Many enemies have been reskinned in keeping with the pirate theme, and most have been armed with new weapons and new attacking moves and patterns that will require players to rethink the methods they’ve committed to memory in Borderlands 2. While the desert beyond Oasis is strongly reminiscent of other areas players will be familiar with from Borderlands 2, the DLC demonstrates admirable variety, from lush, underground caverns to Hyperion facilities, and even the innards of a monstrous sandworm.
Soon, the Hunters will explore the waste, and team up with the eponymous Captain Scarlett, a leader known for backstabbing everyone she’s ever worked with – a fact she unreservedly communicates to her new partners. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Oasis’ final living occupant, Shade, is a desperately lonely character closely modelled on Ralph Steadman’s portraits of Hunter S. The Hunters are here in search of a legendary cache of weapons set down by an old pirate. Now, dust devils sweep down the main thoroughfare, boardwalks creek and jetties jut out into the barren sand.
The Vault Hunters arrive in Oasis, what used to be a seaside resort town that has now dried out due to climate changes on Pandora. It’s a sprawling, self-contained experience set in an entirely new area, featuring a wholly new cast non-player characters, and introducing a range of new enemy skins and forms of attack that will require players to unlearn many of the strategies they formulated in the main game. But it offers more content than the campaigns of many singleplayer games alone. Yes, Gearbox developed this downloadable content in concert with the primary development of Borderlands 2. The first downloadable add-on for Borderlands 2, Captain Scarlett and her Pirate’s Booty, is a categorical example of downloadable content done right. All of which is ready for purchase on release day. We’re offered Xbox and PlayStation avatars, double-XP boosts, and horse armour new map packs that divide the playerbase and all-too-brief quest-lines that appear, distressingly, to have been snipped from the boxed experience. Now almost every game has planned DLC expansions, and preorders come with a raft of questionable, often superfluous bonuses. The days when downloadable content was composed of post-development polish applied to sections of the game that weren’t up to scratch for release are well and truly behind us. There’s no doubt that an awful lot of downloadable content, and many of the methods publishers use to deliver that content, can be construed as cynical. We game in interesting times, it’s just a shame that the subject of interest is whether or not we’re being hoodwinked by increasingly volatile publishers who appear desperate to monetise us after a sale. Other add-ons are also available, such as the extra Mechromancer character.At the very least, downloadable content gives us all something to argue about. The entire script has leaked, too.Ĭaptain Scarlett is the first of four DLC packs covered by the Borderlands 2 Season Pass. Leaked information mined from the game's Steam files shows the add-on will also include new weapons, bosses, raids and a fresh rarity level. Players will get to hover across the terrain and fight sand worms. The first screenshot shows a Return of Jedi-style floating sand skiff. That kicks off this whole adventure that the players can go on." "These bandits have really embraced the pirate lifestyle, and there's the legend of a treasure. It feels more like Tatooine than an ocean. "You can sense the pirate theme across the landscape, even though there's no water," Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford told Associated Press. The extra missions will take players to a bandit-filled desert settlement named Oasis, a hive of scum and villainy ruled over by Scarlett, a one-eyed pirate queen. Eye-eye cap'n.Ĭaptain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty will cost 800 Microsoft Points or $9.99 (likely £7.99).
BORDERLANDS 2 CAPTAIN SCARLETT GUIDE SOFTWARE
The first major expansion for Borderlands 2 is due to launch next Tuesday, 16th October, developer Gearbox Software has announced.
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