My favorite part of the takedown is that, the intire time you really feel like maliwan I trying everything they can to stop you. One part sticks out to me is when after you Valkyires when your going down the ramp you thinking huh a straight shot to wotan, and only seconds later to notice that they are pulling that bridge backwards to stop you from getting across it.
I have run Maliwan Takedown easily 100s of times, and I STILL love running it EVERY time. I think its the best piece of endgame content in any Borderlands game. This is a GREAT video dude, why dont you do more stuff like this???
If I had to guess, he doesn't produce more content like this because it's high effort and time consuming, neither of which are typically rewarded by the CZcams algorithm.
Man borderlands as a series is an amazing franchise. Gotta say 1 is probably my favorite. Love them all tho. Gearbox hit the nail on the head with the humor and frantic shootumup and lootumdown!
@@Lombrar 2 is actually the one I've played the least. Still played at least 80 or 90 hours. 1 was just amazing. It set the bar for all future looters. Even pre sequel was fun. I like them all!
One time when I was a kid I went to buy borderlands 2 and was so excited then some dip shit loser told me that I sucks and that 2 is so much better. I was like 8 wtf do I say, I didn't stand up for myself but his coworker did and said one day ur gonna do that shit to the wrong person and get beat up. it made me realize that he was wrong for doing that and I really appreciate him
@@Lombrar I agree that 3 is the master piece but 1 is the old original that sequels try to replicate but fail cuz the original wasn't perfect. The new games are so polished and story drivin where the first only had stories to motivate you to explore and play the game. I'm not saying the new games are a worse borderlands just that it's not the same exact game. anyone who enjoys borderlands 1 will be able to enjoy the later games but if u started on 2 it would be harder cuz borderlands 2 has more added to it.
One thing I'd add to this is how amazing the music is in this takedown. While I'm also just a sucker for high energy techno, hotline miami style, the music otherwise fits the theme and the feeling of the takedown perfectly, as well as the tracks evolving as the player progresses over time. The music of Borderlands never really stuck out to me that much as important, but muting the Maliwan Takedown's music to listen to something else while completing it is a crying shame.
I would love to see you do an episode on the Guardian Takedown and what went wrong with it as well! This one was fantastic and I’m excited to see what content you continue to make down the road!
The thing thats wrong with the eridian takedown is the massive amount of invincibility phases i mean the first boss has like 12 that 100% take at least 30 seconds each time to deal damage again last time i got my combo setup i fought him for 5 mins and it was basically only running and jumping on the pads then 1 tapping his next tiny hp bar. And too many unnecessary mechanicsi mean theres what 5 jumping puzzles that can instantly end your run? Maybe 1 or 2 but 5-6 is just totally overboard. Minimal skill is required to do them after some practice so its just not rewarding in any way and after doing it successfully 15 times in a row to die on the puzzle is just massively frustrating
too many cliffs for one thing. nobody wants to spend all that time grinding through the tanky enemies only to die because a launcher shot them too hard and they missed a platform and died, having to start all over.
The music deserves a mention it is great all the way through but the Valkrie Squad music is an absolute banger of a track,Another reason i like it is that i got to do another mission for Lorelei i like her a lot she is one of my favorite characters.
I’m late to the party here, but there is one minor gripe that I have with this takedown: I really wish the Thor mech was given the same fanfare as the Kraken. The Kraken makes a grand entrance early in the run, and it even subtly prepares you for Wotan itself since the two share some similarities. Thor, on the other hand, just shows up unceremoniously at the very end, when you’re already fighting Wotan. They should’ve made it the last enemy before the Wotan fight instead of those 2 badass heavies.
I mean. An in depth rememberance of each vault hunter would be cool. In terms of their depth as people, game impact, and how they shaped vault hunters that came after them. Love these vids btw. Also trickshot op cant change my mind
Couldn't agree more, i aways sensed that the maliwan takedown was the best content, the music was spot on, and with wotan it progressed along his phases too. In the beginning it was really really hard for me to beat it, and i was thrilled when i managed to get through the entire takedown, and even now that is a walk in the park with the right gear and build, it still have all the elements to get me envolved, man the bridge is so fun, so much enemies, almost like a war you're facing by yourself, so much to talk about! Really like your video, thank you to bring up this discussion, loved to hear your opinion
The first time I attempted the take down, I got killed right after the turret section. But after getting better gear and a better skill set and numerous tries, I was finally able to beat Wotan several times. And what a feeling it was.
