Regardless of the efficiency points, 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 an enormous Borderlands fan, and we’re having a good time. Largely. Every thing goes positive proper up till we encounter one other rattling loot capsule. This stuff are the worst a part of the sport and are so unhealthy that they honestly baffle me.
As you discover the open world of Borderlands 4, you’ll discover facet 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 facet actions includes Loot Capsules. These are small pods that you would be able to come upon after which have to hold again to the closest safehouse to unlock. Doing so opens the capsule, and also you get some loot. Sounds positive, proper? Flawed!
In Borderlands 4, Gearbox created a brand new mechanic that allows you to choose up objects whereas preventing. That is utilized in varied 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 attention-grabbing. However while 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 tremendously limits your toolbox, and that’s positive when it’s used sparingly as a momentary wrinkle you must deal with.
But that isn’t the case with Loot Capsules, which typically require you to stroll a really lengthy distance again to the “closest” HQ to get your reward. And you must stroll it. You may’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. When you get attacked by enemies and must struggle your approach out, you’d higher hope that nothing occurs that dislodges that capsule out of your hand, or you possibly can be looking round desperately for it in a second. Has this occurred to me? Sure, why do you suppose I’m penning this weblog? And while 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 over again.
Oh, and each time you choose it up, Claptrap begins speaking. Each. Single. Time. Generally, he’ll discuss over himself. And there are solely so many traces. They usually go on and on. I don’t even hate Claptrap like lots of people do, however I rapidly reached my breaking level after just some capsules.
These rattling capsules annoy me a lot, and I take care of 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 particular person simply, why the fuck can’t I simply retailer the capsule, too? Why should I lug it again? Why can’t I acquire it like all the varied shields, weapons, and different loot I stuff into my digital trousers with no situation? Who thought this was enjoyable? I’d love to talk 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 positive 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 these items or extra whereas enjoying alone and with buddies. I’ve by no means gotten a single legendary weapon. By no means. It’s often 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 buddies about it and so they’ve reported the identical factor: Nugatory loot that you simply trash the second you see it.
At this level, I’ve began to disregard them when enjoying Borderlands 4 alone. And after I do choose one up, I simply gnash my tooth the entire time as I hear the identical rattling Claptrap line once more. No less than I get pleasure from the remainder of the sport. Largely.
