Errands for Ava – Borderlands 3 S01E10 – First Playthrough
Meeting Maya – Borderlands 3 S01E09 – First Playthrough
Promethea Sides – Borderlands 3 S01E08 – First Playthrough
Burgers and Killavolt – Borderlands 3 S01E07 – First Playthrough
Another odd session this one. We just carried out two side missions, but the second one turned in to a bit of an odyssey!
After getting good old Lorelei a burger, Moxxi wanted us to kill Killavolt. This involved us first of all tracking down some tokens and batteries, but had the added benefit of a lot of fun combat along the way.
JBG and I are still finding our way with Borderlands 3’s weapons to some extent, meaning we are often taking on bad guys equipped with sub-optimal weapons. That said, as usual the combat is great fun, and in particular the level design of this mission was worthy of note.
Sadly it all had to end with a fairly typically frustrating boss battle against Killavolt himself. We managed to slog through this without dying though, which is always a positive!
Gigamind and Coffee – Borderlands 3 S01E06 – First Playthrough
A pretty enjoyable session here, even though it still seems to be rather lacking in any kind of story.
We ran into our old friend Zer0 as we explored Promethea, and the mission to capture Gigamind’s brain provided some fairly tricky combat. The enemy counterattack was particularly troublesome!
Once we found Gigamind however, he was fairly straightforward to kill off. We took his brain back and handed it over to Rhys, before Lorelei announced she needed coffee, so we headed off on a fairly standard Borderlands style side mission!
Like Gigamind, defeating Core Daddy was relatively straightforward also. This time it was his cohorts that provided the main challenge. Some more random running around and killing of enemies procured Lorelei her coffee and provoked yet another battle! Returning home to Sanctuary was a bit of a relief, and next time we head to Athenas to meet up with Maya!
Taking Back Promethea – Borderlands 3 S01E05 – First Playthrough
Our first experience of a new non-Pandora planet took us to Promethea, where we had to meet up with Atlas corporation to find our way to the vault.
This led to the now fairly standard series of missions, exploring the new planet and generally killing stuff in varied and interesting ways. We at least did get our hands on a new vehicle to play with!
Nothing particularly stands out in this episode, and we don’t even complete a whole story mission to have something interesting to talk about! That said, the side missions did keep us entertained as usual.
Meeting the Twins – Borderlands 3 – S01E04 – First Playthrough
In what turned out to be (presumably) our last jaunt around Pandora, this session was another relatively bitty one.
After finding Sanctuary III, we carried out a typicaly ‘Borderlands’ mission to get the ship fuelled up and ready to leave. On our return we were met by the Calypso Twins, and we learned a little more about their powers.
Once off-planet in Sanctuary III, we were treated to a fairly obvious (and equally tedious) ‘tutorial’ style mission, which was obviously designed to help us find our way around the Sanctuary III for future reference. Sadly, all it seemed to do was confuse me on the whole!
We ended the session on Promethea, in readiness for our next mission. This wasn’t a great session sadly, the only real highlight being the firefight outside the Sanctuary III as we tried to protect Lillith. Hopefully our adventures on Promethea will make up for this in the next session!
Mouthpiece – Borderlands 3 – S01E03 – First Playthrough
Making some progress with the story in this session, and the various missions provided some more very enjoyable combat to distract us from the fact that there doesn’t seem to be much going on story-wise just yet!
We’re gradually getting to grips with our characters and also finding some decent weapons as we head through. Hopefully things will continue in the same vein in the next video!
Levelling Up – Borderlands 3 – S01E02 – First Playthrough
Another session of side missions primarily. The usual mix of ‘go here, kill this person, pick this stuff up’, followed by a rinse and repeat of the same again!
At least the combat is starting to pick up, and we’re getting to grips a bit more with the general mechanics of the game. There were some fairly fun and intense battles in this session, and I’m starting to enjoy things a little more.
We’ve now emptied our mission list of side missions for the moment, so the next video will start with us taking on a story mission, and hopefully things will start to progress a little more!