I believe the 2 year anniversary of BL3 in September will be a BIG FINALE for content drop. Perhaps another Takedown. Pearls. Who knows! Here’s hoping….
Maliwan takedown is the best in my opinion. It really is exciting the first time you get there. You dont just get one boss, You get a whole map to take down and its way easier to navigate trough than Gurdian Takedown.
Even the choice on the types of enemies are good. Since many are pretty much specops and they would be sent to high profile targets. Like Necrodefeyo. Makes you feel like they sent the best of the best to this facility. And the design of the facility itself is great. I still remember my first time playing though this. Took many tries but it was great 😁👍
It also helps that fighting bandits was like voluntarily getting cancer. God I hate the anointed enemies. Of all enemy factions Maliwan is probably the most balanced and fun to fight
With the meta anoints nerf, vanilla maliwan takedown feels like it was before mayhem 2.0 Not too overpowered, nor too weak, just great. What will be better is if I played it in redux, soon
Last time I played this was DLC4 drop I think, I had an amara running at god speed which was super fun and then I had a beastly moze. I want to get into it again now that I’m rocking the ps5 and I’ve missed out on 2 massive updates I believe.
the immunity phases for wotan are great because they are short and as you said they allow for some increase in challenge from wotan. its not like the guardian takedown where the immunity phases are 5 years worth of length for you to jump around or even the average boss in the general story that just makes you sit there watching a cutscene for the next 5 minutes while you wait to kill them, evil lilith.
Not sure if I have ever agreed with anything more in my life. I love the MTD. Probably my most fav thing in all of the borderlands installments....and it was free!!!!
Wotan's immunity stages are not fun, they are just (thankfully) very brief, sometimes even hard to notice. Its still the best boss fight design in the entire series followed probably by EOS/Eclipse. Despite having so many stages, the transition between them is so fluid that the whole fight is very engaging and player is never left sitting alone on the arena (Tyrene fight sucks balls). Shame though that this supposedly invinceble boss didnt get proper scaling to the endgame builds and loadouts as some of them can just onetap him... And then you have Guardian Takedown... seems like completely different set of people worked on that one.
ok i can't be the only person but i can play the MTD anytime and have fun with it and with the amount of time i have on bl3 its kinda surprising that somthing that i have ran probably hundreds of times now can still be fun unlike a peice of content i dred playing (Guardian Take Down)
I haven’t really bothered with the guardian takedown but I really enjoyed the maliwan takedown. Though the last time I played it, amara’s fakegrasp hadn’t been nerfed yet so it’s been a while. I wonder if they made any changes since I last played. I thought I heard they buffed wotan’s health
damn this hit me hard and ill miss BL3 its a great ride a great story and many great builds to be had, and i absolutely loved the narration of this masterpeice of a video much love your pal Discord 💜💜💜
It is definetly the best endgame content in BL3 so far. I mean, the first boss of the guardian takedown is really cool and.. that's it. In Maliwan takedown; i simply enjoy every segment there is and it is actually rewarding. I really hope we will see more content like this and if yes, it will hopefully be a real challenge. That's literally the only problem i have with bl3. Even on true takedown mode it feels like i'm just rushing to the end of it, maybe a few FFYL here and there, but i never really get the feeling of losing control.
@@penedrador i agree and for some reason sometimes I just die at random times i don't even have mayhem modes on. I just die and don't even enter ffyl. And no I'm not talking about the void. It's so stupid especially if you fall in to the void in that one part.
Guardian takedown for me was always too tedious and buggy. Multiple times the scourge boss would spam teleport me over and over and there was nothing I could do, until I decided to jump off the map so I could try again.... But then I got stuck when I respawned and couldn't move so had to reset the WHOLE thing. Luckily I got both the smog and the globetrotter in those two attempts so I never have to do it again.
