Don’t be the person on the internet who says they solved their issue without offering up said solution for other people who may have been looking for it.
panel 2: different crit percentages, panel 3: guy’s shirt is different, panel 4: “hell yes” rather than “of course”, panel 5: guy has glasses, panel 6: girl’s hair is a different color….. it really is 6 different comics!!!!!
I saw the differences right away. Took me a minute to get the actual joke.
Cypher
8 hours ago
In all fairness, this is an established rng formula that has existed before Diablo 2. Loot is loot, and there is something glorious about needing a rake to pick it all up, even if 99% is going to make the vendors cry.
If you want to see this formula in full chaos-mode where it would break the most hardened 40k marine, look at old Nox. If I’m remembering the right game, the mechanics were you don’t level. You just put on items with more adjectives. Eventually it gets to the point, with a persistent player, you don’t see item stats anymore, it’s just words filling the screen like a crime scene featuring a thesaurus.
Bah, it’s the same thing as before but with the addition of that one friend who loves calculating everything saying how much the algorithm can spit out. If you can smile and shake your head at that one, what is the fuss with it now? You have always known piles and piles of fillers were there in other times it was used, it’s weird seeing people get fussy over it.
If people are touting it as a feature, then it’s salient to ask what is actually being sold to you. That one awkward friend doesn’t have a monetary interest in your excitement.
I hear I’d you say “communism” 3 times in a row a Fat Electrician will appear. So I can believe it. 😅
WereCatf
8 hours ago
Okay, I’ll give you this one. That’s clever.
Oyee
7 hours ago
Just like at my D&D tables.
Lily
7 hours ago
They been doing this forever. What is more annoying than loot however, are endings. When they say “Look we have 10,000 different endings, based off your choices!” Then it is like 4 actual endings.
Telltale Games 101 … your choice matters for the whole Story. You decide in the epic The walking Dead – spinoff Clementines fate. Will she have a pink hat or an orange one, does the right or left shoelace gets torn off and will the bandaid be on the right or left cheek ! Amazing dynamic Story !
Prime_pm
6 hours ago
I, for one, absolutely HATE the Borderlands franchise. And I tried so hard to play it, starting with game 2 which is supposedly and colloquially the best one out of the series. Didn’t like it. It’s just a lootbox shooter and one of the reasons so many video games have become so diminished gameplay wise.
I liked 1 a lot and played it a ton.
2 got boring and I struggled to finish it.
Pre-Sequel I was so bored I didn’t finish it.
Didn’t bother with 3 and I won’t bother with 4.
People will endlessly agonize which shotgun version is better to equip. The +11% crit, -10% cooldown or the +10% crit, -11% cooldown.
You’ll see endless tables showing the averaged results of hundreds of matches with carefully controlled conditions for each, and the latter has a tiny edge over the former.
And then you get a +12% crit, -10% cooldown version. Or a complete oddball +20% crit, -5% cooldown and you have to redo.
People will love it.
FITCamaro
5 hours ago
I see what you did there
Barry_Bates
4 hours ago
I see what he 2 trying to do, but it kinda falls flat to me.
Shoggothic
4 hours ago
Meh. Around the Presequel or Borderlands 3, Gearbox’s humorous guntopia formula kind of turned bland for me. I respect plenty of people will like it, but soft pass from me, at least anywhere near full price.
I got most of the series for just seven dollars. That’s about as much as I’m willing to pay for them right now.
lancer
4 hours ago
took me a while
Urainkhali
3 hours ago
And here we also learn about the basics of NFT’s, along with basics of gambling.
Reso
3 hours ago
As a counterpoint, I enjoyed playing “find the difference” in this strip.
Of course, if BL4 is anything like BL2, it should have a handy “compare items” feature, that reduces comparisons to “Does this new item have more green stat text than my current item? Also, do I care about the improved stat items?”
Dutch
3 hours ago
i applaud you sir.
Banjo
3 hours ago
Wow! Six comics in one day! That’s, like, half a dozen! You’re spoiling us, Tim!
Verdiekus
2 hours ago
Lmao, took me a minute, but that was fun.
Joe
2 hours ago
I must admit I had fun discovering the differences among the panels.
Matt
2 hours ago
I’m pretty sure I see what you did there 😉
Alacrity
2 hours ago
Spoilers!!
Panel 2 the %’s,
#3 The shirt under the jacket
#4 Hell yeah.
#5 The Stache
#6 her hair color
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Okay, Panel 4 was the one that I couldn’t spot the difference.
Ne’er mind. Found it.
Panel 4 he says “hell yes” instead of “of course”
Don’t be the person on the internet who says they solved their issue without offering up said solution for other people who may have been looking for it.
Thank you good person on the internet. 💚
I really struggled with that one as well.
panel 2: different crit percentages, panel 3: guy’s shirt is different, panel 4: “hell yes” rather than “of course”, panel 5: guy has glasses, panel 6: girl’s hair is a different color….. it really is 6 different comics!!!!!
