Can you beat Borderlands 1 with ONLY Revolvers!?
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- čas přidán 9. 12. 2022
- Hey everyone! So I decided to go back and experience Borderlands 1 (can't believe I haven't yet lol)
but I wanted to make it just a tad bit more difficult.
I'm still working to improve the quality of editing, game play, voice overs, etc.. so any criticism is always welcome. - Zábava
Don't you worry about using the sniper early game, those things are basically just two-handed scoped revolvers. But slower
For the early game, before you can access revolvers at level 13, your best bet is to get the TK missions and farm larva/skags in the shock crystal cave nearby the bandit camp you find the mining gate note in. The red chests in that cave can also provide revolvers, making it very efficient (it's actually a great farm for any run of the game).
Also, Mashers can often last far longer than most other guns - definitely worth trying to find new ones as you go through the game.
And, fun fact, Reaver is Mordecai's original model.
Or just power level with merchant of death exploit.
@@willthomas4516 But you miss out on the fun farming.
I love revolvers in bl1. I wish they beefed them up in bl2 because they are way weaker than the repeater style pistol. If they would have made jacobs have elements or made some torgue revolvers with explosives shoot quickly, they would have been better but even then, still not balanced. I missed where you said this was your first play through. Hope you enjoyed it enough to come back to it. I know i have in the past. Also, this video was almost the perfect length imo. The content was also good as well as the script you had to describe everything.
I mean, for Torgue revolvers, you've got the Unkempt Herald at least. The Maggie is also a stupid good gun.
well they were nerfed to match the "pistol" weapon tree which repeaters and revolvers were apart of in BL1 which if you think about it, made Mordicais' "gunslinger"/pistol main tree bloody broken because he had TWO ammo types and gun types to his name for ammo usage and dps, which was both the revolvers ammo and the repeaters ammo and they both benefited from his skill tree giving him two gun his perks worked with vs every other charcters skill tree which only benefited 1 gun for that tree, so Mordicai actually had 3 main guns which went as followed being snipers, repeaters, and revolvers. if you ask me if you did a build that used all three of his trees and used them effectively Mordicai could easily become a very dangerous character to use because how much ammo he had at his disposal for his THREE main guns. also to put that into prospective, if you pit The Assassin (Zer0) vs The Hunter (Mordiacai) skill trees they are virtually the same with the diffrence being their action skill tree to buff their action skills, they both main pistols and snipers with the only difference Mordicai gets 3 ammo/gun types vs Zer0 getting 2, what does this mean? Mordicais' loadouts run 3 gun slots as 1.Sniper, 2.Repeater, 3.revolver, 4.Gun of your preference (and keep in mind the more you used a gun type the more dmg reload time stability etc you got as that was a thing in BL1 and revolver and repeater each gave exp to the pistol tree) Vs a Zer0's loadout being either 4 different nipers for a sniper lv80 OP10 build or 4 different pistols for a lv80 op10 pistols build or like this being 1.Sniper then 3 guns of your pref if casual if your going the sniper tree or it went 1. Pistol of your choice then 3 guns of your pref to use. if you really think about it, Mordicai could wipe the floor with Zero0 due to how he could build his weapons' and scale off them with how BL1 worked my guy, sorry for the long write up and i tried to make in concise to why they "nerfed" revolvers in BL2, more like reworked them but still.
@@Matthias_Prudholm TL;DR
Also what? "Nerfed"? My brother in christ, the unkempt harold and the maggie were never in BL1.
@@Matthias_Prudholm but the real difference is the fact that Maggie is the only masher type revolver in bl2 I believe all they’re strength not on mordo came from being mashers honestly
@@novapheonixgaming Mordecai's gunslinger skills are simple and pretty broken. Even his sniper skills were, they were all lessons learned & avoided in future games (with exceptions)
As for the Maggie, it wasn't planned to be the only multishot pistol, with Jakobs with vladof barrels were planned to be x2 with up to x3 / x4 with double prefix, but they were cut.