The kyb’s worth was my favorite smg until the flipper. I don’t have season pass 2 so I’ve never used the plasma coil. I wonder how the kyb’s worth holds up now
@@metallicnole4514 its still pretty good, although like most guns you need a decent annoint to perform. not mention Moze destroys with it because of all her splash bonuses.
Hot take; The Maliwan Takedown is one of the best raids in any looter shooter ever. Edit: Also I could never do this on True Takedown because the game would keep crashing for me.
I love the takedown, but nearly every artistic reason you listed isn't the reason most people enjoyed it. It's just fun, but never do people think "okay I can go back up this slope" at the beginning.
technically it is, just that you have a gun that shoots lasers that explode that chain onto enemies, so like enemies are going to die before they get to try and kill you lol
Guardian takedown is garbage. Takes too long and no reward/drop is worth the time. Maliway takedown is alright Bc you can get through it somewhat quickly. We need another takedown that is difficult but also as short as maliwan
Bro I really like the content and have enjoyed every single vid but I have to say this one is just hilariously wrong. Both the takedowns are just glorified and extremely tedious mobbing missions. The only reason to run this thing is to check if a build works well or not. Up until the end of the bridge then I save quit cause that boss fight is stupidly boring and easy and the loot sucks donkey balls.
I honestly didn't like maliwan takedown or Any of takedowns just didn't feel worth the effort not really any good drops don't get me wrong there are decent drops but none that feel good enough for endgame and it takes forever to run solo And not really much story to them idk felt better as mid game content like after you completely game but still not Max level
Maliwan takedown was great because it opened up the doors for the wilhelm takedown babyyyyyyy
Wilhelm takedown???
Wut
@@Muddeth63 Yeah, you never heard of it before?
@@Rahnonymous no?
@@Muddeth63 this man is uncultured in the ways of Wilhelm
My favorite part of the takedown is that, the intire time you really feel like maliwan I trying everything they can to stop you. One part sticks out to me is when after you Valkyires when your going down the ramp you thinking huh a straight shot to wotan, and only seconds later to notice that they are pulling that bridge backwards to stop you from getting across it.
A classic borderlands maneuver, take away the bridge to the boss
please learn how to type
I actually died...
love the quality in production, it doesn't go unnoticed!
Thank you :)
I have run Maliwan Takedown easily 100s of times, and I STILL love running it EVERY time. I think its the best piece of endgame content in any Borderlands game. This is a GREAT video dude, why dont you do more stuff like this???
If I had to guess, he doesn't produce more content like this because it's high effort and time consuming, neither of which are typically rewarded by the CZcams algorithm.
Man borderlands as a series is an amazing franchise. Gotta say 1 is probably my favorite. Love them all tho. Gearbox hit the nail on the head with the humor and frantic shootumup and lootumdown!
I love this franchise too. But the best Borderlands would be 2 for me. Although, i think the gun gameplay is at its best in BL3!
@@Lombrar 2 is actually the one I've played the least. Still played at least 80 or 90 hours. 1 was just amazing. It set the bar for all future looters. Even pre sequel was fun. I like them all!
One time when I was a kid I went to buy borderlands 2 and was so excited then some dip shit loser told me that I sucks and that 2 is so much better. I was like 8 wtf do I say, I didn't stand up for myself but his coworker did and said one day ur gonna do that shit to the wrong person and get beat up. it made me realize that he was wrong for doing that and I really appreciate him
@@Lombrar I agree that 3 is the master piece but 1 is the old original that sequels try to replicate but fail cuz the original wasn't perfect. The new games are so polished and story drivin where the first only had stories to motivate you to explore and play the game. I'm not saying the new games are a worse borderlands just that it's not the same exact game. anyone who enjoys borderlands 1 will be able to enjoy the later games but if u started on 2 it would be harder cuz borderlands 2 has more added to it.
One thing I'd add to this is how amazing the music is in this takedown. While I'm also just a sucker for high energy techno, hotline miami style, the music otherwise fits the theme and the feeling of the takedown perfectly, as well as the tracks evolving as the player progresses over time. The music of Borderlands never really stuck out to me that much as important, but muting the Maliwan Takedown's music to listen to something else while completing it is a crying shame.
