Krieg

Krieg
NIPPLE SALADS!
Title	Psycho
Gender	Male
Race	Human
Faction	Vault hunters
Location	Pandora
Game	Borderlands 2
Appearances	Borderlands 2 (DLC)
Voiced By	Jason Douglas

Krieg is the playable Psycho class character in Borderlands 2. He was revealed on March 24, 2013, in the Borderlands 2 Krieg the Psycho Character Reveal Trailer. He was released on May 14th, 2013 on Steam and PlayStation Network for $9.99, or 800 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live.

Background

Not much is known about Krieg, other than he has escaped from a lab beneath Pandora. Tweets made on the Echocast profile not only reveals that he wants to 'kill the bandits, kill Hyperion, and get revenge', but that he seems to want to 'protect the weak, and kill the deserving' with an extra focus on 'kill the deserving' part.

Whatever Krieg's been through to make him the blood-drinking, meat-loving killer that he is, he wasn't always like this. Krieg's psyche has a remnant of who he used to be--a literal inner voice which forces Krieg to only kill the deserving, and help others. The voice remarks that he remembers helping people, getting paid with loot, and other Vault-hunter-esque pursuits. It's also informed Krieg that should Krieg ever kill an innocent person, the inner voice will take over and commit suicide to kill them both.

Skills

Action Skill: Buzz Axe Rampage

[Fire] to swing buzz axe, [Aim] + [Fire] to throw buzz axe.

+500% Melee Damage, regain all Health on kill.

Duration: ~15 seconds.

Cooldown: 120 seconds, reduced by taking damage.

Bloodlust

Focuses on ranged combat using a Bloodlust stack mechanic. Dealing damage to an enemy adds a stack of Bloodlust to a maximum of 100. Stacks decay after 3 seconds if you haven’t dealt damage at a rate of 1 stack per second.

Skill	Tier	Levels	Effect
Blood Twitch	1	5	+0.3% Weapon Swap speed per Bloodlust stack per level. Dealing damage to an enemy adds a stack of Bloodlust. Stacks decay after a few seconds if you haven't dealt damage.
Blood-Filled Guns	1	5	+0.5% Magazine Size per Bloodlust stack per level. Dealing damage to an enemy adds a stack of Bloodlust. Stacks decay after a few seconds if you haven't dealt damage.
Blood Overdrive	2	5	Kill Skill. Killing an enemy with a bullet gives +0.5% Melee Damage and -0.005s Grenade Fuse Time per Bloodlust stack per level for a short time.
Bloody Revival	2	5	+0.3% Assault Rifle damage during Fight For Your Life per Bloodlust stack per level.
Taste of Blood	2	5	+0.1% damage reduction during Buzz Axe Rampage per Bloodlust stack per level. +10 Bloodlust stacks per kill (+5 per level) during Buzz Axe Rampage.
Blood Bath	3	5	Kill Skill. Killing an enemy with a grenade or explosion gives +0.5% weapon damage per Bloodlust stack per level for a short time. Enemies killed this way have a 15% chance per level of dropping Grenade ammunition.
Buzz Axe Bombardier	3	1	When thrown, your buzz axe now has Dynamite attached to it which explodes on impact.
Fuel the Blood	3	5	Kill Skill. Killing an enemy with a melee attack gives +0.2% (+0.2% per level) Grenade Damage per Bloodlust stack per level for a short time and adds +2 Bloodlust stacks per level.
Boiling Blood	4	5	Increases the time before Bloodlust stacks start to decay by 0.5 seconds per level.
Blood Trance	4	5	Increases the duration of Buzz Axe Rampage by 0.05 seconds per Bloodlust stack (at time of activation) per level.
Nervous Blood	5	5	Kill Skill. Killing an enemy gives +0.3% Reload Speed per Bloodlust stack per level for a short time.
Bloodsplosion	6	1	Killing an enemy causes them to explode with an Elemental Nova matching the element of the damage that killed it (Non-elemental damage will cause an explosive nova). Overkill damage is added to this damage. Each Bloodlust stacks increases this damage by 5%.

