#borderlands 2 community patch

[thetoxicgamer]

Superfuse is a “Love Letter to Diablo 2” Out Now in Early Access

Superfuse, an action RPG that combines Diablo 2-style dungeon plundering and the Borderlands series' comic book-inspired aesthetic, has begun its Early Access phase. Due to the nature of Early Access, the game is still being actively developed, even if it seems the launch has gone more smoothly than creator Stitch Heads had hoped. The co-founder of the studio has personally written to fans to reassure them that this "love letter to Diablo 2" would receive the attention it requires while the firm hurries to release its initial patches. I had a chance to check out Superfuse in a closed-door demo at GDC last year, and it’s a fun new spin on the hack-n-slash dungeon crawl format. As you level up your character in this “Aztec cyberpunk” world, you get to actually design your abilities: using the skill creator system, I could add and edit skills’ effects, add triggers, and more. It puts an almost unheard-of amount of control in players’ hands, and that room for experimentation is a lot of fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POMAhPnXEXU At the moment, however, it’s a bit tough to play. Stitch Heads has a list of known issues that it’s been working on in an “all hands on deck” capacity since the January 31 Early Access launch, including crashes in the solar system map, skill responsiveness, missing settings for FOV and UI scaling, inventory and stash problems, and more. “Superfuse is a love letter to Diablo 2,” writes Stitch Heads co-founder and creative director Tim Baijens in a Steam update posted February 1. “It is our homage to the ARPGs that came before us because we fell in love with that genre and wanted to be a part of it.” Baijens says his team is reading players’ feedback, and that he encourages players to continue providing bug reports and suggestions. The studio is looking into community ideas like controller support, improvements to the endgame, and adding variety to environments and enemies. Patch 0.1.1 is out now, and it addresses a host of issues players reported in each playable class, with the HUD and item tooltips, skill unlocks, audio, and much more. Check out our list of the best games like Borderlands if you need more ways to scratch that violence and loot itch. Read the full article

[mentalmars]

Borderlands 2 Unofficial Community Patch

With the feedback from the community Craig has made a unofficial community patch that changes 100 things in Borderlands 2. From buffing guns and shield to making rare currency like Seraph crystals an auto pick up item.  You can download the community patch from his dropbox. I saw Derch is making some videos on the effects of these changes. Also check out the patch notes to see whats changed:

Community Patch Change log

==================Guns================== 1. Made the bearcat consume 2 ammo per shot and buff the damage by 120%. 2. Buffed the damage of Unforgiven by 50% and increase the fire rate slightly. 3. Buffed The Tunguska. 4. Indirectly buffed The Madhous! 5. Indirectly buffed The Sawbar. 6. Indirectly Buffed The CHOPPER. 7. Buffed the God-Finger and made it non-bolt action. 8. Replaced the Tidal Wave with the Flayer. 9. Made the Chulainn not slag you, and make it Maliwan Barrel. 10. Buffed the Storm. (Increased the DoT damage and fire rate + damage) 11. Buffed The Cobra. 12. Buffed the trespasser. 13. Buffed Logan's gun. (1 ammo per shot, 20% more damage.) 14. Majorly buffed Bandit AR's weapon type. 15. Buffed The Seeker. 16. Buffed The Devastator. 17. Buffed The Wanderlust. 18. Made the pitchfork consume 1 ammo per shot. 19. Made The Longbow the correct rarity. 20. Fixed E-Tech Snipers. 21. Fixed E-Tech ARs. 22. Made the Veruc consume 1 ammo per shot. 23. Fixed E-Tech Shotguns. 24. Made The ChereAmie usable. 25. Made The Butcher have 2 extra pellets 26. Made The Stinger have faster bullets, and a 10% damage buff. 27. Buffed The Hawkeye. 28. Buffed the Seraphim. 29. Made The Volcano have more damage and 100% grenade splash. 30. Balanced the BoneShredder. 31. Buffed The Damned Cowboy. (More Crit and more damage) 32. Buffed The Shredifier by giving it 25% more damage. 33. Buffed The Deliverance’s damage. 34. Return The Twister back to 100% Splash. 35. Made The Skullmasher how it was in Pre-Sequel. 36. Seriously buffed Bolt Action Jakobs sniper rifles to make it worth it. 37. Buffed The Elephant Gun 38. Buffed the "Buff"alo. 39. Buffed Hyperion Snipers to match others. 40. Replaced The Emperor with the Torrent. 41. Buffed the Invader 42. Buffed The Patriot. 43. Made the hornet have 100% grenade splash instead of 80%. 44. Made The Flakker have 2 extra pellets. Plus a little tiny bit of fire rate. 45. Made Tediore Stocks of Rocket Launchers give you reload speed. 46. Made Bandit sights on rocket launchers boost Mag Size. 47. Made Torgue sights on rocket launchers boost Damage. 48. Made Tediore barrels on Rocket launchers give a tiny reload speed buff instead of nothing. ======================================== ==================Shields=============== 49. Changed the cradle to "The Naught" from TPS. 50. Changed the rarity of "Deadly Bloom" to Legendary. 51. Made The WTF shield into a Bigg Thumppr. 52. Reduced the health penalty of the hoplite. 53. Made the LT use the Purple Bandit Skin 54. Made The Deadly Bloom use the legendary skin. 55. Buffed Cracked Sash. 56. Buffed Pun-chee's damage. 57. Buffed The Sponge. 58. Buffed The Impaler. 59. Reduced the health penalty of The Fabled Tortoise. ======================================== ==================Relics================ 60. Buffed The Blood of Terra to 8% 61. Made the Opportunity Relic give you flat movement speed buff. 32% to 49% (UI Won't work) 62. Made melee relic multiply damage instead of adding it. 63. Made all the Flat gun damage relics multiply instead of add 64. Buffed the might to make it worth it. 65. Buffed the XP Relic. 66. Buffed The Seraph Blood relic. ======================================== ====================COMs================ 67. Changed Legendary Pointman to Legendary Grenadier. 68. Made Legendary Sniper Boost Fast Hands instead of Kill Confirmed. 69. Changed the Legendary Anarchist to boost Better Half. (UI Won’t display it) 70. Buffed the passives of each Slayer of Terra COM for each character 71. Fixed Axton’s Terra’s COM 72. Fixed Zer0’s Terra’s COM 73. Fixed Maya’s Terra’s COM 74. Fixed Sal’s Terra’s COM 75. Fixed Krieg’s Terra’s COM 76. Fixed Gaige’s Terra’s COM 77. Changed the passive of the specialist COM of Axton to include Shotgun Damage and Accuracy. 78. Changed the Shock Trooper’s to have fire rate instead of shock damage. 79. Made The Anarchist COM boost Mylin, Smaller Lighter, faster and Better half. 80. Changed the Crunch to have Bloodbath, taste of blood and strip the flesh. 81. Made Slab’s class mod’s passive’s Type B. 82. Changed the Sweetheart classmod to have CUT, Fancy Maths, and the better half. And make the Passive Type B. 83. Changed Jill of all trades to have Unstoppable Force instead of that one excuse of a skill (UI Won’t display it) 84. Changed Punk to have Typecast Iconoblast.(UI Won’t display it) 85. Changed Prodigy to have Smaller Lighter Faster. ========================================= ====================Grenades================ 86. Made the O-Negative come in 0 fuse. (Fusetime says it’s 1 but it’s actually 0.) 87. Buffed Normal Tediore and Bandit grenadse by 33% 88. Buffed the Leech’s damage slightly. 89. Made Slag grenades more reliable to slag. ============================================= ====================Loots and drops================ 90. Loot midgets now drop Legendary Shields. 91. Added The Shredifier as a drop from Bone Head. 92. Made Blue have a chance to drop the Heart Breaker. 93. Made Bewm and Boom have a chance to drop the Skyrocket. 94. Made Nisha have a chance to drop the Fire Bee. 95. Made Clayton have a chance to drop Flame of the Firehawk. 96. Made Henry have a chance to drop the Love Thumper. 97. Made Wilhelm have a chance to drop the Bouncing Bonny 98. Made Eridium Auto-Pick up. 99. Made Torgue Tokens Auto Pick up. 100. Made Seraph Crystals Auto Pick up. The Hex Value to search: 83C40C85C0751A6A

