Score Borderlands 3 Loot with Twitch During May 1 Gameplay Reveal

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That’s done, still not seeing anything. They should have given full details before this event started on how to set everything up correctly, because I’ve already missed over 35 minutes of opportunities to interact. So lame.

Okay, finally got it working. Had to go out to “Discover”, then choose a different stream to watch.

And just like that, it’s stopped working. Not showing up on my screen anymore. Buggy as hell. Oh well. :-1::unamused:

EDIT: I’m done. Not wasting any more time on what has been, for me, a NON-event. If I’m not even getting a chance to win extra loot in-game, I have other things I can be doing with my time.

I am so hyped. It’s like they turned the borderlands dial to 11.

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I watched K6’s stream…oh GOD that looks good!

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Was I the only one that found that Legendaries dropped like candy? Bahroo found 3 or 4 of them. I won’t complain though. But hell, what they did with the Tediore reloads is insane!

I’m also pretty excited to see more physics-based actions in the game, like pushing away barrels. And the simple fact that we have sliding and climbing in the game.

One last note on the boss battles: One of my biggest complains about Borderlands 2 was that the Bosses mostly had no or plain bad mechanics. The few bosses we’ve seen so far in BL3 already pretty much outshine most minibosses from BL2.

This…ALL the this.

People need to make sure they have 3rd party cookies enabled for Twitch as well (that was my problem after an hour of fiddling, once enabled it worked perfectly)

Edit: and oh, one big thing is that the extension isn’t enabled on the actual twitch/borderlands channel itself - only the other streamers playing. (Way to confuse 100K people gearbox XD)

Man, I could have sworn this said there were two time slots today (one this evening for PST at like 7:45pm or something), but these appear to be the same time for the earlier event. Is there a second event (and I just can’t translate the time right)?

I’m watching Bahroo live right now.

Was he on an hour ago? I just looked, and he’s not live? Without the event live anyway, it’s just a stream that I can’t watch at home lol. I see a six-day countdown on the Borderlands website - another event in a week?

Kinda late, and sorry for that…he went live just after 5 pm Pacific, doing the same story quest that K6 did this morning. I stopped watching around 6.30 when he finished it.

No idea yet about the 6 days thing.

0/4 with those stream loot chests :frowning:

No big, but since they’re kinda rare I expected a better drop rate I guess.

I think I only saw like one red chest (they seemed like they were doing the same run every time)? Anyway, even once you caught the broadcaster with one during the 30-second window, the odds of getting a shot at the loot was 1 in 4 (and the few events checked for a population count had a hundred people in them each).

I tried twice, mostly just to see how it worked, and got one of them…a green grenade mod.

IMO, the giveaway was a nice concept, but I doubt that my game will be significantly impacted by having that 10th lvl (I think it was) grenade waiting for me.

Gearbox did release instructions the day before!

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Yeah, I could have sworn I saw the instructions earlier than that too.

As I re-watch it at my leisure, I’m noticing some nuances I didn’t before (and weren’t otherwise called out):

  • You can look around and fire, reload, and throw grenades while sliding.

  • Ammo in opened chests is auto-pickup. Ammo was always ‘auto-pickup’, but when found in a chest, you still had to manually grab it. Source: 13:09 in the official Gearbox recording. Amara opens a chest, and the weapons are immediately in focus under the reticle, and the ammo auto picks up off the chest. If she was pressing the ‘use’ button, she would have grabbed the pistol instead. Also, subsequent chest opens have the ammo picking up without the player focused on it for a use.

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Not in TPS (in vacuum) :upside_down_face: