Nobody forces yall to be reckless with your overpowered splash damage
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Actually, the developers did by making splash damage radius hilariously large and not giving the tools to proportionately mitigate self damage.
Damn! That ■■■■■■■ sucks
Just don’t be close 
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Tbh, with the builds I currently run, barrels aren’t always avoidable in close combat situations due to a nova shield and sticky bombs. For me, barrels are the main cause of death 
Maybe the game is not for you? (Just feel it for a moment there)
But sure, self-damage is a thing right now, sometimes it’s a bit silly, I agree…
I mean puddles for example, and notice how not only Moze suffers with increased explosion radius, but Amara if you put points into Anima… But it’s not really difficulty, it’s just something silly.
I don’t mind going down to an occasional barrel though. I see it as part of the game.
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yeah gotta watch the environment
TBH we should leave self damage as is. If I dont kill myself no one will… >.>
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I don’t really see a problem. moze should definitely get splash specific damage reduction purely because she boosts it so much.
But other than that, (mayhem)its just like OP levels, damage on gear far outpaces your health and shield, and because environment effects are also level based, stray barrels or camp fires are almost more deadly than the enemies you’re fighting.
It just takes some extra awareness and time to get used to it.
Look at bl2 gaige let alone the damage gap, she created shock novas every time she reloaded exploding barrels, and with anarchy accidental tediore reloads were instant death no matter what mode you were in.
So much death…
That’s true but you have to remember that in previous games splash self damage wasn’t or was barely a thing. Almost no gun that did splash damage actually damaged the player too. This was a change made purely in BL3.
Even most torgue guns which were all explosive didn’t damage you.
It was mostly just rocket launchers and some grenades.
I think I remember that someone said in the past without splash self-damage everyone would just run right up to enemies and shoot in their face.
If that’s someone’s argument you could only really do that for a few seconds before the enemy attacked you back.