'Once you hit that end game, what are you doing? That's what Crawmerax was,' Varnell says. 'If you don't curse the design team at least five times on the way to beating this guy, we haven't done our jobs' - producer Randy Varnell. We're at Gearbox's Dallas headquarters to see the rest. The developer has already revealed one of the new mechanics designed to do this, the unique Badass system and its infinite levels of profile-wide progression. Terramorphous is like that, except he's even more of a bastard.Ī raid boss comes on the disc this time because Gearbox wants to include enough end-game content to keep players who've hit the level 50 cap playing for years after launch. The mission to kill that beast was called '.' You see what they're doing here.Ĭrawmerax was pretty much the hardest challenge the first Borderlands had to offer, and required a group of four maximum-level players all with high-level gear to take it down. Terramorphous was conceived after Borderlands developer Gearbox Software saw how players enjoyed taking on Crawmerax the Invincible (no relation), the crab worm raid boss from the superb The Secret Armory of General Knoxx downloadable add-on. 'If you don't curse the design team at least five times on the way to beating this guy, we haven't done our jobs,' says producer Randy Varnell with a smile. well, let's just say, there are enough of them to make the player feel very, very insignificant.

Its tentacles, many of which protrude from the ground, nag at your already frayed concentration. It hits hard enough to kill you outright. Its knock-back attack sends you flying high into the air, probably to your death. This gargantuan thresher serpent thing emerges from the rock with a roar that echoes throughout his cliff-side home, Terramorphous Peak in the Thousand Cuts area. The boss is called Terramorphous the Invincible, and he earns his name. There is a boss in Borderlands 2 so tough you probably won't be able to kill it.

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