What do you get if you mix the high-fantasy antics of your common D&D marketing campaign with the tomfoolery of a Borderlands recreation? You get Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, a first-person game-within-a-game narrated by everybody’s favourite revenge baby. Returning Borderlands gamers can leap proper in, and newcomers shouldn’t have problem adapting to the pure chaos.
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands takes all of the randomly generated weapons from the Borderlands collection and goals them at high-fantasy enemies like skeleton pirates and demon trolls. To get the cube rolling in your journey by the Wonderlands, listed here are some important ideas and methods to get began in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands.
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It’s nonetheless Borderlands
As a devoted Borderlands participant, you could be asking your self, “What’s Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands?” Is it a tabletop sim? Am I truly taking part in a D&D marketing campaign (or, on this case, Bunkers and Badasses?) Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands remains to be a Borderlands recreation. The “story” is a derivative of the Borderlands 2 DLC Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Hold. The gameplay, mechanics, and aesthetics are principally a re-skin of Borderlands 3, however that’s a very good factor!
Nonetheless, there are a couple of new editions that Borderlands gamers can get enthusiastic about. First off, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands does away with grenades and introduces spells that work equally. As a substitute of choosing up ammo for grenades, your spells recharge after a cooldown. Some include a number of prices per cooldown, making them a few of the greatest spells in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands.
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is a semi-open world the place you’ll discover massive play areas, but are free to wander round, full aspect quests, and discover collectibles in every. These areas are linked by way of the Overworld, which you’ll unlock items of as you progress the story.
Fight additionally works fairly equally to previous Borderlands video games. You might have an overshield (re-skinned as wards), and you may self-revive when your well being is depleted, often known as Dying-Save in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Enemies nonetheless come at you in waves, with one Badass enemy blended into the fray.
Crucial factor to know earlier than leaping into Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is that there are not any precise D&D mechanics. You aren’t rolling cube for assault factors, notion checking for collectibles, or charisma checking to seduce the bartender. You’re working, gunning, and looting your approach by a world that exists purely in Tiny Tina’s head.
Grind to Brighthoof
There comes the purpose in each RPG, a while after the introductory mission, the place many of the recreation lastly unlocks. In Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, that space is Brighthoof, the capital of the Wonderlands and residential of Queen Butt Stallion (sure, you learn that proper.) The Brighthoof mission goes past appearing as a tutorial, so we’re safely calling it the primary arc of the sport.
Don’t get hung up on aspect quests till you full the preliminary Brighthoof mission. This consists of assembly Paladin Mike, warding off the skeleton military, and attending your knighting ceremony. You’ll know this arc is over when you’ve unlocked your secondary class. Nonetheless, the Brighthoof hub comes with a bunch of bonus mechanics.
Each gamer is responsible of spending approach an excessive amount of time on character creation. Whereas it’s a necessary RPG characteristic, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands remains to be a first-person shooter. You not often see your whole character outdoors of cutscenes. Even then, most are in first-person anyway.
As a substitute of getting hung up within the character creation display, leap proper into the sport and grind till you unlock Brighthoof. When you’ve unlocked the hub, you’ll be free to vary your look within the tavern.
Improve your backpack SDU
You may as well improve your carrying capability on the Brighthoof blacksmith. To search out the blacksmith:
- Have a look at the Butt Stallion fountain and switch left.
- Head up the trail till you come throughout the blacksmith’s forge.
- Strategy the desk on the left aspect of the forge to purchase upgrades. You’ll purchase ammo capability upgrades for every weapon and common stock upgrades on your backpack, misplaced loot, and financial institution.
One of the best blacksmith improve is the Backpack SDU for a handful of causes. First, you’ll typically come throughout merchandising machines in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Moreover, any merchandising machine is a fast fast-travel away for those who’re at full capability. You’ll be able to warp again to Brighthoof at any time or simply to the closest machine in your present play space. Don’t waste cash on upgrading your financial institution or misplaced loot, no less than not first.
Blacksmith upgrades are fairly costly. For instance, our subsequent Backpack improve (stage 4) prices 81,000 gold, which is so much! Ammo is plentiful out within the Wonderlands, even throughout battle. Moreover, for those who improve your Backpack SDU, you received’t want the misplaced loot machine or financial institution because you’ll by no means go away something necessary behind. Lastly, promoting junk is simple. Getting cash in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is as straightforward as killing stage 1 skelly boys.
Stick round for some stock administration ideas and methods in a while on this information.
Spend cash
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is a looter-shooter. Usually, the No. 1 rule of looter-shooters is, “there’s a greater piece of drugs round each nook.” For instance, in a recreation like Future, you’d be losing assets by upgrading weapons earlier than reaching the extent cap. Nonetheless, that doesn’t apply in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands.
