I honestly expected a five-level bump per DLC which would take the cap to 70, allowing all players to level their characters as the packs came out.Īs a campaign pack, Captain Scarlett and her Pirate’s Booty is great fun, packed with interesting areas, enemies, and friendly character, and well worth the $10 price of admission. Those who are already running level-50 characters will also be disappointed to learn that the level cap has not been increased.
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Why, in a game that is only played cooperatively, can I only run a boss once per day? It is a silly decision, and I don’t like what it hints at Gearbox doing with the rest of the DLC packs and the series as a whole. And to make things even more WoW-like, one of the raid bosses can only run once a day. One of these bosses is the only enemy to drop the newly-introduced seraph crystals that are needed to buy things at Oasis’s black market. Pirate’s Booty features two raid bosses that are designed for groups of four high-level characters. Gearbox is slowly turning Borderlands into an instanced MMORPG. The missteps in the DLC are the same as those in the main game. Gearbox has also made another improvement: Pirate’s Booty features numerous fast-travel stations, which makes the large map size a boon rather than a drawback. I would not always take it out, but sometimes I would rather shoot harpoons than rockets, and I can’t for the life of me figure out why these vehicles (along with the Monster from Knoxx) were never made available in the main games. The sand skiff is fun to drive, and different enough from the runners and bandit technicals that I wish they were available from the main campaign’s catch-a-ride stations. Just like The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, Scarlett comes with a unique vehicle type. Borderlands 2 can be a somber game, and Pirate’s Booty is much more whimsical which makes the competent gunplay and interesting enemies take center stage, instead of the main campaign’s story beats that drive you forward, anxious to learn the fate of the Crimson Raiders and Handsome Jack. The visuals are different from anywhere else you’ll see in Pandora, the unique enemies are interesting to fun and make for a great change of pace from the main game, and the quest types and campaign length make Scarlett just the in-game vacation you and your character might need.
Any character level 15 or higher can fast travel to Oasis and start looking for the fabled lost treasure.
Instead of a new character to play as, Scarlett is a full-fledged side adventure. The original game saw four pieces of downloadable content, and while Gearbox only got to a 50-50 track record there, it should surprise nobody that DLC was a part of the Borderlands 2 plan before the game even hit store shelves (as it was possible to preorder the DLC season pass along with the base game).Īfter the Mechromancer character, Captain Scarlett and her Pirate’s Booty is the first bit of DLC available. Borderlands 2 is a great game, and its structure lends itself to DLC extremely well.
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