Literally EVERY Borderlands Gun Manufacturer Explained (1, 2, TPS and 3) 

Fun Fact: It's revealed through radio ads in BL3, S&S aren't just still around, they canonically make the glowing beacon lights that alert you to items in the overworld. It's not just a gameplay feature, it's lore!

Mt theory with tediore is that you don't buy a $10k gun. You buy 10K $1 guns.

in BL2 you dont actually fund hyperion at all because youre buying your weapons from Marcus, who just gets his stock from bandits and vault hunters or are otherwise looting them from enemies

S&S munitions are still around just that they rebranded as S&S accessories which they are the lore reason for all the customization items like heads skins and the light beams that come from the guns you see on the ground, they stopped making guns because of how easy it was for random people to just build their own massive capacity mags.

You forgot Gearbox, which is an in game manufacturer with legendaries, too. Also, the Tediore reload is technically an issue. Their guns were meant to just instantly reload but they'd explode, so they just rebranded it as a feature.

Something about Jakobs that you didn’t mention is their “cask aged gunpowder” so that every round fired has that signature Jakobs smell. They also made a gun that shoots out swords, for when you want to stab someone, but they’re too far away

I always pictured Tediore as what you actually buy is a cheap portable digistruct system with one design hardwired into it When the gun leaves your hand it triggers a self-destruct and activates the digistruct module.

I've always think of Vladof as the "If you can't aim, then just shoot more bullets at the enemy. Statistically, one of them is bound to hit... eventually"

Side note, Hyperion Sniper Rifles have a special unlisted mechanic where the longer you're scoped in, the more accuracy they gain, replacing the usual "gets more accurate as you fire". This change is reflected in the tags of the Hyperion snipers in 3, but not in 2 and TPS despite it being present.

When you think Tediore, you think of the people who made throwing an empty gun a viable combat method. You've definitely seen at least one action flick where a guy does it.

Minor note on BL1 Tediore: All of their legendary and pearlescent weapons have innate ammo regeneration. That's like the whole gimmick on all of them.

One thing worth mentioning is that in Bl3 Torgue seemingly found a workaround for the whole "Laser=Not Explode" by making there laser gun also fire Micro Rockets thus creating the "Lasersploder"

I actually like Dahl in BL3, but that might also just be me really liking the military aesthetic and the ability to swap fire modes to basically turn my assault rifles into sniper rifles.

I miss S&S manufacturer. I loved their Thanatos and Orion legendary weapons. Especially with a high fire rate or x2 variant.

I like to imagine Hyperions Pistols became their SMG‘s as their SMG‘s this time in 3 look very much like Machine Pistols

With Dahl and the burst fire fully auto thing, you can explain it as your character changing the firing mode whenever they aim down sights as most rifles are able to switch between fully auto and burst fire.

Correction: Tediore didn't INTENTIONALLY create their unique reload. It came as an unfortunate defect after they experimented on newer, faster ways of reloading. Tediore couldn't fix it, so they marketed it as a "feature"--instead of "life-threatening"--added digistruct tech, and voila. Tediore's stock soared overnight

Did someone notice that COV guns have bl2 gun parts as their own gun parts? The gun at 28:17 uses the torgue barrel (or the barrel that we mostly see on the stinkpot) another AR that uses Hyperion / Maliwan Stock, and another AR that is right before the 28:17 AR that uses an "flamethrower" barrel that was in bl2 on e tech SMG's

Jakobs is my favorite manufacturer just due to their motto from BL2. "If it took more than one shot, you weren't using a Jakobs." They even say they're into home protection and a family!

31:05 in New Tales from the Borderlands, the Tediore CEO is talking to all gun manufacturers, including Wainright, Rhys, Torgue, Kategawa Sr. and Athena, i couldn't really figure out which company Athena owned, but the Hyperion shield theory makes sense