[susurrationofthewind]

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[vaulthunter426]

Borderlands 3 Community Love Letter: Level Cap Increase, New Seasonal Event, and More!

True Takedown Mode: Now that the Maliwan Takedown scales to party size, we will be able to choose whether we want the Takedown to scale to our party size, or to scale to a full four-player party at max-level as the Takedown was intended.

Level Cap Increase: The first level cap increase will increase our max-level from 50 to 53. More information about future level cap increases will come later, as well as the intention to make any level cap increase a free addition to the game. This will arrive in the February Patch.

Skippable Cutscenes: Coming in the February Patch we will be able to skip cutscenes. Any cutscene will be skippable during solo play or by the host of your party during multiplayer.

Guardian Rank Toggling: We will be able to individually disable specific perks as well as the entire Guardian Rank system if we so choose. Gearbox plans to expand the Guardian Rank system including additional Perks in the future.

Event Toggling: After the lengthy duration of the Bloody Harvest Event and the community expressing interest in being able to disable the event (those damned Ghosts...) Gearbox has heard us loud and clear. We will be able to toggle the event on and off, and this will launch in time for the Broken Hearts Event.

FFYL Improvement: As it sounds, Gearbox is looking into improving the Fight For Your Life system which will likely be available in March.

Mayhem 2.0: This feature will arrive in March which will feature more sweeping changes to Mayhem Mode following the Mayhem 4 addition.

More to come at PAX EAST including announcing CAMPAIGN DLC #2. Tune in on February 27th.

[missionlameturtle]

post 2008 dS rec list (F/K focused)

All fics are F/K unless otherwise indicated! I tried to consolidate the non-F/K fics at the bottom of the list.

Arch To The Sky, sl-walker & kalijean. A long, Turnbull-focused series. Primarily gen but with flashes of F/K in some of the fics. Technically unfinished but can be read as-is.

The Train Goes Slow, atrata. Ray is patience fucking personified, and he hasn’t wanted to punch Fraser in days.

Why I Lied To You, Garonne. It’s 1930, and Ray Kowalski is undercover. Contains bootleggers, Al Capone, adventures on the frozen river Detroit… and a rather unusual Canadian Customs Officer.

The Way the World is, Garonne. Vecchio's POV, Fraser/Kowalski established relationship. Two years post-COTW, Ray Vecchio is back at the 2-7. Then the consequences of a murder inquiry make RayV start to wonder whether Fraser's keeping secrets from him. This one delves into institutional homophobia, fair warning.

Contentment, Garonne & Andeincascade. A fic about boys, and cars, and communication.

The Reaching Out One, Alex51324.  Every year they take their vacation time together and look for the hand of Franklin, the reaching out one, and when they run out of time they put a pin in the map and the next year they pick up where they left off. It all falls apart when Diefenbaker dies.

horseshoes and handgrenades, omphale23. A midcentury AU, in which there are photographs, parachute troops, invasions, exploding trees, foxholes, misunderstandings, bullets, letters from home, smokejumpers, roommates, and more exploding trees.

Can’t Even Focus On A Cup Of Coffee, helens78. life goes on in Chicago. Ray’s new partner keeps an eye on him as he tries to find a new sun to orbit.

Sweet Confessions Under His Tongue, thehoyden. It was like a car wreck, really. You just couldn’t look away. And Fraser looked up at Ray, with his expression like the cold fury of God.

Chasing Smoke, hazelwho. Benton Fraser is a Canadian smokejumper who finds himself in Arizona cross-training with a wildland fire crew led by Ray Kowalski, a veteran structural firefighter from Chicago who headed west after his divorce.

Ajax Fassbender’s Amateur Guide To Zombie Wrangling, brigantine. After Ray Vecchio disappears undercover into the wilds of Las Vegas, Fraser decides it’s high time to quit moping, and get on with life. Diefenbaker puts in his two cents, which is pretty much where the trouble starts.

Ch-ch-changes, mizface. Ray Kowalski thought he had an okay existence: he had a place to call home, didn't have to worry about a job, and nobody bothered him. If it wasn't for the fact that he was a zombie, things would have been pretty good. Then he met very much alive Benton Fraser, and his whole world was turned upside down.

Katabasis, aria. “I talked to your dad, I went through this place called the Borderland, I had a boat ride, I fed a wolf a doughnut, and I told stories for your soul,” Ray interrupted. “This does not mean you are not insane.”

