Best Borderlands 2 Mods You Can’t Play Without

Some things never grow old, and Borderlands 2 mods are just as fun as they were almost a decade ago. Check out this extensive list on some of the best Borderlands 2 mods you can’t play the game without.

If you’re interested in more mods posts, here are some others to consider, too: Divinity Original Sin 2 Mods, Portal 2 Mods, Sims 4 Mods, and more.

Texture Modding Tool for PC

Best Borderlands 2 Mods

The stylistic visuals of Borderlands 2 lend themselves to all kinds of possibilities, so the idea of allowing the user to create their own aesthetic is a mouthwatering one.

Water your mouths no more (that’s not a phrase, but work with us), because this mod will let you adjust textures to your heart’s content, morphing the already striking world of Pandora, and turning it into something potentially wonderful, or potentially horrifying.

What kind of brand new frontier will you create? We’d advise you peruse through the existing list of content in order to draw some inspiration, but ultimately, the power is in your hands.

Use it wisely, and create the kind of majestic kingdom your grandparents once spoke of.

…Did your grandparents speak of lots of penises on the walls? No? Then stop that, you cheeky mix.

Third-Person Mod

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Want a new perspective on life? How about a new perspective on death?

Though it may be an affront on the very definition of ‘first-person shooter,’ those who are keen on trying a new view may be interested in trying out this mod, which has you observing the action from a third-person camera angle.

It may mess with your head a little if you’re something of a Borderlands savant, but once you grow accustomed to it, it almost feels like you’re experiencing the game for the first time all over again.

It also allows you to appreciate the visuals just that little bit more.

Difficulty Mod

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Traditionally, mods have been made to make your life easier in some way, shape or form. Make you a little bit stronger here, perhaps better equipped there.

Sometimes, however, a mod will go out of its way to kick your ass, and we, as the masochistic gaming masses, embrace it with arms wide open.

Hello, Borderlands 2’s difficulty mod. Punish us, for we’ve been naughty.

Specifically, what this particular mod does is cheat the game into thinking you have more players in-game than you actually do, setting more enemies upon you as a result.

This makes 4-player skirmishes particularly intense, as your courageous quartet does its best to stave off certain death.

Keep in mind, there is a strange glitch that makes you invincible should you roll with more than four players, which sounds neat in concept, but actually defeats the purpose of this mod, so it’s perhaps best to avoid doing that.

Unless you want to feel like a god, in which case, you do you.

No Intro

Best Borderlands 2 Mods

Back when I was a little girl living in the old country, my papa used to tell me all of these stories – oh, the stories he would tell! – about our family’s history, and the way that my great- great- great- grandfather innovated a new way for cows to –

NO MORE.

Intros are all well and good if you’re into things like exposition and prefacing, but sometimes you want action, dammit. Raw, blistering, bloody action!

So you must install this Borderlands 2 mod that automatically skips the intro videos, allowing you to jump straight into the melee. Feel free to ask me about the cow innovation some other time.

Sam’s BL2 SweetFX

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There are occasions when you want the game to be harder. There are occasions when you want it to be easier. And then there are occasions when you just want it to be gosh darned purdy.

So that’s why Sam has seen fit to gift us with a more marvelous tapestry of colors and effects to fill our eyeballs with whimsy and mirth.

This Borderlands 2 graphical mod creates deeper colors, better detail, better anti-aliasing and Gaussian bloom with no detectable loss in performance. Jargon jargon lingo lingo buzzword buzzword – it looks nice, and that’s all you need to know.

Borderlands 2 Tweaker

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There’s something kind of off-putting about the word tweaking. It evokes unpleasant connotations for nipples, or minor adjustments made to things. Most often the former, should you roll in certain circles.

Regardless, there are some things in life that we simply must tweak, and this Borderlands 2 mod allows us to do so.

Predominantly, they are related to graphical or performance elements, like turning off distortion effects or dynamic lighting.

With one, you get to reduce the time it takes for corpses to disappear from your screen, which not only can prevent weaker graphics cards from sputtering, but can also help remove some feeling of guilt you may suffer for the acts of violence you have just committed.

The Doc’s Unkempt Harold

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The Unkempt Harold is a weapon of fearsome power, but its look leaves something to be desired.

Why not spruce it up a little by injecting some Doctor Who into its paint job? Why, it looks so spectacular, you could practically rename it to Kempt Harold, put a CV in its hand and send it out to apply for a job in the banking industry.

Dream big, Harold. Dream big.

All this Borderlands 2 mod does is adjust the Unkempt Harold to resemble the design of the good Doctor’s scarf from season 18, which may sound superfluous until you realize just how spiffy that scarf happens to be.

Then you may upgrade it to ‘fairly pointless,’ and that’ll do just fine.

BL2 Profile Editor

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If you’re unhappy with aspects of your profile and you demand satisfaction, then we come bearing good news: we hear of a mod that can adjust various features like your badass ranks, golden keys, max health, shield capacity and more, a mod that can be downloaded at your leisure.

And that mod is here, obviously. We wouldn’t have listed it if it was only legend, obviously.

Not only does it let you customize various things to your choosing, but it also features some of the more amusing file notes, listing among the requirements of use that you have ‘a brain.’

Such witticism ought to be rewarded, and we do so by spreading the good word.

BL2 Unofficial Community Patch

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Have you ever haphazardly thrown out the phrase, ‘if you don’t like a game, go ahead and make something better yourself’?’ If so, be aware that sometimes, the community goes out and does just that. Boy, will your face be red.

Allow us to introduce you to the Borderlands 2 Community Patch, a mod that balances and adjusts a few uneven or rough edges of the game to help create the perfect experience.

Developers do their very best, but rarely does anyone know better than the fans themselves, and when they come together to collaborate, it can lead to beautiful improvements.

…Or blistering, hateful remarks in the comments section. It’s 50/50, really.

All Level 72 Character Game Saves

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So you want to reap the benefits of max-levelled characters, but you don’t want to put in any of the time and effort? Well, can’t say we approve of your impertinence, but we’ll assume that you’re a very busy person.

You’re probably a paramedic or something, and you’ve got lives to save.

If that’s the case, then you will have definitely earned the right to fast-track all of the protagonists to level 72, and will be able to use these newfound powers safely and responsibly.

We’re giving you the benefit of the doubt here, don’t let us down, okay?

That does it for our best Borderlands 2 mods of all time! You definitely can’t play without them. Let us know if we missed any, too.