Battleborn Winter Update hits today with early access to new hero Beatrix
The doctor is in and ready to stick you.
After much teasing and anticipation, Gearbox is set to release its Winter Update for Battleborn, complete with early access to its newest hero, the hypo-wielding Beatrix.
Beatrix is a ruthless Jennerit with medical knowledge to go along with a massive hypodermic needle that has replaced her right arm. See uses it to dispense debuffs and disease on opponents. She will be available later today for season pass holders, and then on January 26 for everyone else for 47,500 in-game credits.
As for other contents in the update, Battle School is in with the Story Operation 3, courtesy of Oscar Mike. Also, all 25 base characters are unlocked for players to try. Completing the unlock challenges will now award a new champion skin. The update also brings UI enhancements, Draft mode, main and daily quests and two new training modes. The in-game economy has also been revamped. The official Battleborn site has lengthy posts on each of the changes in the update.
The DLC will be available at 5 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT for PC (15GB), Xbox One (18 GB) and PS4 (13 GB). Make sure you have the disk space.
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Does anyone still play this game? :|
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By being the first one on the scene last year?
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But against the backdrop of an impending blizzard release in the same genre.
I just am annoyed with the overall lack of innovation right now. TF2 started this, and now we have a bunch of clones that haven't really held my attention (though, admittedly I'm a super hard customer to please).-
Battleborn isn't a clone. It really really isn't.
It is a MOBA FPS. It is barely a shooter even. You level in game, you itemize, retreating and killing npc minions is a core mechanic.
I really haven't see a lot of competition in this space. I think Paladins is? Not sure.
Battleborn also has a co-op story side to it that none of the others, similar or not, have.-
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Yeah. Monday Night Combat. It is similar to that, but first person and with the co-op elements added (which add quite a bit of value to the game).
The characters are all voiced, have unique lines for interacting with each other, unlockable lore and various ways to play each one.
It is a step forward in an abandoned genre. But I guess there might be a reason it is abandoned...-
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You have alerts on for that game didn't you?
The co-op in Battleborn is a little more story than simply taking on waves of bots. Parts of it are like that, but I think it is higher production values. Sort of a Borderlands light. -
Also, it is a shame I didn't get into MNC when it was a thing. I probably would have liked it. But I hadn't ever tried a MOBA at that point and I was all about BC2.
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I think a lot of people would've liked it.
Like DozIR_ said though, it was well ahead of it's time, with the smaller player counts compared to most games of the time and that MOBA madness hadn't completely enveloped the gameosphere yet. Pretty much the only game I've bought merch for (still have those t-shirts, wish they would've done a support statue). Thankful to lord cecil, Eka and Comes and everyone at Uber for putting it together.
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Look, I agree it sounds great. I'm literally the worst person to be having this discussion with you. I bought overwatch, played it for a couple weeks, remembered how much I hate letting people down and listening to them yell at me, and never played it again.
In the end my gaming time is pretty limited, and it has to be something really amazing to warrant me devoting any serious amount of time to it. Scarily, the one game that ticks the boxes for me right now is the pokemon tcg on the iPad. It is cheap, runs wonderfully on my iPad, I have access to all the cards and decks, and the games are quick and very deep for something derided as a kids game.
Now, I'll just go be an even bigger hypocrite as I go to the sundance film festival next week to go watch some random indie movies that most likely will never see the light of day :-)-
I understand. I just get frustrated when people say nothing new is ever done in these genres and then the things that do go out and try something different get ignore if they aren't an indie darling or a massive franchise.
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I'm sad that the just abandoned SMNC...... I loved MNC and SMNC as they both did something great and made MOBA's fun for me. It also had a unique style and humor all of its own. I hope they revisit the universe as I love its over the top satire of modern professional sports.
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Honest answer, no.
Hopeful answer, this patch is a major game changer literally. I hope more people will give it a look because it is fantastic. I plan on diving back in a bit now that it has released.-
Until they go f2p, it will never get better.
New players have zero chance in matchmaking because there is nobody to matchmake against that isn't level 100. I can't even get back into the game because it makes ZERO SENSE. I have no idea why that person beat me. I have no idea why Im not doing any damage to that other person. There is no feedback to help me as a new/returning player in what Im doing wrong.
They fucked up.
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DozIR_ can we play? Just one or two games. For old time sake.
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I am busy tonight too, no worries. I might pop on and have a look around if I can find time.
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F2P yet?
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Nope. Which...I think is still a good thing. I hope they will do another free weekend with this update though, and a deep sale.
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Cool, make a post if it happens.
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Will do.
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