Calm & The Black-Stained Sky, sageness. Two years post-COTW, Fraser is promoted to corporal & RayK becomes a volunteer firefighter in a small town in Yukon Territory—a small town with a spot of arson on its hands. Warning for child neglect.

The Love Song Of S. Raymond Kowalski, aria. Ray dared to smush his experimental hair down in hats in Canada, dared to eat everything Fraser gave him including the freaky bark tea, dared… dared to let Fraser turn his world inside out and meet his eyes afterward.

Academic Punk, thehoyden. The academia AU you never knew you needed.

Planes, Submarines and Snowmobiles: a case study in international policing, deputychairman. A post-COTW conference fic.

Many miles and city blocks, deputychairman. Stella happens to encounter Ray & Fraser at the grocery store.

Life In Freefall, feroxargentea. Coming out & the great maple syrup heist. This fic also deals with homophobia.

Long Way Down, feroxargentea. Eight years after a car crash left him with amnesia, Fraser has rebuilt his life, looking after his sister’s kids. Then unsettling memories start to surface and he starts to wonder whether the people around him have been lying to him all this time.

The Northwest Passage, crystalshard. A young man, lost in the snow in the far north, encounters two men who help him out. Warning for implied character death.

Not Quite Such A Bad Day, wagnetic. Ray is stuck with Turnbull during the events of Asylum but maybe it's not totally unbearable.

1500 Kilometers (& A Caboose), aria. For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, Benton Fraser is in a caboose, playing table hockey and being soundly beaten by a twelve-year-old boy. My Life As A Dog crossover but perfectly understandable without having seen it. 

A House Is Not A Home, justbreathe80. They were up to their knees in snow and holy shit it was cold, but Fraser had a smile on his face that Ray had never, ever seen, and he knew, in his gut, that Fraser wasn't coming back to Chicago. Ever.

moments in the snow, tigrrmilk. Daemon AU. Ray combs his fingers through the patch of fur worst hit, and although he’s not looking at Fraser, he can feel him stand to attention.

Locked Room Puzzle, speranza. Although I don’t usually include speranza’s fics on rec lists on the assumption that most people already know about her, this one is from 2013 and I don’t know if you would have read it!

Birds Of A Feather, julia_here. Gen, SGA crossover.

The Mis-Adventures of Renfield Turnbull, Canadian Private Eye, daughtershade. Gen. AU Film Noir tale of the worst private detective in Chicago.

Not in Front of the Kid, catwalksalone. K/V. The one thing Ray and Ray weren't expecting? The Spanish Inquisition. That, and to become fathers overnight.

How The Ray Was Won, catwalksalone. K/V. One name, two men, three tasks and a motif. Or several.

Scenes From A Marriage, elementalv. K/V, Sentinel AU. This is the fic that persuaded me to give K/V fic a chance, so if you read one K/V fic from this list make it this one!

please feel free to reblog & add on your own recs!

[borderlore]

A Love Letter From Gearbox

It’s been an incredible past few months since the launch of Borderlands 3, and Gearbox Software would love to express their sympathies to the community with a love letter that also includes future updates to be expected as the months go by.

True Takedown Mode

Experience Takedown at Maliwan’s Blacksite as it was meant to be when it was launched! Instead of the Takedown scaling with the number of players in your party, fight through the facility at the hardest difficulty.

Level Cap Increase

The Level Cap will increase from 50 to 53, following the debut of Broken Hearts Day, the new Seasonal Event.

Continued Performance and Stability Updates

Yes, Gearbox has heard from the community that performance and stability on the different platforms needs to be improved. With continued Patches and Hotfixes, they plan on making the game more accessible on all platforms. 

Skippable Cutscenes

Cutscenes will become skippable in the February Patch! 

Guardian Rank: How Does It Change?

Following the release of the February Patch, players will be able to completely disable Guardian Rank and/or disable certain Perks obtained from spending Guardian Tokens in the three Guardian Rank Trees. 

Event Toggling? It’s Possible.

Gearbox heard the feedback from players during the Bloody Harvest Event and have decided to implement a change in the future Broken Hearts Day Event. Players are now able to toggle the Seasonal Event effects on or off from the Main Menu.

Fight for your Life! Improvements

Many quality of life improvements, such as increased radius when attempting to revive a co-op player and multiple players able to revive a co-op player at once! 

Mayhem 2.0

Arriving in March, Mayhem 2.0 will focus on improving and impacting Borderlands 3′s endgame content. 

Read the full article here!

[Pictured above is the amount of free content Gearbox has released since the release of Borderlands 3]

Broken Hearts Day

Maurice has tasked the Vault Hunters with assisting in his efforts to understand human courting rituals!

Enemies will now have floating Hearts above their heads

Shooting these Hearts will provide the player and/or their parties Buffs

An example includes shooting one Heart will cause an enemy to become an ally for a temporary amount of time

Another examples includes shooting one Heart to drop a large amount of gear

Breaking Hearts will progress towards unlocking Event-exclusive customization items and Legendary gear! 

10 Hearts - “ECHOcardiogram” ECHO Theme

25 Hearts - “Cosmic Romance” Weapon Trinket

50 Hearts - “Terminal Polyaimorous” Legendary Maliwan SMG

75 Hearts - “Heartbreaker” Weapon Skin

100 Hearts - “Wedding Invitation” Legendary Jakobs Sniper Rifle

The Terminal Polyaimorous has the ability to chain Damage between enemies

The Wedding Invitation will fire Incendiary projectiles, which will become Cryo projectiles upon receive a Ricochet from a Critical Hit

Bloody Hearts Day begins on February 13th (3 PM PT) and ends on February 20th (8:59 AM PT)!

February 13, 2020 (2/13/20) - February 20, 2020 (2/20/20)

As said before, this Seasonal Event may be toggled on and off from the Main Menu.

[thatonebirbnerd]

The Guild Wars 2 Screenshot Master Post

Originally wrote this (the location list specifically) as a beefy Reddit comment cause I was bored. Bringing it to Tumblr for the benefit of the community here, with some bonus tips on how to take better screenshots! I am writing this as I spend two weeks away from my PC/GW2, so I could be missing things.

