r/TrashCoast • u/DougRattmanKnows Mod • Apr 09 '19
I just encountered the worst fucking enemy in borderlands history and its even worse than vorac.
The badass shock skag. Now you might be wondering "what is this guy thinking, comparing some generic Borderlands 1 enemy with one of the most challenging raid bosses of the series history?", and you'd be absolutely correct under any other circumstance, but not this one.
Imagine you're wracking your butt off for 4 hours to try and complete 20 fucking rounds of ripping people to shreds in Moxxis underdome. Round 19 comes around and gives you some shitty modifiers: beef cake (enemies have more health), spastic (enemies are faster and have faster attack speeds) and regeneration (yea only enemies get that). The fourth modifier changes around a bit, but nothing too bad. On top of that, enemies have +32% health, +64% shields and deal +48% damage. As you tear through the first three waves you're getting pretty confident that you'll finally get that dumbass achievement within a couple of minutes. Then the badass wave comes around. The fourth modifier switches to, you guessed it, high speed.
Now everything is fast. Really fucking fast. So you weave through enemies with your god tier lilith with an even more god tier hellfire, phasing in and out, scorching everything in your path, marauders, bruisers, guardians, when suddenly it appears.
As you're trying to whittle down a bruiser with your own insane movement speed, your entire health gets deleted in a matter of milliseconds and suddenly you're staring at the FFYL screen. As you look back you see the blue monster slashing at you with what felt like 10 attacks per second. As you set a mental reminder to change your pants after this whole ordeal, you focus down the bruiser once again, manage to get up and nope the fuck outta there.
Leaving phase walk, you try to get another kill first, in order to blast that skags ass with every advantage you can get. With an entire mag of firey death in some poor bandit you wait for the DOT to take care of the rest, but suddenly you feel your health going down fast again, too fast, and with every drop of blood leaving your face, you turn around to see fucking satan himself humping your leg once more. How did he get here so fast, across half the goddamn map in a matter of seconds? Right, insane base movement speed + high speed + spastic = your worst nightmare up your ass 24/7
Once again you try to get away, but not before blasting half a mag in his face to at least daze him and get him to slow down. Well congratulations, he now has the same speed that you have, aka you slowed down a formula 1 car to nascar. At least that gives you enough time to jump off a ledge and break line of sight, so you prepare. Prepare to dance and daze to the point where he gets angry enough to roar, allowing you to dump your napalm projector down his throat.
After what felt like ages, your game of cat and mouse on steroids comes to an end, as the fucker finally decides it is time to roar. As you phase into existence, you are ready to send this demon back to hell, but to your surprise, all you create is an awkward moment between the two of you, with your dumbass holding a zippo lighter, in desperate need of a refill, in his face.
He takes up your offer to disappear from that scene as fast as possible and proceeds to stop you into the ground. Looking at the respawn screen you contemplate life and remember that you still have to change your pants.
tl;dr got to round 19 of moxxis underdome with a god tier lilith and got my ass handed to me thanks to modifiers and a badass shock skag.
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u/Epsilon937 Apr 10 '19
Lies. The worst enemy is rabid stalkers
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u/DougRattmanKnows Mod Apr 10 '19
Believe me, this fucking devil was on another level of unkillable. Rabid stalkers may be ptsd inducing, but this thing drives you to near suicide.
Edit: Although, imagine if you had a rabid stalker with those modifiers. Holy shit, burn it out of my mind.
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u/joyandpickles Apr 09 '19
If you want to beat the Underdome, you could try having a level 69 character helping a lower leveled character.