Radiation DOT, where is it?

Borderlands 2 Gameplay Discussion (Spoilers!)
#1

While I’m in a nit-picking mood, where’s the radiation DOT anyway?
If I use a Nukem or or Axton’s Nuke skill, why is there not a residual Radiation DOT applied to those affected by the nuclear blast of weapons or skills?
Maybe shielded enemies have anti-rad shields, or Nomads have radiation-resistant clothing, but animals wouldn’t.
A Stalker should pick up a radiation DOT if I Nukem, dontcha think?
–RoA

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#2

Yeah, because everything else in this game is 100% true to life…

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#3

Well yeah, of course it is!
-RoA

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#4

Aside from Axton’s Nuke and the Nukem, is there really a lot of nuclear stuff in this game ? Or at least enough worth to have an entirely new type of damage ? Not really imo.
Axton’s Nuke deals Ignite damage which could translate to radiation, I guess you’re gonna have to be content with that. :smile:

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#5

Well, they created the turret mechanism which one only needs to use once in an optional mission (Defend Slab Tower) and once to get a challenge out of the way (N00b Cannon), and you don’t even need to get on the turret to clear that, so clearly they have a developer or two working on little used stuff.
–RoA

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#6

They didn’t create anything specific for the turret aside from the turret itself (textures and meshes). They work the exact same way as the vehicle gunner seats … except there’s no vehicle.

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#7

Wait… Are you saying that… “real life” is NOT like it is in the game? :scream: OMG! I’d better stop farming my midget neighbour. I’ve been farming him for like two weeks now. I just stand outside his door when he gets ready to go to work, and then I club him. So far, he’s only been dropping some cash, but at least he’s passed out, so he hasn’t figured out that it’s me who’s doing it. Phew! Close one! :wink:

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#8

Well, to continue my nit-pickness the same could be said for adding a radiation DOT, one would simply be adding a new color damage number set, a new texture to apply to the enemy who’s gotten the DOT, to any existing DOT type. And a resistance or susceptibility, of course, similar to any existing DOT.
–RoA

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#9

It’s very easy to go overboard when you’re designing things. Having a buttload of different DoT’s will only complicate things. And not in a good way! Less is more!

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#10

I’ll contend that point has already been passed with 5, adding one more does not make it particularly worse.
Except from a PhysX standpoint, it would make more pollution.
–RoA

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#11

According to a certain Youtuber radiation damage will be the new damage element for BL3…

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#12

Borderlands is real. lol.

This thread reminds me of this post

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#13

Of course! But adding one more element without a specific purpose is just… pointless. Elements in BL 2 serve a specific purpose.

Slag - debuff
shock - shield strip
fire - flesh
corrosive - armor
explosive - kind of an in between, plus really good on specific targets

Radiation - ???

I don’t see a niche for it here. Sorry!

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#14

Hmmm, here’s one off the top of my head;

  • Debuff intelligence for loaders. i.e., the radiation blast and effect generate an EMP result which temporarily scrambles mechanical enemies electronic brains, loaders can’t aim, surveyors fly at random.
    –RoA
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#15

I dunno… They’re plenty stupid in my book as it is. :grin:

Quite the opposite to what they’re doing already, right? :roll_eyes:

Sorry! I just had to get that out of my system. But I see what you mean. It’s usefulness would be limited to robots then? Even though the current elements are more or less effective on different types of enemies, they still work.

I don’t mind radiation as an element or a DoT. I just don’t see a place for it in BL 2. That’s all!

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#16

I understand, and not trying to convince or wear the topic out, just interesting (to me) to talk about it.

As for non-mechanical enemy damage from a radiation DOT, hmmm;

  • Maybe disruption of Maliwan elemental capacitors? When an enemy is stuck with a rad DOT elemental weapons malfunction. Probably too subtle an effect.
  • Could be a general blinding effect. A rad blast and DOT disables an enemies ability to see (hence aim and move).

But I’m starting to stretch now, so we’ll see if Gearbox is going to create it in BL3 and see what they thought.
–RoA

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#17

If there is radiation damage, it will be like the vampire mode in mutator arena.

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#18

Huh, I never played far enough into TPS to get to this, interesting.
–RoA

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#19

:rofl::rofl::rofl: That’s one of the most stupid things I’ve ever seen in a game. They must have had a reeeally bad day at GBX.

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#20

i bet that @FailyFailracer can complete vampire mode with all characters in TPS.