Mania

Focuses on melee combat and Health/Fight For Your Life mechanics.

Skill	Tier	Levels	Effect
Empty the Rage	1	5	+4% Melee Damage per level; additional +10% per level when shields or magazine is empty.
Pull the Pin	1	1	When you die, you drop a free grenade. If you kill an enemy with it, you get double XP.
Feed the Meat	1	5	+10% Max Health and +0.5 sec Shield Recharge Delay per level.
Fuel the Rampage	2	5	+20% Buzz Axe Rampage cooldown from taking damage per level; additional +20% per level from Health damage. You can now be damaged by teammates; friendly fire damage is 50% - 5% per level.
Embrace the Pain	2	5	+7% Fire Rate per level when shields are down. +0.5 sec Shield Recharge Delay per level.
Thrill of the Kill	3	5	Up to 10% per level of overkill damage is returned to you as Health, depending on how low your health is.
Light the Fuse	3	1	Fight For Your Life is replaced with Light the Fuse. During Light the Fuse you pull out a live bundle of dynamite and can move normally. The bundle detonates when the timer runs out. If you kill someone you are revived. Getting a revive with the bundle explosion gives you bonus Movement Speed for the remainder of the time that was left in Light the Fuse. Throw Dynamite sticks with Fire. Detonate bundle by holding Action.
Strip the Flesh	3	5	+3% Explosive damage per level; additional +3% per level in Fight For Your Life.
Redeem the Soul	4	1	You can instantly Revive teammates at the cost of downing yourself. You may revive in this way only once each time Buzz axe Rampage is on cooldown. +50% Fight For Your Life time.
Salt the Wound	4	5	Taking damage from an enemy while your shield is down adds a stack of Salt the Wound to a maximum of 20. +1.5% Melee Damage and +1% Shotgun damage per stack per level.
Silence the Voices	5	5	+50% Melee Damage per level. 12% chance to attack yourself with melee attacks.
Release the Beast	6	1	Activating the Buzz Axe Rampage when at or below 33% of your max health remaining (i.e., when the ! is showing) instantly refills your health and transforms you into a Badass Psycho Mutant with +100% Melee Damage and +50% Damage Reduction. Buzz Axe Rampage is instantly recharged afterwards.

Hellborn

Focuses on elemental effects, particularly setting oneself on fire. Bonuses that apply only when on fire are in orange text.

Skill	Tier	Levels	Effect
Burn, Baby, Burn	1	5	+7%, +15% burn damage per level. 7% chance (+7% per level) per fire attack to set self on fire.
Fuel the Fire	1	5	Kill Skill. 7% chance (+7% per level) per fire attack to set self on fire. Killing an enemy gives +40% Elemental Effect Chance (+40% per level) for a short time.
Pain is Power	2	5	+5%, +10% Weapon and Melee Damage per level (except for Sniper Rifles). -5% Critical Hit Damage (-5% per level)
Numbed Nerves	2	5	+10% damage reduction per level when on fire.
Elemental Elation	3	5	When Elemetnal Status Effect Damage is being done to enemies you gain stacks of Elemental Elation up to a maximum of 20. Each stack gives +1.0% Fire Rate and Magazine Size per level. Stacks will not decay while you are on fire.
Delusional Damage	3	1	All Elemental Status Effects you cause have a chance to light yourself on fire. Ignite chances are determined by those accumulated from Burn, Baby, Burn and Fuel the Fire.
Fire Fiend	3	5	Melee Attacks have a 10% per level chance to Ignite enemies. +10% Weapon Accuracy and +7% Reload Speed when on fire.
Hellfire Halitosis	4	1	Melee Override Skill. Pressing Melee causes you to breathe fire in a cone in front of you. Cooldown is 15 seconds.
Flame Flare	4	5	+20% Burn Duration on you per level. 15% chance per level for your Burn effects to apply another Burn effect.
Elemental Empathy	5	5	A percentage (5% per level) of Elemental Status Effect Damage done to enemies heals you.
Raving Retribution	6	1	While you are on fire, taking damage from enemies will spawn homing balls of fire that seek out the attacker and explode on impact. Fireballs only trigger once per second.