I would love to see you do an episode on the Guardian Takedown and what went wrong with it as well! This one was fantastic and I’m excited to see what content you continue to make down the road!
Thank you :)
The thing thats wrong with the eridian takedown is the massive amount of invincibility phases i mean the first boss has like 12 that 100% take at least 30 seconds each time to deal damage again last time i got my combo setup i fought him for 5 mins and it was basically only running and jumping on the pads then 1 tapping his next tiny hp bar. And too many unnecessary mechanicsi mean theres what 5 jumping puzzles that can instantly end your run? Maybe 1 or 2 but 5-6 is just totally overboard. Minimal skill is required to do them after some practice so its just not rewarding in any way and after doing it successfully 15 times in a row to die on the puzzle is just massively frustrating
too many cliffs for one thing.
nobody wants to spend all that time grinding through the tanky enemies only to die because a launcher shot them too hard and they missed a platform and died, having to start all over.
The music deserves a mention it is great all the way through but the Valkrie Squad music is an absolute banger of a track,Another reason i like it is that i got to do another mission for Lorelei i like her a lot she is one of my favorite characters.
This is indeed, by far, the best end game content in the game till now. Just love running it till this day just for fun!
Am i the only one that is in love with the soundtracks of the maliwan takedown
This is a very good video. We rarely stop to think about the secondary psychology going on as we work our way through content. Subscribed
Thanks :)
Great video with a fantastic dive into the intricacies and subtleties that make the Maliwan Takedown so wonderful to go through.
CANT WAIT. 13 HOURS. WOOOOOOOOO
I’m late to the party here, but there is one minor gripe that I have with this takedown: I really wish the Thor mech was given the same fanfare as the Kraken. The Kraken makes a grand entrance early in the run, and it even subtly prepares you for Wotan itself since the two share some similarities. Thor, on the other hand, just shows up unceremoniously at the very end, when you’re already fighting Wotan. They should’ve made it the last enemy before the Wotan fight instead of those 2 badass heavies.
I mean. An in depth rememberance of each vault hunter would be cool. In terms of their depth as people, game impact, and how they shaped vault hunters that came after them. Love these vids btw. Also trickshot op cant change my mind
This is still my fav content in the game. If I want to jump on and play for 20 or so mins, this is what I do. I absolutely love the MTD runs.
the takedowns were amazing and almost perfect in every way the only issue is that there isnt enough of them
Yesterday I did my first maliwan takedown and I have to say it is pretty cool. The final boss was fun too
Couldn't agree more, i aways sensed that the maliwan takedown was the best content, the music was spot on, and with wotan it progressed along his phases too. In the beginning it was really really hard for me to beat it, and i was thrilled when i managed to get through the entire takedown, and even now that is a walk in the park with the right gear and build, it still have all the elements to get me envolved, man the bridge is so fun, so much enemies, almost like a war you're facing by yourself, so much to talk about! Really like your video, thank you to bring up this discussion, loved to hear your opinion
The first time I attempted the take down, I got killed right after the turret section. But after getting better gear and a better skill set and numerous tries, I was finally able to beat Wotan several times. And what a feeling it was.
I really wish they would tweak the Guardian Takedown. So many great fights and mechanics. It’s…. almost great.
I just hope that with vaultcards they'll drop a new takedown or something...but with wonderlands this is just a hope :(
I believe the 2 year anniversary of BL3 in September will be a BIG FINALE for content drop. Perhaps another Takedown. Pearls. Who knows! Here’s hoping….
Maliwan takedown is the best in my opinion. It really is exciting the first time you get there. You dont just get one boss, You get a whole map to take down and its way easier to navigate trough than Gurdian Takedown.
Only reply here if you agree you want more takedowns in Borderlands 3
As long as there are no stupid jump challenges and being able to be pushed off the map easily, I would love more takedowns!