Am I really gonna watch a 45 minute video on borderlands 2 guns.... yes I am

I want to compare each manufacturer to a real world company. Jakobs - Henry. Their dedication to levergats reminds me greatly of Jakobs. They also utilize wood and blued steel. They're also starting to make 9mm carbines. S&S - Glock. A smallish company that makes guns, among other things, especially things related to weapons, but not directly weapons. Glock has, in the past, made doorknobs, shower curtain rods, entrenching tools, knives, and the links to link ammunition for firing from a belt fed. They also currently produce firewood and horse semen. I may be writing this to share this fact. Vladof - The whole gamut of soviet arms designers. The USSR was quite weird with weapon manufacturing, with most of the weapons being made by state arsenals. The point was to arm as many soldiers as needed with simple weapons that could be easily trained on. During the Cold War, many of the soldiers that the USSR had were conscripts, and many of them came from villages with low literacy rates that lacked electricity and running water. A lot of them were effectively medieval peasants. Hyperion - Heckler and Koch. They produce high end, exceptionally reliable firearms that are overbuilt for combat zones. They utilize often unusual mechanisms, such as the roller delayed mechanism present in many of their long guns, but primarily the G3 and the MP5. The MP5 specifically is known to run like a sewing machine, with minimal recoil and impressive accuracy under full auto fire. They also make some insane, off the wall weapons, like the G11, which is designed to use caseless ammo and has an internal mechanism more comparable to a clock than a gun. Atlas - Wilson Combat. With Wilson Combat, we get into weapons that are more intended as luxury items and collector pieces, but are still not unreasonable to bring into combat. They utilize all sorts of hand fit parts and build their weapons to be as reliable as they are nice. They come with a price tag to match, however. Dahl - Sig Sauer. They produce some of the best weapons for the money. Highly reliable, usually somewhat modular, especially their more recent stuff, like the MCX, P365, and P320. They have won the contract for the M17 and M18 series of handguns for the US Army and Marine Corps respectively, and the XM7 rifle (previously the XM5, but was renamed as Colt has a trademark on M5) and the XM250 machine gun are promising, even if I think it's an uphill battle to replace the 5.56 as the standard infantry cartridge. I do think that the XM250 could replace the M249 in a lot of roles, as it's lighter. Maliwan - Kel Tec. Now, I'm not taking into consideration Kel Tec's reputation, but you can't deny they make some seriously innovative designs. The KSG is a pump shotgun which can cram a massive 14+1 rounds of 12ga into a barely above 26 inch package. The P3AT beat the LCP to the punch in practically microscopic .380s, and arguably beat the P365 to the ultra-compact concealed carry market by almost a decade, with the P9. That's just a few, but if anyone has anything to add, please do.

Great video, love a concise explanation of the BL guns and their evolution. It always weirded me how in the Moze skill tree, there is a perk with a description that says, "if you want guidance, get a sherpa. If you want explosives, get a Vladof". No you dont! You want explosives, get a TORGUE!!! i would say.

I have a theory on why Hyperion doesn’t produce pistols anymore, since Athena took over Hyperion and decided to integrate her old Atlas tech shield into the weapons, the pistol cant fit it, or its too small, so they phased out pistols for the sake of the shield tech

If it took more than one shot, you weren't using a Jakobs.

I've always seen the Dahl burst fire thing as there being a Toggle Fire (like in Cod) that your character flips Automatically themselves when you ads

Tediore weapons don't "magically" teleport back to your hands. After you throw a Tediore gun a new one is digistructed in your hands. It's an established technology in the game. It's how Gaige uses Deathtrap in BL2 as another example of something being digistructed in universe.

As a long term jacobs fan i'm happy they have essentially stayed the same throughout the games

Got this in my recommended and hey, great quality man! Didn’t even know Athena was running Hyperion doesn’t really seem like she would but if it’s to give janey a better life I can see it. Tho holy crap that cutscene from the new tales game is so sad it’s literally just her pre sequel model

14:39 I just remembered, at the end of the final boss fight, I made sure that the gun that delivered the final shot to Jack was a Hyperion Gun, like a gun you produced was the reason you died.

I just noticed: The Gearbox manufacturer brand isn't in this video for Borderlands 1. seriously, there ARE guns that are Gearbox branded in Borderlands 1, and I've used a small handful of them.

The Closest thing we got to a Hyperion Launcher after BL1 was the Ion Cannon from the casino DLC in BL3. Such a missed opportunity considering it even drops from a Hyperion enemy but end up being manufactured by Vladof. The funny thing about it too was that it was busted on release.

