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my manufacturer design thread.

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hello again, forum, just wanted to say thank you so much for your kind words and support,


http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=192547


my thread is locked for now,
Finally gearbox have contacted me and decide to make my work official.

will Definitely update you guys when the stuff is available to purchase :)
again, thank u so much for your support!!

have a nice day fellow vault hunters.

Infinite Mode...

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The idea is that after completing TVHM there will be a special NPC you can talkto makes everyone on Pandora "go mad." Probably at the end of a long gauntlet so you can have an idea of what the outside will be like.

Once active all enemies respawn infinitely and rapidly. Enemis will also be scaled up to 4 player statrating. If you make it outside of the gauntlet you're obviouslywell enough equipped to survivePandora with enemies and bosses constantly spawning. If not you can go back to the NPC and cancel itand be digi-structed back at the entrance


A lot will probably say this is like Horde Mode. I guess it is, but what I'm imagining is enemies spawning non-stop(with a cap for performance sake). Every enemy you kill another will come from one of the spawn points. No waves just non stop enemy spawns.

Input?

Class idea: Bionic, A.C.E

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The Bionic

I had this idea for a class, and it just generally evolved into this. it comes from the idea of gun customizing, making your own guns is a game breaking idea, and customizing should be left to characters... And right there and then(Light bulb flash!). What about a character who has a skill that let's him summon a customizable gun, and i just went thinking from there and it created A.C.E. "Arm Cannon of Eridium".

Action Skill:
When you press the action button, Ace's(Arm Cannon of Eridium" is his name) E-tech bionic arm transforms into an Eridium powered arm cannon that shoots 30 orbs that deal heavy splash damage. To stop using the cannon press the reload button, Depending on how many rounds are left in the chamber the cool down period speeds up. Cool down 60 seconds

Back ground:
A Hyperion project Before the events of borderlands 2. A living weapon prototype to be used as Hyperion personnel, weaponry, merchandise etc. The project involved first full grown men, mutilating them first and replacing their limbs with better robotic versions... It did not pan out, instead of thinking this might be failing due to their severe moral failures, they blamed it on the test subjects and thought that the subject needed to "adapt" with the limb before using them correctly, so child testing was approved. Test subject #453, 10 years old actually volunteered for a bionic arm(Kids are messed up).

Echos:
A.C.E Project echo diary #4 [After the surgery]

Br.Braun: Wake up subject #453. The operation was successful.

Subject #453: Ughhh... So did you did it, doctor? did you get my spleen out?

Dr. Braun: What?

S#453: HA! just kidding! Whoa, this is my arm now? It looks like it's made of bad ass! Awwww, yeeaaaah I'm gonna punch all the faces with this! isn't it a few sizes too big for me?

Dr. Braun: You'll grow into it now, take this seriously. That is a multi billion weapon you're swinging around!

S#453: Aww, Take a chill pill, doc! How many 1 armed 10 years old were you gonna find that would volunteered for this?... Wait a minute...My arm... i can't control it! WHY IS IT DOING A JERKING OFF MOTION?

Dr. Braun: Calm down, #453! You're agitation must be interfering with the neural link!

S#453: Nah, just kidding... Wait, why are you taking cattle prod?

A.C.E Project echo diary #35 [After 3 years of testing]

S#453: Man, Dr. Braun is taking this combat simulators way too seriously
Rabid Skags and half starved Rakks are one thing, but Threshers and Bullymongs are not good for my health... We should also talk about living quarters, i think my toilet is way too close to my bed, and my bed is way too close to my door...

Hyperion Lab Janitor: (Speaks with Mexican [Truxican?] accent) Hello? is someone in there?

S#453:Holy Skag balls, yeah hi! in here! who's there?

HLJ: I'm the janitor, what are you doing in that prison, kid?

S#453: i uhhh... volunteered

HLJ: volunteered?

S#453: Bear with me here, Hyperion needed some poor sucker to say yes to this, and that poor suckers was some 1 armed kid from Prometheus. Free bed and dining, 1 arm, and you only need to give them a few of your main rights... It seemed like a good idea at the time, but i also had only 1 arm and was starving at the time...