Taking Screenshots

If your PC can handle it, GW2 Hook/ReShade is always a boon, but it's by no means required. I use a preset called "oh shiny" that makes blacks darker, whites pop out more, edges sharper, and colors generally more vibrant. It's like GW2 Remastered - highly recommend it, but you might get addicted.

Shaders or not, lighting is a pretty crucial thing. Use the natural light, usually sunlight, to show off all the details of the outfit or armor. An inky mass or blinding glowy orb is not always that appealing. But I'll save the rant about Permafrost and Shadow Abyss, which only make the problem worse, for later. Night in GW2 is pretty lackluster in most places for screenshots, unless you are showing off things that glow in the dark, in which case IMO you're much more limited as to the places that will look best. For instance, the Grove and parts of Maguuma typically look nice at night.

Camera positioning tips:

You usually want to keep your FoV on the low side. Vary your pics between full-body, waist-up, etc.

Play around with vertical and horizontal position, as well as FoV, between pictures to add variety. These sliders can also help you capture skill animations and VFX that might be difficult to handle otherwise.

You can take close-up screenshots/headshots of your character by positioning them in front of a wall or other path-blocking object, then spinning the camera around so you can see your character's face. You want your FoV slider to be all the way down, and depending on race and pose of choice (emotes like /crossarms are fun) you will probably need to adjust vertical position (near). Back up from the obstruction as necessary if there is any clipping.

A Few Epic-Looking Skills to Start With

Elementalist - Tempest overloads, most Weaver dual attunement skills

Mesmer - Most autoattack chains

Necromancer - Reaper greatsword 2

Engineer - Holosmith skills and Photon Forge

Ranger - Longbow autoattack; snap a pic when the bow string and arrow are drawn back. Druid staff skills. Soulbeast merge stuff.

Thief - Dagger/dagger 3, pistol/pistol 3, staff and rifle skills

Guardian - Greatsword 2, DH longbow and F2, most Firebrand skills (including axe)

Revenant - Most skills look awesome

Warrior - Axe 5, most Berserker and Spellbreaker skills

My Favorite Places (and who I brought there)

(Feel free to contribute more!)

Kryta

Greatheart Weald, Queensdale - beautiful enchanted-looking autumnal forest. Make sure the corrupted oakheart is dead. (Meli)

Phinney Ridge, Queensdale - Just some nice sky lighting and open space. (Meli)

Forests in Lake Doric are generally really pretty. (Meli)

Divinity's Reach has a lot of good spots for slice-of-life pics. (Meli, Aloysia, Geanais)

Wynchona Woods, Harathi Hinterlands - nice trees. (Meli)

Mountainroot Lair, Harathi Hinterlands - splashes of pink and some really fun cave flora. (Meli)

Ascalon

Many spots around the Black Citadel are excellent for legionnaires. I've taken great pics of some of my charr all over the city, and I even brought my little mechanic asura to the molten scrapyard for a photo shoot. (Andromache, Medeia, Sarri)

Much of Fireheart Rise, especially the area around the Citadel of Flame - Even if your look isn't molten, sometimes you can use the scorched ground as an accent to go with skill VFX. (Andromache)

Open spots on the Plains of Ashford have really nice lighting. (Old iteration of Andromache; I also took some open space pics of her as a Rev that I did not keep.)

Hellion Forest, Iron Marches (Meli)

Anya's Strawberry Patch, Diessa Plateau

Shiverpeaks

Open ice areas in Wayfarer Foothills and Frostgorge Sound have good lighting for lighter-colored looks. (Eirwen, Geanais)

Drakkar Lake, Frostgorge Sound (Eirwen)

Dimotiki Waters, Frostgorge Sound - The prettiest underwater area in the game, short of perhaps Bitterfrost.

Naui Waters, Timberline Falls - It looks like Tahoe! (Meli)

Blizzard Basin/Hailstone Floe, Bitterfrost Frontier - amazing lighting on the ice that works best on lighter looks. (Eirwen)

Griffon Old Growth, Bitterfrost Frontier - uniquely pinkish light. (Geanais)

Tarnished Coast

Caledon Forest is always a great place to take a sylvari - loads of good spots including Astorea, the Verdence, Morgan's Spiral (as long as Risen aren't attacking), Briarthorn, and Hamlet of Annwen (as long as hylek aren't occupying). There's also the tengu wall as a backdrop for South or East Asian-inspired looks. (Jaya, Caerridwen, Elainyn, Siofra)

The Grove, just, all of it, especially at night. There are a couple spots where there are swarms of fireflies, and there's also the hidden Garden of Dawn which is a bit overused - but that's 'cause it's good! (Elainyn, Geanais)

Rata Sum has cute spots for asura slice-of-life pics. There are balconies on the lowest level with some nice sky views for both day and night. I haven't liked Metrica as much, though. (Ryxxi, Nexxa, Silaane)

Orr

(I haven't done a lot of pics here. Sorry.)

All six temples of the gods have some nice spots, if I recall correctly. Orr in general is just pretty nice for the right kind of look.

Pyrite Peninsula, Malchor's Leap - A gold-plated bright spot in the middle of zombie hell, and a place I don't see often enough in others' screenshots. (Eirwen)

Artesian Waters, Cursed Shore - The whole thing isn't accessible outside of a single story chapter and reforging Caladbolg; there are some nice spots in there though. (Caerridwen)

Maguuma

The oasis in Dry Top (Caerridwen)

Bongo's Bungalow, Verdant Brink - Lots of fun jungle props to play around with. (Ligeia)

On top of airship wreckages in Verdant Brink - the higher up the better; great sunlight. Best for the crash survivors. (Sarri)

Tarir and Exalted pylons, Auric Basin - Golden shinieeesssss. (Jaya, Lyri)

Morwood Wilds, Auric Basin - Extra wild and jungley. Cool green lighting. (Jaya; I coulda sworn I took pics of Lyri here but I may have replaced them.)

Burnished Quarry, Auric Basin - It's just pretty, ok?

Dragon's Stand north lane has some nice nooks and crannies; the whole area has cool ominous lighting. (Jaya, Eirwen)

Chak tunnels in both Tangled Depths and Dragon's Stand can look nice.

