Borderlands: The Third Vehicle Type
A few missions into the third Borderlands DLC, you will encounter a new mission issued by Scooter for you to grab the digital blueprints for the “Lancer” vehicle.
Up until this point in the expansion, you may have noticed that the Crimson Lancers have been rolling around on the highways with an interesting vehicle that fires lightning bolts (mostly at you), and while your homing MIRV weapon on your Monster vehicle can usually take out one of the Lancer vehicles after several hits, you may have thought that you’d either have to hound those Lancers to death or try to outrun them with a Racer…
Not any longer. Once you complete Scooter’s mission, you’ll be able to spawn a Lancer at his vehicle teleporters.
And in addition to the cutesy way that you teleport into and out of the Lancer vehicle, as well as the Eridian-style electrical weapon, you also get better armor/shields than the Monster and the machine gun is mounted on a rotating turret that is yoked to the electrical gun– so now you can fire two weapons at the same direction even when stationary! 
callan are discussing.
callan 4:35 PM on February 25, 2010 Permalink |
i have done this mission and i dont know how to get the lancer what do you do?
Steve 7:41 PM on February 25, 2010 Permalink |
What’s the mission name you’re thinking about? It’s possible you haven’t gotten the Lancer spawn mission. If you have, just go to one of Scooter’s teleport machines and select the Lancer from the vehicle toggle.
Steve 10:41 PM on February 25, 2010 Permalink |
@callan,
Check to make sure that the mission you finished wasn’t “Boost the Monster”.
The mission that nets you the Lancer is the “OMG APC”.
Steve 7:45 PM on February 25, 2010 Permalink |
Folks, here’s something additional and fun for you with the new Lancer vehicle: there are a total of FOUR seats, which obviously can accommodate four players… and they all have different functions! The driver seat is self-explanatory; it can also fire the main and secondary guns if you’re solo. There’s the separate gunner seat, ‘natch. But there’s the blast seat, which allows you to fire a blast radius around the vehicle, which is great for damaging enemies that get too close. And finally, there’s the mine seat, which allows you to toss out flat-disc land mines… great for tossing in the path of pursuers.
Unfortunately, when I tried hitting the Y button, I couldn’t jump between the different seats. Definitely seems like a vehicle (and feature set) best suited for a team!