My theory about bandit/scav weapons is that the bandits in Pandora have a select few who are smart bandits or idiot servants that make the weapons. In mine cart mischief Tannis says that some of the bandits used to be scientists who have gone mad over time. Those who used to be scientist now filled with bloodlust and a taste for blood made guns with more bullets to shoot people longer. Scav are well scavengers and I’m willing to bet most of them know their way around tech and some were very good at making guns despite being dumb.

I personally like Dahl weapons because they are pretty normal and convinient. They don't make your whole screen shake from explosions or create lasershow, sure, but sometimes simple fire mode switch is enough. Simple and effective

with hyperion being the bad guys in 2 it just makes it even funnier that the New-u are made and maintained by hyperion...and you pay money when you die...so yeah lol

I heard the explosive reload in Tediore's weapon was actually a fault they couldn't fix so they rebranded it as a feature instead

Also interesting fact about COV guns, you can see the BL2 weapons parts to nail the theme of these guns being cobbled together and somehow working. Some examples that I noticed being the BL2 DAHL barrel on the Sawbar, Hyperion sniper stock on the Rebound, and the TORGUE gyro-jet barrel on a random COV AR.

The Hot Mama is also an elemental Jakobs gun in bl2

the borderlands series are some of the games of all time

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I like Dahk in bl3 the most. I like having control over my fire rate and optics and having a brand that's just conventional but consistent and reliable. I just wish Dahl could have made shotguns and launchers, a burst fire/auto/semi-auto fast-firing shotgun would kick ass and the launchers could be either highly-accurate, high-speed projectile recoilless rifles or rapid-fire MLRS with the alt-fire being an arcing mortar-fire style of firing pattern like the hail from bl2

I can’t believe I recognized the background music from the start as that in the Motorstorm extras menu. That’s awesome.

no gearbox? time to redo the whole entire video!

Watching your video really made me feel like Dahl should've gotten hyperion's shields in BL3 and Hyperion should have gotten a more laser feel to promote accuracy and potentially deal bonus shield/armor damage, that way their development in BL2 wouldn't feel wasted. But it doesn't fit lore as well.

Jakobs have the best slogan ever. "If it took more than one shot, you werent using a Jakobs"

Tediore is seriously slept on, there's a reason Joltz used them in so many speedkills. I think they're meant to represent bad-value dollar store products, and budget cars that nickel and dime you with services and repairs. Something Americans are extremely familiar with. Did you know this business model is why so many McDonald's places have broken ice cream machines?

Im suprised you never really mentioned how from borderlands 1 to borderlands 2/tps, that jakobs went from slow firing, to incredible fast firing - often being faster then you could pull the trigger, i feel it made significant difference between the two, as it went from a slow firing, methodical playstyle, to a much faster paced, guns blazing sort of gun - i know this was likely to accommodate for borderlands 2's more intensive gun-play, but still worth a small mention

I have a theory. Have you noticed that all weapons of purple quality or below look a lot like the legendary ones? I believe they were all legendary at some point, but from the moment they were sold by manufacturers or stolen, they started to wear out and their parts started to have problems, so they started using spare parts from other manufacturers. So a white torgue pistol was a Harold at its best, but the bad guys started fixing them as best they could and learned over time how to reverse engineer them.

Great video mate, fascinating listening to how each corporation has developed over the years

First video I've seen of yours. Made me laugh out loud on multiple occassions. GG nice commentary, editing and personality.

Great video! It was funny, informative, and very well edited, will def be looking forward to more of your videos!

It's said by lore that tediore guns are so cheap that when you fire a magazine they malfunction and explode, so you just get another one, and they are so cheap that they are basically free, that's why they "appear" on your hands, they are actually being digistructed, so you are getting a new weapon every time you reload

Never enjoyed how Daul guns felt until BL3. In BL3 they were my favorite line of weapons because they finally nailed that COD/Battlefield feeling of arcadey militaristic. I also enjoy the variety of different firing modes for them instead of the consistent full auto hip/burst ads.

My reasoning for Dahl guns having that weird mechanic was that the guns had a fire select feature integrated into the stocks and grips. You press a stock against your shoulder (or grip your pistol with two hands), it changes fire modes.

Mainly went to this video curious as to what S&S Munitions was ever since it didn’t seem to appear in any other game… so now I guess all the Bandit, Scav and COV weapons are essentially salvaged and improvised versions of the abandoned S&S weaponry mixed together with scraps bandits, scavs and the COV had scrounged up.

Glad I got this in my recommended, well done!

