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Plerpy_ on 31 July 2016
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John2290 said:
Plerpy_ said:

Sounds like your first objective should be to git gud.

What's actually difficult is defeating Borderlands 2 and it's broken scaling system. The game where you have to rely on the game's built in health gate just to stay alive. Even trash mobs would be one shotting you if not for the health gate. And it's not like SoulsBorne where you can learn an enemies attack patterns or get a feel for the level and if you die it's your own fault; with BL2 you just have to make your one or two viable builds and hope you don't get a DoT in your travels because if you do you're boned.

I actually got the Handsome collection downloading. Are these issues fixed and whats  DoT? Only played BL2 for an hour or two or three on the VITA and can't really remember, I just know I had a lot of fun.

It's hell fun.

What I mentioned aren't issues though. They're features so they're not going anywhere. DoT = damage over time. So say you get hit by a fire gun, the initial damage will strip your shield and knock you down to 20% health and then the fire damage will take out the rest of your HP the next second. Explosive damage counts as two hits (the initial hit then the explosive damage) so that will kill you instantly.

Keep in mind this only rears its ugly head towards the end of playthrough two and then becomes something you always have to prepare for in playthrough 3 and beyond. You can never really be a demi-god in Borderlands 2 because the game is scaling exponentially around you. More levels = more growth.