I honestly like how mashers evolved into the Maggie and later, evolved into a rare weapon type in BL3. It's honestly better that way tbh
Oh man, I haven't even finished the video, but I gotta share this little nugget I found out from way back when I played BL1: Revolvers and Rocket Launchers are level-gated. If I recall correctly, they only start spawning at around level 13.
Along with transfusion grenades I'm pretty sure
Revolvers, Launchers, and Transfusions are level 13+
Rains, and Eridians (with two exceptions) are level 17+
You can find them before then, but they only spawn at that minimum level.
I always thought launchers were a little after revolvers, cause I would always end up getting revolvers around the sledge stuff, while I didn't start getting launchers until around the Skagzilla stuff, because that is the only thing I remember from that whole area
Love how he was so unknowingly hoping for something he couldn't get till lvl13
This game is so good that I always forget about the wet fart of an ending. An awesome battle with a Siren would've been way better than what we got, especially playing as Lilith.
It's far from perfecr, but at least she had a fight in the claptrap dlc
Btw if you wanted to start out with a revolver one of the gearbox’s starting guns is a revolver. So all you have to do is restart the character until you get it. If you find that cheating though you can always do the general Knox thing where you level up a ton and get a lot of money. If you don’t have that dlc though you can do the med kit glitch which also levels you up a ton.
How is the first one cheating and the second one isn't? If anything, it's the other way around.
@@noneatall9060 I suppose either way is cheating but going to a dlc for exp and money is pretty common to do in the borderlands games. Neither are frowned upon.
@@josephnowland8940 What's the med kit glitch in BL1?
@Ian Green it’s basically an infinite cp glitch. To start of you need a lot of money. What I do to get a lot of money in the beginning of the game is I go to Knoxx dlc and get items from the nearby chests and then I sell them. Once you have a lot of money you go to a med vending machine and buy the cheap med kits. Then you sell them. You keep on doing this until you have sold one item away from getting the merchant of death challenge. Then all you have to do is sell one item and then buy it back. You then save quit and then sell it and buy it back again. You can do this as much as you want for infinite xp.
Search up infinite xp glitch in borderlands 1 for more info.
Every time you do it you get 20,000 xp.
@@josephnowland8940 I'll finally be able to beat Crawmerax this way.
Yes, revolvers are extremely strong, borderline OP in BL1.
I imagine the masher will be the main weapon towards the end of the playthrough. I loved revolvers in this game and they were a ton of fun
God roll Chimera is amazing. Same for the Unforgiven.
Unforgiven masher is the most op weapon
Fun fact: The second red chest in the tutorial always gives you the same pre-determined loot.
Just so you know: That Masher Revolver was in part good *because* it was only three shots. The three shot magazine gives a massive boost to damage.
masher revolvers are so fun to use in mordecai love the challenges aswell
bl1 is my favorite
Sadly the revolver in most games is the one weapon you can always rely on as your heavy hitter sniper.
IMO revolvers were really good in borderlands 1, I used them a lot since I played mordecai and they served me well in most battles
15:41 its origins are more raw-er, its a quote by General Patton, ww2 era
I really love about BL1 that u get proficency with weapons the more u use them - i really miss that in the following games. Sure the Badass Ranks are a better system for multiple characters so u dont have to farm levels with every character new but its still so cool having a stat screen that tells u what ur main weapons are that u used while giving u bonus stats on those weapons. Also - are u using a mod? Because the menus and the hud look clean af compared to what i know form the game
The remastered version of the game.
@@zachrohler1047 Is that the GotY Edition or its own version?
@@holschermarc I dont really know? I just know ots not the 360 version lol mb
@@holschermarc it's GOTY Enhanced so yes its own version
i totally forgot about this until the end but at the beginning of the game for the remastered version you get two legendaries and one of them could roll to be a legendary revolver! other than that good video!
I miss these guns. Not only does shooting heads feel satisfying, but the "oomph" that these guns carry is just fantastic.
