Everything Behind a level wall

Battleborn Battleborn General Discussion
#1

So, playing the open beta all day, lots of fun, love the environment, gameplay, the general atmosphere behind it. Character design is definitely been well thought out; but one big thing stands out. Why is everything shoved behind a level wall? Why make characters unplayable until you hit a certain level? that defeats the purpose of a paid game. most people decide to play a game based on the first 3 hours of gameplay, gating characters is kinda, bad.

and while we’re on the topic of bad design, i do really hope there will be more skins than just basic simple recolors. because that’s boring.

#2

Wild idea: instead of locking the same group of them, make it random. Each player would have a different pool of unlocked characters.

It doesn’t go too well with how the story mode goes (you unlock ISIC by defeating him, after all), so yeah. It probably won’t change.

#3

No, that’s just going back to the classic method of actually working for your characters rather than paying for them. It rewards your efforts for playing so there is something more tangible to your growing level.

#4

It’s progression and its not anything new. In CoD, you have to rank up to unlock different guns. Titanfall, you have to rank up to unlock guns and new titans. Paying for a game doesn’t automatically mean you have all the characters / weapons unlocked.

#5

You pay for an experience and this is part of the experience. The game challenges you and by overcoming the obstacle the game rewards you, which should give you some satisfaction.

But you don’t have to level up for each hero, you can do the secondary challenges to unlock heroes.

Also some more advance heroes require some more skill and understanding of the game, so you kinda start with 7 heroes as a tutorial.

#6

Hey Mars how you doing, I’ve played a little of the beta pve.
Can’t remember thier names off hand but the one that I most want to play as is Boulder I think his name is.
He’s locked and to be honest I’m not going to buy the game just to see what a character is like.
It’s highly unlikely I’ll buy it for myself anyway but my son seems to like it so will get it for him at Christmas if there’s nothing else he thinks he wants more.

I know everyone is already happy with the way things look in game but I really hope they make some changes before releasing it as it’s just to cartoony for my liking.

Shame we’re on different systems it would be fun playing with you.
Keep those wallpapers coming on Facebook though they’re really good.

All the best mate.