This scrapped Borderland Vault Hunter concept does not have to stay on the cutting room floor

IN Borderland Community, 2019's Borderlands 3 is often regarded as a decommissioning of quality from their predecessors. While the core game loop for the Gearbox software's hit title is perhaps the best series has ever seen, humor, antagonists and quality of the game's writers have been criticized to a large extent by fans. Many have claimed that Borderlands 3Supply on Bullet-Pongy enemies and Boss-fights has significantly hindered the tactical depth of battle. Others have in the meantime been critical of the game's somewhat unbalanced playoffs, messy UI and excessive amount of paid DLCs.

If there is an aspect of Borderlands 3 However, it has not received much criticism, but it is the game's playable characters. As each main line Borderland title, Borderlands 3 Has four arch hunters to choose from, each with their own unique skills and abilities. From a gaming perspective, the role of the game is extremely versatile, everything from Amara The Siren, which stands out in close to the quartz struggle, to melt the shooter, which is strongly dependent on explosives. While Borderlands 3Vault Hunters are all pretty distinct from each other, there is a character in the game, FL4K The Beastmaster, which would originally look and play much different from the rest of the role.

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Borderland 3's scrapped FL4K character design should not go to waste

FL4K is a robot who loves animals in the final version of Borderlands 3

In the version of Borderlands 3 The gearbox released, FL4K is portrayed as a mysterious robot that has a preference for animals of all shapes and sizes. Before the game's events, FL4K served as something called an indexing unit under a person named The Grand Archivist. After receiving self -consciousness and a desire for blood, however, FL4K's employment was interrupted, and they decided to go on a soul -seeking journey across the galaxy. FL4K, which usually holds an animal buddy by its side, follows a hunting -based lifestyle to please Mistress Death, their personified concept of death.

It is not known why FL4K got consciousness, or exactly what they archived when working for the great archivist.

FL4K had several fantasy -inspired character designs, which were scrapped by the gearbox in the middle of the development

Although FL4K has a pretty interesting backstory, they were not always intended to be a robot. IN Art of Borderlands 3The Gearbox software revealed that the character underwent many changes during the game's development. FL4K was first designed as a high -tech robin hood -like character with a theatrical personality and a preference for snike shooting rifles. Later, however, the character received several fantasy -inspired transformations, one of which looked like a fairy. The only thing that remained constantly in all these versions of FL4K was the character's love for animals.

Of all the incarnations of FL4K that never saw the light of day, the river -like version of the character is undoubtedly the most interesting. In one of the early concept art for FL4K, as can be seen in Art of Borderlands 3 Book, the character is depicted as a blue-skinned, pointed-ear individual with a shoot in his hand, a few nails on their clothes and a dragon-like creature by their side. While it looked good, this design for FL4K, along with all other fantasy theme of the character, was discarded by the gearbox because it did not fit into the game's sci-fi setting.

The gearbox could use FL4K's scrapped Elf-like concept for a character in a new little Tinas Wonderland game

Although it makes sense why the gearbox decided to make FL4K a robot instead of a fairy, the character's scrapped concept does not have to stay on the cutting room floor forever. A vaulting hunter similar to these older versions of FL4K may operate in its place in a main line Borderland games, but they would fit perfectly in a new Small Tina's Wonderland installment. The first Small Tina's The game is in the world of a fantasy-themed TTRPG, and then Small Tina's Wonderland Sold quite well, the chance that a new item will be released in the series is quite high. If the gearbox ever makes one Tiny Tinas Wonderlands 2hopefully it will use some of the scrapped character designs from Borderlands 3 In the game in any way.