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Loveshot.exe | VPN Sniper Loveless (LVL 70 TUVH7)

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Visual Paradox Nexus

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By Ratore

Updated on Oct 3, 2026

Oct 3, 2026

Build Overview

Loveshot.exe

This is my sniper focused build for Loveless. Loveshot.exe looks towards using heavy-hitting, high burst damage Sniper Rifles and playing around One Shots, Stored Damage and the Visual Paradox Nexus Action Skill.

Build made in collaboration with Girthquake, Rezur and Iserrot.
- You can find us in the Soup Kitchen Discord Server!
- The spec on the video to the right is outdated, but feel free to check it for some gameplay footage.

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Strengths And Weaknesses

One Shot Sniping
Burst Damage
Great bossing and mobbing

Weapon type restriction: Snipers

Build Variants

HDR Loveshot

WIR Loveshot

HDR Loveshot can achieve higher potential numbers and has access

Skill Tree

HDR Loveshot

WIR Loveshot

Points Spent 0 / 69

LMB Allocate

RMB Unallocate

5/5

3/3

4/5

5/5

1/5

5/5

3/5

3/3

1/1

Action Skill

accelerat.exe + Stack Overflow

accelerat.exe provides 250% Amp and is an extremely impactful boost.
Stack Overflow is excellent for bossing and bursting down high value targets.
- There's currently a bug with Montage Maker that causes you to not be able to reenter stealth through kills if you exited stealth through using VPN's Function: Kusarigama, instead having to wait the cooldown of the Class Mod's stealth. It's very annoying but unfortunately the skill is central to the build. It has been reported.

Notes on VPN Visual Paradox Nexus

Grants 25% Crit Damage while VPN is Active.
Grants 50% All Damage while in Stealth.
- This boost is not listed in the Action Skill description, but is listed in the Montage Maker Class Mod. Both do not stack, it is simply a feature of Stealth that is not mentioned in VPN's description.
The first shot upon entering Stealth will have +200% Gear Crit.
- This feature is not listed in the Action Skill description.
- Subsequent shots (after the first) in or out of Stealth will only have the 25% Crit Damage instead.
accelerat.exe's Gun Damage is 250% Amp (x3.5).

Notes on Stack Overflow Stack Overflow

Does not get consumed if the Function misses/doesn’t hit any enemy.
Damage to store is checked ON HIT, meaning it is relatively anti-synergistic with multiple pellets and source-adopting Bonus Elements like Watts 4 Dinner.
- This doesn't mean you should never use Watts 4 Dinner or multipellet weapons. Truck with Torgue Impact + Shotgun Mode is still excellent, for example.
Overflow's UI Icon is super buggy and can just disappear even though you’re still storing the damage, or have it fully stored.
Kusarigama Function: Is Action Skill; Is Melee Damage. Can build up Groundbreaker.
Kusarigama Function: Is not Player Melee Attack (doesn’t deliver GB).
Stack Overflow Formula: [(Base+StoredDamage) x (1+Soup+Crit)]

Hack / Slash

Disdain for some damage.

Odium for Stack Overflow and Groundbreaker.

Ratio Technique for a little Crit Chance.

Death Begets Death for sustaining Visual Paradox Nexus through kills.

notarget is a great grab to make gameplay more fluid and have more time to setup. You can try skipping it if you want, but it makes the whole loop significantly comfier.

Methodical for a large boost to slow-firing snipers and underbarrels.

The Methodical formula: ('Up to' Skill Card Value) / (Fire rate)
- Affected by ANY of the common Fire Rate boosts and mode switches.
- The Stop Gap Fire Rate Reduction Special Effect does not boost it.
- ‘Up to’ Skill Card value is achieved at exactly 1.0 Fire Rate, but it can continue scaling further at lower values.

Retribution is nice soup, but points can be further split with Infinite Murder Hack if you want.

Killing Machine for Function and Executable cooldown utility. This helps you maintain accelerat.exe without having to go for Merry Bandwidth.

Refactored Damage Formula for the extra pure multiplier sniper damage.

Virology

Notes on High Data Rate High Data Rate

High Data Rate has unlisted properties. The guaranteed status effect it applies is actually 'Fake DOT' based on damage dealt, much like Vex's Bloodletter.

Consuming Empowered Melee guarantees a DoT on the next elemental attack.
- Any elemental instance of damage will consume the effect and create a DOT based on it. This includes Weapons, Ordnance, Stack Overflow and Bonus Elements attach to Groundbreaker, among other things like 'forced fake DOTs' like Contagion.
DOT damage is equal to 300% of damage dealt, per second. It's a double dip.
The DOT lasts 12.5s.
Can create Cryo DOTs.
Only needs 1 point to get all of these benefits. Further investment only increases the otherwise unrelated Status Effect Application Chance listed on the skill card.