Pistol mordi wrecks. But you know game too easy
Mashers are easily the best guns in bl1, makes me wish we had more in other bl games
Masher is a prefix all jakobs aside from shotguns in bl3
Mashers and double anarchy were the big go to weapons of BL1. Ludicrous damage per shot or an absolute bullet hose. Things just couldn't stand in your way
can you beat bl 1 with one of the best gun type? man dude such a hard run LMFAO
He didn’t know c:
You can get a revolver with the 2 legendary weapons at the start of the game. All you need to do is reset until one of the weapons is the "Violence" and you are good to go.
That's a good question. While revolvers are among the best weapons in the game, and a complete
revolver-build can beat BL1 no problem; however, there is a number of hurdles to go through to get
them to their dominating status. For starters, revolvers, not unlike rocket launchers - begin to appear
relatively late in the game. So until you get one - you have to do something to fight and progress
effectively enough - to get to the said revolvers alive. Otherwise, it would be an exercise in masochism.
Same can be said about Mordecai's skill set and the right class mods: yes, they do make a huge impact -
but leveling that skill tree and finding the right class mod - will take a long while (i'd venture around 20-25
skill points) so that will also happen rather late in the game.
Finally, not all revolvers are the same: merely finding one - does not automatically make you an unstoppable
killing machine. And even having a set of 3-4 revolvers for every occasion - would still leave the question of
ammo. While this will not be a problem late-game (because class mods), but until that point, using revolvers
only - will certainly have you out of ammo, especially in the longer fights, presuming you're not one of those
"run-away-with-tail-between-legs" players. The last round in the Circle of Slaughter is unlikely to be passed
this way, unless your gear heavily outclasses the opposition via some kind of cheat.
Then again, who said you have to be Mordecai?! Being Lilith of Brick - goes a long way...
Lilith gets a "get-out-of-jail-free" card, and Brick...well, Brick - SMASH!!! So there are options.
Decided to do a revolver only run as well after getting inspired by this video and did a bunch of side quest to gain correct XP. Also found out Scagzilla drops a VERY OP revolver that hold 2 shots but was also 2 shoting bruisers up to lvl 27
You find some amazing revolvers in the DLCs. Playthrough 1 Jakobs cove gun machine guarantees you an Unforgiven. Then there's the Secret Army of General Knox where you can glitch into the armory at the end and open all the cases with no time limit. It gets pretty easy to farm some amazing legendaries.
oh man an early masher drop is always so insane you can use that thing from lvl 13 to 40 easily
Lv.13 is a tier for Jakobs, Tediore, S&S Munitions, and Anshin.
3:57 Two whites in a red chest. Bummer!
6:50 Good parts, good material type, best prefix. Looks like it has barrel4 (most powerful barrel type and most especially fun on a Masher). Also has mat3, best Jakobs material type, which grants the "XX" prefix. That means it can blast enemies back!
7:16 [cue Pantera reference]
9:22 Totally! They're no less challenging, but you're actually able to stagger them by nailing them in the carapace with a strong enough shot or strike.
10:42 Fun fact: Krom was voiced by Roland. czcams.com/video/Dyot1N9St1E/video.html
15:08 Kinda like the later parts of OG Halo.
17:43 How about a BL1 allegiance run? I'd suggest researching class mods on the Borderlands wiki so you can base your character/brand around that. Allegiance runs are less fun when you can't use class mods or can't fill in all yer slots. For example, there are no S&S class mods for Brick, no Tediore class mods for Lil, et cetera. Each character has high synergy with certain brands. S&S Mordy would be interesting and fun.
Playing Mordecai on Bl1 with revolvers turns the game into a headshot simulator. Cool.
Tips: make a new character until you get a violence revolver, its really useful early game and would have saved you the pain of not having a weapon for a while. You can also visit the knoxx dlc for a few levels, aswell as the jakobs cove although its a bit harder to do when you're underleveled. You can farm things like mashers in new haven as theres loads of chests there, other than that theres not much of a reason to change how you beat the game
Really enjoyed your video man , you got a new subscriber
Revolvers we’re my favorite weapon types in bl1. I thought it was funny that some revolvers shot faster if you reload after every shot 😂
Also in the future, I THINK you can use car stations in farther parts of the map to run bonehead over before you fix the first one. Might need to grenade jump a fence if I recall
u should do a bl1 run gasmask maybe like tediore legendaries only or something bad like that
"Can you comment on every single "can you beat borderlands with xxx" video challenge?"