Rata Novus, Tangled Depths - cyber things for sci-fi looks. (Silaane)

Elona

A lot of the desert (including LS4 areas) just looks really good. Even the Desolation has great pic spots. Open sand in Crystal Desert looks especially good, as well as all the cities/towns/temples. I kinda have a weakness for the architecture... (Kyveli, Aanisa, Farhana, Tyra)

Sandstrewn Shrine, The Desolation - Ethereal white-blossomed trees and a very "clean" landscape. (Tyra)

Garden of Seborhin, Domain of Vabbi (Aanisa, Farhana, Tyra)

City of Lights above Desert Highlands - if you can get to this place at night, so worth.

Miscellaneous

Draconis Mons has really nice orange lighting and a natural setting. (Caerridwen)

Ember Bay has a pretty sweet lens flare. It's also orange but better for fiery looks.

Lion's Arch Aerodrome has interesting lighting and the area works well for steampunky looks. (Sarri)

The back side of the trading post in LA (blue tile wall), and the golden wall right inside the Black Lion Vaults, are amazing backdrops if you've got some camera position skills. (Aurea, older outfit for Tyra)

Other Game Modes

Edge of the Mists has some nice spots (temple ruins etc.) but beware of roamers. (Ryxxi)

The middle of Desert Borderlands is a Tarir-esque ruined temple. (Jaya, Lyri?)

The fractal lobby is pretty cool. Bonus points if you get action shots in the blue portal's VFX. (Ryxxi, Silaane)

Cleared raid instances are your friend, too! I have only really taken some nature-y pics in Salvation Pass, but if you wanted to take pics of a White Mantle cosplay there are ample spots for that in multiple wings. Mythwright Gambit is also downright gorgeous as a whole. (Ligeia - so far)

[mentalmars]

More DLC Beyond the Season Pass Coming to Borderlands 3

Beyond DLC4 Randy Pitchford, President of Gearbox Software announced that additional content, beyond the Season Pass, is coming to Borderlands 3. He mentioned the unannounced DLC during Ki11erSix’s live stream on July 23, 2020. Randy also mentioned that they (Gearbox Software and 2K Games) are almost ready to talk about it. This is great news for the future of Borderlands 3. Timestamp: 4:15 Playing the Long Game Gearbox Software was also able to continue making DLC for Borderlands 2 beyond the initial season pass content. That game and its DLC peformed great and the community was hungry for more Borderlands, it was silly not to do. If you have been following the patch updates for Borderlands 3, you can see that Gearbox Software is really trying to get the game in the best shape it can be. Reworking the end game, adjusting the loot, aiming to create more build diversity, and much more. While Borderlands 3 isn’t set up as an always-online ���Games as Service” they are constantly improving the game. New DLC Before the launch of Borderlands 3, there was a game plan. I heard that due to the success of BL3, GBX could push the support the game even further than that they initially planned. While those plans are already set in stone. We now learned that Gearbox and 2K have reevaluated the situation and made new plans beyond the 4 story campaign add-ons and the free (seasonal) events and Takedowns. This means they have had a lot of time to listen to community feedback. While Raid Bosses were not part of the initial plan, this might be something that’s on the table now as there has been a lot of feedback about that. Headhunter Packs are also something that the community really wants. I have seen comments that folks wanted to pay for the Revenge of the Cartels event, just to have it always available. The quality of that event is superb. I would love to see more of that.

Continue reading on https://mentalmars.com/game-news/more-dlc-beyond-the-season-pass-coming-to-borderlands-3/

[susurrationofthewind]

I should try out th Borderlands 2 community patch...

[hellsite-yano]

when you get around to Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel, make sure to look up the unofficial community patch, its not as needed for Presequel but its a BIG improvement to 2.

Noted, thanks.

[wardencommanderrodimiss]

Dying @ the Borderlands AU post to be honest. (At work. 8') ) GIVE US THE BORDERLANDS ACE ATTORNEY CONTENT WE DESERVE. (Did you ever actually post that fic with the train push-off though??) ... I should look into playing that game. (Those games? Heck if I know. I like the artstyle though.)

I posted the first chapter of the fic, though at some point as I massaged out details, I did start trying to rewrite that chapter. So plot-location-wise, that’s a bit of a mess, but the general vibe of it is the same.

I think I had some other completed excerpts I never posted, and so if I get to writing up a huge big summary of the thing, which I want to do now, I can intersperse it with a few written bits. There was a thing with Ema, and then later with Kay.

(Those games, yeah, there’s three shooters and then one….idk how to describe Tales from, I own it and haven’t played it. But yeah, there’s Borderlands, Borderlands 2, and Borderlands the Pre-Sequel for the shoot-em-up main entries of the series that I’ve played. I love all of them, but I love the Pre-Sequel a little less because low-grav combat made me want to die.)

To summarize the AU, or the start of it, for everyone who doesn’t remember/wasn’t here, the main cast, and what their class names would tentatively be in-game, include:

APOLLO, the Sharpshooter, a sniper with an eyepatch who never misses a shot

(The eye patch is significant, I’ll come back to Apollo’s powers in another post.) He lived on Elpis for most of his life – Elpis is the moon of Pandora, which is the planet that most of the games take place on – and until the start of the story, works for the corporation Hyperion with his best friend Clay, an engineer. They’ve both come to be pretty important in Hyperion’s ranks, pretty quick – Apollo for his sniping skills is the personal bodyguard/assistant to Hyperion’s CEO, Kristoph, while Clay is one of the top engineers and most valuable people except for periodically when they’re forced to pay out the ass to run some antivirus/debug software on his brain, because Clay has a USB port in his head and sometimes he tries to download every cat video ever and gets a virus. Kristoph puts up with this, barely. (It is not the worst financial crime being committed in Hyperion’s ranks. Klavier is embezzling millions into pointless endeavors and Kristoph can’t lock him out of the system no matter what he tries. But that is, again, something to come back to later.)

Apollo and Clay start to suspect that there is a lot amiss about Hyperion and the kinds of experiments they do and what they want from Pandora, and together they start investigating into what, exactly, Kristoph is doing. In the midst of this, Clay is (apparently) killed, and Apollo not allowed to investigate anything about his death. This is the final straw, so Apollo takes what he knows, destroys what he can on the way out, and flees the Hyperion moonbase and Elpis, stowing away on a freighter shipment down to Pandora, intending to disappear into the wilds of Pandora. 

