Gun Customization/Vehicle

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This is a MAJOR MAJOR Feature that they almost promised and was left out, hopefully they will revisit it and make it a balanced experience. Possible Future DLC For Borderlands.

They Also promised the ability to customize vehicles with hundreds of thousands of parts, but that didnt come. maybe a future DLC For Borderlands.

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Sure hope so :)

Sure hope so :)

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Yeah i hope they do that, and

Yeah i hope they do that, and we can customize many things and also it can store weapons, upgrades etc. I think that everyone should have there own vehicle. Maybe even have battle races in the vehicles too. It the vehical gets destroyed you have to pay for it at those transport stations just like the new U stations if your character dies.

I also think that certain weapons that you loot shout be mountable on the vehicle (and gets bonus damage etc as such) so you could find a rocket launcher with an icon etc that says its mountable, or Machinegun. Even some shields should be mountable on the vehicles

That way the vehicle gets personalized like your character, that would be very cool

 

 

 

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hmm they need to be able to

hmm they need to be able to customize more parts on vehicles so that teh game becomes like need for speed shift lol doing hydrolics and tunig the car to perfection lmao. also id love to be shooting skags and driving off with my spinners lol 

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Read it all, or i will find you

alright heres the deal, the new-U stations take a certain percentage of your money which in many ways makes perfect sense, but can become extremly annoying when you have 7-8 mil and you loose a very large sum of cash just cause you died. but say if ur a noob and u have very little money, u may die for a fee of as little as 2 bucks, which in my opinion is plenty worth the free health and shields you recieve after dying.

Vehicles in the game unfortunatly do not work the same way, you may teleport in, destroy and loose as many vehicles as you choose without ever loosing any money.

If they DO make a Borderlands 2, (which i am almost willing to bet they do), my suggestion is they add customizable vehicles, not just paint schemes and weapons, but just like the guns (only a smaller # of parts is fine) have a number of parts that you can slap on that will change statistics of your ride. For instance you want a large gun rack on the side to hold all your spare shit, but this will take the place of one of your "armor" slots or watevs, so your runner will have a decreased shielding/ health.

i know wat ur thinkin, "then why dont you just make the best possible vehicle and still spawn it as many times as u want?!??!" well cause each part will cost a certain amount, and these parts will all add up to a total sum, or worth, of your vehicle. every time you spawn a new one, that is exactly what it will cost you. however you dont have to spawn a  runner for that fee everytime you enter a new area. for instance; you enter the Lost Cave (in arid badlands) and leave your runner outside, only to return to see it gone, due to the fact that you went to a new area and it dissapeared.

to fix this, you could maybe teleport your vehicle "out" from any location for little or no cost. that way you wont spend rediculous amounts of cash just getting where you wanna go.

ok. so. ur a noob and u just got borderlands 2 (and they used my terrific :) ideas from above)

you go to a vehicle depot to customize your vehicle, only to find that you cant use most of the parts because they are too expensive for you, or you arent a high enough level, no problem, there are beginner parts that cost very little (but suck major cock) that you can construct your runner out of! 8 hours of obsession later your level 25 and you have already customized your runner beyond belief but it is very expensive at this point (due to all the advanced parts you have selected)  and that shiny new sniper rifle you just bought took a chunk out of your savings big enough that you would not be able to pay for a new runner should your current one fall off a cliff. so you downgrade it by going your local "Scooter Talking About His Moms Girl Parts Station"  taking off your extra armor, removing your current gauss turret mount and replacing it with a weak helix rocket mount yada yada yada

ok i hope to whatever you believe in that all this made sense and got through to you, now to continue embarrassing and boring myself i will list a series of suggestions of interchangeable parts (not the parts themselves, simply ideas)

"gun rack" sort of thing that is mounted on the side of your runner (instead of being "press x to get into turret" or "press x to drive"  it could be "press x to access gun stash") bout the size of a weapons chest, you could store many many guns in here (that number varying on which one you decide to slap on your runner, either the $117 that gives you 4 spaces or the $2 million that gives you 48 spaces)

turret (obviously the usual video game shit, lasers, gauss cannons, rockets oh my!)

additional seats (up to 4 total including driver and gunner) :D or however many peeps can be in a co-op game it borderlands 2! :D

armor, larger and heavier or smaller and lighter? or expensive carbon fiber?

tires for traction?

engine (for power, no shit)

paint job (so i can make mine look like a big penis) (no cost)

front bumper/ back bumper (for hitting skags and shit, maybe blades, more guns, no guns, idk u decide)

nitrous total, recharge rate, blah blah blah

i was gonna say suspension, but the whole piss wash jump thing proved to me that video game vehicles have unlimited suspension no matter what. same with warthogs in halo! its rediculous!

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pfft.

([edit] Re-reading this I do realize it looked like I was flaming someone for their idea, and that was not my intention. I wrote it at work at 5 in the morning so I will repost with a more reformed vocabulary.) 

I like the idea of being able to customize my car with items from the enviornment and shops, but I don't think I'd like having to pay to respawn my vehicle when I muck it up. I usually act like an idiot when I play online, and I know having to pay for car repairs would be the beginning of uncountable arguments between me and the people I choose to shoot rockets at. I think a one time fee would suffice, to purchase the parts. But to pay to respawn and to pay to have someone come pick it up would be nonsense as I would be broke in no time. Maybe a garage or area I could park my car in so that it will not dissapear outside of every area I can't take my ride into would be great.  Kindof like the parking spaces in GTA, only multiple ones throughout an area. Or even a portable garage you can throw out and it covers your car to keep it there and safe, so you can come back and grab it later. Plus some kindof remote device that allows you to send out a signal from your car so you can find it.

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Lets watch the language and

Lets watch the language and not flame each other here. We arent here to fight only express IDEAS for the next game.

I think one should be able to purchase seperate scopes for guns and mount them as one pleases. I hate magnums with scopes and, when i come across a pestilent defiler with a scope that tops out 60 above the one i have it just erks my soul.

Another thing which would be awesome is if you could add elemental damage to any weapon, but not x3 or x4 just the first 2. Leaving x3 and x4 for legendary weapons. I know i would love to throw a x2 fire or x2 corrosive on a double anarchy >=]

Weapon upgrades would be amazing, we all know that you can find a green, blue, and purple version of the same gun. Well what if you find the green version and PAY for it to be upgraded instead of having to come by it through chance of looting? This would allow for a more user oriented basis for there characters. I know i love my HX Melovolent Stinger (shoots twisted {smg}) and it took me FOREVER to find the purple version of it, i kept coming across the underpar blue version.

Grenade customization would be amazing. I find that grenades are somewhat underused in this game. Even i know i can mow down a group of enemies down faster with a steel anarchy than 4 grenades, so what if they made grenades customizable? Pay for damage uprgrades, pick the time it takes for it to blow up (sticky grenades in this game are just lame -_- because of the rediculous timer on them =/), and pick the element you have on it. As you progress through the game you could unlock more parts and so on

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I don't see this happening.

I don't see this happening. Customizing Guns/Vehicles just doesn't seem to fit the mindset of a 'Loot Heavy' game. Lots of people would be more focused on finding better parts and such, instead of looking and tweaking there gun loadouts. Plus, as Borderlands is a Shooter first, RPG second (Something I remember being drilled into my brain pre-launch), Crafting is a huge step into RPG territory. So far into it that I see the people who are primarily shoot'em-up fans being turned off by it. And I think Gearbox knows they helped bridge a gap between the FPS/RPG genre that has been lacking of late.

I am not saying it's a bad idea, on the contrary. I'm an RPG fanatic, and would love to create/customize guns. However, I feel it would simply change the tone of the game to much. Also, Vehicle Customization is another thing I don't see happening. They would have to add a Ton of new parts, and areas where the Vehicle would be a better option than foot. I simply feel it would be to much development work on something it seemed they didn't really care about in the first place, and wouldn't add much unless they put ALOT of focus on it. Again, I don't think they will.

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I would like to see small

I would like to see small additions being able to be made to a gun though. Stuff like stock upgrades, ammo clip upgrades, or being able to slap a scope on a gun that doens't come with one. The number of time I've seen a great gun and realized there's no scope on it is a constant issue. Just the ability to upgrade a gun by a bit would be cool. Just to personalize it a bit more. Seriously, I'd love to be able to have the ability to slide a better scope on a Sniper, or to put a scope on a scopeless rifle.

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What they'll probably end up

What they'll probably end up doing is keep the weapon randomization system the same and increase the number of parts that can be used to make each gun. They'd be better off doing that with the grenades and shields too. Instead of adding customization, they'll probably just double the number of guns.

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custimizable vihicals, good

custimizable vihicals, good idea, customizable guns, not at all, it would ruin the experiance and the need of finding the best posibal gun

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