TGtBatU: Borderlands 2 Red Text Guns: Hyperion Pistols

[@elizabethhicks4181]

Because I play almost exclusively Gaige, and I prefer super high Anarchy builds, the Ricochet Fibber is my bread-and-butter raiding weapon. It absolutely shreds boss health bars, and I'm really proud of the fact that I've managed to Solo OP8 Terra with Gaige and a Ricochet Fibber. HOWEVER: I did not know that the Shotgun Fibber bullets were unlisted. I thought that they only put the x1 there to keep the whole lying thing, but the pellets still had the amp damage divided by # of pellets formula. I have testing to do. On a side note, isn't it sweet how there's still things to discover in this game? I love games that have replayability and a bunch of diverse stuff in them.

[@Derchlands]

Yeah so many mechanics in it

[@N00dleBandit]

For your non-red text guns series, an extremely good Hyperion pistol is the Vladof barreled Synergy: high rate of fire, reverse recoil works out really well with it, and throw a Jakobs grip on it, and it does a lot of damage very quickly, along with a gunstock for some extra stability, you have an extremely reliable sidearm ready to go. Try it out sometime, Derch, you won't be disappointed.

[@Derchlands]

+soldierinall I'll give it a shot, I don't know if I'll make a video on it because that series is about the guns I liked while I was leveling up without farming for red text guns.

[@N00dleBandit]

+Derch That's understandable, all I wanted to give was a suggestion, and thanks for taking it.

[@biofriik]

I have a feeling that the Logan's Gun gets grenade damage boosts. It was actually able to kill enemies quite reliably when I was aiming at their feet with Axton. I'd test it out, but I haven't got access to BL2 right now.

[@lordchu1430]

On my first playthrough I got a Slag Ricochet Fibber and got a Bee shield from Hunter Hellquist, needless to say, the Warrior and Jack were two-shotted. (I was playing Gaige.)

[@ckmishn3664]

I tend to think of the absorbing rockets for ammunition as legitimate primarily because rockets don't get weighted drops like other ammunition types, making rocket launcher focused builds largely unviable. If they got the same weighted drops, then I might think of that technique as cheap.

[@explodifier6021]

The logans gun has good synergy with krieg and sal

[@MaliciousMint]

Oh little tidbit about Gaige and ricochet Fibber, the bullet spread is unexpected by anarchy, 600 stacks and you can hit as accurately as with 0 stacks it's practically broken.

[@MaliciousMint]

That should read "...is unaffected by anarchy.."

[@unsubme2157]

It is effected by anarchy though.. no bs i am looking at it right now. Anything over 100 stacks completely removes the hyperion recoil, at that point theres no more "aiming" just a gaige swinging a gun around.

[@riddarhyttan]

Remember the huge argument on the old forums when people realized GBX had literally buffed Money Shot with the Lady Fist crit boost? That got ugly. On a side note, Gaige doesn't even need CE to make the nr. 3 barrel Fibber ludicrous, it just helps. There's a reason Gaige players frown at Fibber/Bee with 5/5 Blood Soaked Shields and Poka won't have it on his channel. Fun at first, old after an hour. It's wonderful against Buzzards and Peak surveyors, though, I'll give it that.

[@Derchlands]

+GamingWizzFTW that's the first I've heard that do you have a source?

[@riddarhyttan]

+GamingWizzFTW It would be interesting if you were right, hope you can find that vid. I don't agree with the people who took it the most to heart. They were too lazy to use the Lady Fist properly themselves, and just reacted to the fact that Sal players leaped at it like a puppy at a ball. They were already off-handing crit Fibbers anyway, so maybe it was seen as insult added to injury. Personally I'm glad they changed it to 800%, it's cool we have a more skill-based pistol to rival the raw power of the Harold.

[@unsubme2157]

GamingWizzFTW every time i learn something new about the grog i realise its the most broken unintended gun in bl history.

[@skyfawkes7844]

I'm probably one of the few to admit it but because of Hyperion pistols and maliwan pistols and a few torgue pistol I didn't have many issues getting to uvhm with Salvador on other character I used all manufacturer pistols honestly

[@LinkMaster5555]

Love the logans gun especially with hellborn krieg

[@HexxuSz]

gagie fibber takes down airborn rtargets like charm

[@kendogz161]

Funny, I really like using it these pistols as a friend Fight for Your Life weapon. Any slag version. Have has good luck with this setup.

[@BR4IN1N4J4R]

On Salvador, Lady Fist + Unforgiven/Rex/other crit machine is asinine

[@5amm0n79]

i use the slow fire rate slow bullet speed fibber against the warrior and its really good

[@rickblue2165]

imma try and fix the logans gun ok so i would make shot a bullet and every other shot it would fire one bullet and one rocket and lets up the fire rate a bit and just for the finishing touch the last shot in the mag is one bullet and 5 rockets that would make it better maybe to powerful who knows

[@HexxuSz]

fibber is my fav pistol in ricochate

[@BigWheel.]

The logans gun can't hit bodies... it has to hit a solid object (floor wall sheild etc) to "hit"

[@Derchlands]

+JARXAVIER2112 That makes it even worse

[@BigWheel.]

+Derch I really dont know what they were thinking with it ... A hyperion weapon that can't hit targets or crit (when hyperion seems geared to acuracy and crit-ing) makes as much sense as a semiautomatic vladof assault rifle. the fibber should have been the legendary IMO (shotgun is my favorite to be honest)

[@SlifWon]

+JARXAVIER2112 I often think that the Logan's Gun was designed solely for use with absorption shields, though it got out of hand with the Sham and Norfleet.

[@BigWheel.]

+Slif_One yeah but you would think if it was for ammo regen it would absorb as other ammo types aswell so its not just infinate rockets plus this same effect can be achived via low lvl badaboom or spiker or splatgun.

[@SlifWon]

JARXAVIER2112 I understand it only being for rockets, there's no real need to absorb other ammo types IMO as they're plentiful and cheap if you need to buy them, plus Salvador regenerates ammo and has the Hoarder COM to assist the team. But then there's the Norfleet, which makes regenerating rocket ammo something that is heavily abused. You can use a low level Badaboom, which is what I do, but when you're out of rocket ammo you can't really do that lol. I disagree with the Logan's Gun and the Sham and especially the Norfleet, but I still believe the only reason the Logan's Gun exists is for absorbing rocket ammo.

[@kifter4254]

What do the red text in a gun mean?

[@infernox.]

it has a special ability or its a very rare weapon like pearls and legendarys,that or it can only be obtanible from a mission making it a special weapons