You’ll by no means improve precise weapons in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. The one upgrades you’ll ever purchase are the carrying capability upgrades on the blacksmith. Due to this fact, don’t hesitate to spend your gold at merchandising machines across the Wonderlands. You’ll discover these machines round play areas and in Brighthoof, however you’ll by no means see them within the Overworld. They seem as three banners in your map, as seen within the picture above. Merchandising machines at all times are available in teams of three and promote the next:
- The Mighty Knight: Armor and shields
- The Warsmith: Weapons and melee weapons
- Mystical Magicks: Spells, rings, and necklaces
Every machine, like in Borderlands video games, additionally provides an “merchandise of the day” that rotates after the timer counts down.
The one factor we don’t advocate shopping for are new spells. You’ll have a common thought of how new weapons will really feel. Armor and new equipment solely add passive results, so their descriptions are ok. Nonetheless, spells can get tough.
Simply because a spell does extra injury doesn’t imply it’ll work along with your construct or button structure. For instance, you don’t have to purpose self-cast spells and might assign them to the X button for those who’re taking part in L1 bumper jumper. Nonetheless, repeating forged spells want exact aiming and, subsequently, received’t work as properly when reassigned.
As a substitute, choose up new spells whereas exploring the Wonderlands, finishing aspect quests, and defeating bosses. You’ll be able to at all times equip them and check them out between encounters. Nonetheless, spending 50,000 gold on a spell you finally don’t like is usually a actual kick within the Butt Stallion.
Play with pals
One of the best a part of any D&D marketing campaign is taking part in with pals. The identical is true for Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Nonetheless, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands pulls greater than swords, shields, and legendary beings from the depths of historic historical past. You’ll be able to play native splitscreen!
PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X|S gamers can get pleasure from four-player native splitscreen. Sadly, last-gen consoles solely help two-player splitscreen. To play splitscreen in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, choose the Add Splitscreen choice from the principle menu. Signal an extra controller into a special profile and both load a earlier character or create a brand new one.
Native co-op gamers may also be part of a session in progress. To take action, participant one should pause the sport. Then, participant two (or three or 4) should press X to affix the session. Right here’s the very best half: The sport scales to every particular person character. It doesn’t take the common stage of all gamers, and it doesn’t simply throw low-level gamers into high-level worlds (or vice versa).
For instance, we joined a brand new stage 1 character into an current stage 22 character’s recreation. Throughout a random encounter within the Overworld, the extent one character noticed stage one pirates whereas the extent 22 character noticed stage 22 pirates. Due to this fact, don’t really feel like you’ll want to begin over when taking part in native multiplayer to maintain every character on the identical taking part in subject.
To drop out of a session, simply signal out any additional controllers.
Correct stock administration
You’ll have to follow correct stock administration between upgrading your backpack SDU and warping between merchandising machines. For starters, choose up the whole lot you discover. Even for those who’ll by no means use it, and it pales in comparison with what you have already got, it’ll in all probability promote for a reasonably gold piece.
For those who discover you’re working out of stock area, right here’s a fast tip to release a handful of slots. You’re in all probability sitting on many new beauty items you’re unaware of. These embrace banner patterns, armor patterns, and armor colours. They appear to be luggage on the stock display, however choosing one up doesn’t imply you’ve “unlocked it.” As a substitute, you need to manually use them by hovering over the beauty in your stock and choosing it. As soon as chosen, the merchandise goes away, releasing up some stock area.
This doesn’t equip it to your character. As a substitute, it unlocks the choice on the Brighthoof tavern. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to choose up repeats, and the sport tells you when you have already got that merchandise. Since you’ll be able to’t promote these, simply drop them.
Once you promote gadgets, be very cautious of what you mark as junk. Even in case you have a junk-marked merchandise outfitted, you’ll nonetheless promote it for those who batch-sell. So, earlier than opening the merchandising machine, open your stock and see for those who’re holding any higher items of drugs. Undergo every gear part individually, as the sport filters out issues that don’t apply. For instance, if you choose your melee weapon, you received’t see weapons or rings on the opposite aspect, solely melee weapons.
When you’re glad along with your at the moment outfitted gadgets, mark the whole lot else as junk, open the merchandising machine, and choose Promote All Junk. For those who don’t have any junk marked, this selection received’t seem.