The tediore reload makes more sense with the everyman cheapo theme if you think about how its like a "consumerism dont bother fixing anything just throw your trash away" thing.

Maybe the reason Hyperion only makes 3 types of guns in BL3 is because of the fall of Handsome Jack and the events of Tales. Jack grew the company to great lengths but in exchange for killing off the higher ups. Then after Tales I think the lost of the space station and staff the company hit a new low with money. By BL3 it could be assumed that the company is now getting back on its feet. But to save money they had to cut production down to only 3 types of weapons. Who knows, maybe by BL4 they will have more weapon types again

Gotta love how Tediore went from pretty standard gun to walking-talking-throw-me-away-and-I-explode insanity.

About Dahl I have a theoriea on how the could work their automatic/burst shenanigans. I think the guns may know whenever you are aiming down sights by having a button on the buttstock. When the user is shooting by the hip, the button isn´t pressed so it fires auto, but while aiming down sights you have to push the buttstock into your elbow so your elbow activates the other modes of shooting

You’re way too slept on bro, that might be the best video I’ve watched in a long time only rivaling isahooten’s terraria comparisons.

Liked this video a lot. Good sum, very informative, interesting, structured and hella funny. xD good job

ive only just came across this, and very well done pal

Getting a gun that shoots a sword that explodes into grenades is kind of a plus. I love these games.

I’ve always been a sucker for the Jakobs weapons they always seemed to suit the space western vibes of Pandora

What nice video! Was a great watch :D

I love that the cov weapons recyle parts from the borderlands 2 weapons in their builds

I just noticed that the water pistol is a Dhal one too with the COV cooldown animations

35:58 Oh my God that's beautiful, the cabal from the Destiny video game series would love torque weapons.

Have to say, im a Jacob's guy. A single shot hits like a truck, accurate, and fires as fast as you can pull the trigger. Learn how to use the recoil to aim, supplement with scatter grenades, and you are wiping out whole platoons in one go.

Tediore's tech from the second game onwards is based on digistructing, the in-universe tech that allows you to summon cars, fast travel, and have a hammerspace backpack (hence why the backpack upgrades are memory cards). It's also the tech Gaige uses to summon & transport Deathtrap. Anything using digistruct tech gets constructed in the real world, converted into a digital code to be stored, and then gets built by the digistruct module when called on. Tediore weapons, rather than being a proper weapon, are more like the blueprint of a weapon.each gun is assembled with a pre-determined amount of ammo from your supply, and once thrown away another one is constructed from the blueprint right into your hand rather than waiting to reload.

Keep bringing the borderlands content. Great video!

It took me until my 3rd Borderlands 3 playthrough to understand some of these changes...no Hyperion pistols? SO LAME.

Dude, you're going to take off if you keep this quality up. And I'll be here for the ride. Just remember, take a lesson from Jontron and Internet Historian. People are willing to wait for quality. And we're willing to wait for you to do it without burnout. Keep at it, my man, I can't wait to see what you do next!

Somebody’s probably already said this but Moze actually fought for Vladof Corporations private army in the Ursa Corps, a mechanized combat division. There she achieved the rank of Gunner First Class. She left with her iron bear mech after a suicide mission at Darzaran bay left her entire squad dead and her superiors assuming she has also been slaughtered. Also apparently her full name is Moserah Hayussinian Yan-Lun al-Amir Andreyevna, so yeah, maybe shortening it to Moze was a good idea.

One of my favorite little things from Borderlands 3 were the "Clipper" prefix Jakobs guns. Mostly because they were literally M1 Garands, with the ping when emptying the clip...

I once found a Torque shotgun in Borderaland 2 that was double barrel and with stickies it just went BAM BAM, reload, POPOPOPOPOPOPOP. Most satisfying shit ever.

As far as Dahl goes in BL2 and TPS I always just assumed that they were still technically full auto when ADS but the player character would squeeze the trigger for a more accurate burst rather than riding the lightning.

Story wise I don't know why Hyperion stopped making pistols. The real reason is because since they added a new manufacture, the consoles at the time (ps4 and xbone) didn't have the memory space to handle that big of an potential inventory generator. So, Tediore, COV, Maliwan, and Hyperion all lost a category or 2 of weapon type to make way for Atlas. Also the reason why they cut down on manufactures making their own type of shield, instead of having it be an attribute every shield.

