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Borderlands 2 Game of the Year eGuide Optional Missions

Animal Rights

Mission Briefing

Mordecai, furious over Bloodwing’s death, asks you to head to the Hyperion Exploitation Preserve and free three separate creatures from imprisonment so they can tear the staff apart.

Availability: Speak to Mordecai in Sanctuary after “Wildlife Preservation.”

Unlocks:

Mission Reward: Dukino

Level Money XP Gear

19

($434 with Bonus)

3527

Sniper Rifle (Blue)

Wildlife Exploitation Preserve

Pull the lever on the green-lit generator at the bottom of the stairs to release the stalkers.

Return to Wildlife Exploitation Preserve, and fight your way past the stalkers and Hyperion troops to the Preserve Dockyard. Pull the lever on the generator in the center of the southern docks to open the cages and release half-dozen stalkers. A dozen Stalker Handlers—specially assigned Engineers—rush forward to try to kill the stalkers before they can escape. The Stalker Handlers primarily ignore you as they wrestle with the escaped stalkers. Avoid shooting the stalkers, and kill the Stalker Handlers as quickly as you can. The stalkers know you’re on their side and will not attack. Use Corrosive weaponry to dispatch the heavily armored Stalker Handlers in time to maximize the number of stalkers that can survive the battle. The stalkers attack the handlers on their own; increase your effectiveness by focusing on handlers in one-on-one battles with stalkers, and ignore the Stalker Handlers who are being mobbed by a pack of stalkers.

Continue through the Preserve along the same path you had taken during the “Wildlife Preservation” mission and forge ahead to the hallway leading to the circular enclosure. Pull the lever in the hallway to release several skags in the area ahead. Sprint ahead, and once again open fire on the handlers to protect the freed creatures. The skags are fewer in number and one has even been named—they’re almost like family. Kill the 12 Skag Handlers before they can put down the escaping skags. Do your best to keep the skags alive to increase the total number of surviving creatures and hopefully earn the bonus Challenge’s cash reward.

Pull this lever to release the skags, then race ahead to protect them before it’s too late.

Slay all of the creatures in the next enclosure to draw out the Super Badass Loader, then continue through the Specimen Maintenance area and the exterior enclosure that follows. Push on to the Observation Wing and locate the lever in the warehouse office. Pull this lever to free the Badass Stalker. This time, you have the difficult task of protecting a single creature from a dozen assailants. You certainly have your work cut out for you, but you mustn’t feel bad if the creature dies. It was likely going to be used in Handsome Jack’s sadistic experiments and gradually tortured to death anyway. Nevertheless, defeat the 12 handlers with Slag and Corrosive weaponry to better the chances of adding to your total of surviving creatures. Continue through the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve, and return to the Fast Travel station. Head back to Mordecai at Crimson Raiders HQ at once to collect your reward.

Badass Stalkers are guarded by Badass Stalker Handlers: it’s best to Slag them, then switch to Corrosive weaponry.