![]() The catch is that in order to do this you need to leave everything behind, and I mean everything, your guns, grenades, shields and skills, both action and passive, you go in as if you were just starting the game, just with a lot of health. The goal of the show is simple, throw people in and see how they survive wave after wave of enemies as they attempt to get to the final boss and if they beat him, they claim any loot they want to take with them. You and the members of your squad will set off to the Stormblind Complex where Axton and Salvador have set up their ‘reality show’ in order to make some money. The new game mode though, Arm’s Race is different and if I could use a simple descriptor for it, think battle royale, but with only 4 human players and you are pretty much there already. Now there are new trees for each of the other hunters as well, but I didn’t test them out and even if I did, I don’t know their old trees well enough to provide a balanced opinion. What was fun about the skill is that when you upgrade it, you can change the elemental effect it offers to cryo, which can be helpful at times, but the best upgrade you can equip for it is the one where instead of dealing splash damage to other enemies, it can deal out health to your squad, giving Amara more play options. The upside to this new action skill is that you can manually recall it as well, which when you do means that you get to enjoy it hitting enemies on its return path, if you are lucky. The only downside is that it tends to target the enemy nearest to you, not the one you might want and while that is still helpful, it only becomes a problem is there are many grouped together. ![]() What it does is allows for your power to travel away from you, so ranged attacks are possible with it, but more than that, you can increase its power, if you can attack it with a melee hit. Normally, I use the Phaseslam skill, which launches Amara up into the air, before slamming down into the ground, something that comes in handy when there are significant foes around you, but Phaseflare is almost the complete opposite. ![]() I play with Amara, so I made some use of her new Enlightened Force tree, which provided me access to the Phaseflare action skill, which took some getting used to. Before we talk about Arm’s Race, lets talk the skill trees, there are four news trees to discover, one for each of the vault hunters and while there are some fun skills to explore, they are not something you need to dedicate time to. ![]() This is going against the grain of what happened in Borderlands 2, but this is not a bad thing as it gave the designers a chance to come up with something different, rather than just more story that is one and done. The Designer’s Cut, which has an odd name, adds in a new game mode and new skill trees for each of the hunters, there is no new story DLC here, nor has another vault hunter been added. What I was not expecting was for the next DLC to come so soon and to include an all new mode, but both statements are true, the question remains, is this a worthy addition to the Borderlands world, or was it too much, too soon? When Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck released, I knew it wouldn’t be the last DLC, the game was doing to well and there were stories and locations yet to be told.
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