HLJ: Wow, kid... just wow... it says right outside your door Subject #453, is this what they call you, can i do anything to help you?

H.A.C: Technically, I'm the "Hyperion Arm Cannon" Prototype. and no don't try to help me, I volunteered, and they might do something worse to you... You can help me with this boredom though!

HLJ: H.A.C? Hyperion is the only damn good name in this company.... How about a story? It's about a far distant planet named Pandora, and it's legend... The vault...

H.A.C:... Yeah?

A.C.E Project echo diary #71 [After another 3 years of testing]

Dr. Braun: Good Effort out there, H.A.C. The team does enjoy your work out there with the varkids out there. Thought i did notice your movements to be a bit sluggish out there...

H.A.C: Yeah? is that right? I could have done better if the ammo to this thing wasn't so goddamn heavy, Also it runs out way too fast, Also it makes my shoulder itch!

Dr. Braun: Really? i thought maybe it had something to do, with that Janitor who's been feeding you stories about things you don't need to know about...

H.A.C: W...what?

Dr. Braun: We've been recording your progress, always have been, and we know about your friend. Maybe he's been distracting you, Slowing down your progress?

H.A.C: no wait, please! it isn't his fault! It really is the arm, the ammo it's too big... and... and it runs out too fast, isn't there some kind adjustment we can do to it?

Dr. Braun: I'm glad you asked actually... We've been doing testing with this new material called Eridium, surely your friend must have told you of Hyperion's president Handsome Jack opening the vault, right?

H.A.C: ....

Dr. Braun: If we install E-tech, the result of Eridium experiments. onto your arm, we can solve the weight and ammo issue...

That's enough for 1 post. I'll post the rest some other time, for the mean time, what do you think so far?

I missed out on Ultimate Loot Chest Edition, so I built an Even Ultimatyer Edition :)

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Two things happened prior to me getting BL2: I heard about the Ultimate Loot Chest, and decided to get it. Of course it had sold out months ago. I also noticed that some of my favourite games are now just a failing memory, yet I still have mementos from countries where in some cases I've spend less time there than in some games. BL2 seemed likely to be a favourite game, so what the hell, I didn't have much free time but I decided to spare a few hours beforehand quickly throwing together a souvenir box, maps, etc. It'll make playing the game more fun, and afterwards, it'll be a fun memento of my time in Pandora.

The Pandora Explorer Edition
(AKA Pandora's Box set. I haven't decided :) )


Borderlands - Pandora's Box Edition on Flickr

This will look a lot better soon. Right now it's all new and shiny, but because everything is real paint over real metal and nuts and bolts, etc. the more it kicks around, the more the paint will chip, the metal will dent and scratch, and it'll genuinely have that beat-to-hell look of something from Pandora. :-)



Whatta mess...
Since the idea is mementos of a place we've been to, nothing in this edition indicates a game or software or stuff like that. It's just a box of crap and tacky tourist tat and event flyers I bought back from Pandora. (The exception is the "Borderlands" steelbook, in that it has "Borderlands" written on it, and contains the DVDs for all the games and DLC.)
I bought BL2 for $25 on sale at Amazon, and Loot Chest stuff I liked (like the cloth map and field guide) cheap on ebay. So that left most of the budget to spend on other things, like... hardware and laser cutting!
(It'd be nicer if more of the money could have gone to Gearbox, but they weren't selling :( )



Eridium crystals.
I have experimented with ingesting these crystals (seriously), and they genuinely do give you crazy amounts of energy! They also do seem kind of addictive. But maybe best of all; they taste exactly like rock candy.



Because the box is metal, I use it as a magnetic pin-board. For example I find the in-game inventory is not all that good at showing at a glance what I have available in a particular set of elements, so here I've got a chart of which elemental gear I have (and whether it's with me or Roland's vault.)



I have a little Zink bluetooth sticker-photo printer, so I've been filling the Travel Journal with photos of the journey through Pandora. When there is a breathtaking vista, sometimes I'll pause and keep it for posterity :) I also have level maps and other stuff in there.



