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I got to play Borderlands 4, EARLY. And holy moley is there a lot to go over but first I want to say Thank you to 2k for sponsoring this video, they flew me out to play Borderlands 4 in office and want me to give you guys my honest first impressions of the game so let’s get started. At the event we had the option to play Rafe the Exo-soldier or Vex the siren and I decided to go with Rafa because I wanted to see what his cool arm blades all were about. As soon as I dropped in, I was surprised to see that his melee action skill was fully 3rd person, so I made my way to some combat and started to get a feel for things. The demo dropped us into a story mission where we had to help a small town called Outbound and fend off some of the orders goons. The first thing I did was test out my guns, I had a cool Tediore pistol that homed into enemies, a pretty Jakobs sniper that had some really satisfying critical kills, and a Maliwan SMG that swapped between shock and corrosive rounds which was super helpful for a lot of these shield Order soldiers. And the best part about all this was the guns felt good, the bullets were fast and pretty much any weapon I picked up felt good to use. I also tried using a new Ordinance launcher. In bl4 launchers and grenades and probably a bunch of other heavy weapons now take up an Ordinance slot and instead of taking ammo they’re on a cooldown timer. The one I got to use was shooting these cool corrosive death orbs. I didn’t hit anything with it in this clip right here because I was still catching my bearings and getting used to the sensitivity, but I’ll show some more later. The new rev kits were also a cool addition to the combat loop, in previous games a lot of characters had issue with healing and heavily relied on certain gear or Moxxi weapons for healing and the pseudo crutch in those games weren’t fun for a good chunk of people, with this new system, every character can have health on demand to get them through sticky situations, these also add some cool buffs too so they’re multi use and you can either save it for health or use it early to get something like a fire rate boost for a short time. It’s time to slice and DICE! Rafa’s Arc Knives Action skill was super fun to use. Basically, you go full hack and slash mode and it’s fun. It also has this cool damage stacking property the more hits you get in on an enemy. If you right-click while using arc knives you dash forward and do this shock melee attack that was recking these bad guys. The 3rd person POV took some getting used too but once I got the hang of it was a blast. After the town was saved, we met Rush, who seems like a wholesome dude that always has your back and got ourselves a vehicle. With how open the maps are in BL4 being able to just spawn your vehicle pretty much anywhere was awesome for exploration and traversal. And exploration and travel seem like a big part of this game. More on that later but let’s talk about the enemies. The enemy design in this game is honestly good, I’ve heard a lot of people say in previous games enemies just felt like different shaped health bars but in Bl4 I felt like every enemy required a different game plan from the last. I couldn’t really snipe the heads of the guys with shields so I was alright eat a Tediore throw, and I laughed pretty hard when it just sent this dude flying, guys we can launch enemies in this game it happening... There were also these warden guys, If you were able to get enough airtime using the new double jump and glide movement features you could melee these guys which is nice to have the option because I know people are going to want to do melee only runs, but they definitely required a different kind of attention than other bad guys and I really loved that. Some enemies had these things called traits, at a glance some might compare these to the crazy mayhem modifiers in Borderlands 3, but I found these to be a lot more tame and less intrusive because it wasn’t EVERY enemy. Sometimes you would find a guy that was just cryo-resistant, but other times you might find a guy that drops a few grenades on death you have to watch out for. I got a second wind off this guy not knowing what his trait did, and I ended up getting kidnapped by a singularity grenade which was kind of funny. And it seems like there are tons of these, this guy had immovable and if I had to guess that prob means he was no