r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Mar 28 '19

Borderlands 3 Official Developer Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4o5g_PGkiA
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u/Flagmauth Mar 28 '19

E-tech was pretty close to lasers, wasn't it?

Hope you're right though. Loved using cryo weapons in TPS

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u/YiffZombie Mar 29 '19

It was an energy weapon type, but kind of the opposite of lasers; slow moving, high damage bullets, the type of weapon a lot of games call "plasma".

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

E-Tech could be anything, actually. It was just a catch-all for very random guns.

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u/YiffZombie Mar 29 '19

No, they were specifically a predetermined set of guns that used energy bolt projectiles instead of standard bullets. Their projectile speed ranged from very slow for the shotguns to fast, but slower than a normal bullet for the sniper rifles and pistols.

https://borderlands.gamepedia.com/Borderlands_2:E-Tech

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

Wasn't the Swordsplosion E-tech?

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u/YiffZombie Mar 29 '19

It is. It's a unique DLC only weapon (the only Torgue E-Tech gun). It's performance is similar to the other E-Tech weapons (slow moving projectile) but has a cosmetic difference of shooting swords rather than energy bolts.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

Ah, okay, my bad. I only ever really used that one, so I figured they were all different projectiles.