Established Gameplay Loop for some nice soup and reload. On mobbing, you can trigger this using the utility grenades and/or Watts 4 Dinner.

Nootropic Energy Drink for Stack Overflow.

System Restore is a nice 1-point wonder for survival.

Wide Net is perfect for our weapons that have splash radius.

Manifestation

Corrupted Path provides a little more soup to Stack Overflow.

Finisher provides a great amoung of Gun Damage which you can keep up simply by using Function: Kusarigama and getting gun kills.

Equipment

HDR Loveshot

WIR Loveshot

Weapons

Repkit & Ordnance

Utilities

WEAPONS

TruckSolar TemperOrder SniperWind SkimmerPRISM

Use Torgue (Impact Mag) on any Sniper that can roll it.

Truck with Torgue (Impact Mag) is a great main choice for general use. Daedalus Shotgun Mode is also nice on it.
Solar Temper and Piktun Order Sniper for maximum impact damage.
Wind Skimmer is very powerful.
PRISM is just solid.

Vladof SniperMaliwan ShotgunDevourerComplex Root

The Vladof Sniper can roll the Big Rocket Underbarrel, which counts as a sniper hit, remains in-theme and is an excellent bossing option.
The Maliwan Shotgun can roll the Beam Tosser Underbarrel, which is an excellent choice since you can shoot it and swap back to a low fire rate Sniper to benefit from Methodical due to its projectile's slow travel speed. It can also afflict the target enemy with a very high damage Status Effect.
The Devourer Can be used to detonate any ongoing Status Damage of its same element, including Statuses applied by the Beam Tosser Underbarrel and High Data Rate.
The Complex Root is a decent bossing option, look for Jakobs and/or Atlas licenses.

Rooker

The Rooker has a very good Underbarrel. It can be used as passive damage while mobbing, or even as a bossing option. You can shoot out the Needles and swap back to a low fire rate Sniper to benefit from Methodical due to its projectile's slow travel speed.

FisheyeBorstel Ballista

Fisheye and Borstel Ballista projectiles have large hitboxes and are good for dealing with Crystal enemies. Fisheye is usually the preferred choice for that purpose.

REPKIT

Order Repkit, Triple Bypass,Kill Spring and Vitae are all good choices of Repkit with their own relative strengths.

Order Repkit is a good offensive choice.
Triple Bypass is nice for Now With Caffeine utility.
Kill Spring and Vitae are good sustain-focused options.

Look for these effects, or combinations of them if applicable:

Amp (Amplified)
Enrage (Experimental)
Fire Rate (Spasmodic)
Reload Speed (Dextrous)
Speed (Caffienated)
Accelarator (Adrenalized)

ORDNANCE

Crit Knife Jakobs Grenade

The low Critical Hit Chance of the build makes this grenade very valuable.

Waterfall, Countermeasure or any Epic Grenade

Lingering + Alchemic + Overflow/Exacting
- Great roll combination for the purpose of spreading Contagion, statuses and filling RAM.
Ricochet + Artillery + Overflow/Exacting
- Decent roll combination for the purpose of spreading Contagion, statuses and filling RAM. The Ricochet can also stack gun skills like Riddle You This.

Slippy

If you want to play around a Little Sister Shield with Boxer Jabbing, this is a great choice since its hits can trigger Boxer Jabbing.
- You can optionally go for a lower level Slippy to avoid self-damage accidents.

CLASS MOD

Stat Rolls to look for on any Class Mod:

Note: avoid Fire Rate. It weakens Methodical.

Gun Crit Chance
Gun Damage
Crit Damage
Skill Crit Chance

Montage Maker

For pure sniping on Visual Paradox Nexus, this just doesn't have any competition.

+1 Refactored Damage Formula; +5 Methodical; +1 Infinite Murder Hack

SHIELD

Watts 4 Dinner

150% Amp.

Guardian Angel

150% Amp. The fast recharge makes the Amp sustainable.

Little Sister and Hopscotch

x2 Turtle. Nice defensive choices.
An offensive option for Little Sister is Boxer + Positive Reinforcement or Armor Segment.
- Pairs very well with Slippy to force Drone spawns.

ENHANCEMENT

Stat Rolls to look out for on any Enhancement:

Note: avoid Fire Rate. It weakens Methodical.

