BL2 Arsenal

🚧 Work in progress. BL2 Arsenal is playable and tested, but it is still growing: expect new BL2 content, changes and balance tweaks with each update. Feedback is welcome.

Borderlands 2's guns, in Palworld. Take down Syndicate thugs, poachers, PIDF guards, bandits and their bosses, and they drop procedurally generated BL2 guns on the ground, under a beam in their BL2 rarity colour. Walk up to one to read its BL2 stat card, then press F to grab it.

Everything Borderlands comes from your own copy of Borderlands 2: gun stats, names (prefixes, titles and legendaries like Gub, Maggie, Shredifier, Invader, Baby Maker), rarity colours and firing sounds. Nothing from BL2 is shipped.

New in 1.2

• Borderlands 2's 3D guns: every new gun is built from real BL2 parts (body, barrel, grip, sight, stock, accessory, element, paint), with their BL2 bonuses and BL2 names. In your hands, on your back and on the ground you see the BL2 model assembled from those parts, in its BL2 paint job, sized to fit Palworld's characters.
• BL2 shot effects: elemental tracers and impacts (on enemies and the scenery), Maliwan's elemental orbs, Torgue's exploding gyrojets, BL2's own rocket with smoke and explosion for launchers, and BL2's muzzle flash.
• BL2 icons in the inventory, chests, equipment and on the HUD, and only the BL2 card when you hover a BL2 gun.
• Redesigned BL2 item card.

What's in it

• 33 BL2 manufacturer and gun-type combos (pistols, assault rifles, SMGs, shotguns, sniper rifles, launchers) in 5 rarities: white, green, blue, purple and orange.
• Manufacturer traits:
  • Jakobs fires as fast as you click.
  • Maliwan is always elemental.
  • Torgue rounds explode.
  • Vladof fires extra rounds.
  • Hyperion gets more accurate the longer you fire.
  • Tediore throws the gun when you reload, and it explodes.
  • Dahl bursts while aiming.
  • Bandit has huge magazines.
• Elements: incendiary, corrosive, shock, slag and explosive. Each adds damage through Palworld's own damage system, with visible statuses (burning, poisoned, electrified). Palworld's type chart applies to Pals, so fire hurts Grass and Ice Pals more and shock hurts Water Pals more.
• Loot only from hostile humans: regular humans drop a gun about one time in three, and bosses always drop one, with the best odds of orange. Wild Pals, chests and merchants never drop them.
• Borderlands Weapon recipe: from level 15, stand at a workbench and press G. It costs 20 Ingots, 10 Gunpowder and 5 Paldium Fragments and gives a fully random BL2 gun, from white to orange.
• BL2 in Palworld's menus: hover a BL2 gun in your inventory or a chest and its tooltip shows the BL2 name, rarity, damage and stats, next to its BL2 card. The HUD shows the held gun's BL2 name.
• BL2 sounds: firing, elemental hits, pickups, guns landing, the legendary jingle, and each manufacturer's reload sounds.
• BL2 loot beams and item cards: glowing beams built from BL2's own effect gradients and rarity colours, and a BL2-style item card with the maker's logo and gun icon read from your BL2, stats compared with the gun in your hand, and the legendary's red text.
• Gun levels: guns drop at the enemy's level (crafted ones at yours), and damage grows with the level.
• Legendary effects for all 33 BL2 legendaries: the Unkempt Harold fans out, the Infinity never runs dry, the Conference Call splits into everyone nearby, the Nukem's blast hits everything around the target. Each effect is written in red on the card.
• Light on your PC: since 1.1 the mod runs much lighter than 1.0, with far fewer hitches.
• BL2 guns use Palworld ammo of their type.

Requirements

• Palworld and Borderlands 2, both installed. Melty sets up UE4SS for you.
• Single player only: this release has no multiplayer. Play it in an offline solo world.

Known limits (v1.2)

• Guns found before 1.2 have no BL2 parts, so they keep Palworld's model.
• The first launch of 1.2 rebuilds the BL2 cache, which takes about a minute.
• Gyrojets and rockets fly at Palworld's bullet speed.
• The Borderlands Weapon recipe appears as a [G] prompt at the workbench, not in Palworld's recipe list.

Being explored (no promises)

• ECHO messages with BL2 portraits and voice lines, BL2 combat music.

Unofficial fan mashup. Borderlands 2 © Gearbox / 2K, Palworld © Pocketpair. Built with Claude (AI). Bundles vgmstream to decode BL2's audio on your PC. MIT licence.