CLAY, however, isn’t dead – just in a coma, with his brain wired into Hyperion’s mainframe. He hacks the ECHOnet to get into Apollo’s communicator and serves as a “voice from above” font of “advice” and “wisdom”. (He’s taking the role of, to quickly spoiler-free summarize from the games, the Guardian AI called Angel, who throughout Borderlands and 2 offers advice and points you in the direction you need to go on your quest. Clay is an infinitely shittier at his job version.) Because of some limitations hacked into his brain, he can’t tell Apollo that he’s Clay, that he’s alive, and that he’s sort of being forced into trying to manipulate Apollo and friends into doing Hyperion’s bidding, but he can be very inefficient at it and sabotage from within as best he can. Also, sometimes he accidentally sabotages, like when he’s like “I’ve made the calculations and your vehicle can definitely make this jump” and they try it and crash because he was using the gravitational constant of Elpis, which has much less gravity than Pandora. 

On landing on Pandora, Apollo is waiting for one of the Hyperion trains that still runs to take him west and get as far away from this landing site as he can. There, he meets three other travelers and apparent fugitives:

ATHENA, the Berserker, who takes on robots with her fists and a sword and maybe sometimes she’ll use a shotgun;

KLAVIER, the Doppelganger, the spitting image of Hyperion’s CEO;

and TRUCY, the Siren, one of six women throughout the galaxy marked with strong magical powers and glowing tattoos that make her a target for everyone who knows the legend.

Hyperion robots stop the train and begin a search for the fugitive Apollo – the four of them take down the robots and jump off the train, and that’s where their adventures really begin.

ATHENA and TRUCY have a mind to go to the city of Sanctuary, the only free city on Pandora that isn’t corporate-owned or a bandit shithole. Trucy’s father and all her friends live in Sanctuary; Athena, too, lived there for a few years. Before that, they both lived in the city of New Haven, which was razed by Hyperion in their search for the man who screwed Kristoph out of getting his hands on a piece of the Vault Key and a Siren.

-inhales- quick more Borderlands plot context. Vaults are ancient alien caches of powerful weapons, treasure, or monsters scattered throughout the galaxy. These can only be opened by special keys, which are ancient artifacts that tend to be broken and scattered in pieces. In Borderlands, a corporation called Atlas and their military arm, the Crimson Lance, are trying to acquire all the pieces of the key scattered across Pandora to open a Vault to get the loot inside of it. You play as a Vault Hunter, who are not-quite-bandits who for whatever reason are interested in the lore of the Vault, or just kinda ended up on Pandora and fell into it accidentally. In Borderlands 2, about five years later, Hyperion is going after a different Vault, also on Pandora, also with the key in pieces, but the opening of the first Vault in the first game has done some funky stuff to the planet in the form of a mineral called Eridium. Both times, you are trying to stop the corporations from getting to the Vault, with help from some allies, such as the AI Angel and an independent resistance group, based first in New Haven, then in Sanctuary and called the Crimson Raiders, headed up by some of the player characters from the first game. In 2, the Vault Key can only be used naturally once every 100 years; otherwise, it has to be artificially charged with an Eridium-powered Siren. Thus, Hyperion needs a Siren. 

phew okay back to the AU, context thus set for Trucy.

TRUCY has spent a few years traveling Pandora on her own, trying to learn more about Eridium and its connection to her Siren-powers. At this point, however, she’s had enough being on her own, and wants to go back home to Sanctuary. She knows she’s a Hyperion target, and that’s partially why she’s been out on her own. She wanted to protect her friends and family. But she’s been reasonably undetected thus far, so she thinks she’s safe. Safe enough as anyone can be on Pandora. She wasn’t born on Pandora, actually, though her mother was from here. She spent the first years of her life living with the Troupe Gramarye, a gang of notorious con-artists who traveled the galaxy scamming people and looking for Vaults. How’d she fall in with Phoenix? Maybe that’s for next time.

ATHENA was not actually born on Pandora, either. She was born with strange, non-Siren powers, probably from her mother’s exposure to weird alien elements; Metis tried to keep this secret and devise ways to help Athena, but eventually people found out, wanted to turn Athena into a lab rat, and so Metis fled to Pandora, knowing its reputation for lawlessness because one of her former coworkers, a woman named Aura, fled there after she vaporized three people for stealing and copyrighting her own personal work. Aura’s brother followed her, after stabbing the people who showed up on his door looking for Aura. Metis knows she can rely on them, and so she takes Athena and goes.

Athena just acclimated really, really well to Pandora. In the course of fighting against Hyperion, however, some time after the attack on New Haven, Metis is murdered by an unknown infiltrator. Simon and Aura agree that they can’t raise and protect Athena the way she deserves, not when they are both dead-set on avenging Metis, and so Simon takes Athena off-world and settles her down somewhere safe. She has a normal teenager-hood in a normal part of the galaxy, goes to college, gets a degree in psychology – all the while chafing at the normalcy of it all. When she’s confronted with her massive amount of college debt, she says her final “fuck it” and abandons her responsibilities to run home to Pandora and find Simon again.

She hilariously has zero secrets that she’s keeping from the others. 

And KLAVIER was born and lived most of his life on Elpis – not that he says it, or much of anything, about himself to the others. He has obvious affiliation with Hyperion, but since Hyperion’s ‘bots are out to kill him as much as they are Athena and Trucy, they both accept that he’s on their side. Apollo isn’t quite so sure, because Apollo knew Kristoph and knows that Klavier looks just like him, thus knowing that Klavier was probably someone very important in Hyperion. 

Except Apollo can’t say that, because Kristoph (unlike Handsome Jack, Hyperion’s egomaniacal CEO in the games) doesn’t plaster his face everywhere and make himself well-known, so the fact that Apollo recognizes Klavier’s face to be shocked at him means that Apollo was also someone important in Hyperion to know Kristoph and so Apollo and Klavier are just the Spider-Man Pointing meme at each other over their Hyperion involvement. Except Hyperion has bounties on both their heads, so they’re like, okay, okay, cool, I guess I will tolerate you.