Gun / Sniper Damage
Gun / Sniper Crit Damage
Gun / Sniper Splash Radius
Gun / Sniper Magazine Size
Gun / Sniper Equip Speed
Gun / Sniper Reload Speed

Pumper |Studfinder | Head Ringer Torgue Enhancement

Great for Torgue or Torgue-licensed guns, like a Truck.
- The Air Burst effect is extremely powerful for mobbing and against Crystal enemies.

Quintain | Blind Box | Piercer | Bounce Pass Jakobs Enhancement

Great for Jakobs or Jakobs-licensed guns.

Evolver | Primadiem | Power Shot Order Enhancement

Excellent picks for Order weapons like Solar Temper.

Firmware

HDR Loveshot

WIR Loveshot

Repkit & Ordnance

Repkit FirmwareDeadeye

Ordnance FirmwareHigh Caliber

Utilities

Class Mod FirmwareActive Fire

Shield FirmwareHigh Caliber

Enhancement FirmwareHigh Caliber

The above setup is a very generally useful one, but you can change firmwares depending on gun. I recommend always having at least 2/3 High Caliber and 1/3 Active Fire.

Options

3/3 High Caliber, excellent for Torgue (Impact Mag) weapons and splash-capable weapons in general, which also pair perfectly with Pumper/Torgue Air Burst.
3/3 Active Fire, for any chargeable weapons like Solar Temper.
2/3 or 1/3 Deadeye
1/3 Airstrike
2/3 Skillcraft

Specialization

HDR Loveshot

WIR Loveshot

Specialization 1The Best Defense

Specialization 2Bear Arms

Specialization 3I Am A Gun

Specialization 4Groundbreaker

Other Options

Note: Groundbreaker is optional and not required at all to accomplish boss kills in Mayhem 20 or True UVH7.

Now With Caffeine
Overkill
A Honed Mind
Bullet Train
In The Zone

Gameplay

HDR Loveshot

WIR Loveshot

Mobbing

Activate Visual Paradox Nexus with your preferred Augment.
Activate accelerat.exe.
Snipe.
- Use Function: Kusarigama to build up Finisher and to deliver Stack Overflow at high value targets, if equipped.
Continue to activate accelerat.exe when it comes off cooldown to keep your 250% Amp going.

Bossing

Equip Stack Overflow for bossing. Depending on the boss, difficulty level and weapon you intend to use, this is not necessarily mandatory.

Activate Visual Paradox Nexus
Activate accelerat.exe and throw Crit Knives.
Hit the boss with a hard-hitting sniper like Solar Temper or Piktun Order Sniper, or an underbarrel like Big Rocket Vladof Sniper. Even firing Truck works.
If your ram is maxed, use Empowered Melee to activate High Data Rate. It doesn't have to actually hit anything.
- This step can also be performed earlier in the chain if you want to trigger High Data Rate with your weapon damage instead of Stack Overflow, but you should take care to not cause any elemental damage that isn't from your strongest sources (which are your gun and Stack Overflow).
Use Function: Kusarigama to deliver Stack Overflow for a big hit that should usually kill most bosses. It will also build up Groundbreaker.
Finish off with Groundbreaker if needed. This should rarely ever be the case if you understand the setup, since Stack Overflow and High Data Rate can kill 100% of bosses.
- Your Empowered Melee can actually reach Terramorphous on the Takedown, as long as you grapple/glide to get somewhat close to him. Very useful in case you mess up the High Data Rate proc.

Comments

Iserrot•8d ago

Vex is shit

-1

arashi_spring.•11d ago

I was trying out your build, and it turned out to be really good! Do you have any suggestions on where to farm equipment? Like weapons, Repkits, Class Mods, Ordnance, shields, enhancements, etc.? I don't really know which bosses I should start farming first.

Darkblock190•8d ago

For the legendaries I'd suggest farming their dedicated sources, I'd start with those as you could find the non-uniques on the way there.

For the non-uniques such as the crit knife and enhancements I know 3 farms which work fine; Zane DLC arena, Rippa roadbirds and Bloomreaper.

Zane dlc's arena has tons of enemies so you'll for sure find the gear in no time.

Rippa roadbirds is also great, but I prefer Zane DLC.

Bloomreaper I'd only recommend if you need legendary enhancements.

You can find where all the legendaries drop on sites like LootLemon.

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Ratore

Author

•5d ago

Sorry for the late answer, I've been gone for a while just editing a video. Thankfully Darkblock got you covered!

Palehood•12d ago

So basically you build up damage with three headshots on mobs, then use the buildup and the other bonuses to deal unbelievably high damage?

So why no extra clones? Is it due to the stealth bug or just not worth the points?