I think a really cool thing is how you tell the size differences between thw manufacturers, especially in BL3. Atlas in BL1, Dahl, Hyperion, and Maliwan are all ridiculously large enough to occupy and invade worlds. Meanwhile S&S, Tediore, and Jakobs feel vastly smaller(Jakobs was small enough that Aurelia truly believed she could buy it) and even then Jakobs had enough money to set up operations on Gehenna and then bomb large parts of the planet. Even the companies size changing between games such as Hyperion growing smaller after BL2 and losing the rights to Atlas, and how that reflected by the types of weapons downsizing.

If we count uniques The Hail in 2 fires bullets upwards so id argue Dahl is more normal

Dhal Malawian Valdof Cov Atlus And toruge are personally my manufacturers in the whole series

In fairness, most guns you pick up in Borderlands are stolen goods taken from either storage or the corpses of your enemies. So like, 90% of the time, using Hyperion weaponry doesn't support Hyperion.

10:51 I'm sure Mr Torgue Flexington appreciates you letting him take part in this video.

Very exhaustive video on the topic, one small note is sticky Torgue shots also blow up when you swap weapons as well

You forgot to mention that COV weapons often use parts from the old weapons the manufacturers made in BL2, like the Dahl and Torgue rifle barrels and Jakobs revolver barrel

Miss Tediore just kept hearing "that guns dont kill people, people kill people", while forgetting to air out her garage of break cleaner fumes.

It's funny i was so young when i first hopped on 2 (or any borderlands game anyways) i HATED hyperion weapons and never even wanted to pick one up . Because they felt bad to me ? No , because HYPERION BAD.

39:30 Well yeah, as Moze herself says when introducing herself to Claptrap, she used to be a soldier in the Vladof army, so that's why her gameplay in particular is so based, and so based around recreating that scene in The Godfather starring Sonny Corleone.

5:22 if memory serves in borderlands 2 trailers it says the Tediore founder lost his thumbs so they developed the throwable reloads, you can see him later in the video i think

You find an Eacho from Marcus saying he gave the bandit's all the old S and S guns

Tediore guns will forever be my favourite guns from borderlands 1 to borderlands 3

I always like to think that the bandit weapons in 2 are actually manufactured by the crimson raiders given their colour scheme, the names coming from actual bandits getting their hands on them and naming the weapons themselves.

that intro, man do i miss a well crafted intro. i like you

That bit about bandit mags is partly true, except is it actually super easy to have a huge magazine if your "magazine" is actually a box with an ammo belt in it, which I notice several of their rifles have. The thing is, a NORMAL magazine is basically a box with a spring in it, which can only be so complex, but that all goes right out the window with drum mags, which I notice they also seem to use a lot. That's where the complexity comes in, and reliability has always been an issue for drums, which is why militaries tend not to use them.

shoutout to the E-tech corrosive vladof sniper rifle that was basically a laser of mountain dew that I got in the wildlife exploitation preserve. absolutely shredded the encounters

Man you forgot the gearbox manufacture in bl 1 ):

Great video good effort bro keep it up

BL2 has far better gameplay. But I miss all the different gun options in the first game. Also loot chests in bl1 feel better than the ones in bl2. I have never gotten a legendary in a chest in bl2, but I’ve gotten several in bl1

fun fact about guns. it's easier to make full auto SMGs than it is to make semi-auto weapons. also fun fact, rifles are harder to make full auto due to how they need lock-up mechanisms just to contain the pressure. final fun-fact, it's not so much the magazines that are the hardest part to make for guns so much as it's the feeding mechanism required for them. for example, belt-feds. the gun needs to simultaneously cycle the bolt to keep firing but drag the belt through the gun in order to keep firing. magazines are actually easy in comparison. just need to make sure the spring pushes the bullets up hard enough so as to keep feeding the gun. it's the feeding mechanism that needs to ensure the gun not only can pick up a round but feeds it into the chamber effectively. lest your gun jam and/or explode. which makes the bandit SMG's PARTICULARLY ludicrous since i've seen those things take two mags for one barrel. how the hell does that thing not jam every other round let alone not explode?

I do kinda miss the weapon classes from BL1, they made it a lot easier to work every ammo type into your chosen build, even if some types were a lot more impressive than others.