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Borderlands 3 Won't Have Microtransactions, But It Will Have Lots of DLC - MMORPG.com
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Borderlands 3 Won't Have Microtransactions, But It Will Have Lots of DLC - MMORPG.com
During yesterday's Borderlands 3 livestream extravaganza, it was revealed that, while the game won't have microtransactions in the "traditional sense", there will be DLC for sale as the game matures. "We've made a commitment to what Borderlands is and supposed to be," said Randy Pitchford. "Our fans have told us loud and clear that they cherish and want us to preserve in Borderlands 3. There's no microtransaction-y, free-to-play kind of stuff."
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you might be waiting a while then ill bet epic gets a 6 months exclusive/or outright exclusive deal on certain dlcs. Epic dont do sales that im aware of currently and this is probably one of the reasons randy picked epic over steam, so that DLC is always full priced
and? he said discount he would be willing to wait at least a year for it
guys lets get real here, there is no reason to buy games at launch, tehre is too many to go around anyway
best to wait till the price drop and you buy cheap
nowadays you buy from launch you spend full price more 2x it on DLCs if you wait till it drop teh price, and they always drop the price, you can buy it half the price with the whole dlc
They have good standing. Their previous DLC has always been awesome story extension + additional weapons/mechanics + additional character classes to play.
Hopefully by April there will be nice sales bundles.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
For comparison's sake, the reasons why I regret purchasing For Honor are:
1. The more fun, casual point control mode is less popular than 1v1 or 2v2 duels.
2. Guard breaks and unblockables are overpowered and are easier to execute than they are to counter in a game which is supposed to emphasize directional blocking.
3. Gender locking of way too many classes.
I can't think of a single attack that's unlockable; even chamber strikes are parryable unless your opponent just has a much faster weapon. The combat has ridiculous depth- there's parries, feints, ripostes, chamber strikes, kicks, stabs, swings (directionally with directional hit detection that makes positioning important, especially versus shielded enemies), ranged attacks (including throwing your melee weapon)... There's swing speed manipulation via turning while swinging, but it's not ridiculously overblown like it is in Chivalry (no turning your back on your enemies to lean back Matrix style and stab over your head, for example). Swings will collide with other objects, too, such as posts and walls, stopping your swing. This and the friendly fire make choke points tactically useful, and gives an edge to smaller weapons when fighting indoors or in a crowd of your buddies.
As it's historically set, I don't think you can play a female combatant. There are customization options for your avatar, though. There are premade classes, but you can also create your own loadouts completely from scratch, so you can find a weapon you like and build around it.
EDIT- With all this said, be advised: combat is relatively slow in terms of how fast your character animations are. This is intentional, though, because most actions lock you into completing them once you've committed. This becomes the essence of strategy: bait out a parry attempt with a feint and follow up with a strike before your opponent can recover from the botched parry.
The BL series has its fans which is great, but lets not act like they are doing us favors and are “getting with the gamers” by using this DLC construction.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
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