Even the choice on the types of enemies are good. Since many are pretty much specops and they would be sent to high profile targets. Like Necrodefeyo. Makes you feel like they sent the best of the best to this facility. And the design of the facility itself is great. I still remember my first time playing though this. Took many tries but it was great 😁👍
The Valkyrie Squad OST is a fuckin banger
It also helps that fighting bandits was like voluntarily getting cancer. God I hate the anointed enemies. Of all enemy factions Maliwan is probably the most balanced and fun to fight
There’s a reason why I test all of my gear and builds on Athenas.
K6 sent me here. Badass video 💜💜
With the meta anoints nerf, vanilla maliwan takedown feels like it was before mayhem 2.0
Not too overpowered, nor too weak, just great. What will be better is if I played it in redux, soon
Last time I played this was DLC4 drop I think, I had an amara running at god speed which was super fun and then I had a beastly moze. I want to get into it again now that I’m rocking the ps5 and I’ve missed out on 2 massive updates I believe.
Playing this on m11 then dying on wotan is hell
the immunity phases for wotan are great because they are short and as you said they allow for some increase in challenge from wotan. its not like the guardian takedown where the immunity phases are 5 years worth of length for you to jump around or even the average boss in the general story that just makes you sit there watching a cutscene for the next 5 minutes while you wait to kill them, evil lilith.
Maliwan: Destruction through beauty
Not sure if I have ever agreed with anything more in my life. I love the MTD. Probably my most fav thing in all of the borderlands installments....and it was free!!!!
That feeling u get when he plays the valkaries theme before talking about it
Wotan's immunity stages are not fun, they are just (thankfully) very brief, sometimes even hard to notice. Its still the best boss fight design in the entire series followed probably by EOS/Eclipse. Despite having so many stages, the transition between them is so fluid that the whole fight is very engaging and player is never left sitting alone on the arena (Tyrene fight sucks balls). Shame though that this supposedly invinceble boss didnt get proper scaling to the endgame builds and loadouts as some of them can just onetap him...
And then you have Guardian Takedown... seems like completely different set of people worked on that one.
“With a trick called baiting”
Guess gearbox is a MASTERBATER
I’ll show myself out
I think chapter 2 is borderlands 3 biggest success it’s gorgeous immersive set pieces that has thought the base game and the dlcs
ok i can't be the only person but i can play the MTD anytime and have fun with it and with the amount of time i have on bl3 its kinda surprising that somthing that i have ran probably hundreds of times now can still be fun unlike a peice of content i dred playing (Guardian Take Down)
I haven’t really bothered with the guardian takedown but I really enjoyed the maliwan takedown. Though the last time I played it, amara’s fakegrasp hadn’t been nerfed yet so it’s been a while. I wonder if they made any changes since I last played. I thought I heard they buffed wotan’s health
@@RemingtonSteel Driver amara was my favorite build till they nerfed the fakegrasping
damn this hit me hard and ill miss BL3 its a great ride a great story and many great builds to be had, and i absolutely loved the narration of this masterpeice of a video much love your pal Discord 💜💜💜
Miss??? The game still going hard
@@starlightSEGA meaning when the new tiny Tina games released and I’m a Sir XD
I wish we had a jacobs takedown, Vladof takedown maybe have raid boss be something like
Bt7274 and cooper from Titanfall 2
First time I beat maliwan takedown on my own was the absolute best feeling! Still run it just for fun. Also the soundtrack is awesome
ONE. MAN. HYPE TRAAAAIIIIIN
Yea imma just leave this like and comeback later :)
Me: Finally solos MT after 40+ minutes
One smol strimmer: "Hold my Pestilence."
I never beat it at launch.
Maybe it's time to Go back with some M10 gear
That’s funny I played this earlier today and got halfway, beat the Valkyries and had to go to work. But now a video pops up, of course lol
It is definetly the best endgame content in BL3 so far. I mean, the first boss of the guardian takedown is really cool and.. that's it. In Maliwan takedown; i simply enjoy every segment there is and it is actually rewarding. I really hope we will see more content like this and if yes, it will hopefully be a real challenge. That's literally the only problem i have with bl3. Even on true takedown mode it feels like i'm just rushing to the end of it, maybe a few FFYL here and there, but i never really get the feeling of losing control.
love this take down but what happened to the guardian taken one.... i always fail from defending the pillar somehow ..
