That’s a fantastic point. Also there’s should be only one thorn per team.
There already is a female that’s pretty tanky (Galilea) she just doesn’t happen to have a big ranged weapon like you wanted. They have shown that they’re not afraid of making a woman tanky and they have a character that plays apparently exactly the way you want to play. There’s no justifiable reason why that character has to be a woman for you to play it.
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And nowhere in any of that quote is any sort of demand for a minigun. I’ve repeatedly said, over and over again, I’m open to other methods to achieve my request.
And they have a woman in a mech suit that has heavy firepower. She can eject from it, and it has a turret option if she ejects before it’s destroyed.
And a woman in flying power armor with a rocket launcher, or something like that.
There’s like… 3 unique tanky, high firepower women at least in that game.
Still, it doesn’t take away from Battleborn. I’m still looking forward to the beta as I have it preloaded. I suspect I’ll find a main, or two to enjoy. I’m eager to see the potential the game has.
People just picky always will be quick search through the forums will show. hard to make a game and please everyone all at once 
still 4 more characters left anyways we’ll see…
Please don’t use this forum to discuss other forum users.
Use it to discuss games, thanks.
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I think it’s interesting to consider what they haven’t done.
Minigun, rocket launcher, rail gun, assault rifle, shot gun, sniper, bow, plasma gun, slightly different assault rifle, pistol, SMG, whatever caldarius uses, kunai, shockwaves, boomerang, Link’s sword shooting thing, fan blades. I think I hit all the projectiles. Exit: throwing shield and throwing axe as well
So really I can’t think of any female heavy armored character they could create with a unique heavy weapon. Heck, I’m having trouble thinking of how they’re going to make another 5 characters that don’t tread on other character design edit:and not being accused of copying another games character
There seems to be confusion. The Bunker was a flying fortress and in fact not a woman.
I’m certain you’re not talking about Ellie because;
A) She’s plenty hot to plenty of people, and her not being your type doesn’t make her ugly.
B) Scooter reads these forums.
OK, you got me. I give up 
Scooter is reading these? Last I heard he caught a ride…maybe miss springs is though
I am sure they could come up with something the thing is most people here are criticizing the Creator of this thread saying she wants something like Montana as a woman. That is not what she wants Gearbox is extremely creative and even one of the employees have said they will see what they could do. The world is extremely large and ideas of a new type of weapon or something is not unheard off. This game is wacky as is whos to say it cant get a little wackier.
These forums are about sharing ideas as well as concerns and wants. The Creator wants a heavy gunner woman not Montana there are plenty of ways to get around that idea so please stop being so critical against her.
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shhh Giu go back to bed wake up when your heart stops hurting.
I agree that most people are sticking with the minigun idea she threw out, and it’s been clarified that’s not a request but an idea.
The critical part does come in though when there’s requests for what she wants and it does exist in different characters. As stated above, there’s 3 assassins for both men and women. The idea that all the women are shown weak isn’t fair as it’s very balanced between guys and girls and penguins in terms of roles and looks. And added in a later post by me, I can’t even imagine how they’re going to make unique characters going forward as it is because they’ve covered so many different character archetypes and weapon types.
Edit: lasers. Could totally do more lasers
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I was going to agree with you fully about having two characters that are similar without being clones, but my example was Oscar Mike and Whisky Foxtrot who are literally clones. However, you are right. They use similar mechanics, but one is better at stealth and the other can be slightly better at countering stealth.
I think there are plenty of interesting and fun ways to make a fun bulky female ranged tank. Having a magic user that returns damage inflicted on her as one of her core abilities would be cool. She would take everything the world throws at her and send it right back.
The only thing I’d like to add to this discussion would be if it’s a female character, can we have something non-human? Most of the Battleborn are really cool, but for an entire universe of displaced alien species there’s a lot of Star Trek wrinkly forehead syndrome. Characters like Miko and Kelvin show how diverse the universe can be and some people are preoccupied with which gender/skin colour/gender identity our humanoid cast have. I do not mean this as disrespectful to the OP since she’s been very reasonable about the different archetypes this female ranged tank could fill. I just think people are pushing for diversity, let’s go the whole hog. I find Miko particularly interesting since it is described as the last of it’s race. What does that mean to a fungus creature? Why can it not reproduce from spores? Could Miko split itself up (as effectively end itself) to create more of it’s kind? I think beings like that make for interesting characters that can still have the traits people are looking for.
I apologise if this sounds offensive, I just think a universe of creatures could be stranger than what we have seen so far. (Bearing in mind like I said, I think the current cast are fantastic)
I don’t mind an alien woman. I’m open to pretty much anything Gearbox’s brilliance can come up with.
I’m not offended by the post at all.
Reasoning prevails once again hurrah for a great community.
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Think out of standard shooter weapons, revolvers, flamethrowers and perhaps the crossbow (though few shooters will have both a bow and crossbow with distinctive differences between the two - they’re mostly different skins in role as far as things go) are about all that’s left. There’s also not a grenade launcher as a dedicated main weapon, though there are plenty of functionally similar grenade/grenade-like abilities (though I don’t think there’s any grenades with the classical throw-and-bounce-off-walls capability in the game, but it seems to me that making use of that wouldn’t come up much in the game’s maps from what I’ve seen). A semiautomatic long-range rifle doesn’t exist either, but that role probably wouldn’t come up in a game along with an accurate three-burst rifle like Whiskey’s, save for shooters with freakin’ tons of guns to bother making such similar weapons.
Out of melee weapons, they don’t have spears and hammers/maces. If they wanted to go nuts, they could make a Battleborn whose real weapon is the bayonet attached to their gun, close enough to a spear 
I’d expect a new melee Battleborn to use a hammer, personally.
Good points. As long as the characters are balance, I’d be fine.
I didn’t initially agree with you, but the more replies I read, the more I’ve come to agree that what your looking for hasn’t been added and certainly could be.
The fact that you’re looking for a female character that is a ranged tank is 100% okay. I think it’s important to be able to relate with your character- one of the reasons I really like Rath despite being awful with him. (No, I’m not a vampire.)
I play almost exclusively Rath because he’s the character I can most relate to that still has my play style (kind of). All of the other characters whose play style I love are female. Ambra, Deande, and Phoebe are all characters who I really enjoy playing as, yet I don’t because the relation factor is missing. I’m kind of an opposite you, in a sense, being that I enjoy assassin and support characters, but don’t like guns so I tend to stay away from Oscar Mike and Whiskey Foxtrot.
So what would I do if there wasn’t a Rath? If there wasn’t a male assassin with melee? I’d be here in the forums asking for a melee assassin, of course. And there would be people that told me “He’d just be another Phoebe.” or “Just play as Deande.”
So what point am I trying to make with all this nonsense? OP’s character absolutely can fit in the game without overlap onto Montana or Isic, and it’s perfectly reasonable of her to ask.
With all of that said, I actually think Battleborn does a pretty good job gender-diversity wise.
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