@@Eon2137 if i wach em probably
borderlands1 revolvers are by far and away my absolute fucking favorite gun in any borderlands game
it's such a shame the later games could not capture the absolute beautiful sound design and gunfeel of borderlands1 revolvers
There's a "hidden" chest that you pass during the "By the seeds of your pants" side quest that you can get elemental revolvers from (the x3 explosive element can last you till level 48 even when the gun is only level 13-15). You can also get a revolver from the chests in sledges safehouse, the vender over by the circle of slaughter, and from random chests over near titans end in arid badlands (mind my spelling)
funny how mordy flicked em off right as he was picked 💀
Yeah, mashers are my favorite kinds of revolver. I always find atleast one golden masher with regenerating ammo, or atleast one with very high accuracy. And then just running around giving hip fire headshots like a fucking cowboy. Can't express how satisfying it is to see their head just explode, especially against psychos or zombies in Zombie island of doctor Ned.
In my experience, yes, more than beatable lol. I did that naturally in my most recent playthrough as Brick of all people. The game only wanted to drop nice revolvers for me the entire time. Used a lvl 20 legendary explosive revolver for the majority of the playthrough. Thing regenerated ammo too, made things so trivial.
The first time I played borderlands I went with brick and specked into rocket launchers. I didn't find a rocket launcher till the very end of the play through lol
Aren’t rocket launchers garbage in bl1?
I have what is essentially a low level masher. It's got the slow fire rate of one. Plus the damage multiplier. But, also includes 10 ammo regen. This thing has carried me for 13 levels so far. 847 damage from a level 20 revolver.
Mann Revolvers in BL 1 where so fun to play with. Handling and everything just felt goood. xD
Keep it up man awesome video.
the pestilent defiler revolver with scope is imo top 5 best weapons in the game
That's the best weapon in BL1, sad that it didnt make it's way to BL3
I saw the title and immediately thought "well yea, the masher is nuts"
Haven't even watched it yet. Yes, yes you can. Playing gunslinger morti is a very fond memory of mine.
Short answer:yes Long answer: Meet your new bestie, the Jakobs Unforgiven served Masher style. Enjoy it! Cause it NEVER appears like that in any other game.
This is fire man keep making videos like this
That actually was cool the way you ran up that ramp and killed the rack.
I got the Patton in my first run and used to to finish the zombie island unlike in the later games with the harrold the revolvers in 1 were very balanced but you could get some great one like the chimera I believe and the anaconda
ive done this playthrough before it was a lot of fun
I just started playing BL1 again after about 2 years. It's the GOTY edition on ps3. When i last played, i had a lvl.28 Roland and lvl.34 Mordy. I had about 10-12 legendaries total (most from farming chests in Gen. Knoxx dlc). In the past several days i leveled Mordy from lvl.34 to 39. In that time i have found 13 legendaries (9-10 from random world drops and 3-4 from vending machines). I've mostly been playing vanilla game and the zombie dlc. Did they do a patch that seriously boosts the legendary drop rate within the past 2 years?
Yoo I love the content keep going🤘
My first crawmerax kill at max level was using my gunslinger mordecai and a masher unforgiven that 1-2 shot its weak spots, really miss how strong revolvers used to be in BL1.
I love the vids plz make more
The masher revolvers are the bl1 equivalent of a dpuh
There some god teir late game revolvers. Caustic and static Laws can be just short of game breaking. If you played the dlc and got an Aries, you’d pretty much be set forever
A Gunslinger with
+80 or +90
And Ammo Regen
Would have made a massive difference
I got a purple revolver that lasted me ~10 levels last time i played thru it
Revolvers are so strong in bl1
You can beat it with revolvers. I still remember offing craw with the OG Unforgiven with a masher prefix, The true skullmasher.
