting things and often times those intervals where you cant find who is hitting you gets you killed, its not my playstyle and it feels forced in wonderlands. no forced modifiers since chambers forces you to have curses they should have just been enemy stat increases instead of puddles, death, beams, etc those need to stop being implimented in these games please. no one wants them. this last part is huge for me, please stop adding 10+ levels worth of difficulty. this is what ruins the balance of the games. the most balanced borderlands games is simply 1 and the pre sequel because they dont have 10 mayhem or op levels or chaos levels. instead having the ultimate vault hunter mode borderlands 2 had would have fixed a lot of balance issues, numbers wont get so crazy and weapons wont scale severely weak or too overpowered imo. along with the addition to skip playthroughs once you run one character through all 3 at least once. than any character you create afterwards can skip to ultimate vault mode. this is simply all I want in borderlands 4, and weapons to have more aoe and not focused on character skill interactions like wonderlands cause most guns shoot bullets or uncontrollable beams.... this is my ideal perfect game.
In BL2 there was a special weapon, only one of them, which was ABOVE orange legendary. I remember it could only be farmed from one particular boss. I don't remember what color it was, or the name of the boss, nor was I ever able to get one. But it's these sorts of secrets and discoveries which made BL1 and BL2 so engaging and popular.
No more spicy water or at least elements you send out being able to one tap you and if you’ve cleared an area of its enemies you should not be able to take damage from any random unseen damaged barrel or BS since the only way to revive yourself is killing an enemy which is impossible to do if they are all dead. I’m playing wonderlands right now and it’s incredibly annoying doing a mirror and clearing a section then getting downed and not able to get up forcing you back out of the mirror. Really dumb.
What do you mean with no respawning enemies ? Bro Bl1, Bl2 And Bl3 have no respawning enemies you have to quit the game and restart it to respawn the boss very solide farm mechanic.
The only time I hate the save quit is when im playing with friends because I have to save, quit, reinvite, load. Would be easier to just stay in the game and reload the encounter. But in solo I agree save quit doesnt really matter
As long as at launch, there's not billions of legendary items laying on the ground I'll be happy! That took away the excitement of getting legendary loot for me
Part of it is that the meaning of Legendary changed fundamentally between 2/TPS and 3. What I heard about it is this: Due to engine limitations, there's a hard cap on database table entries in these games. 3 and TTW added quite a few new manufacturers and part/gear types, so that took up a lot of space in that master table, space that in BL2's much tighter base systems was used to shower the game in new rarities. So what happened was that guns that would once have been, say, Pearlescent or Seraph or anything else like that are all just Legendary now, which "feels" less interesting. Now I do think they made a crucial mistake: They also changed the meaning of Blue and Purple for the worse. Maybe in an attempt to make power tiers clearer, but it backfired and made lower rarity redtext obsolete. What they should do is to balance it so that all rarities are fine for the story, purples are fine and all viable up through endgame but oranges are a bit stronger (for the right build), and that redtext should more or less always have a gameplay niche at any level; being unique should mean you can take a blue redtext gun and use it anytime if it's leveled properly for the content and your build is up to par. Like the Lady Fist or the Shotgun Fibber. And they should bring back more variety and depth to alien weapons, so they're still worth using.
100% Agreed on making the elemental damage actually matter. Also the dedicated drops gave everyone a reason to run back to those less than exciting locations (i.e. the mini Destroyer from TPS) to farm something worth using. BL1 drops were fun with their randomness, but the gameplay/franchise completely changed with BL2 in that regard.
Good Story Good DLC and Good Post Content. I agree, BL3 just didn’t have good story, some good parts yeah but Wonderlands Story also kinda blew. Idk just seemed like too much personally. Woulda love some all on numbers style dnd kinda campaign feel for dlc but lol
Normally I'd say a borderlands game wouldn't need a good story, just good mechanics but BL3 went and decided to have some of the most obnoxious characters with the dumbest story possible. So I'd say hire a new roster of writers and keep it simple, stupid.
I honestly like the orange shower thing, because I don't play for rarity, I play for mechanics. To me, orange gun means fun gun because orange gun acts different from regular gun. Honestly though, if they brought back OP blues and purples with redtext, I wouldn't mind that either; heck, purple is my favorite color. TPS dialogue the best, though? I found it insufferable outside the main quest. There was a lot of dated stereotyping in all the side character writing. Janey was better and less stalkerish in TFTB, Nurse Nina was just a lol Russian doctor stereotype, Bosun and jump pad guy were literally just incels with no personality, and BL3/TTW Torgue has a way better balance of "cool based feminist Torgue" instead of "trying too hard social media male feminist Torgue", and so on. Felicity was cool and then they fucking killed her. Honestly, it is the Jack and Returning Main Cast show, because they're the only ones whose personalities aren't cardboard and have more than literally one joke.
@@ConstantCanadian Ah, the player dialogue? Yeah, that was one of the few good parts. Characters being part of the story and not just Some Guy is nice, agreed. Personal take on loot, halfway through the video, is that dedicated drops and world drops are both good and should coexist, with a big pool of world drops and a smaller but still very robust pool of dedicated drops - or maybe more than just that? Like having a "world pool", a "boss pool", a "badass pool", etc, and dedicated drops on top of that. Rolls should be way less RNG dependent for sure. Class mods should go back to the old system for sure. Maybe narrow it down by making sure items in general always spawn the max number of affixes and accessories for their rarity and level range, except for special legendary specific "bonus" parts, and make the variation limited to the KINDS of parts for legendary and high end purples. The worst feeling is getting a legendary that's trash because it simply has fewer parts, so you can't enjoy natural variation without being handicapped. BL2 part spotting was great; you always more or less knew you were getting the complete gun and not a gimped version, just not an optimal one, and the parts were basically all distinctive and easy to identify so you could spot the "godroll shape" easily. In Wonderlands, getting some 2-affix ring or spell is basically an instant dumpster. Getting a legendary gun sucks when it has a pathetic chance to have this whole extra part and you have NO WAY to know what you're missing until you get one with that part.
