It's a total conversion mod that shifts things up in a gallimaufry of different ways. Allow me to list them for your list-reading pleasure.

Itym: The artstyle is shifted into this glorious 2000AD comic-book aesthetic, using actual, like, comic panels in the story cutscenes rather than just minor thickline stuff as in Borderlands.

Itym: It adds a whole different progression system that allows you to make huge upgrades to the types of guns you find with special loot drops.

Itym: It also adds a new progression mechanic heartily inspired by games like *FTL* and other roguelikes, which scratches a particular itch of mine quite nicely and synergises well with the aforementioned progression systems.

Itym: It has a whole different story with a very different, very British tone - it's bleak as all get-out once you stop laughing at the jokes. B.A.C.S, your companionable companion AI, is a brilliant source of dark comedy throughout.

Itym: The new guns you can find - the Legislator, Nebulator, and Toaster, among others - all feel great to use. And the Toaster is a laser that can fire through windows! Lasers should do that! They're made of light!

Itym: Not only are you getting a great thing in and of itself, they also have the blessing to sell it for actual money! Money that goes to someone who loves video games and doesn't share videos of animal cruelty among employees or leave a memory stick full of weird, questionably-underage pornography in a Medieval Times! And it's only 30 dollars or your regional equivalent for a massive thing that enriches your life in a deep and lasting way!

Itym: It's not actually anything to do with Borderlands! Yay!

Okay, yeah, full disclosure: I don't like Borderlands much. I like Randy Pitchford a hell of a lot less. I do, however, absolutely adore an indie game that came out recently called, and apologies for unavoidable coarse language here, Void Bastards. You have people doing a duty to which it is entirely dubious as to whether or not they consented in a truly bleak setting (when you stop and think about it) at the best of a powerful and totally inhuman thing that speaks fluent Management and not much else. There's eldritch beings everywhere and it's the player-character's job to blow them into a variety of glowy blue chunks. There's space pirates. There's references. There's a gun you upgrade with pop rocks and a bit of old pipe.

It is basically the PPC FPS and I LOVE IT, and you should buy it. Specifically you should buy it for me because I am entirely boracic right now. =]

see this is how you make a subthread about something else and not spam the board endlessly with blockcaps titles about how you like things that aren't discovery

Also, consider making subposts under topics you already have in the future? Making a new topic pushes things off the front page, so we try to be careful about how often we do it.

Anyways, that's kinda neat, I guess. I never really got into Borderlands. I saw it as a collection of interesting and mildly quirky chracters glued together by dismal gunplay and the kind of kill enemies missions that MMOs use when they feel lazy. I mean, I know other people love it, but... I just don't get it.