Detritus at the bottom of the box. The "2" was originally for the steelcase, but it made more sense to me to just have the more inclusive "Borderlands" on there. There's a token from one of Marcus' vending machines, a vault hunter necklace, Hyperion pen, etc. If you're wondering why there isn't a Bobblehead here, they just didn't appeal to me. Thematically (tourist tat) it's great, but it's bulky and it's just not the sort of thing I bring home when I travel, so I didn't get one.

There are a lot more little details, but this gives the gist. I didn't have a lot of time, so everything had to come together first try, any mistakes stay - no time for do-overs. Given those restrictions, I was pretty happy with how it turned out!

Anyway, hope you liked it!
I'm in the middle of Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty - gotta get back to it... :-)

The Sirens?

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Aside from the little bit of information that is provided in game is there any source of background for the sirens that has been published as canon? Working on a fiction piece but would like to have as many details accurate as possible.

I have compiled what I could from in game sources from both BL1 and BL2, but there are some glaring questions that I have. How is it known that there can ONLY be 6 sirens in existence? Exactly when do a siren's powers manifest?

I am fully capable of answering those questions with my own theories but again I would like to write something that if possible is close to canon as possible.

I have not yet read Borderlands Origins #2 but from what I understand it is focused mostly on Lilith and doesn't answer much that I didn't already know or suspect.

Epic Christmas gift!!

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My daughter did her best to draw a Borderlands 2 art piece.
The guy is the Bandit from the cover. She forgot he was pointing at the bottom of his head :)
ClapTrap, Vault Symbol, and Eridium!

Love my kid :)

Borderlands and well all cosplayers in ny

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Hey folks this may not be exactly for borderlands but we would love to have some vault hunters and others join our event. Basically its cosplay for a cause its being held june 22. For more info message me and well join our link.

Ps. if anyone knows how to get in contact with the folks of gear box please message me. I would love to invite randy and the voice actors to join us for this .

http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/31...67129/?fref=ts

Legendary Item Suggestions

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For future reference, I'm sorry if they already made a Legendary like it. It's organized with the name first, then what would be the red text between quotes.

1) The Morua No-Scope "OMG HE'S SUCH A HAXOR!!!"
(Morua is Latin for COD, the fish, but it would reference the game) It would be a Dahl golden camo sniper. All the shots would have huge recoil when scoped, but when not scoped it's very accurate. When you looked in the scope, the sight would be a solid black "n00b". You would also re-gene health after a set time like in the game when holding it. Oh, and it shoots through walls, like a hack or something. Not really a CoD fan, but this seems like a fun gun.

2) The Maliwan 10th Dimension "Point of infinite infinities"
(I may have it wrong, but I think the 10th dimension has to do with something like all possibilities in every universe exist in this dimension, link to video about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySBaY...t=HL1356581147) But it would be a Maliwan SMG that does a non-level of Maliwan damage to all health bars with their respective weakness. As in, whatever a Vladof, or Hyperion, etc. average elemental chance/damage would apply. With a shield it would only do shock, flame with flesh, and corrosion with armor. So just a general purpose elemental gun. Or, maybe it'd be better with a nova shield...

3) x2 Explosification "BOOM boom"
A relic that make every explosion explode twice, but do 1/4 to 1/2 damage.

4) <INSERT CLASS MOD TITLE HERE> "Please no vulgarity, wait, this is Borderlands..."
A class mod for each one of the characters, where you get 5 to 10 extra skill points to distribute freely, plus 2 skill points in the first tier of skills. Like in the Terramorphus Slayer/Legendary. Maybe you could name it? But it would stick to the item forever. That'd be great.

5) Nosferatu "Vampires now a days, am I right? Vat a joke!"
A transfusion grenade that when it kill flesh targets it turns them into your zombiefied minions for 10-20 seconds. They only can die from exploding, or other instant kills.