Quotes

Parentheses indicate Krieg's inner voice speaking.

"My stomach is clear and my mind is full of bacon."

When killing multiple enemies in a row

• "Look at me when I scream into your soul."
• "From hell's heart, I stab at thee!"
• "I know what I have become... I am the inside of this world, I taste the gore, and I smell the crying, AND I WANT MORE! I want to bathe in your flesh, I want to savor your fear. I wanna live inside a castle built of your agony, AND I WANT TO CRUMBLE IT WITH AN AXE TO YOUR CAROTID ARTERY!"
• Your family is next!

When using Buzz Axe Rampage

• STOP SCREAMING!
• GRIND GRIND GRIND KILL KILL KILL!
• (This is gonna get ugly...)
• (You asked for it...I can't hold it back any longer...!)
• I'M....COMING!!
• [maniacal laughter]
• I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!

When Buzz Axe Rampage is ready

• I feel the hurt...time for a rampage!
• Rampage and fill the red bar!
• I'm losing blood...gimme yours!
• My axe is thirsty!
• RAMPAGE TIME!
• It's time to go insane!
• Rampage and heal, heal and rampage!

When activating Light the Fuse

• Boom!
• Gotcha!

Critical Kill

• How can I snap your neck if you don't have one?!

When getting a Second Wind with Light The Fuse

• Explosions of life!
• Circle of Life!

When detonating during Light the Fuse

• Wahahahah! I'll take you ALL with me!
• Wahahahah! Not fast enough!
• We'll all go together!

Vehicle kill

• Your liver is a hood ornament!
• Insurance fraud!
• Train won't stop!
• I love it when you splash on my windshield!

Silence the Voices (Self Damage)

• Stop hitting yourself!!
• I hate me!!
• CONFUSION!!
• The pain goes HERE!
• SHUT UP!!
• GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!
• STOP TALKING TO ME!!
• KILL THE LITTLE MAN!!
• QUIET!!
• GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT!!
• LET ME LOOSE!!
• I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!
• NO, NO, NO!!
• STOP JUDGING ME!!
• YOU CAN'T CONTROL ME!!
• (Dude, what are you doing?)
• (I deserve this.)
• (You can't get rid of me THAT easily...)

When reviving an ally

• Love you...
• There's no barbecue 'til I say there's a barbecue!
• Can't make the pain scream from down there!
• I will murder your death.
• You don't die today. YOU DIE EVERY DAY!!
• Get back on your meat hunches!
• GET UP, GET UP!!
• Don't worry...it's a good touch.
• (That's right, help 'em. Just like old times...)

When revived

• (Say 'thank you'.) NIPPLE SALADS!! (...Close enough.)
• Somebody cares!?
• Stranger Danger!

On earning a Second Wind

• Immortal!
• (Get up...you still got bad guys to kill...)
• (Get moving... she might still be out there.)
• I'M NEVER SORRY!
• NOW YOU SHOULD BE SCARED!
• You woke the wrong dog!

While Idle

• Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now...
• (Where is she? Is she still alive? Did she get away?)
• (If you ever kill an innocent person, I will destroy us.) Shut UP!! (No. That's the deal. You can kill as many of the deserving as you like, but the second your axe touches the flesh of an innocent, I'll end this. All of it. A razor to the veins, just like that fugitive we tried to grab on Hera, remember?) Nnnnngh, get out of my head!! (...I'll take that as a 'yes.')
• Somebody open me up and put out the fire in my belly... Put it out with knives and bullets and strangling, or I will eat your nephews!
• (Nice change of pace not to be murdering someone for once. Probably temporary, though. I'll lose my mind again and be screaming about meat and fluid soon enough... But this part feels... nice.)
• You think this is the end... It will start again, the blood, the screaming, again and again, forever!
• NIPPLE SALADS! Nipple salads... Nipple salads!
• SILENCE! (I'll find it) AND I WILL KILL IT! (Quiet noises) I will strangle whispers out WITH A BONE SAW

Completing a Challenge

• (Maybe the world is sending me a sign.)
• STRONGER!
• My pecs have pecs!

