【Review Preface】
After a series of system and gameplay updates, Borderlands 3 finally ushered in the first major DLC at the end of the year. Unlike the previous Blood Harvest Festival and The Raid on Mariwang, Moshi's Masterpiece Of War has a complete story line, equivalent to a map of the size of a planet, as well as new side quests, challenges, and equipment drops. Its nature is similar to the second generation of "Mr. Tog's Massacre" and so on DLC. And this time in the story, the player has to once again help Moses to solve the troubles left behind by one of his predecessors, the handsome jack of the second generation of villains.
The image of handsome Jack can be called the second generation of divine strokes. His status and popularity in the series are like Frieza's dragon ball; Joker to DC Comics. Although it is impossible to confront him head-on again in the new DLC, from the other characters and enemies and facilities left in the "Handsome Masterpiece", players can understand the popular villain and related stories from different perspectives, and the perspective and experience of the whole process are quite new and interesting.
【Fairly solid game content】
In dlc, players travel to new areas to explore, and the destination is a casino called "Handsome Masterpiece". This is when jack, a handsome man, and Moshi, the bar owner, are in love, and according to her creativity, they use a space station to create a "casino planet". Similar to the planets such as Pandora and Promethea in this article, the "Handsome Masterpiece" is also divided into several areas for players to adventure, which are distributed with large and small sidelines, challenges and enemy strongholds, and still have a very rich content for players to experience.
Compared with the relatively unified map style of each planet in this article, the scene design of several areas in the "Handsome Masterpiece" has a very obvious difference. For example, the entire area of the "All World Casino" is dominated by dark and cool colors such as deep blue, with colorful neon lights and graffiti, and the tech-savvy Hyperion robot wanders through the bustling ruins, highlighting the strong cyberpunk flavor. Like "Garbage Rantis", it is in the wasteland style, unlike Pandora, which has a large wasteland. The "Garbage Rantis" is much smaller, more like a large landfill. There was scrap, a mound of containers piled up everywhere, and broken bungalows built in it.
▲The scene structure of the game is still very changeable and complex
Naturally, these new areas are brand new quests, challenges, and Easter eggs. In terms of comrade-in-arms challenges, people like "Tog's Marketing Mistake" require players to use their eyesight to find shooting targets, while "Mayor's Super Handsome Outfit" still requires players to find the corresponding elite monster kills. In addition, each area also contains several side quests with very different styles, and there will be many interesting new characters in the side quests, and the plot and flow are still extremely spoofy and nonsensical. The volume of this part of the content is very substantial, and the richness is no less than that of this article.
▲ In addition to the many statue posters of handsome Jack in the "handsome masterpiece", there are also some holograms that can be collected, which players can use to understand the personality and deeds of handsome jack.
The new content isn't just maps and missions. Moxie's Masterpiece Of War offers a lot of new weapons, class mods, and exterior decorations. The new career module is bound to have a very big impact on the four classes of bulli. Take Zane's new mod, Witness Death, which has an effect that gives the weapon a chance to automatically activate all killing skills when it hits an enemy, with an effect bonus. The new mod has a low chance of triggering but a wide range of conditions, including damage such as doppelgangers and drones, and can allow Zane to maintain his killing skills well through high rate of fire, multi-shrapnel weapons, or some natural skills. While steadily increasing Zane's damage benefits, Zane's skill points and weapon matching ideas have also changed. As a relatively weak profession in the early days of the game's release, Zane's recently updated mods have higher revenue than one, and gradually got rid of the previous weak position. Improving the balance between classes and gameplay experience with new equipment and mechanics is a very benign change that I personally think is a very benign way to change. This is much more humane and flexible than who cuts whom, and the way of slashing with a knife is much more humane and flexible. In addition, special monsters and world drops have added a lot of "new" weapons, including more Ofe series weapons, such as the shotgun "Slow Hand" and so on.
These new contents add up to a dlc process of about 7 or 8 hours. The collection and research of new mods and weapons further expands the length of the game. As with previous works, for the first large-scale DLC of Borderlands 3, Gearbox can be said to show enough sincerity in terms of content.
【Stable play of the plot flow】
This time, after the player reaches level 13 and unlocks the jump function of Vault 3, they can take on the task from the handsome Jack poster outside The Mossy Bar. The plot of dlc is also not much related to the main line, and the level and drop of enemies are still dynamic mechanics, so players can freely choose the time to play, including entering in chaos mode.
▲ From Marcus to handsome Jack, Moxi's predecessors seem to be not small.
After jack's death, the "Masterpiece of Handsome" casino is also in a state of abandonment, but the facilities in the casino are still operated by his legacy, and Moxi intends to organize a vote to loot the forgotten space station casino. Players who are once again tool people will recruit several characters with different personalities to fight against the Hyperion force led by the villain Liang Zi Brother and the crazy gamblers. The story flow is basically the traditional routine mode of finding like-minded partners from various regions and finally fighting with the villain.
Although it is not new, the image of several characters is still outstanding and can impress players. For example, Timoch, who is very similar to the handsome Jack's appearance, reflects some of the handsome Jack's past experiences from the side through his identity and relationship with Moxie. There is also Amber, who has transformed her body and advocated flame fighting, with a bald head shape and a fiery body, which is full of cyberpunk flavors like the "All Realm Casino". These vivid characters are not only in the main line, but also in the side line players can meet a lot of strange guys, such as crazy gamblers who gamble their lives and gamble their souls, musicians who love alcohol but are full of vitality, casino sisters who compete with each other but care about each other, etc. All kinds of characters and stories enrich the story flow of dlc, and make the entire space station casino alive and interesting.
Compared with this article, the number of various mechanical enemies in this DLC is relatively large, and the corrosion attribute is considered to be a VIP. The amputation effect of mechanical enemies is also more obvious, after breaking their lower body, their hands will continue to shoot at the player with guns, and the newly added bosses are basically conventional type designs, but there is no such thing as man-eating beasts, trees and other partial mechanism response boss battles, of course, a little flaw is that some of the "light pollution" during this battle still exists.
▲ Small noisy army
【Evaluation Summary】
As the first large-scale DLC of Borderlands 3, the quality and content volume of "Moxie's Handsome Masterpiece Robbery" are basically satisfactory, the newly added equipment and mods also have a certain depth for players to study, and the iconic nonsense story style of Borderlands is also reflected in the format mission of dlc. In addition, the relatively free entry conditions and dynamic mechanics are very friendly and convenient for new and existing players.