Panel 5 guy has mustache.
He has glasses in every panel.
30 BILLION comics!
Spoiler alert!
Panel two?! Can’t see it
She says “12 or 13” instead of “11 or 12”
text
The percentages in her speech bubble!
Hahaha, anyway, still looking forward to next friday, just one more week 😀
look at me, i’m dancing omph omph
the mustache, the hair, the t-shirt… nice touch there sir.
Curious if monday’s strip will address Silksong melting all eshops out there from xbox through steam and Nintendos.
Let’s see, differences relative to panel 1:
Panel 2:
Panel 3:
Panel 4:
Panel 5:
Panel 6:
you must be fun at parties 😀
Look at this guy brooding in the corner at a party thinking “they don’t even know how cool I am”.
Took me a while, lol
I saw the differences right away. Took me a minute to get the actual joke.
In all fairness, this is an established rng formula that has existed before Diablo 2. Loot is loot, and there is something glorious about needing a rake to pick it all up, even if 99% is going to make the vendors cry.
If you want to see this formula in full chaos-mode where it would break the most hardened 40k marine, look at old Nox. If I’m remembering the right game, the mechanics were you don’t level. You just put on items with more adjectives. Eventually it gets to the point, with a persistent player, you don’t see item stats anymore, it’s just words filling the screen like a crime scene featuring a thesaurus.
The RNG loot is fine, the questionable part is inflating the numbers by pretending each slight number deviation is a separate weapon.
It’s as if the original pokemon had used its IV numbers to claim to have millions of different pokemon, instead of 150.
Bah, it’s the same thing as before but with the addition of that one friend who loves calculating everything saying how much the algorithm can spit out. If you can smile and shake your head at that one, what is the fuss with it now? You have always known piles and piles of fillers were there in other times it was used, it’s weird seeing people get fussy over it.
If people are touting it as a feature, then it’s salient to ask what is actually being sold to you. That one awkward friend doesn’t have a monetary interest in your excitement.
Don’t say the IV thing too loudly, I’m sure they will use it as a foundation to try suing yet another if you repeat it 3 times.
I hear I’d you say “communism” 3 times in a row a Fat Electrician will appear. So I can believe it. 😅
Okay, I’ll give you this one. That’s clever.
Just like at my D&D tables.
They been doing this forever. What is more annoying than loot however, are endings. When they say “Look we have 10,000 different endings, based off your choices!” Then it is like 4 actual endings.
Telltale Games 101 … your choice matters for the whole Story. You decide in the epic The walking Dead – spinoff Clementines fate. Will she have a pink hat or an orange one, does the right or left shoelace gets torn off and will the bandaid be on the right or left cheek ! Amazing dynamic Story !
I, for one, absolutely HATE the Borderlands franchise. And I tried so hard to play it, starting with game 2 which is supposedly and colloquially the best one out of the series. Didn’t like it. It’s just a lootbox shooter and one of the reasons so many video games have become so diminished gameplay wise.
But, hey, YMMV.
I liked 1 a lot and played it a ton.
2 got boring and I struggled to finish it.
Pre-Sequel I was so bored I didn’t finish it.
Didn’t bother with 3 and I won’t bother with 4.
Same, but I only played 2 with a group of friends who played one session and never gathered to play another. Didn’t even look into the pre-sequel.
Ok, this turned into one of those “spot the difference in the picture.” I hate you.
I think that’s the point. 😅 And appropriate considering the subject matter of Borderlands 4.
30 billion guns. 5 of which will be useful
People will endlessly agonize which shotgun version is better to equip. The +11% crit, -10% cooldown or the +10% crit, -11% cooldown.
You’ll see endless tables showing the averaged results of hundreds of matches with carefully controlled conditions for each, and the latter has a tiny edge over the former.
And then you get a +12% crit, -10% cooldown version. Or a complete oddball +20% crit, -5% cooldown and you have to redo.
People will love it.
I see what you did there
I see what he 2 trying to do, but it kinda falls flat to me.
Meh. Around the Presequel or Borderlands 3, Gearbox’s humorous guntopia formula kind of turned bland for me. I respect plenty of people will like it, but soft pass from me, at least anywhere near full price.
I got most of the series for just seven dollars. That’s about as much as I’m willing to pay for them right now.
took me a while
And here we also learn about the basics of NFT’s, along with basics of gambling.
As a counterpoint, I enjoyed playing “find the difference” in this strip.
Of course, if BL4 is anything like BL2, it should have a handy “compare items” feature, that reduces comparisons to “Does this new item have more green stat text than my current item? Also, do I care about the improved stat items?”
i applaud you sir.
Wow! Six comics in one day! That’s, like, half a dozen! You’re spoiling us, Tim!
Lmao, took me a minute, but that was fun.
I must admit I had fun discovering the differences among the panels.
I’m pretty sure I see what you did there 😉
Spoilers!!
Panel 2 the %’s,
#3 The shirt under the jacket
#4 Hell yeah.
#5 The Stache
#6 her hair color