Positives and Negatives of the Game

Battleborn Open Beta Open Beta General Discussion/Feedback
#10

So about the additional character skins. I looked at the description for the “commander packs”.
It’s actually written that you will ALWAYS get one skin (and have chance to also get one new taunt, so there is also unlockable taunts that we don’t know about when we look at the characters ’ taunts) from it.
Those “commander pack” are faction related (rogue commander pack, and so on) and will therefore give a skin (and maybe a taunt) from that faction.
From what I’ve seen, the faction of those commander pack doesn’t seem to be related to which character you were playing when leveling up your commander rank to 5-10 and so on. So you can for example level up at Orendi and get a Eldrid commander pack.
The skin inside can be for a character that you haven’t unlocked yet, as well.
It is to be noted that the faction loot pack that you can buy with ingame money (that aren’t commander pack, you unlock the possibility to buy them after enough commander ranks) have a CHANCE to give you a skin and/or taunt for that faction as well.

So it’s one guaranteed every 5 command rank + a chance in every faction loot pack bought.

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#11

Awesome. If I was at home, I would have looked more closely.Thanks for doing so!

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#12

Additional infos,
-the respective command level required for those faction packs varies quite a bit :
Eldrid 8
Jennerit 13
Rogue 18
LLC 23
UPR 28
They all cost the same though, 1900. Which is a fairly reasonable amount, by level 5 you can have easily twice as much.

Also it seems (would need more example to verify) like the gear that you get in those pack is faction related as well. You can equip it on everyone, but the lore text, as well as the function seems more oriented toward a specific faction? For example, an armor in a eldrid commander loot pack Had a bonus to heal received when receiving damage to health, but a heavy malus to shield recharge rate. That’s perfect for the Eldrid faction due to them not having naturally shields contrary to other factions.

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#13

I very much enjoyed the colorful “Borderlands 2” style graphics of this beta.

It would be nice if there was a (solo) tutorial for each character so that we could learn how to use the abilities properly in a relaxed atmosphere.
The description of each character’s abilities is a good start - but probably not enough for many players (myself included).

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#14

@cptsinclair That is a good idea. A training mode would be beneficial, rather than going into a battle or story mode blind then having to quit and start up again because you did not like the character or it was too complicated for you.

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#15

The only problem I have with Battleborn right now is the optimization to Consoles, or at least, for PS4. I’m hoping to see some improvements on that ti’ll launch. Oh, and more servers on launch, tho it would probably work just fine while I’m sitting here, rambling for nothing.

Other than that, the PC version runs like butter (=As expected from UE3), and I’ve had a blast playing it.
Huge fan from 1 day, 2014 July :smiley:

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#16

I’d really like the ability to choose which order I unlock characters. That’s my only thing so far.

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#17

Sounds like a man who is looking forward to using certain characters that aren’t immediately unlocked.

I sympathize with you, I know that feeling.

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#18

Well, all the characater I can use right now I already tried in the CTT, so yeah, I wanna try the others, haha.

But I also think that would vary the characters you see online more. Example: You’re gonna see a lot more ISIC’s than Ghalt’s right now. But if every person could unlock who they want, you should see all 25 characters in pretty equal measure.

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#19

Ahh. Yeah, I know what you mean.

I can definitely see how that can get repetitive, but it still just the first day of it. It’ll be a thing of the past soon enough.

That being said, when you see a guy/gal with a rarer character you’ll be like;

“Oh dang. That guy must be a badass.”

That guy could be YOU.

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#20

  • This happened to me 3 times, I couldn’t continue unless we killed the last enemy.

  • It is a beta after all. Haha

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#21

@BlackheartVinyl Technically you can choose which characters to unlock first. For example, say to unlock a certain character you have to be rank 12. Below that it will say OR kill 100 enemies, or something to that extent. So you just have to complete the mission for the character you want to unlock.

#22

Yea but Ghalt requires lvl 40 or completing all 8 story missions on challenge with silver. So in the Beta you have to get to lvl 40. Thats going to take some time…

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#23

There’s one thing I know about myself. And that’s that no one will ever mistake me for a badass.

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#24

Such an amazing game, even better than I expected, the story missions were so epic, can’t wait to play the others when I get the game at Launch. I was worried at first that the game would suffer with lack of antagonists/bosses due to there being so many playable heroes, but so happy the first mission proved me wrong which featured 2 mini bosses, one the Spider Bot with a memorable personality and great to have Isic as the big boss. Co op is just as fun and the online multiplayer is very unique and epic, so much variety and so many epic brawls. The ranking system also works very well too, for anybody worried about the helix system, it doesn’t really spoil the game at all thanks to the character and command ranks. Characters all look unique with their own skills and personalities, I am a major fan of the how over the top a lot of them are. Can’t really think of any complaints to be honest, thanks so much Gearbox for making such a gem, hope Battleborn sells well and receives the love and attention it deserves.

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#25

I thought I would be mad at first, but I read this line and calmed down. I totally agree with you.

#26

@devyn_stroud There are no teir 3 skins. All skins are shown. If you get a skin from a pack you bought in the market it gives you one of those skins. All skins are simple color changes. Just learned from experience. -sad face-

#27

I am pretty sure you are wrong based on what I have read on these forums, but I can not say for certain because I havent looked at my Thorn skin yet due to being at work for another hour. But I could be wrong too about the three tiers of skins for battleborn. Gonna have to wait and see. We also do not know how much of the actual game is in the Beta. Maybe their are 3 tiers of skins but only skin colors are in the Beta.

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#28

Found it! There are 3 tiers of skins plus extra taunts, just not available in early access nor Open Beta.

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#29

There are definitely ‘special’ skins current not available. There’s a Kleese skin that changes him into kind of like a zombie & brain chair, then there’s a Benedict skin that makes him into an american eagle. I’d imagine there’s more for other characters.

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