Borderlands Guide Book
Raul Herrera
This guide is intended to help you attain 100% completion in Borderlands, guiding you through each mission, along with side missions. Any text that is blue in colour and in bold can be clicked to open a relevant image. All images used were taken during a play through on the PC platform.
The side missions are placed alongside the main storyline missions for cohesive reasons. If you need to find a specific mission, pressing Ctrl + F (Command + F for Mac users) and searching for the mission name will bring up the mission details, along with the guide to completing it.
Where applicable, achievements pertaining to the story, or that can be achieved at certain points in the Borderlands world have been listed on the "Story walkthrough" page. All other achievements (such as killing X amount of enemies with Y element effect) have been placed on a separate page marked "Miscellaneous" as it's impossible to state when you will attain these due to the random loot process.
Unless you want to grind for XP in your first playthrough (this is not recommended as XP gain really slows down once you've finished the main story and are over-levelled), it is recommended, but not required, that you play through the campaign twice to collect all of the achievements (you can run through the main story a second time in a few hours). Your first playthrough will consist of gaining as many achievements as you can, whether they be story-related, accumulative, or rank associated. Your second playthrough will be levelling up for the rank 50 and 51 achievements. Any that you may have missed through your first playthrough can also be attained during your second playthrough.
The Borderlands are both geographical and cultural spaces. This fluid space between worlds is a place of cultural wealth that hosts several communities. This libguide, the first of many centered on the people of the Borderlands, looks at the experiences of Black people in the Borderlands, from Baja California, Mexico to Tamaulipas, Mexico.
The creation of this first guide centered on the people of the Borderlands is a collaboration between Special Collections and Beyond Juneteenth, an initiative at the University of Arizona. The work of Beyond Juneteenth began as a way to educate the Southern Arizona community about the many contributions of Black people in the Southwest, Arizona and Borderlands region in honor of the University of Arizona's first observance of the federal holiday of Juneteenth. The work of the Special Collections librarians and researchers on the Borderlands takes an extensive look at the geographical and cultural regions between the U.S. Southwest and Mexico.
While we are more likely to understand the geographical and cultural histories of Mexican, Mexican American and Indigenous or Native American communities and individuals, there is a sizable gap in the collection of experiences of other historically marginalized groups, namely Black communities of the Borderlands. This often overlooked history exists but is less visible without extended effort to pull information from various sources. The request from Beyond Juneteenth to curate a libguide aligned with and helped to expand our research on the communities of the Borderlands, specifically in Arizona, outside of common knowledge.
We were intentional about the use of the term Black rather than African American. The use of the term Black is, in this current moment, more inclusive to all African, African diasporic and mixed race communities located in the Borderlands that have resided here, and continue to reside here, as a result of patterns of migration and the formation of kinship bonds. To better include the vast identities that exist within Black Borderlands communities, it was important not to focus on a single label but instead to utilize a term that encompasses the wide and wonderful ways Blackness exists within this region.
Many of the reference materials that you will encounter were originally created by students that wanted to learn more about the unique experiences of Black people in the Southwest. This tradition of student-research, student-historians, and student-archivists collecting information and curating knowledge is continued in the 21st century through the work of graduate assistant Zoe Harrison. Like many of the students in the mid to late 20th century, Zoe helped to create the structure of this libguide and engaged in the brilliant work of pulling research, collections, and resources together in one location to better help scholars, public historians and archivists, and the various communities we serve to see the contributions of Black people in the Southwest. She is mentioned here both to honor her work, the work of those that came before her, and those who will continue to carry it forward.
Sankofa is a word from the Akan tribe in Ghana that means to go back and get. In the truest sense of the word, this is Sankofa in action - a return to the past to better understand and inform our future.
Over the past half century in particular, many have embraced music as a way to express their commonality, declare their personal identification with Greater Mexican culture regardless of their citizenship, honor their heroes of cultural resistance in the face of a dominating majority culture, and insist on focusing on the beauty and inherent value of a culture heritage that binds them together in the midst of mainstream dissonance promulgated via the mass media and national politics.
While today people of many different cultural backgrounds call the U.S.-Mexico border region home, this playlist spotlights sounds, traditions, cultures, and artists that draw directly from the centuries-old borderlands experience. Musical expressions both old and new draw from the experience of being family, neighbors, or cultural cousins. Mexican Americans, mexicanos from Mexico, Tejanos, and Indigenous peoples play and participate in music either as a way of consciously asserting themselves in the broader cultural body politic or as a way of simply being who they are in their songs, sounds, and social life. And of course, as society evolves and changes, music changes along with it, so some of the tracks drawn from the Folkways collections were new a century ago but are thought of today as old-time tradition, and others are recent creations reflecting either a bilingual baseline or a borderlands abyss.
Accordion-driven polkas and other dance rhythms drawn from the 19th century, corrido ballads telling stories of borderlands heroes and events, songs from the Mexican msica ranchera mold, fiddle music from pre-accordion times, and songs with English lyrics are the building blocks of the list. The Spanish-dominant communities on the north side of the political border are most present, though some tracks are included intentionally to imply a broader, more diverse presence of people united by both togetherness and a resistance to separation. With all of this in mind, we hope that we offer something new to learn about, but above all, we hope that you enjoy the music!
Looting the Sirens The Borderlands 3 Guide will help you select your character, learn about available guns and understand all the other game mechanics. It also contains a well-illustrated walkthrough of the main story and side quests.
In this unofficial guide to Borderlands 3 you will find information about all of the most important game elements and in-game mechanics. This guide contains, above all else, descriptions of all four main characters. Samples of recommended builds were included to discuss each of the characters. They should help in creating a strong hero who can easily deal with threats.
An important part of our guide is the section with starting tips. It was designed with the beginner players in mind, for whom this is the first contact with the Borderlands franchise. Another important part of the guide is the FAQ section with answers to frequently asked questions. The following pages of this chapter explain, among other things, how to accumulate XP, how to reset skills, how to unlock vehicle travel, how to steal enemy vehicles, or how to acquire gold keys.
In our game guide to Borderlands 3 you may find a complete walkthrough of the main storyline. On separate pages we have also included descriptions of fights with bosses and other powerful opponents. All of this is complemented by the trophy guide, which features very detailed description of all of the game's achievements.
Borderlands 3 is another installment of a popular series of loot-shooters. This time, players can visit not only Pandora, but also a number of other planets. The scheme of the game remains the same - we travel through open locations, defeat opponents and collect more powerful weapons. We can play alone or in cooperation with other players (in split screen mode as well).
The action of Borderlands 3 takes place a few years after the events known from the previous installment of the franchise. The main antagonists of the game are Troy and Tyreen Calypso, known as Calypso Twins. They belong to the Sirens and lead a gang called Children of the Vault.
In terms of game mechanics, Borderlands 3 develops the ideas from the previous parts of the series. The developers have not tried to revolutionize the model of the game, so fans of the series will easily be able to find themselves in this new part of the franchise.
You will also find a deposit to store your selected inventory items. Once aboard, you can also find a Golden Chest. If you have one of the keys designed for this chest, you can open it to get legendary equipment.
In addition to the standard version, Borderlands 3will also offer a collector's edition which includes: the full version of the game, steelbook, season pass, a set of gold skins for weapons, additional digital content, a replica of Diamond Loot Chest, 10 character figurines, 5 lithographs of game heroes, 4 vault key keychains and a cloth map of the galaxy.