I play borderlands alot and recently i was invited to a game by a player, we killed crawmerax a few times, which got me to get the achievement on killing crawmerax. But back to the topic, after fighting Crawmerax, he duped me alot of pearlescents, some legit, but most modded. I am now wondering will anything bad happen if i keep using these weapons. I don't use them in online duels, i use them for farming with friends or anyone who wants to farm. And i dont steal every piece of loot when i enter some random guys game either. Will i get banned or something? Woohooyeee 16:14, April 1, 2010 (UTC)
I am also guilty of having more than a few modded weapons. As far as i know nothing bad can happen because of it especially if you don't use them when dueling other players. I have recieved a few messages saying that they will report me for hacking but how? Nothing has happened yet so i don't think that they can really do anything.Pimps'N'Giggles 16:22, April 1, 2010 (UTC)
I have no issue with mod'ing. Indeed, if it's just changing a scope or mag or elemental effect, I rank that the same as buying it from a vending machine. I draw the line at damage mods - I just won't join a team that uses them. MeMadeIt 21:49, April 1, 2010 (UTC)
This would be a really fun game for versus multiplayer if there were modded weapons imo. I hope everyone who hates modded weapons gets banned.
I like what Pimps'N'Giggles said, i feel guilty as well. I just like to get by the game easier, minus too many headaches., and to the person above me, i think that some people who have modded weapons got it from random players. They never meant to get those weapons. So be considerate. I myself got killed with a modded weapon, and i feel it to be cheap as well, but not all people do that. Woohooyeee 16:31, April 1, 2010 (UTC)
I have recieved a few modded weapons my self, and I can see why they're frowned upon, and I don't think you should use them casually either if they're extremely overpowerred. Using them in duels is cheap to, but modded weapons do have one downfall I noticed, whenever you're using a hacked launcher, they tend to knock you down i you're using it for close range. I don't completely frown upon modded weapons, but don't use them in online games. Extertionist
Thankfully not all of them are over powered. But i did see alot of overpowered weapons. I saw a modded bessie that did 1.5k x 3, ridiculous. Im going to follow what Extortionist said here, no online modded weapons. Then again, this game is crazy enough, why not add more crazy by dumping in ridiculous guns. Then again, that's my friends opinion. Woohooyeee 17:48, April 1, 2010 (UTC)
Ive been modding borderlands since the game came out, truthfully it is very fun and rewarding when i create a new awsome gun. The whole time i was making guns though i never made anything ridiculasly cheap like a never ending rocket, mostly just weapons with no downsides. Also I only shared my weapons with friends and never randoms.68.42.218.165 20:32, April 1, 2010 (UTC)
I personally mod a lot, but that includes for myself to loot for parts and to keep them within the randomizing engine (except my vile scattergun, but i just wanted a goood corrosive scattergun with the pumpaction, this gun actually sucks compared to waht the game itself drops, but is alot more fun to use), with this, i consider myself a good modder, i do not own weapons like combustion anarchys or twisted penetrator (tho i made one at the cost of 12 weapons and 500 creds per swap, its for the "ohshit" situations on my "dawly" build^^) Demonique 20:53, April 1, 2010 (UTC)
You can't stop people from modding weapons, but people do it because they're looking for a gun of their own or just for fun, but if you do, please practice it with moderation and don't make a weapon insanly powerfull. Extertionist
I can understand why some people dislike modded weapons but it just adds something extra and fun to the game. I have already beaten the game with all four characters (pt1 and pt2), maxed out their levels, and i have just recently beaten everything there is to do on dlc3. With such a great game like borderlands it is hard to see it come to end with nothing else to do in it. That is when i discovered modding and it has just added something new to the game for somebody like me who doesn't want to stop playing. I agree that using it in online games and in duels is cheap but for a guy like me who doesn't have highspeed internet, is incapable of playing online, and therefore has to spend his days farming crawmerax in single player trying to find a pearl, modding gives me a fair advantage.--Pimps'N'Giggles 21:17, April 1, 2010 (UTC)
Woohooyeee 02:06, April 2, 2010 (UTC)
I have no idea how to mod weapons, and even if i did, i'm not sure i would, but i see a reason for it, i've played games like command and conquer 3 on pc, and let me tell you, to say there are mods with new units is an understatement. dueling someone with a modded weapon is stupid and annoying yes, and i've even seen one guy on xbox live recently who LEVEL 70, HE CAN HALF KILL CRAWMERAX ON HIS OWN IN LESS THAN A MINUTE. but to me, there are only 2-3 reasons why it should be done. 1: sheer, holy crap, look what i made! 2: help with farming so one doesn't have to worry about dying 3: some people just want, for instance, and orion, they find one and it sucks, so they mod it to within reason, but still does that make it wrong? this is part of the reason many people want there to a "workbench" of sorts, where you can buy components or break down guns you own to make your own, how cool would it be to pay like 12 million to make a custom gun with a name a quote you want? i would think that would sell amazingly as a DLC, no more, though probably just less, modding, and it would add endless hours to the game giving a sims-like quality to it. and plus, i've met people who just dupe all their guns when they leave a game on online, i picked some up and found out that a few were modded, but within reason, should i get banned? i, at least don't think i should, some people don't know, and if they really wanted to, they would have started, if they are gonna go after anyone, imo, it should be that level 70 guy, sorry for the rant, had a bad day---- GamerQ93
I really like what people said on this forum right now. Good comments, and good views. Modded weapons aren't all bad, it's to add a little spice to the game, but take under moderation, please. Woohooyeee 02:06, April 2, 2010 (UTC)
@68.42.218.165: You fail to understand that your friends will share them as well, thinking that they are legit because "oh my friend gave it to me" or some shit like that. Yes it happens, yes it's stupid. The only reason that it's "very fun and rewarding" is because you can't enjoy the game properly for what it is.