Out of Ammo

• No, no, no, no, no!
• Arrrggh...who made this gun!?
• I ordered a lead salad!
• NOTHINGNESS!

Comparing Items

• (Uh-oh. Math. Hope we don't pop a blood vessel.)
• Uhh... the choices are pretzeling my inner lobes!
• See the numbers, taste the violence....

Spotting Health

• Organic armstabbers!
• Blood drink!

Spotting a Badass

• HERE COMES THE BATH-TIME!!
• I'm gonna swallow your throat, badass!
• I can't wait to taste your lungs!
• I'll show you what a badass is!
• I see meat muscles!

When set on fire

• I EMBRACE THE FLAME.
• HE'S ON FIRE.
• (I deserve to burn...)

When hit by friendly fire

• Hit the one you love! Do it!
• I'll eat the pain.
• I feel your spanking.
• Friendship is pain.
• Shoot me 'til you love me!
• Friendlyfriendlyfriendly FIRE!!
• DON'T...STOP!!
• (Oh...they finally turned on me...)

When turning into a Badass Psycho Mutant

• I CAN'T TAKE IT!!!
• NO! NO, NO, NO!!!
• I'VE GOT A HUGE HAND!!!
• [angry roar]
• (I'm a monster...!)
• (...You got 'em...!)

When using Redeem the Soul

• Better this way...

When killing enemies while using Buzz Axe Rampage

• "Pitiful people prepare, plead plentifully plentiful platitude phenomenal patriot pounds, poundingly perverse puppets pulping, pleasantly, putrid pasties."
• "You loud sacks of filth and sour cream can hit me with your pain pinatas all day, but you'll never take the jellied fantasies of my wasted youth! 
• [unintelligible roaring noises]
• I told ya what would happen!

When finding rare loot

• "I like my treasure like I like my baby steaks...Rare."

On gaining a level

• I heard a ding!

When making a high jump in a vehicle

• Looks like them Duke boys are in a peck of trouble!

Trivia

• According to Borderlands 2 Creative Director, Paul Hellquist, Krieg was once a bandit that became a Vault Hunter. Ultimately Hyperion captured Krieg and tortured him until his "brain broke," buffing up his abilities at the same time. [1]
• Krieg's skills "Strip The Flesh" and "Salt the Wound" are references to one phrase commonly heard from psychos ("strip the flesh, salt the wound").
• According to the PAX East developers commentary, some of Krieg's skills are reference to the psychos' skills which annoy players the most. This includes throwing explosives and exploding (Suicide Psychos), breathing fire (Burning Psychos) and rushing opponents for melee (normal Psychos). [2]
• Krieg's name means 'War' in German.
• Krieg's skill Burn, Baby, Burn is a reference to the song "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps.
• On April 24, 2013, Krieg took over @ECHOcasts Twitter (formerly owned by Sir Hammerlock).
• Krieg's line "Look at me when I scream into your soul" is a reference to a series of similar lines used by attacking psychos ("Look into my eyes when I stare at you" and "Look at me when I'm charging at you").
• Based on his quotes, Krieg seems to have at some point helped a woman or girl to escape from somewhere. Krieg makes several comments based around an unknown female, and his inner voice asks whether 'she' got away or not. (Possibly 'Tiny' Tina)
• Krieg seems to suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). He argues with himself in some of his quotes.
  • The dominant personality seems to be his violent side.
  • His more peaceful side seems to keep him in check by threatening that it will take control and commit suicide as soon as he harms an innocent person.
• Krieg's bounty is $100,000,000,000. No crimes are listed, but the poster has "Property of Hyperion" written on it.

Media

File:Borderlands 2 - 6 Minutes of Krieg Gameplay - PAX East

Psycho Pack Launch Trailer Krieg launch trailer