10 Things to Do First in Borderlands 3

Choose Coopetition or Cooperation

When you create your first game file — and any subsequent new game files — you’ll have to choose whether you want your co-op experience to play out as a Coopetition or Cooperation.

Coopetition is where only one instance of each piece of loot drops from enemies, and you have to fight it out with your team to scoop it up; whereas cooperation sees all loot distributed fairly and everyone’s generally that bit happier and not screaming at one another demanding they hand over that damn bouncy grenade mod.

Cooperation also applies pretty generous level scaling so players of all levels can play together. In coopetition, this is disabled, so you’ll be facing off against enemies at the same level as the host, for better or worse.