Borderlands 2 - Headhunter 2: Wattle Gobbler

Wattle Gobbler is the second of five Headhunter packs for Borderlands 2, and it does exactly what the label says: gives you a compact, holiday-flavored excuse to shoot things in a new location for an hour or so. You fast-travel into Gluttony Gulch, a multi-zone arena built around a grotesque reality-TV show called the Hunger for Violence Extravaganza. The setup is a clear Hunger Games riff, complete with paired tribute mini-bosses drawn from various Pandoran cities and settlements, a giant Horn of Plenty, and an engineered-to-be-invincible boss turkey. The actual combat loop follows the standard Borderlands formula. You fight re-skinned kitchen-worker bandits, deal with Stabber Jabber nests on the loading docks, poison the Wattle Gobbler's food supply to strip away its invincibility, then face the thing directly in an outdoor arena. The Gobbler itself also spawns small Wattle Gobblets during the fight, which adds a minor layer of chaos without meaningfully changing how you approach it with any class build. There are red chests and vending machines scattered through the area, so your loadout stays competitive, but do not expect meaningful loot drops from the boss itself. Community consensus is that the Gobbler fight lands somewhere between underwhelming and serviceable. Where the DLC earns its keep is the writing around Mister Torgue. His role here digs into genuine character texture: his fractured relationship with the Torgue Corporation executives, his reasons for doing things (pure, unapologetic awesomeness), and his surprisingly warm dynamic with his grandmother. His plan to subvert the producers just so he can eat the turkey is exactly the kind of absurdist logic this franchise runs on. The side mission involving Grandma Flexington is where opinions split hard. She tells long stories, she requires you to stay within earshot, and if a stray enemy shoots you during the monologue and you fire back, the mission resets. For a player who actually cares about Borderlands lore, the Flexington backstory pays off. For anyone who plays for gunfights, this section will feel like a deliberately torturous detour masquerading as content. Compared to the first Headhunter pack, Bloody Harvest, this one is a lateral step rather than a clear improvement. It has a stronger narrative setup and sharper dialogue, but slightly less map area to explore and no hidden secret boss to discover. The area level scales to wherever you are on first arrival in Normal Mode (between level 15 and 35), so it plugs into any playthrough without friction. Completing the Grandma Flexington story missions all the way through rewards you with a Torgue rocket launcher, which is at least thematically on-brand. A class-specific head is earned from the main mission reward, with the matching skin coming from the Gobbler drop, though the skin is not guaranteed and farming it means force-quitting repeatedly. This is a DLC for committed Borderlands 2 fans who want every scrap of Pandoran lore and genuinely enjoy Torgue as a character. If you are here for meaningful build testing, challenging boss mechanics, or replayable content, Wattle Gobbler will not hold your attention past the first run. It is forty-five minutes of decent jokes and one frustrating escort-adjacent mission wrapped in a Thanksgiving costume.

Monika · Scout Team

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