So you haven’t been tortured enough by the Bane in Borderlands 2 and want another talking weapon. Good news – the free DLC, Commander Lilith and The Fight for Sanctuary adds another talking gun called the Overcompensator. Unlike other weapons, the Overcompensator is focused more on being positive and reinforcing your life choices. How nice. So how do you get it?

First, you need to complete the final mission in the DLC. This will unlock a bunch of other quests with Vaughn. After completing these, you’ll receive the quest “Chief Executive Overlord.” Complete all the necessary objectives, you’ll receive the Overcompensator as a reward.

It’s a shotgun with a unique voice module which offers choice quotes like “You crushed that one, brah!” on kills and “Yeah, more bullets!” when reloading. It also provides reduced pellet count for higher accuracy, fire rate and magazine size. The weapon also has a chance to refill a random number of bullets when fired. It has a fixed accessory and consumes 1 ammo per shot.

Commander Lilith and The Fight for Sanctuary DLC has been available for Borderlands 2 for almost two weeks now. In said time, new farming spots for some of the coveted new loot like Effervescent weapons and Legendaries have been discovered. So what are you waiting for?

First, you need the new DLC which is currently free to download on Xbox One, PS4 and PC. The farming strategy requires taking advantage of one-way transport beacon which save your location every time you save, quit and return to the game. The first farming spot is found after completing the Helios Fallen quest and defeating Uranus.

Head to Helios Fallen and use the one-way beacon to go to Fire Control Alpha. You then use the elevator in the hallway just outside of Munitions Loading. Through the doorway is Uranus, freshly respawned, except you can move back down the hall and fight without any risk. After killing him and collecting your drops, save and quit the game. Load it back up and you’ll be back at the beacon and can do another run.

The second spot is at Mt. Scarab Research Center. You need to go all the way to the end of the mission and defeat Cassius. Head to the Research Center – Paradise Bio-Lab one-way beacon. Once you’ve initiated the checkpoint, save and quit. Load the game up again and you’ll be back at the beacon. Loot the chests nearby accordingly. This can be done for as long as you wish.

As last week’s leak indicated, there’s new DLC for Gearbox’s Borderlands 2 called Commander Lilith and The Fight for Sanctuary. You can download it for free now on Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Those who don’t own the game (or Borderlands: The Handsome Collection) have until July 9th to claim it for free. After that, it will retail for $15.

Along with a crazy new enemy faction called the New Pandora Army, the heroes of Sanctuary have to deal with poison gas that’s turning people into mutated plant monsters. Old enemies will have infected variations, but there will be new enemies, a new raid boss, new locations, twists on old locations, and much more. There’s even a new loot tier called Effervescent to grind towards.

If that weren’t enough, the level cap has been raised to 80 with two additional OP Levels added. New weapons – including a gun that fires unicorns – can also be obtained. If you want to hop into the DLC immediately, then you have the choice to start a new character at level 30 and jump right in. The DLC bridges the gap between Borderlands 2 and 3, so it might be worth your while to check out.

Update: The Steam store page for the DLC has since been removed. Perhaps an official announcement will be coming at Microsoft’s presser after all. Check out the tweet below from The Angry Joe Show’s Lashman if you need any more convincing that it’s real.

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Last week, an anonymous source said that Gearbox Software would be looking to bridge the story between Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3 with some DLC. Today, it’s confirmed that Commander Lilith and The Fight for Sanctuary will be out on June 10th for Borderlands 2 players. The Steam page for the same is currently up.

The story involves Sanctuary being under siege as the Vault Map is stolen and “a toxic gas is poisoning Pandora.” There are new bosses to fight, new areas, new loot (along with a new tier that goes “beyond Legendary”) and a “deranged villain hell-bent on ruling the planet.” The level cap will also be increased to 80 but new players can be boosted to level 30 and hop right in.

There’s no word yet on pricing but given that the DLC is out one day after Microsoft’s E3 2019 presser (where Borderlands 3 is rumoured to appear), we may learn more there. As for Borderlands 3, it’s currently slated to release on September 13th for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. The PC version will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store until April 2020. Gearbox has stated that it plans to reveal a new planet and Vault Hunter at E3. Stay tuned for more details as usual.

Borderlands 2: Commander Lilith & The Fight For Sanctuary will get a store page soon

(that's the new DLC bridging the story to Blands 3) https://t.co/2UGWDZZV7d pic.twitter.com/14hxPAE6ic

— lashman (@RobotBrush) June 5, 2019