Kid Ultra Lore Challenges: Are You Kidding Me?

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#67

Fair enough, but flip it around for just a second. Suppose the challenge was to have 5 BB stand within the radius of a stationary drone in 25 matches. Are you telling me that given you prefer not to use that option, you wouldn’t find that just a little tedious? Just asking you to consider the opposing viewpoint for a moment.

For reference, I haven’t played in ages until this week, but I love the character and hope they don’t screw it up by making him less of a support and more an attacker like they did with Alani.

#68

And harder was a bad choice of words. Didn’t mean to say that there was no effort there.

#69

Well like I said in the very last sentence.
I think they’re boring but I don’t think they’re unreasonable
But that’s coming from a big jrpg/mmo fan

Oh and yes I have high hopes for KU too
I’m a big LLC fan and I love his design mechanically and aesthetically.

#70

No, you don’t get it.

What enrages me greatly is my time being wasted. The instant I am not entertained by a game it has a hard time earning my attention again. If I end up spending a majority of my time waiting (say, 20 minutes) and only get 6 minutes of playing, I can assure you I will never play that mode of the game again.

My time is very valuable to me. I spend my free time on things I enjoy. If I’m going to be going on some waiting fest, then I will start taking public transit to work instead of driving.

This game’s PvP on the get go places me on a situation where I spend more time waiting than playing. The PvE is the same crap where I cannot find a group of 5 for the story. I solo the Operations half the time because I no longer wish to wait around as I gamble on the randoms being competent enough to get 100 OPS points.

I hate my time being wasted by anyone or anything.

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#71

It’s all good.

I’ll be over here playing Kid Ultra and waiting on the release of Enchanted Arms 2.

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#72

Dear god 10 years
I feel old now
Better later than never

#73

Wish it would happen, lol.

#74

now that Miyazaki is president anything could happen

#75

From that point of view 25 games still stands out of other characters’ lore challenges. Only a few might require the same amount of time (or required in the past), and they all had many complaints and discussions which led to their change (mostly; we still have Alani’s Riptide challenge).

Is it doable? Of course. Is it in line with other challenges? Not exactly.

If we try to assess one element of the game by how hard it is or how long does it take, it’s purely subjective. But if we take other similar elements as a reference and compare it to them, it will be much more objective then.

Same with El Dragon in Ops…

#76

I have a lot of good things to say about most of the PVP lore but 25 matches for KU is absurd. No other BB takes as much to master their PVP lore.

#77

I see it as a very lazy and very non-creative way to force people to spend more time on the character.

It doesn’t make it any more fun.

It doesn’t provide any real desire to play him.

What good is it to implement something where people will just go, “You know what? Screw it. I’m not playing Kid Ultra because this is as boring as hell.”

I wonder if anyone in the development really thought about that deeply.

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#78

I think most characters are played if they are balanced or slightly overpowered.

Completionist will always pick the character they don’t have mastered so that point is somewhat mute.

The lore actually adds a little incentive to people interested in challenging themselves against other players. I wonder if anyone in development thought about that.

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#79

Hopefully they add allowing lores to be done in private matches soon.

#80

There are a lot of those completionists on the PC isle, right? That’s why there are only 304 players on Steam as I write this.

My argument is that when you implement something that will make a lot of people not enjoy it right out of the gate, what is the mindset behind making it?

It’s the same crap with the Operation missions. The first half is overall crap. The second half is okay. What’s crap about the first half; the rooftop jumping to get the OPs points. This part adds several minutes into the mission but adds nothing to the fun. This is just artificially lengthening the game with no effort whatsoever. They pulled that crap in the Pre-Sequel, and they’re doing it here even more so.

Kid Ultra’s lore already left a bitter taste in my mouth. Now he’s another character I will half ass because I’m robbed from finishing it because I despise the PvP in this game. I have no reason to play well with him, I have no motivation to complete his lore, and I’m hardly interested enough to attempt 25 games like it deserves that much of my free time.

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#81

I was getting lore progress on the drone one by looking at the ground and firing the drone directly on myself. All of his lore challenges can be completed in solo play except the one that requires his ult to affect 4 Battleborn at once. However, that one can also be done in PvE.

So none of KU’s lore challenges require PvP at all

#82

Good luck finding a group of 5 on PC. That challenge is considered a PvP for the PC at this point.

#83

Well for one I loved the pre sequel so sorry.

For two, many of these arguments are personal preference as some of the community likes these things. I think the Thrall rebellion is better than half of the original story, just because of the diversity.

Gearbox has never been great at making everyone happy. They own Duke Nukem for Pete’s sake.

That’s the great thing about Gearbox. They make what they like.If you don’t like Kid Ultra or his lore that’s fine. Play one of the other 28 characters.

#84

I hated the Pre-Sequel.

I like Kid Ultra, but not the progress of his lore, which is gating content from me. I paid for this game, this game was sold on both PvP and PvE aspects, and I expect them to be give me that ability to complete the lore by PvE or any other means when I solo.

I expect every character to be able to achieve their lore through any means the game provides.

5 months in, nearing 6 months, and this issue about private versus enabling challenges is still not implemented. Pre-Sequel took 5 months to fix respawnable bosses.

That’s an invitation for me to just drop the game. Just swap Kid Ultra with Pre-Sequel, 28 characters with Borderlands 2. “Don’t like TPS, well, go play Borderlands 2!”

That doesn’t justify Kid Ultra’s lore progression is good; it just means it’s enough to drive people away.

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#85

But it’s sold on PvE and PvP. Why would there not be challenges for both?

It’s also game with huge variety in character. There is no way you can swap tps for bl2 as you swap 1 character for 28 other characters.

You either like the game or you don’t. 1 type of lore challenge makes the game unplayable?

#86

Because Kid Ultra’s lore isn’t available for both PvP and PvE. All of it could be done in PvP, but only 3 of them could be done in PvE.

Now for the lore that you must hit 4 other Battleborn… you can no longer do this in PvE on PC because finding a 5 man story is next to impossible at this point. So this is also a PvP challenge.

So PvEers are faced with another character they cannot finish their lore with.

How is this fun for people like myself?

This game has 300 players as I write this. It’s crap like this that makes people want to leave the game and Battleborn cannot afford to make mistakes of this caliber.

Kid Ultra, once again, is failing to provide a good incentive for me to invest in Battleborn with good faith in enthusiasm.

If you haven’t realized why Kid Ultra’s lore progression is PvP oriented and some could really only be completed in PvP, then I have nothing more to say to you. I feel like this entire thing is not a concern to you whatsoever because you get to play in the method you want and not be affected, thus everyone else can go and writhe in their pain.

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