6) The Capitalist Pig "Oink oink oink"
The Valdof assault rifle that would have a dollar sign camo. It would only come in corrosive, but would explode into corrosion. When you fire it gets progressively slower, but would have more DPS than before.

7) Russian Roulette "Who wants to play? No one, just me? Fine. *SPIN BANG!"
A Jakobs pistol with a mag of 6, it randomly shoots five low damage blanks, and one VERY VERY HIGH damage actual bullet. One thing, you spin it every time you fire making it not as fast as you can pull the trigger (but it would never hit an empty chamber).

8) The Defective Copy Machine "Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam!"
(Office Space reference) A Hyperion SMG. It would be straight line accurate, then decrease in accuracy. It would sound like a printer printing rapidly, then go into an annoying beeping fax machine noise, you know the one. When it makes the printing noise it does high shock damage, and when it starts to break down, does high power fire damage, and both while it's transitioning.

9) Syco Madenes "No wonder they're all spoon for trouser insane!"
A Bandit rocket launcher that only fires when scoped. It would do fair per missile damage wise, but it would shoot 15 or so rockets in the shape of The Vault; it would then explode into bouncy bettys of all different sorts. When scoped, there is changing tint to the world, all erie disturbing colors though. And every baddy and friend would have red eyes, and look like a poorly made sketch shadow of the real thing. In the background you would also hear noises. Whispers, gun firing, and such. Maybe if you listen closely it could tell the story of a bandit you killed. Like one in Liars Berg or something.

10) The Patriotic WMD "Oooh... Aaaaw... Ooooh... AaaaAAAGH! IT BURNS!"
A Vladof rocket launcher that would fire fireworks haphazardly with all sorts of colors, blue for shock, yellow for explosive, and so on. Long reload, but it would be an E-tech like gun (that yes, is still a legendary) and would fire multiple time before wasting ammo.

11) The Pumper "When I c-o-c-k it, it explodes"
A pump action Tediore shotgun. Every time you fire and you recock the shot gun, it fires out a weaker version of the grenade that you have equipped and does not wast grenade ammo, as long as you have one grenade left though.
P.S. Sorry, for the "-" in between ****, as in cocking a gun by the way, but that's just it it won't let me write ****. ****. ****. See, you're just seeing stars. ****. ****! See, now it kinda fun. One more... ****!!!

12) Isaac Asimov's Revenge "Downloading Brainwash.exe"
(Isaac is the person who made the three laws of robotics) It would be an E-Tech (Yes, still a legendary) that does corrosive damage, it would be like my idea, Nosferatu, but with robots instead. They would only go for other robots or creatures, but as a result it would last for 20-30 seconds.

13) Okay, this is 4 guns, but how about make the Gearbox guns Legendary that only people who pre-ordered the game can use. They would actually be useful now! I literally traded them out for the first gun that matched their type of gun. So the first assault rifle was better than the Gearbox ones... BS...

14) Cataclysmic Concerto "So Mozart wrote 27 of these? Swwweeeeet!"
A Maliwan SMG that does huge elemental damage of every Maliwan element that would always explode, and when held it would play Mozart's 21st piano concerto. The only thing that would play over that would be player audio. Because really character audio by the time you have a legendary is pretty obsolete. Link to concerto:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-eLzao63I Just think of that playing while you're blowing up Bandits, and seeing their limbs flying apart.

15) Haunting of Clyde "I hear wakka wakka in my nightmares!"
(Pac-man reference) It would be a Tourge assault rifle that shoots pixilated Pac-mans that jaggedly turn like it was in the maze. 4 pixilated ghosts would follow it before the Pac-man hits an enemy and they would all follow the enemy, or if it's a wall it'd just follow Pac-man's path.

16) The Magic Lamp "No, you can wish for more wishes"
A three shot Maliwan pistol (so 6 ammo) when you hit an enemy an elemental singularity forms around them ripping weaker ones apart, and if it's shock and the regular ones have a shield it will rip them apart, same for flesh and fire, and armor and corrosion. Everyone else is just pulled in and takes some elemental damage. It has 5-7 second fire-rate but the singularity lasts for a bit longer than regular.