Bl1 gunplay still feels great (to me) its fun
yeah, mashers are amazing with mordecai’s perks
At 2:10 is it a bioshock reference(would you kindly give him a hand)
Cannot believe you ended the game like that and fully missed the opportunity to make a six shooter pun considering you had exactly 6 bullets left.
Oh, yeah. Sweet nostalgia.
Also you could've pretty much fallen asleep and let your cat play and still beaten eridian promontory. Mordecai has a skill called trespass that ignores enemy shields 100%
Love mordecai he was my first char I picked when I played
You can get a gearbox revolver or you can find a chest with a revolver in it but if you are lucky only so its still valid 100%
you should play the dlc's, those are really good, especially the Armory of General Knoxx dlc as it shows partly the downfall of Atlas
awesome vid bro
My favorite gun I ever got in the original Borderlands was a 2 shot corrosive revolver with stupid amounts of damage and absurd range. I loved it so much I cheated and used willowtree to bring it up to my level
also the whole fact in borderlands 1 you get bonuses the more you use one weapon type which i partly didn't like sense at a point one weapon type be 100% better then the rest making it harder to switch it up but at the same time love it because it meant your favorite weapon type will improve with time and those bonuses arent a joke normally i think some bonuses go up to 100%
Yeah I get it. I'm trying to level launchers and eridian weapons rn and it's so frustrating because they reload so so slowly in comparison to the other weapons. I basically power leveled pistols at the start of the game this pkaythrough I've been doing until I got to sledge, then I literally used nothing but shotguns until they got to level 9 then I focused on SMG's. It's brutal when you're grinding for the sake of grinding and being over-leveled.
6 rounds with absolutely insane damage for a pistol? yeah I think you can, the problem is getting one with good sights, no scope just good iron sights
Revolvers are some of my favorite weapons in bl1
my least favorite thing about borderlands 1 is the side quests are compulsory, theres no way you can remain adequately leveled if you only do main missions
same thing with bl3
Can you beat Borderlands 1 with ONLY Revolvers!? - Depends on what you mean, are early pistols allowed or are you gonna try to break the game in some way? I'll be honest, I think that any challenge that requires some exploit to be done are stupid.
The best part of BL1 is the Revolvers. The Mashers are so fun to use. It's unfortunate that they lost their unique identity in the following games, but it made sense to simplify the weapon system.
Simplify the weapon system? That's not a good thing at all. The best thing about borderlands is it's complex weapons and dumbing it down was the worst thing they could've possibly done. So no, it doesn't make sense at all.
I saw a borderlands like fanmade game onces where you shoot only robots who look and sound a bit like claptrap
Can you beat BL2 as Salvador with only the fibber PS Trick shots would be so awesome
yes
Mordecais Gunslinger tree was so much fun.
I always do a mix tree, I focus on getting bloodwing able to kill multiple opponents first, then I go through the gunslinger tree to get the time reduction perk. Though I love the absolute ridiculousness of the perk that let's you shoot 2 bullets with a trigger pull with pistols, repeater pistols are absolute shredders lol
The chimera is still one of my absolute favorite weapons in any game
In goty you could restart your character to have a chance of getting a legendary revolver
earliest revolver is the chest in the little offshoot-cave in the area for the bladeflower seeds quest from T.K. Baha. the chest produces items well above your current character level when you reach it and fairly consistently produces higher item categories like revolvers rockets and snipers. on a related note it is also the earliest possible rocket launcher and earliest source of a few grenade mods.
on a less related note I wonder what version of the game you're running: usually in borderlands 1 most forms of skag (everything but pups and spitters) are essentially immune to getting shot from the front, to the point where they will regularly crush projectile-based opponents even through the full level disbalance range. can't even shoot the damned things with rockets or other explosives since for some insane reason they count as hitting the armor if any part of the splash touches any armored part leaving them taking less damage from The Hive (Gearbox rocket launcher, OPAF) than they do from a random pistol or smg bullet hitting them in the foot.
