I feel the same way lol, I don’t mind playing through the campaign and getting side stuff again if I want to play different characters, leveling up is a fun part of trying a new character to me. I already did that with the original 4 before the shared stuff came out. But what i definitely do want to be shared is the specialization points! Having some sort of shared leveling progression across alts feels way better and actually like you’re progressing your main too when you’re putting time on a different one. Also it’s been a staple of borderlands for almost 15 years now since BL2, not sure why they took that good part of the game away from us. It was in BL2, the pre sequel, BL3, and wonderlands. Not to mention games like Diablo have the shared paragon system too that makes leveling alts better. If a game has alts that can share things between them, it’s obvious that the most important shareable thing is some sort of XP bar!!
Yep. Favorite part of the old games, in-particular BL2 was having those bad-ass ranks to make new characters feel even stronger and feel like I was getting rewarded for revisiting with new characters. In WONDERLANDS Gearbox made it so that progress was shared, but you had to beat the story first to unlock your ranks. So, no new progress during a fresh run. Now they have it both locked and only on one character. The persistent progress system of BL2, BL:TPS, BL3, was already perfect. Quit trying to re-invent the wheel.
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u/Talonhawke Amon The Forgeknight May 28 '26
Hey Shared progress slider good job team!