@Pimps'N'Giggles: Did you just say MODDING gives you a FAIR ADVANTAGE? Are you listening to yourself? I farmed Craw for days just to get my Tsunami, and it's far from fair that people like you can spend ten minutes modding a perfect one yourself. it's the luck of the draw - that's what makes Borderlands what it is. If you can't deal with that, then play another game that automatically bestows you whatever weapon you want.
@GamerQ93: (I can kill Craw in less than a minute legitimately. It's called a corner. Use it.) Whoever wants a workbench is simply too impatient to farm/play for weapons by themselves.
The only advantage that I see in knowing how to mod is identifying sillies who think their modded shit is legit. And when I need to look into special weapon effects, e.g. building two perfect SMGs to test the Bitch's flavor text effect. Once I'm done, I sell my shit. I don't pride myself in "fast-forwarding the randomization process to give myself a gun that the game will eventually produce anyway", or "modding because I have nothing else to do". --Nagamarky 07:17, April 3, 2010 (UTC)
@Nagamarky,
i understand both sides of the board, because i feel both ways to a point, i find modding annoying and pretty shifty sometimes, but i also see the utility in it, even hear the phrase, if you have a resource, use it? well that's what i do, i have legit versions of all the guns i could want, i just occasionally use mods so it's less annoying when i play with people who only have one person who can fight crawmerax, i could do it normally, but i don't feel like the headache if i've had a long day. This being said, yeah, i don't doubt you can kill him on your own quickly, bessies are great from him, but this dude just shotgunned him to death, WITHOUT EVEN HITTING THE PURPLE AREAS, just, bam bam bam bam, on his chest, where it would normally do 0 damage, and he was over half dead, those are the people who scare/annoy me, cuz i joined his game just out of curiousity, and i could tell, the game code did not like whatever he was doing. wasn't trying to upset you, just, please, i live i one of the most prejudiced parts of the US, i mean heck, the leader of the KKK lives withing 20 miles of my school, and i hate it, so, please don't just judge people based on one or two things about them, because you do them an injustice, and i don't know if you meant it, but in your response, you came across like a condescending colleg professor, so you feel one way, great, but different strokes for different folks, sorry wall of text--- GamerQ93
Holy hell, i just asked what people think of modded weapons, now its turned to having some KKK douchebag live near a school. This is a forum, yes. This is a place where people can share their thoughts and defend it. But no need to go over board. Peace. Woohooyeee 12:44, April 3, 2010 (UTC)
There's this thing called an inverse relationship. For those who don't know what that means, in general it relates to the idea that when one statistic is in excess another will be lacking in a different category. To put in Borderland's terminology, Jakob's weapons typically have a higher than average damage for their level, but to compensate for this high damage, they fire extremely slow compared to other Manufacturers. This is fair, that is how the game is designed, and for all you kiddies that say, "I can't play online, so I can't get awesome weapons, so I "mod" weapons", just enhances the fact that you're unable to enjoy a game for what it is. Typically, the weapons are designed so as not to be over-powered compared to all the other legitimately obtainable weapons in the game, and people that "mod" their weapons for "ethical" reasons have no clue what they are speaking about. It's not how it was suppose to be, and that's that. --http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/LittleBuster_/Logo3.png 12:56, April 3, 2010 (UTC)