A lot of games pride themselves on their secrets and easter eggs. For some, there are things that players won’t pick up on until years after the game releases. The Borderlands franchise is chock full of those secrets and easter eggs. Between its massive number of guns, numerous sci-fi and pop culture references, or just hidden chests of weapons, the Borderlands games hide a lot from their players.
Borderlands 3 is no exception, and one of its most densely packed areas, Lectra City, contains a number of secrets for players to find. Of course, most players are too busy looting or shooting to find these secrets, collectibles, and easter eggs.
10 Crew Challenges Across Lectra City
Borderlands 3 introduced a new concept to the franchise: crew challenges. These challenges are vastly different from the usual challenges the game pits against players. Instead of tasking them with beating a certain number of enemies or picking up a number of guns, players have to collect logs, items, or beat unique enemies.
Lectra City, being a massive, dense area in Borderlands 3, has a ton of crew challenges. These range from messing with Crimson Raider radio towers to fighting side bosses before the area’s main boss. Be sure to look out for anything that looks unusual against Lectra City’s concrete jungle.
9 Hidden Eridian Writing In Lectra City
Borderlands 3 boasts a wide array of secrets and collectibles, sometimes requiring that players run back through areas to find them. One such secret is the Eridian writing hidden in every world. For those that don’t remember, the Eridians are the ancient aliens in the Borderlands universe that originally created the vaults.
One such instance of Eridian writing is right in Lectra city, although many players may have overlooked it. It can be found in the Promethea section of Lectra city, inside an abandoned train tunnel.
8 A Very Stinky Side Mission
Besides its numerous collectibles and secrets, Borderlands 3 is also full of wacky and weird side missions. These are one of the staples of the Borderlands franchise. What would Borderlands 2 be without the side quest with Shooty McShoot Face? Not the same game, that’s for sure.
Another unique and super nasty side quest is present in Lectra City. Dubbed Porta Prison, this long side quest tasks players with rescuing a citizen trapped inside of a sentient porta-potty. At its end, players walk away with a feces-themed rocket launcher. Gross.
7 Lectra City’s Dead Claptraps
Another group of collectibles found across Borderlands 3 are the deceased brothers and sisters of the franchise’s annoying icon: Claptrap. Fortunately for players, all of Claptrap’s kin has passed, so nobody has to hear more than one of them talk at once. It’s just as well that these old Claptrap bots can be scavenged for parts.
Lectra city has two Claptraps that players can find and salvage. One is located in the city’s Market Square, south of the entrance to the city. The second can be found on a small sheet of cardboard at the Downtown Square area. He passed in the middle of busting a move.
6 Hidden Red Chests
At its core, beyond the secrets, past the easter eggs, Borderlands 3 is about the guns. They’re the center of the entire Borderlands franchise, the point of playing it. Borderlands 3 has an insane number of guns, but to get all of them players have to look carefully. Besides dropping from enemies, the best guns can be found in special red chests scattered throughout worlds.
Lectra City has a ton of red chests, but because it’s such a large map with tons of verticality, many of them can be easily passed over. One that players should be sure not to miss is in the city’s docks. To get to the chest, players have to scramble up some crates and then onto a platform suspended by a crane.
5 A Marriage Made In Lectra City
Borderlands 3 has another wild quest located in Lectra City titled Proof of Wife. The quest tasks players with arranging a prisoner swap: a bandit’s wife, named Bloodshine, for a captured Atlas soldier. It’s up to the player to facilitate this trade.
Naturally, the exchange doesn’t go that smoothly. Players end up having to invade a wedding party for Bloodshine and her insane wife-to-be, Tumorhead and crash the party. Once they do, players free the Atlas soldier Naoko Katagawa, the sister of one of the game’s bosses, Katagawa Jr.
4 Dwarf Fortress In Lectra City
Borderlands has so many references in it that it may as well be a franchise full of crossover episodes. If there’s a piece of sci-fi media, it can probably be found inside of a Borderlands game, and that extends to Borderlands 3. While this reference isn’t explicitly sci-fi, it does relate to another famous game.
Fans of Dwarf Fortress shouldn’t miss this secret enemy. Dubbed Urist McEnforcer, this enemy found inside Lectra City is a dwarf version of one of the Children of the Vault’s cultists. Players that can take him down can nab one of three legendary shields.
3 Rick & Morty Cross Into Borderlands 3
Borderlands 3 features another new gameplay element in the form of bounties. Found aboard the starship Sanctuary, these bounties can be taken and tracked town at the player’s leisure. One of them, in particular, takes hunters to Lectra City, to bag some cleverly named bandits.
The bounty is for Wick and Warty, a pair of super-powered bandits. If it’s not obvious, the duo is a reference to Rick And Morty, the popular sci-fi show on Adult Swim. One of the bandits even teleports around using massive green portals, a staple of the show.
2 An Overpowered Early-Game Weapon
Lectra City is an area that players should get to around levels 13 to 15, meaning they’re pretty early on into the game. Sure, they may have some sweet elemental weapons, but nothing game-breaking. However, that can change with some careful searching in Lectra City.
Inside the city is an incredibly overpowered early-game weapon known as the one-pump-chump. It’s a shotgun that only holds one shot at a time. And although that measly capacity may seem like a downside, when players see the damage numbers jumping off from their targets, they’ll have second thoughts.
1 One Punch Man Lives On In Lectra City
What would any area in a Borderlands game be without a secret boss fight? It’d be like cereal without milk, Fallout without laser weapons, it just wouldn’t make sense. Thankfully, Lectra City has its own secret boss, but getting to fight him takes a bit of thinking.
Players can find this boss, aptly named One Punch, in the city’s abandoned train tunnels. After solving a puzzle to let him out, the massive Psycho charges at any players he can see. Be careful if you face him, he’s named One Punch for a reason. Defeating One Punch rewards players with the One Pump Chump.