Ratore

Author

•11d ago

Finisherjust provides more damage than going for extra clones. However, it's certainly an option to go for Third Party/The Sweet Science + Merry Bandwidth instead: it makes using accelerat.exe more comfortable and can make Stack Overflow do somewhat better vs. solo bosses.

banchiil•13d ago

When entering vpn you immediately go into stealth and then you activatr accelerat and it breaks stealth. does stack overflow just reset everytime you enter stealth. 1. launch action skill go into stealth, hold action skill enter accelerat and break stealth, shoot to try to do big damage why accelerat is up, use function. Then reenter stealth to start again? Just wasn’t sure if I needed to be in stealth somehow to get big numbers.

Ratore

Author

•12d ago

Accelerat doesn't break stealth, that might simply be the invisibility timer running out. Make sure you have points in notarget.

Stack Overflow will remain active and stored until you actually use the Function.

Being in stealth is not mandatory to be able to dea lgood damage, but you do have damage boosts while in it.

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Bugga•14d ago

Thanks for great builds, and writeups!

I'm not sure if i understand high data rate, i dont really feel it proccing. Does preexisting dots eat it? I have one point in Toxic chat and one point in Depletion load to easier get stacks in Established gameplay loop, is that not a good idea?

Ratore

Author

•13d ago

Any Elemental Damage instance will eat HDR. Elemental Status Damage will not, unless it's Contagion, because Contagion is a 'fake' Status.

It's fine to have those points there, but if you use Empowered Melee to trigger HDR before you shoot, the Toxic Chat or Depletion Load or Watts 4 Dinner attached to your gunshot will rob that proc.

If the base damage of the weapon you're using is elemental (or if it has a valid Pearl Override), that will also take priority over the above and consume the proc. That can be a good thing for weapons like Solar Temper, but if you want to consume the proc using Stack Overflow then you gotta plan for anything that comes before on the chain to not consume it.

This means you can use Empowered Melee for HDR right before you use Stack Overflow, instead of using it early in the chain, if you wish.

HDR has an icon in the buff bar. If you have means to record, you can check exactly when that buff is consumed in the recording to figure out what is eating it.

FullySlavic•14d ago

I'm just curious, I feel like this build would benefit from the One Shot, One Kill specialisation? Or is it redundant due to how much damage output there is that everything is 1 shot regardless?

Also how come the Stop Gap isn’t a viable weapon? It gives 750% sniper damage at its slowest. Does the fire rate calculation not take into account the Stop Gap at its slowest? Even so I feel like the 750% sniper damage is more valuable no?

Ratore

Author

•14d ago

One Shot One Kill has a hard cap and bad formula positioning. It is post-add to Amp and Enhancement boosts, meaning it's adding a small number to your base damage after it's already been multiplied by a factor of 5+.

Methodical is not affected by the Stop Gap's fire rate reduction, no. It gets very little value out of it. It's a decent weapon for this but it would never really beat a Torgue Truck foor mobbing or a more specialized weapon like Temper/Piktun for bossing.

DeadlyDagger•15d ago

Quite new to all this what the aim of this then just use your skill and shoot whilst invisible ? Or is there more to it than that is there any melee involved or just pure sniper whist your invisible? Thank you

Ratore

Author

•15d ago

You can pretty comfortably just stay in invis and shoot, yeah. But remember to activate accelerat.exe whenever it's off-cooldown because the Acceleration Gate provides A LOT of damage.

I also recommend weaving in uses of your Function: Kusarigama to stack the Finisher skill, which you can then just keep up by getting gun kills.

For bossing, it gets more involved the higher you go up in difficulty, but the general gist of it is:

Invis
accelerat.exe
Big Hit
Use Function Stack Overflow

High Data Rate can also be inserted into the loop. The guide has details on how it works in the skill tree section, and how to use it on the gameplay section.

basmus•15d ago

“Established gameplay loop … for some nice soup and reload” ... “Retribution … is nice soup, but points can be split with Infinite Murder Hack …”

What does "soup" mean?

I'm sorry if this is obvious, but I'm still new to this kind of stuff. Only ever played Borderlands very casually.

Ratore

Author

•15d ago

It's just a community-coined term for the generic pool of damage modifiers that add to each other. It's usually the most prevalent and accessible part of the damage formula.

There's a Damage Formula Guide here on the website if you want to take a look.

KingYaga•16d ago

im simply confused. what exactly is high data rate doing for us, cause its just giving us status effect chance, on weapons like the truch that arent using status effect. im not saying it doesnt work i just dont see how its affecting the damage of accelerant.exe

Ratore

Author

•16d ago

High Data Rate has unlisted properties. The status effect appplied by it is based on total damage dealt and is a double/triple dip of damage modifiers.

It can be triggered by Stack Overflow's damage.

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