Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - Lady Hammerlock pack

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - Lady Hammerlock Pack adds Aurelia Hammerlock as a playable vault hunter in the lunar shooter-looter that bridges BL2 and BL3. If you already own the base game and are hunting for a character whose personality is as sharp as her damage output, Aurelia is the pick. She is a Baroness - wealthy, contemptuous, and genuinely fun to voice-act alongside in co-op because her dismissive quips land consistently throughout the campaign. That alone puts her ahead of a few of the DLC characters in other Borderlands titles who coast on thin gimmicks. Mechanically she runs two main skill trees. The Cold Money tree leans hard into cryo elemental damage, building freeze stacks that shatter enemies in a way that feels satisfying whether you are playing solo or in a four-player lobby. The Contractual Aristocracy tree is where things get interesting from an RPG-brain perspective: it lets you designate a servant (read: a co-op partner) to buff, creating an asymmetric dynamic that the base game's characters never really explored. Pairing those two trees produces genuine build variety - you can go full cryo burst, servant-chain support, or a hybrid that keeps both options online past the late game. That said, if you are a solo player, Contractual Aristocracy loses a meaningful chunk of its appeal, and you will spend most of your time in Cold Money regardless. The honest caveat is that this is a character DLC, not a story expansion. You get Aurelia's personal dialogue flavor woven into the existing Pre-Sequel campaign, but you are not getting new maps, new boss encounters, or extended lore beats about her backstory in a way that scratches a real narrative itch. For someone like me who wanted a full arc explaining how she became the antagonist she is in BL3, the pack feels like an appetizer that never became a meal. The writing that is here is sharp, but there simply is not enough of it to call this a worldbuilding purchase. At a mechanical level the Pre-Sequel itself holds up reasonably well - the low-gravity gunplay and butt-slam mechanics still feel distinct from BL2 - and Aurelia integrates cleanly into that sandbox. Her freeze-and-shatter combos pair well with the oxygen-kit movement system, and cryo is one of the better-supported elements on the moon's enemy roster. The 79% positive Steam rating reflects a fanbase that mostly enjoys her but is split on whether the price of a character pack is justified compared to the story DLCs on offer. Bottom line: if you are already deep into a Pre-Sequel playthrough and want a character with actual personality and a cryo build that has teeth, Aurelia delivers. If you are hoping for Borderlands lore depth or a reason to replay the campaign fresh, look at the story expansions first. Filler this is not, but a complete experience it also is not. Monika, Scout Team