That one is way too hard. It took me 4 tries against the boss and I had Mayhem level 10 weapons.
The alien takedown is just way to long and tedious
The bosses take aaaaaages and the 'normal' enemies are just bullet sponges
@@penedrador i agree and for some reason sometimes I just die at random times i don't even have mayhem modes on. I just die and don't even enter ffyl. And no I'm not talking about the void. It's so stupid especially if you fall in to the void in that one part.
Guardian takedown for me was always too tedious and buggy. Multiple times the scourge boss would spam teleport me over and over and there was nothing I could do, until I decided to jump off the map so I could try again.... But then I got stuck when I respawned and couldn't move so had to reset the WHOLE thing. Luckily I got both the smog and the globetrotter in those two attempts so I never have to do it again.
BL3 is just a stepping stone, BL4 is gona be a Mazza... hopefully
To me I love the takedown my only gripe is the Loot is kinda underwhelming. That’s just my opinion though.
As a Zane Main the loot, in particular the Redistributor has been integral to my builds since it came out.
The kyb’s worth was my favorite smg until the flipper. I don’t have season pass 2 so I’ve never used the plasma coil. I wonder how the kyb’s worth holds up now
@@metallicnole4514 after the buff it is most definitely up there with the best like the flipper, coil and crit
@@metallicnole4514 its still pretty good, although like most guns you need a decent annoint to perform. not mention Moze destroys with it because of all her splash bonuses.
Kyb’s Worth and Redistributor are pretty good
Amazing vid 100%
Maliwan takedown is so much better then guardian takedown
No shit
Hot take; The Maliwan Takedown is one of the best raids in any looter shooter ever.
Edit: Also I could never do this on True Takedown because the game would keep crashing for me.
I dont think the slopes give a feeling of welcomeness. I just like sliding down slopes.
I'd say the sliding is fun aspect of slopes would be pretty welcoming
I love the takedown, but nearly every artistic reason you listed isn't the reason most people enjoyed it. It's just fun, but never do people think "okay I can go back up this slope" at the beginning.
great video. everything was very well-said
I can't get over how much damage is dealt around 10:17 . How does this even happen?
"Maliwan takedown is hard" AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
On release it was, now the game is easy so all the content is easy, I don't think this should be hated tho
technically it is, just that you have a gun that shoots lasers that explode that chain onto enemies, so like enemies are going to die before they get to try and kill you lol
legendary video
It is really good.
I liked the concept on paper but I kinda hated it. It felt ultra catered towards multiplayer at release and it was frustrating to play.
Tag the other chapters in the description or make a playlist
Now what if you made the 6th chapter about the guardian takedown and why its worst endgame content ever
Chapter Five
I farm the snowman like all the time
Same
top tear vid TBH
I just want Eridian takedown to have save points
Guardian takedown is garbage. Takes too long and no reward/drop is worth the time. Maliway takedown is alright Bc you can get through it somewhat quickly. We need another takedown that is difficult but also as short as maliwan
maliwan takedown try not to pepeJAM challenge (very hard)
digistruct peak a failure??
There's something different with this video.... oh, its monetized lol, I didn't know you could be PG13
This isn't tales.
Lets hope wonderlands and the chaos chamber will change your opinion
Too bad bl3 was a wash aside from gunplay
Bro I really like the content and have enjoyed every single vid but I have to say this one is just hilariously wrong. Both the takedowns are just glorified and extremely tedious mobbing missions. The only reason to run this thing is to check if a build works well or not. Up until the end of the bridge then I save quit cause that boss fight is stupidly boring and easy and the loot sucks donkey balls.
I honestly didn't like maliwan takedown or Any of takedowns just didn't feel worth the effort not really any good drops don't get me wrong there are decent drops but none that feel good enough for endgame and it takes forever to run solo And not really much story to them idk felt better as mid game content like after you completely game but still not Max level
not ur body ur brain
Maliwan takedown was shit. Disagree = biased bl3 meat rider
Now for my controversial opinion.
Guardian Takedown was WAYYYYY better.
Like it wasn't even close for me.
Guardian TD had mechanics to complete.