The road where the original vault hunters get off the bus.
'The Arid Nexus - Badlands' is an area in Borderlands 2. 'The
Arid Nexus- Bandlands' Is what was originally named 'The Arid Badlands'. This area still ecompases places from the original Badlands such as the house of T.K Baha, the starting area/ bus-stop and Fyrestone.
Noticeably different is the presence of many Hyperion installations particularly Eridium pipelines and an overpass situated above Fyrestone. Also present are pools of slag, the greatest concentration of which being directly forward from Fyrestone and in its outer regions.
Mission
Hungry like the skag (Undiscovered - Skags eat everything): Kill skags in the area just between T.K's House and Fyrestone(Jackville) to activate the undiscovered quest where you kill skags in search of a gun lost by a bandit; Marcus is in charge of this mission.
Trivia
Aaaaawwww, lookit him doing 5 damage to your shield.
Claptrap
In the original borderlands jumping on top of Marcus' hut would enable the player to see an off-map claptrap waving and speaking to the player. Jumping on top of the same hut when in The Arid Nexus will present the player with a weapon box, next to the this weapon box is an identical dead claptrap.
Dr. Zed's hut
Dr. Zed's original surgery is now shielded with electricity and contains a red weapon box. The fuse box to shut off the shield is on top of a makeshift tower down the northward path into the starting area.The fuse box can be shot from the overpass or from a fallen water tower adjacent to the fuse box's tower, or simply by jumping and shooting from below.
Borderlands 1-level Skag
While most Skags in the area are levelled reasonably close to where the player should be, approaching a hole in the large open area where Saturn appears will reveal one of them is lagging behind just a little, and is more appropriately levelled for the first game.