17) Phalanx (Zapper, Dissolver, or Magma Wall) "No not Phallic, sicko."
It would be nova shield that creates one of Axton's turret shields when depleted. It would last for 1-3 second under the recharge delay, so the recharge would be at lest 8-13. It can be damaged though, but only friends can get through it and any enemy who touched it takes massive elemental damage. Of course, enemies like Terra that can't be pushed would have to go through it.

Gearbox, this are items I would love to play with, and I could really see these in the game. If you add them, I have plenty more ideas, but if you don't want to hear them, I'd just like some recondition. Thank you.

-TheDiffrentSideOfPsychotic

P.S. I reposted this because I didn't know there was fan creation section sorry.

Is it okay to post my fan fiction on here?

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Hey guys
I'm new to these forums, i'm currently writing a fan fiction based in the Borderlands universe and I wanted know if i could post it on here when its done. Is there any legal restrictions or anything like that against this sorta thing?

I need ideas!

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I seen alot of talk about new characters for BL2 DLC but I never seen anyone try to actually draw something up. Im willing to do it but as the title says I need dat creativity :dukeaffirmative:

My Character Creation (Tw0)

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It says: He had a run in with Zero and is now blind in both eyes(the left one is gone completely. . .)

The scar on his back is from Zer0's backstab/execute technique, his hoodie has a 2 on it

His class mod is either gonna be a sniper bullet bracelet or a belt

His action skill allows him to travel through space and automatically target the enemies head. The bottom half shoots slag bullets
Duration 20 seconds

And of course proof its by me :D
I dont want to add alot of detail since well Im lazy point blank no excuse
Leave feedback :/

abraham lincoln head

Handsome Jack Mask

Starting work on a Borderlands Tarot Card set.

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So I've had this idea in my head for a while about a borderlands themed tarot deck, so I've finally started working on it. Started with an easy one because the symbolism was already there in the game, card XII The Hanged Man.

Now, this is kind of early in this project for me, but I'd like to seek some feed back earlier rather than later.

Also if someone would be so kind as to tell me the name of the font used for the gun cards, that would be AWESOME since I'd like to use that for the card flavor text.

http://fav.me/d5prg8j

My first Borderlands poster

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Hi everyone. I've been playing with illustrator for a few months now, doing design bits here and there, logos for friends, and the odd illustration.

I'd done a few Mass Effect poster designs, and I wanted to do something Borderlands-inspired, but I had no idea what I wanted to do. Until it struck me last night! I was originally going to do a couple of conference calls with The Bee in front, but figured most people wouldn't recognise it.

I went with the Hyperion logo at the top of the page, more because I really wasn't sure of what to put up there. I tried 'PING.' for the CCs, but it just looked bad. If anyone has a good idea of better text for the top, I'd love to hear it!

I stuck with the greyscale/red, which is a nice break from my usual work and references the CC (which has the red stripe and lots of detail... that you can't see).

Anyway, let me know what you think! I think it's my best piece so far, certainly took the most work. There's a link to my deviantart below, if you want to see my other stuff.



And here's my deviantart profile. Thanks for looking!

New guns, relics, gernade mod, class mod ideas.

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All items scaled to level 50

skycaller(e-tech spiker handgun)
damage-100
accuracy-76.6
rate of fire-1.0
reload speed-3.1
clip size- 1
The sky.. Is falling.
(the red text makes it so after the spike explodes a beam comes from the sky dealing 300,000 in a 3m radius of spike)
-firing increases stability
Hyperion


tortuise shell longbow(long bow gernade)
damage-500,000
blast radius-478
fuse time-0.0
Retreat!
(the red flavor text makes it so when the gernade explodes it produces a sheild almost identical to the commando's "Phalanx Sheild" for his turrets, damage is changed to sheild health; so the gernade doesn't acually do any damage)
Anshin


explosive potions(relic)
-increases explosive damage by 15%
-10% of all explosive damage dealt is turned into transfusion orbs
Torgue


