hey does anyone else remember the werewolf priest in BL1 that worshiped angel. what the fuck was that about.
swamp monster.
hey does anyone else remember the werewolf priest in BL1 that worshiped angel. what the fuck was that about.
swamp monster.
on the topic of the hyperion assassins, their designs are flawed. hyperion couldn’t even care enough about the populations they’re harming to properly infiltrate them.
oney is what i presume to be a bloodshot nomad, but he has no specific clan markings. it made him originally unidentifiable to me because of it, added onto his unique head gear. he also is the only nomad in the game to not use his shield whatsoever. (aside from mad mike, who is also a bloodshot nomad with has no shield at all.)
wots design is an tossup between slab and sawtooth. the shape of it is slab, the shoulders, the mohawk, but its all in yellow. he also spawns with a badass sawtooth despite southpaw being bloodshot territory.
these are two clans who are at war with one another, and while some slabs DO wear yellow, it is only in segments of their armor, not all of it. he would absolutely be viewed as a slab by the sawteeth and vice versa.
reeth is also a combination of two different clans who are currently at war with one another. the bloodshots and the children of the firehawk. he would theoretically be a bloodshot, but he doesnt have the tattoos despite being swarmed with other bandits who do.
but fire enemies of his type are clan exclusive in this game, locked only to the cotf, unlike in BL1 where they are all over.
rouf is actually different to me. i think he WAS actually a bandit before turning traitor and working with hyperion. his bodytype is specific to rats, and hyperion is confirmed to work with them at least through the mines in lynchwood. his bright green outfit and respirator are also unique to himself.
he and wots also use hyperion guns. for…no specific reason, im sure.
and personally i find this all Very Fun. it makes them uncanny, where their appearances would be off to the bandits around them, but the differences would go unseen by the raiders or hyperion. it is corporation trying to get you to buy into a language they themselves do not understand.
because. realistically. they’d walk into their respective bandit camps and immediately get questioned if not shot at for what they’re wearing.
and what if. baron led the group of bandits that atlas hired to clean out old haven. rolling out the welcome mat, just so thankful to them for opening the prisons and giving him his army. of course he’ll help them clear the town. find the key. open the vault. it’ll be his pleasure.
and then steele butchers them all regardless. establishing the new hierarchy on pandora.
whatever power baron got from being warden or being a flynt becomes null the second atlas moves in. him being the “leader of pandora” is only allowed because it placates the masses and does not outwardly intervene with their plans for the vault.
and that is why steele makes him a figurehead, parodying the role he originally played for dahl, only this time he doesnt benefit from the power he got from subjugating his own people. its karma in the vilest sense, and it is still not him suffering the most from it, but the rest of pandora’s citizens.
everyone say hi to flood she’s gods least favorite princess and pandora’s only communist.
thinking about. domesticity on pandora. lying in bed with the doors and windows open during hot summer days. teaching friends and kids how to drive runners. gun swapping and collecting. houses built out of old mining ships and shipping containers, new rooms being added once babies are born.
just,,,all of the love and life that gets drowned out with the VHs being so focused on fighting.This kind of thing is just sooo fun to think abt and I think it really helps to humanize the bandits… Here’s some of my own contributions !
- Taking turns going to sleep while watching over your buddies to make sure nothing bad happens during their time of rest, and having the same be done for you when you need it. Knowing you fan trust these people enough to be at your most vulnerable around them, and letting yourself relax knowing that they’ll keep you safe
- Communal !!! Eating !!!! Everyone eats !!! Sitting around the fire with a big pot of stew or a big roast of skag, getting to talk to everyone about how their days went and even getting to hear about how the food was made, getting to share after a supposedly long day at the Death and Murder planet without worry. At least for now.
- Helping fix each other’s armour or weapons. I imagine that this is something that needs to be upkept pretty often, given the amount of times you’re out fighting and stuff. Shields don’t do jack about Dirt !!!! You have to keep your things clean enough so they don’t jam on you while you’re in a particularly tough situation !
- Housing being built in old warehouses, abandoned mineshafts and other such operations, even in the wall of a mountain if you get enough people to help you carve it out— you can get a house set up anywhere with the right amount of dedication and slight bit of desperation, but it takes your group to make it a real home. I always find it so cute to see how bandits decorate their houses with their respective clan symbols and stuff, makes me think that making art for your new settlement is an important step in all this
- Collecting random pieces of scrap materials for reutilizing and putting together new things !! Armour, gun modifications, housing material, defensive protections, you name it, you can probably bend it into the right shape. I think bandit groups would have assigned people to handle this sort of thing so that materials never run too low, especially in the case of an emergency or something….
- Training together to make sure you always keep your skills sharp. In Pandora you’re either paying attention or you’re dead, so it’s important to make sure you never let that guard down… But you also have space between all that to train some new skills, keep yourself busy throughout the 96 hours it takes for the planet to finish rotating, learn some new things from your strange village elder, just don’t get bored
Hashtag. These are just regular guys