I play the base BL1 on 360 still and I have no clue what you're talking about with the skags. At the same level shooting them with a weapon that does 40 damage will only cause 17 points of damage, if they're higher level than you, no damage, if you shoot them while they got their mouth open, full damage. Idk how all the variables change and whatnot but skags aren't invincible from the front, and any weapons that do elemental damage; mainly the flame and acid are very effective for taking out skags.
@@SeviathTheHumanDrago I guess the question then becomes what version am _I_ playing, because they act pretty much exactly like I described both for interacting with me across several characters and interacting with other enemies.
@@evernewb2073 That is indeed the question lol. I don't have any mods for any of my games, so when I see people who have mods installed talking about Lore and game mechanics sometimes I'm like 🤔 "That's not how that's supposed to work." Lol
@@SeviathTheHumanDrago that's the weird part: no mods here either, it's downloaded from steam and I haven't been forcing it not to update so it's probably not basegame 1.0 but I don't have anything weird going on.
the other strange part is that those armored areas ARE part of the bae game mechanics, it's not just the spiderants that get it, the reason corrosive is so weirdly bad is because it is supposed to be for punching through those armored areas. it technically is better for that than anything else but ~200% better is still essentially nothing when it's 200% of less than 1%.
about the only time you see the mechanic work even remotely correct is that some versions of the atlas troops can sometimes get parts of their armor melted off by corrosive...it's not common or useful enough to see it happen for me to have gone and figured out the actual mechanics even when my default weapon for dealing with them is usually a corrosive maliwan revolver or shotgun. no sense shooting an armor plate 20 times to make it so that you can shoot the shoulder twice when you can just shoot the head once or foot/leg twice to begin with.
@@evernewb2073 Yeah try the OG 360 version and compare it to the steam version. I've never seen pieces of their armor melt off until after someone is killed but its only via the effect. Which is why having the higher effect chance matters. I love watching the bandits melt or burn to death lol animation is so neat!
Borderlands 2 pistol only? oh wait that's just every salvador player
you can actually get a revolver after you somehow get across the jump either through a god grenades boost or what not and get one around lv 15-ish from he first circle of slaughter is how you get a revolver, or you coulda powered leveled somehow but that really depends, should a made this a pistols only and gone with Mordicais pistol tree which boosts both Repeaters (your normal pistol) and Revolvers, or at least allowed yourself use of the Repeater until you got a Revolver
Love the challenges!😀
Oh hells yeah. Let's go
The one thing i disliked about bl1 is that the game goes from 0 - 100 REAL quick (and at few points too) like with a lvl 6 being thrown straight into a lvl 13/14 bone head.
The Destroyer looks like the tentacle monster from Watchmen
Shit now I wanna play, cuz shit wasn't the first borderlands game but didn't have money for dlc on bl2 but found the game of the year on the og and got it for 10 at gamestop and ended up playing that game a lot, funny as hell, felt smooth with combat for the most part and overall fun dlc. Even got to know some people that played it and they gave me molded weapons which I still have cuz I transferred my characters from ps3 to ps4
A better challenge, can you beat Borderlands 1 using only rocket shotguns type? but something i dont rembember, the game unlocks this type of weapon after you reach dahl headlands or new heaven?
you can get a revolver at the start of the game as one of the gear box weapons i believe
You can always travel to underdome to find revolvers there in shop
"Have you seen mah gun?"
Turns out Captain Flynt had 2 brothers. One is Zane (Yes, the playable vault hunter) in addition to Baron
Isn't there a mission in BL1 where you can find the parts for a revolver at level 7?
poor dude didn't know that the first revolvers can be unlocked only on the level 13
Joltzdude crying the entire time...
At least you got something cool for revolver playthrough 2
BL1 is just Amazing.
Can you beat BL1 with only revolvers? (While also using melee, Bloodwing, and a sniper rifle) lol I’m playing