metalic projector(sheild)
campacity-34,500
recharge rate-550
recharge delay-2.1
Like a stone...
(red flavor text makes it so the sheild campacity is acually armor campacity: so a yellow bar not a blue one)
-20% chance to resist corrosive damage
-based on how depleted your sheild is you gain a 10-30% speed increase


syrgical shotgun(shotgun)
damage-5.500x14
accuracy-49.9
rate of fire-2.0
reload speed-4.0
magazine size-5
Friendly fire!!
(red flavor text makes it so when shooting an ally heals them for 10% of the damage)
-recoil reduction
Anshin


titan conductor(assault rifle)
damage-(no bullet damage)
accuracy-74.5
rate of fire-5.0
reload speed-8.0
magazine size-36
chance to electricute-100% chance
electricity damage per sec-10,000
With thunder..
(red flavor text makes it so when fired it releases a constant stream of electricty, and when shot at a friend restores their sheild based on 25% of damage)


Entreprenuer(class mod)
class required-any
health regen +300 OR sheild recharge delay -25%
-all healing effects received are increased by 30%
-healing pots are now free at all Dr. neds vending machines
- +5-10 talents free to spend
Hyperion


eridian manipulatorrelic
-at the cost of 1 eridian every 30minutes,it will give specific abilities (ie. 2,000 bonus damage to each projectile shot while this relics equiped,melee damage increased by 10,000 and has a 15% chance to slag,gernades doing slag/extra dmg, increase in AS time by 60%,regens ammo of current equiped weapon)
or my favorite, increase in rare loot dropping everytime eredian is consumed,stacking up to 99 times if unequiped buff and stacks are instantly lost.
Hyperion


Anyway those are just a couple ideas,i want to see maybe some action skill augmentations or melee ovride skills on class mods,or a class mod that gives you a talent instead of increasing an already existing talent,and dont EVEN get me started on melee weapons. A slot must be added for melee!! think about all the new cool loot O.O
So if you have any thoughts on my post or just have some cool ideas of your own feel free to post.
Please rate my post, and thank you for reading!

DLC for PVP!

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So overall Borderlands is epic, but one thing i never got/liked was the pvp.

First the only form of it is dueling,dont get me wrong while amusing not much of a rp experience.As in pvp combat is over within seconds of conflict more like a COD encounter.Wouldnt be awsome if you could take more damage from other players allowing longer more strategic fights more like an rpg experience.

Atleast make the roles matter in pvp were a tank can be tankin mass damage even from players, but a dps would be much more squishy.Instead of all characters being easily squished by another player.It may be as simple as increasing damage vault hunters can take but ncrease the amount creatures of pandora do.making it harder for players to kill players, or when in a qued battle all players get a buff increasing defensive stats making battle last longer.

Heres where my DLC content idea comes into play,when the next map pack comes out (because aspects such as storyline and quests arnt my concern gearbox already does a kickass job at that)add a small area/town were an npc allows you to que for games such as steal the flag, location control,deathmatch ect.broken down into level brackets.
were killing an enemy player grants a currency to buy items much like seraph crystals but for items oriented around pvp gear.or maybe a multiple kills grants badass point(s)

Each team having a base with vending machines,respec station, and respawn point.

Those are just some general ideas about it im sure ill add to it later.But any comments, criticism, or tips welcome please vote on the pole and leave a comment about what you think!

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possible ideas for a 6th class

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I’ve had some ideas for possible characters that should be added to BL2.

A paladin type similar to Diablo 2 who could have all kinds of auras that provides team supports and an action skill that buffs everyone, with a Hyperion back story similar to Roland with the Crimson Lance.

A ranger type affiliated with the Jacobs family. They could have a bullet time action skill, because bullet time would be badass (wouldn’t be very practical for co-op).The Hyperion and Jacobs corporations hate each other in game which could make for an interesting story.

My last idea is a mad scientist who wants to find the vault for personal gain. I’m a little lost with this one, just putting it out there.

These are strictly ideas and I’m curious about everyone else’s ideas and opinions.
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