After some horrible misadventures involving Pandoran wildlife, which Klavier and Apollo are not prepared for even though Elpis also has horrible wildlife, they reach Sanctuary. Sanctuary is home to the resistance against Hyperion, called the Crimson Raiders, made up of random people and some of the remains of Atlas Corporation’s Crimson Lance who were hunting the Vault years earlier. There in Sanctuary, they catch up with former colonel EDGEWORTH formerly of the Lance, and former commandant VON KARMA also formerly of the Lance. They were once sent to Pandora to acquire the key and quash the Vault Hunters who were chasing it; however, a certain persistent Vault Hunter and his Vault-researcher friends won them over to his side, and so they turned on Atlas and the Lance. The two of them run Sanctuary and the Raiders, Von Karma handling a little more of the military matters, and Edgeworth with the mayoral matters, but mostly, they’re an apparently seamless team. 

Aaaand….I think that’s enough for one post. I could probably do, like, four more posts? One for the rest of the people of Sanctuary, one for Apollo and Klavier’s various fucked-up backstory secrets, one for Gramarye Bullshit, and one mapping out the very loose plot points moving forward.

But I’ve spent like all day writing this, so I guess I’ll do this in installments if I’m reminded. 

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Farming borderlands 2 latest patch

Meanwhile, rumors of an even larger Vault hidden on Pandora spread across the universe, drawing a new group of Vault Hunters to the planet in search for it. Now, Handsome Jack rules over the inhabitants of Pandora with an iron fist from his massive satellite built in the shape of an "H", always visible in the sky in front of Pandora's moon. Youll easily get a few hundred thousand per run this way and can max the challenge in under an hour. I recommend waiting and doing this during playthrough 2.5 unless you think youll quit before then. I used to find Tubbies there every few runs, but now Ive gone dozens. Since I play as Maya, my run has always been through Bug Gulch in The Dust, behind Ellies, which is very quick using the Rough Rider/Breakneck Banshee combo. Has this changed since the update I never used the four-player glitch. Handsome Jack, a member of the Hyperion Corporation, secures this new resource and makes use of it to take over the corporation. Unless you farm it earlier, you probably wont have the challenge by the end of playthrough 2 (I sure didnt, but never farmed). Im looking for the legendary class mods, but finding it extremely difficult to find Tubbies. After defeating The Destroyer, a valuable mineral called "Eridium" started flourishing through Pandora's crust. Shadow Evils Original Community Patch Video with Guide and explanation: įollow me on Twitch: -įive years have passed since the events of Borderlands, when four Vault Hunters, a Hunter, a Soldier, a Siren and a Berserker, were guided by a mysterious entity known as "The Guardian Angel" to the Vault and confronted an alien abomination known as "The Destroyer". Today Il be Farming Toothless Terry in The Rustyards for the Pimpernel which has been added to his loot Poolīig Thanks to all the Guys on Github who worked on this.Įverything you need is in the guide below: This may cost hundreds or even thousands of eridium, but it’s better than what was close to mathematically impossible farming under the old system.The Fourth Borderlands 2 Community Patch Has Been Released. Meaning that item can now drop with any anointment and you should be able to re-roll it until you get the anointment you want. Patch 1.8.4 was released on Octofor PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Added new heads and skins themed around this falls Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. You are still looking for a good part combination, but now the game has introduced anointment re-rolls. Get 2 free games a month, including backward compatible Xbox 360 games. Added Traditional Chinese language support for DLC. Now, the world pool drop rate has decreased meaning that these bosses may give less loot overall, but that mainly means less garbage to sort through, and more dedicated drops of the boss-specific loot you’re actually farming them for. You farm a specific boss for a specific drop. The gun drops, and you need to see if it’s the right combination of parts you want, but past that, if it doesn’t have the correct anointment you’re looking for, it’s instantly garbage. They rarely drop the actual gun you want, even on the highest mayhem tiers. They usually drop 5-10 other legendaries that are world pool ones you already have ten thousand copies of. Today Ill be showing you how to farm for Legendary Loot Midgets in the newest update for Borderlands 2 I imagine normal mode wouldnt be any different.

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i dont GET the borderlands 2 community patch <//3 it wants me to save it.. where and why? bitches help.

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Time Carnage - Reveal Trailer | PS VR

A new game from Wales Interactive Limited Time comes Time Carnage for PSVR. I like the idea they have with time travel mixed in with a person shooter feel to it. They PSVR has been bringing new ideas and ways of playing leaving full and Time Carnage looks to take advantage of the capabilities of the new platform and having the feeling of playing in and arcade. The fun of an arcade shooter in virtual reality looks like a good idea and win would like to see more of this in the future.

Killer Instinct one of the most strategic games in the fighting games genre deserves more credit and Shadow Lords DLC was a good design that adding something different to a fighting game with tutorials, story, and different objectives it can keep you playing and getting better at one of the more complicated games to master but easy to pick up. Another great mix was Blade & Soul reminiscent of Konquest Mode from Mortal Kombat this unique RPG/Fighting Game brings in a new standard and fun gameplay to the genre you can check out a Summoner vs Destroyer match below.

Killer Instinct - Shadow Lords - Guardians Tutorial: Ram

Blade & Soul | Korea : Summoner VS Destroyer (PVP Patch lvl 55)

With the release of The Predator teaser trailer and last years Alien: Covenant and talks about a new Mortal Kombat game decided to post a video of gameplay of Alien vs Predator from Mortal Kombat XL this game had almost everyone in it and is still one of the top fighting games out.

Mortal Kombat XL - Alien VS Predator (Gameplay)

Avengers: Infinity War is getting a lot of press and with Thanos popping up in Fortnite, I wanting to post some work by a M.U.G.E.N. creator and fan named Magus and some of the games he has made one of many talented coders and spriters from the Mugen Community. You can check out his Joker playthrough for his Pocketfighter and his Solomon Grundy.

PocketMonday - The Joker Playthrough

ScruffyWIP - Solomon Grundy Hypers

Update:

Since I posted Solomon Grundy by Magus I decided to post an update to the limited time crossover event with Thanos in Fortnite. The unexpected and unpredictability that Epic Games brought with Fortnite is something that I would like to see more in the future with even more game franchises keeping games even more entertaining.

If you got the chance to play as Thanos in Fortnite you got to play in a crossover event that can bring better experiences in the future. Epic Games makers of the Unreal Engine got this to happen with a simple phone call from Marvel. This was unexpected and unpredictable 2 things that are needed in this world of gamers that have seen it all. In the future their could be even more crossover events that can catch gamers off guard bringing a new element of surprise as well as something new to keep the game fresh.