Greatest controller settings (PlayStation)
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands helps you to utterly remap your controllers. So, gamers who like taking part in bumper jumper are free to take action. Nonetheless, there are a couple of expensive sacrifices related. To remap your controller in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands:
- Press Begin
- Scroll right down to Choices
- Tab over to Controls
- Tab over to Controller
- Choose the motion you’d wish to reassign
- Press the button you want to reassign that motion to
For starters, assigning L1 or R1 because the leap button leaves X for spells or skills. For those who’re taking part in the Spore Warden class, you’ll want the bumpers to purpose your Barrage means with R1. Nonetheless, suppose you favor the Blizzard means (the Spore Warden’s secondary motion), which sends three frost cyclones out to break close by enemies. In that case, you may get away with tapping X with out aiming at enemies. This works equally to remapping in Overwatch, the place bumper-jump works with some characters however not with others.
As talked about earlier than, spells work the identical approach. You may get away with taking part in bumper-jumper for those who’re casting AOE spells round your character. Nonetheless, if you’ll want to purpose your spells, you’ll need to preserve your fingers on the joysticks. Earlier than remapping your controller, think about your character, skills, spells, and playstyle, after which remap accordingly.
Two controller settings you need to change are your crouch and ping buttons. For smoother gameplay, set crouch to R3 and melee to circle. Doing so helps you to slide and purpose whereas on the transfer. There’s additionally no preset ping choice, so that you’ll have to do that manually. Courses that include companions, just like the Spore Warden and Clawbringer, can order their companions to assault particular enemies by pinging them.
Assigning a ping choice sacrifices your D-pad weapon hotkeys. It might additionally set Triangle to toggle hearth mode. Counter that by switching toggle hearth to down on the D-pad for a extra pure FPS management scheme. We by no means discovered ourselves utilizing the weapon hotkeys anyway, so this wasn’t a lot of a sacrifice.
Gather shrine items
You’ll come throughout shrines in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands whereas exploring the Overworld. Every shrine has a enjoyable identify and requires you to search out 4 lacking shrine items to unlock it. These items could be discovered by finishing dungeons within the Overworld and thru common exploration. Nonetheless, you’ll want to know a couple of essential mechanics about discovering shrine items in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands.
For starters, Tina will at all times point out when a selected dungeon comprises a shrine piece. Thus far, we’ve discovered that shrines observe the identical blueprint. Yow will discover three of 4 items in Overworld dungeons. Nonetheless, the ultimate piece is locked behind an in-game mechanic you in all probability haven’t unlocked but. Don’t bash your head towards a wall looking for that fourth shrine piece. Simply progress the principle story, and also you’ll finally unlock new mechanics and shortcuts. You then’ll have a eureka second and circle again to the final shrine piece.
Shrines grant you passive world results like +10% expertise factors and +10% gold acquire. Tab over to your journal and use the D-pad to scroll over to World Buffs to see that are lively. These can’t be turned on or off and are mechanically triggered if you full a Shrine. You may as well monitor your progress towards every shrine, because it’ll inform you what number of shrine items you’ve collected.
Punch away encounters
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Wait till the NPC is in vary (which isn’t that shut). - 2.
Pop em’ with a robust left hook.
Whereas exploring the Overworld, you’ll discover random encounters when navigating the tall grass. Like random Pokémon battles, these encounters depend on RNG, so there’s no telling after they’ll pop up. For those who set off one, an NPC will spawn within the Overworld and begin chasing you. As quickly as they contact you, the encounter begins. Now, you’ll need to fend off a couple of waves of enemies in first-person earlier than getting again to the Overworld.
Sadly, these encounters are extra annoying than they’re useful. You don’t get a lot beneficial loot, and the XP features solely assist in the course of the decrease ranges. Nonetheless, there’s a strategy to keep away from them.
To keep away from random encounters in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, simply punch the NPC earlier than they contact you. You don’t need to allow them to get shut both, because the Overworld punch has some severe phantom vary. Sure, you sacrifice any gold, merchandise, and XP features by punching away the encounter. Nonetheless, when you’re deep within the recreation, your time and persistence are extra beneficial.
Full aspect quests
As with every RPG, aspect quests are one of the simplest ways to grind gold and XP in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Everytime you discover a new space, both in first-person or within the Overworld, you’ll come throughout three or 4 aspect quests. Fortunately, the sport scales as you stage up. A aspect quest you picked up at stage 5 scales to your present stage if you lastly get round to finishing it. Going again and finishing these quests is well worth the rewards and time, as you received’t be getting low-level stuff you don’t want.
Some aspect quests are extra obligatory than others. For instance, if you enter the Unfathomable Fathoms, you’ll come throughout an NPC named Margravine outdoors the Drowned Abyss. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to’t entry the Drowned Abyss, because it’s on the opposite aspect of a bottomless crevasse of doom. However for those who full her quest, she’ll offer you a spyglass that may discover invisible bridges. You’ll know when there’s an invisible bridge forward if you see damaged stone pillars. This must also be a eureka second for finishing the dear space’s shrine.
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