#8

how are you playing with F2P players already?

Unless they are invited by a friend who already has access to the main game then they wont be allowed into gen pop until CR 20.

Just sounds to me like you are rusty and going against a good marquis which is an obvious pick if your on PC playing an FPS

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#9

You can always check their levels in-game or in character selection screen. And you can go to their profiles and see how much they have played Battleborn (if the profile is not hidden from public, usually the toxic people are the ones who have their profiles hidden). If they have ~2-8 hours of gameplay - then you know he is a new player, but if you see someone like… me, you will see a number in thousands of hours.

If a person is insulting you - block them on steam, you will not see any messages in-game from them till the end of time ^^. I always block as soon as someone says something stupidly toxic.

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#10

As a PVE/Bots Battle player, the only thing good in the patch was tweeking Bots Battle so you can complete all lore and quests. Would have been nice to have all the vs maps available in Bots Battle to keep us interested.

By the time the “trial” players start buying the game, it would be nice if there were some “old” PVE players still playing to show them around; they’ll want gear sometime.

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#11

People only have to ask (I watch reddit and the forum for those). Sometimes I see someone asking for help in PvE and if their gaming time overlaps with mine (and they are on PC) I will try to play some games with them. Also was quite often found in the normal mode PvE queue when there still was the occasional player to be found and made a few friends through that, but lately this had been empty and if I want to play solo I just skip the waiting and play a private game.

Should there ever be an event that opens the PvE queue for trial users (maybe for a day or so), I probably will be found there to help them out.

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#12

I guess I’m am old PvE player. I wouldn’t say I’m great at it but have had a lot of fun messing around in the missions and some ops since launch. Have a Crapton of gear and legendaries I never use. Still doing some lore challenges so I mess around in bots battle. The main issue for me is some ops are only available solo now. Have yet to find a match for the new ekkunar ops it seems to be dead. I’ve done it a few times solo but i guess the pop is too low to support it. I hope f2p brings in more people to by the game and play the PvE stuff. Sadly I don’t think PvP will hold new players interest long enough to learn the characters and want to keep exploring them. It will be a stomp fest once they hit level 20 which shouldn’t be long. Need a lot of training to be serviceable in PvP and without PvE to practice in will be a quick decline.

#13

For starters, it wasn’t a “good” Marquis. In this case, he disrupted the match by handicapping his team into a loss, because he assumed an aimbot would be an automatic win. All he did was snipe with perfect accuracy, throw out Owls randomly, and completely ignore the objectives. He went around 5-2, and was practically no help to anyone.

The population on PC is so low, it’s pretty obvious when you’ve come across an unknown player, and easy to confirm it by checking their Steam profile. If you’ve been playing FPS games for years, it’s not hard to tell when you’re fighting with an aimbot user. The players that use aimbots typically aren’t that good otherwise, so there’s lots of tells in the way they attack. As most any aimbot comes with some sort of wallhack, they’ll focus on a single player the second they turn a corner, right up until the point they duck behind map geometry. A good sniper will quickly shift targets when they know a kill isn’t going to be secured, but an aimbot is sticky, and will hold on to the lock, especially if you dance near a corner and bait the behavior.

It’s true, the one cheater I came across (a friend saw a completely different cheater, so that’s two) might not have been F2P. As PC copies have been available for less than 5 USD, it might have been a so-called Founder, checking to see if their cheats worked post-patch.

That… never occurred to me. F2P players can’t get Story Gear at all. That’s rough. It’s a shame they’re not rotating PVE as well…

#14

Makes sense for Reyna (her shield scales off skill damage I’ve ehard) but not for Miko since he does no real skill damage. Even then every character has a zero shard gen and zero wrench they can use. Shard of Solus is actually WORSE because it gives 1.8.

#15

Miko’s poison is based on skill damage, not to mention at least for PvE his 10R is a very powerful ability, which is hurt quite a bit by the negative skill damage.

Personally I run Miko with Skill damage, Attack power and Shard/Healing depending on the mission, and if I am in a PUG or prebuilt. But I might be odd since I run an offensive Miko build.

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#16

Think about the kind of people that throw out those types of insults. You’re giving them a lot of credit thinking they’ll even bother to check.

#17

His Biosynthesis self heal, poison, spore bomb, Fungus Among Us heal, and level 10 helix Viscous Strain all scale with skill damage.

And Kid Ultra is the other character out of the 3 that don’t have zero cost shard gens that don’t affect them negatively.

#18

The only thing I hate about the legendary free shard regen is that stupid looking crown upon my head for every character… Would be nice if they gave us 3/4/5 choices of SHIFT codes with the same legendary but different flair, and only one can be activated.

#19

Yeah that, I’m not wearing a crown, no way.

As for PvE yes!
I want this game to find random players or bots with me for OPs and Story missions.

#20

I won’t wear it either.

I’m not sure a crown was the best choice to denote a Founder. I don’t want to be seen as royalty for playing the game before now, especially to new players. I would have preferred something more subtle, like a little Battleborn logo lapel pin, or something sillier, like a fruit hat, or a Borderlands Bandit mask.

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#21

Funny thing is all the founder titles on players who are under level 20.
Would make more sense if Founders were people who got the game last Spring/Summer.

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#22

On PC, I think a lot of people were sitting on keys from the 2K Humble Bundle, and the promise of all those Founders goodies brought them in. That’s my best guess, anyway.

#23

Would be nice if we got rewards based on our hours played, starting from 100 hours per 50 hours a reward (loot packs? skins? taunts?) to a maximum of 1000 hours played (18 rewards in total).

Yes I’m a huge fan of exclusive vanity items. Especially when given to true loyal players.

I like to point out “hours played” as in “hours played actually playing matches”, so not the hours that shown on Steam.

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#24

…I’d be in there.
2 Steam accounts, one pre-order, other DD when it went on sale.
Pre-order has 2,229 hours
DD has 782 hours

#25

But those are probably steam hours, right? I mean everyone let Battleborn run in the background from time to time.

#26

I think in @wisecarver’s case, he’s probably found a way to play for LONGER than Steam hours indicate. He’s probably a Timelord or something, given the amount of BB he’s completed.

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#27

I have never let it run, any time diff is waiting in queues.

Just checked both, the diff is amazing and sad:

Pre-order
Steam 2,229
In game 1,280:49

DD
Steam 782
In game 391:44