Extra Bonus:

Being a fan of the Alien vs Predator series its cool to see The Predator making appearances in various games and with a new movie. Below is the official trailer to the new Predator movie in Dolby Cinema and a teaser trailer with 9 minutes of last years Alien: Covenant with Hybrid Network discussing whether or not Alien: Covenant will change anything in AVP history. Prometheus was a good movie and Alien: Covenant (Prometheus 2) I don’t feel will take anything away but add more depth. As an extra I posted SupMatto’s Borderlands 3: Promethea Tease for any fans of that series.

Killer Instinct and Blade & Soul are 2 games well designed that take on their own kind of strategy for a fighting game that sets both of them apart from the rest. You have to be more strategic when performing combos or moves in Killer Instinct’s combo/counter breaker system along with its own resets and tricks and Blade & Soul’s MMORPG style mixed in with fighting game mechanics is an interesting blend check them both out below.

The Predator - Official Trailer | Dolby Cinema | Dolby

With the new Predator movies coming out wanted to post the trailer and reflect about Alien: Covenant that came out a year earlier. Being a fan of both Alien: Covenant (Prometheus 2) was psychological but entertaining I like how it lines up with The Predator.

Killer Instinct - Killer Classic 2 (Day One)

Killer Instinct - Killer Classic 2 Finals (Day Two)

MMORPG vs MOBA in Esports, and will DC vs Marvel Movies and Games Happen?

Blade & Soul was a game many wanted to come to North America and it finally did on January 19, 2016 while some could consider it a MOBA (Massive Online Battle Arena) which is a team based this is considered an MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) even though you can play on teams it is more individual based as opposed to MOBA’s unique characters working together in matches.

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Borderlands 2 Evil Smasher Glitch After Patch

Borderlands 2 Evil Smasher Glitch After Patch 2

Borderlands 2 The Chosen One

Borderlands 2 Evil Smasher Glitch After Patch 3

I'm trying the double run (and have watched the WR run for it), but I'm having an issue. For some reason when I have infinite ammo my smash is random, but doesn't build. It'll stay around 100 indefinitely.

In summary, on the latest patches, the glitch cannot reduce ammo consumption by more than one, and other entities using Vladof rocket launchers can unset the effect. Update 2: While the AGDQ 2014 co-op speed-run demonstrates this being done as non-host, I was unable to perform this glitch as non-host on patch 1.8.3. And ProfessorBroman stated such.

The classic glitch abused the merging weapons glitch to put the Evil Smasher’s special effect on other weapons. This new glitch only involved the Evil Smasher never losing its special effect. It could of happened due to the “repairing” of the Evil Smasher on the community patch though.

Glitch Used normally, Evil Smasher does not level up beyond Power level 1. However Evil Smasher can glitch to higher Power level. The glitch was patched following the April 2 update patches.

Borderlands 2 Evil Smasher Glitch After Patch Rating: 3,9/5 5304 reviews Glitch Used normally, Evil Smasher does not level up beyond Power level 1. However Evil Smasher can glitch to higher Power level.

After playing around I've determined that one difference is when I don't have infinite ammo the gun reloads automatically when I switch to it (and stacks normally). When I have infinite ammo I have to reload manually (hit the reload key) every time I switch to it. Also, when doing this if I have a smash, every time I switch to the evil smasher I lose one stack (ex: I have 117, switch to smasher, don't reload, switch back, I have 100, i.e. I have lost one stack).

I've tried copying the steps in the run but it doesn't seem to work for me and I don't want to to stack a bunch and then start TVHM, I'd rather stack on the go, (for speed). So stacking and then getting infinite ammo is (hopefully) no an option.

Thanks for any help you can offer. Autodesk fusion 360 mac download.

Glitch Used normally, Evil Smasher does not level up beyond Power level 1. However Evil Smasher can glitch to higher Power level. The glitch was patched following the April 2 update patches.

Borderlands 2 Evil Smasher Glitch After Patch 2

I'm trying the double run (and have watched the WR run for it), but I'm having an issue. For some reason when I have infinite ammo my smash is random, but doesn't build. It'll stay around 100 indefinitely.

After playing around I've determined that one difference is when I don't have infinite ammo the gun reloads automatically when I switch to it (and stacks normally). When I have infinite ammo I have to reload manually (hit the reload key) every time I switch to it. Also, when doing this if I have a smash, every time I switch to the evil smasher I lose one stack (ex: I have 117, switch to smasher, don't reload, switch back, I have 100, i.e. I have lost one stack).

Borderlands 2 The Chosen One

I've tried copying the steps in the run but it doesn't seem to work for me and I don't want to to stack a bunch and then start TVHM, I'd rather stack on the go, (for speed). So stacking and then getting infinite ammo is (hopefully) no an option. Economia internacional krugman pdf. https://ultraload671.tumblr.com/post/653165150991482880/amazon-music-player-download-mac. Of measurement base units.

Borderlands 2 Evil Smasher Glitch After Patch 3

Thanks for any help you can offer.

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Bordercast: July 15, 2021 - Triple G is back to talk about Endgame Rush 2.0 and more!

CREW Mitsu Tessachka Triple G SHOW NOTES: [15:32] Starts Maurice’s Black Market Vending Machine Location Mitsu Medium Article Seasonal Events Toggleable Level Cap Increase Triple G content and patch thoughts Re-Volter Guide Ki11erSix Drake Thumbnail video Triple G’s Borderlands 3 Value video Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Endgame Rush My Reactions: Kevin Hart as an action hero. No one sees it and that’s exactly the theme they picked for the movie Die Hart, where Kevin Hart is training to become an action hero. Youtube started recommending me the trailer for this movie after looking up some Borderlands movie stuff. Mitsu <3 I really like community challenges like Endgame Rush, Kudos to Triple G for organizing this event. Yes, I also need more Eridium I heard that some partents play games on easy mode because they don’t have the time to retry a section 10 times and just want to experience a game’s story. The ratio of entertainment per dollar is unbelievable with video games. If you compare it to other things that “expensive” video game isn’t so expensive anymore. Yes, you need to pay a pretty sizable fee up front but with games like Borderlands you get soooooooo much content in return. The Borderlands 3 DLCs are awesome, it’s hard to pick a favorite.

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