Borderlands 3 is a pulsating first-person blast-em-up that continues the Borderlands series. In the third instalment of the series, the Crimson Raiders must defeat the Children of the Vault to save the universe. This game features some enthralling blasting action, and you’ll need to make the most of your selected Vault Hunter’s skill set and weaponry to survive against the COV, Guardians, and creatures throughout the galaxy. Here are some Borderlands 3 tips to help you get through the game.
Take Cover to Recharge Your Shield
You’ve probably noticed that your shield recharges in Borderlands 3. So, make sure you give your shield time to recharge after taking a lot of damage during combat by taking cover. Try to shoot from positions where you’re close to large objects, debris, or walls you can hide behind whenever you’ve taken many hits. You can then stay behind your cover until your shield has fully recharged before returning fire.
Utilize Guns With Good Scope
Scope for zooming in on targets is a very useful thing that enables you to keep your distance from enemies and kill them. It’s safer to take out enemies from further away than at close quarters. So, it’s always worth equipping and utilizing at least one gun with good scope, such as a sniper rifle. Some assault rifles also have a good scope with which to pick off targets from longer ranges. The more scope the better, so keep your eyes out for guns with 4-5x zoom.
A scoped target
Upgrade Ammunition SDUs For All Guns
You will need to do lots and lots of shooting in Borderlands 3. So, you’ll probably run out of ammo quickly if you don’t invest in ammunition SDUs upgrades. To ensure you don’t run low on ammo, save your money, and buy as many ammunition SDU upgrades as you can afford from Marcus. These become available when you board the Sanctuary spaceship relatively early in the game. You can pick up loads of free guns throughout the game, so it’s best to save your dollars for ammo upgrades.
Ammunition SDU upgrades
Don’t Forget to Refill Your Ammo
To further ensure you don’t deplete your ammunition supply, never forget to refill your ammo at vending machines. There are supply vending machines scattered throughout the universe at which you can pay to fully refill your ammo. Yes, you do have to pay to refill, but it’s worth doing so to ensure you’ve never run out of bullets for your guns in the heat of the action.
An ammo dump vending machine
Shoot Enforcers’ Feet
Enforcers and Militants are annoying enemies with very large shields you’ll come across in Borderlands 3. The large shields they carry make it harder to hit and kill them than other enemies. However, you can always hit Enforces by shooting at their unprotected feet. So, aim for Enforcers’ to kill them.
A Militant enemy with a large shield
Use Incendiary Guns Against Enemies With Flesh
Some of the guns in Borderlands 3 inflict elemental incendiary (fire), shock (electrical), and corrosive (acid) damage on enemies. Incendiary guns inflict a lot of burning damage on humans and creatures with flesh. As most of the enemies in Borderlands 3 have flesh, equipping and utilizing incendiary guns against humans and creatures with red health bars will make your life easier. Then you can watch your enemies burn!
However, incendiary guns aren’t so effective against armored and shielded foes. Enemies with blue bars have shields, and those with armor have yellow bars. Utilize guns that inflict shock damage against enemies with shields. Corrosive guns inflict more damage on foes with armor, which acids melt.
An incendiary gun
Shoot Barrels to Kill Enemies
You’ll see incendiary, corrosive, radiation, and cryo barrels all over the place as you fight through the COV hordes in Borderlands 3. They can be useful for killing enemies because shooting those barrels blows them up. The barrels’ explosions do quite a lot of collateral damage. So, shoot at those barrels whenever enemies are near to inflict elemental damage.
A corrosive barrel
Keep An Eye on the Minimap
The minimap in Borderlands 3 shows your enemies’ positions by highlighting them with red dots. You can’t always see exactly where nearby enemies are just by looking at what’s ahead of you because debris and walls will conceal some of them. So, keep an eye on the minimap to track enemies’ positions.
Check Out Maurice’s Black Market
Maurice has a black market that sells expensive legendary weapons. However, finding that black market can be tricky because it changes location every week. To find that black market, check out this whereismaurice.com page. That page gets updated every week and shows you the location of Maurice’s black market when you click the Open Map button.
Maurice’s black market
The guns available at that black market are top-notch weapons but rather pricey. You might need more than 100,000 dollars to purchase a gun. So, you’ll need to save up lots of dollars to purchase gear there.
Find Everything With the Borderlands 3 Interactive Map
Borderlands 3’s planets are full of collectibles (for challenges) and loot chests for players to find. You can find everything in the game (except the black market) by utilizing this Borderlands 3 interactive map. That interactive page shows where you can find all the collectibles for completing challenges and loot chests to fill your backpack with on every planet in the game.
Don’t Forget to Check Your Inbox for Gun Loyalty Rewards
There are nine different gun manufacturers in Borderlands 3. You’ll be rewarded with a free gun by killing 100 enemies with weapons from one specific manufacturer. These free gun rewards show up in your inbox within the Social tab on Borderlands 3’s menu. So, don’t forget to check your inbox now and then to see if you’ve received any free gun loyalty rewards from manufacturers. To do so, press Esc when playing the game and select Social > Inbox to view your messages.
A gun loyalty reward
Sticking to those Borderlands 3 tips will give you a fighting chance of completing that game and becoming a master Vault Hunter. Now it’s time for you to teach the Calypso Twins a lesson!
