Borderlands 3 may be a braindead story of already dead on arrival memes and a cast that is largely forgettable (Save for Tannis, I still love you for being my socially inept spirit animal), but it’s easily the most satisfying power fantasy of the year thanks to its amazingly tuned gunplay and a sophisticated flow of action that picks up the juvenile slack.

There’s no denying that Bungie’s Destiny took plenty of inspiration from Gearbox’s best franchise, albeit in a way that allowed them to put their own spin on the quest for guns, power and refunds. So naturally, a good couple of years after Destiny launched, Borderlands 3 had to make a sly reference to the game which followed in its footsteps.

There’s a load of fantastic guns in Borderlands 3, ranging from assault rifles which can vomit out low yield nuclear grenades when their bullets make an impact to rocket launchers which spit out flaming skulls of destruction with every pull of the trigger, but finding them requires some proper effort on your part. Or you could just say bugger that and farm an exploit.

Want to get your hands on the Redundant Savvy Phebert Legendary Shotgun held by Wick and Worty in Borderlands 3? Here's how you can find and kill a certain duo within the game, who totally aren't riffing on a hit cartoon series.

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Borderlands 3 is out this week, and it’s one of the biggest, most anticipated game releases of the year. From everything we’ve seen before, it looks like…well, it looks like more Borderlands. Nothing revolutionary, but a game filled with nice quality of life enhancements that build on the game and world established in the sublime Borderlands 2.

If you’re looking forward to Borderlands 3, chances are that you’re also dreading the download which will show zero mercy to your Millennial need to want stuff right now. The game looks gorgeous, the world inside it is probably going to be massive and the size of said game is going to match up with the lofty expectations that fans have for this long in development sequel.

There’s basically a level 99 badass vault bar to clear then when it comes to the precedent set by the previous games, so what will Borderlands 3 offer after launch then? Pretty much the same plus a little extra.