What I think so (Saudademaru's Edition)

Battleborn Open Beta Open Beta General Discussion/Feedback
#1

I am happy to have tried the beta and find it a really fun game overall. So far I found only one glitch which I already reported so lets jump into how I feel about parts of the game.

PVE- It is fun but one of the modes seems to take about an hour on average to complete (Me with random parties). To me this is too long and I hope to see some shorter PVE activities. I think around the 15 minute mark for both PVE and PVP activities are just about perfect.

PVP - It was really enjoyable and I liked Incursion more than the Meltdown mode in terms of fun. But some matches can get rather long as I said above for PVE so I’m hoping to see shorter matches around 10-15 minutes or so for when I don’t have the time for the bigger stuff, I can at least jump into a short match.

Leaving a game penalty - The way it works right now is horrible. If I have to leave to do something or get disconnected then I can’t join another match until that one is completed. I can rejoin that one but it makes me wonder…do you block out other people from joining? If so then that could suck for the team if they don’t get someone back because you are waiting for that one person that may not even return. I think a penalty of sorts is fine but only after you’ve abused leaving games a few times in the same day, or at least let you go into another game mode. Once I decided to leave before a match even started and got punished for it. I had something I had to do and decided it would be best to go ahead and do it instead of screw up my team by leaving early. I feel like I wasn’t able to save my team anyway even though the match didn’t start.

Character selection race and drop outs - Kind of linking with the above post, I really dislike the fact that in PVP we can’t have multiple people playing as the same character so it’s a race to select who you want…or play a whole match (Probably 30+ minutes) with someone you don’t want to play as (Maybe I was excited to try a new character I just unlocked). I once left because of it and tried to rejoin but…that crappy penalty made me just rejoin a late match as a random character I couldn’t even pick. I also see other people drop out at character selection probably because of the same reason. Maybe allow us to pick before we go into matchmaking to save time and only put us with other people that haven’t chose who we are playing as. Also…that timer at character selection is way too long, and getting into a match in general is such a pain. These problems with the long wait of getting into a new match will turn many people away from this game.

Overall - The game is a lot of fun and I love the humor and progression system. We just need some matchmaking tweaks and the one bug I found fixed.

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#2

You want 15 minute content?

#3

In this reply I’m going to go off the review and go into how I think leaving a game penalty could be fixed so that it can’t be abused but allows some accidents or life to get in the way.

Penalty starts only if player has left numerous games that same day (I’m not going to be too picky about where that number starts.) Now say they do keep leaving games then don’t lock others out from joining but group all those droppers together and they are the people that join late matches that day while players not dropping out will be set up for fresh matches.

#4

I’m not saying get rid of this, but to answer that question: Yes.

#5

I think the third game mode which isn’t playable in the beta is supposed to be around 10-15 minutes. Also, everyone, I promise there are a lot of fun characters. Try playing around with all of them, you might be surprise (like I said in an earlier post, Toby is excluded, he sucks). At least have like 3 characters that you enjoy so you always have a backup.

#6

I do not know how i feel about that, maybe if they add a mode that takes shorter to complete would be fine. The current ones would destroy the core concept of them, imo.

#7

That’s good. And don’t get me wrong, I played with a bunch of characters and enjoyed most of them. But lets say early in your Battleborn career someone picks a character you wanted…you may have only wanted them because of their…faction or whatever to unlock another character with x wins with that faction. Welp, now you can’t make progress at that for a while now (Until match ends). I don’t think you always have another option for that goal early in rank.

#8

Well yeah the current modes are fine in terms of time with where they are and those might end up sucking if you reduce those times. I’m just talking about some completely different mode with shortened time.

#9

If anything, the PvE missions could be longer in the future. The more content the better if you ask me.

#10

I always enjoy more content, but I do feel like the longer missions are really more of a commitment and not something I would be as likely to pick up as often. I would rather have more missions than have longer missions

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#11

Ya that’s a good point, but I think outside of that, the current system works pretty well, so I don’t think it’s worth changing the whole thing for a circumstance that may or may not happen, and only early in the game.

#12

Fair enough.

#13

I agree with this.

#14

CAPTURE mode, internally at Gearbox, averages about 8 minutes a game. It’s a LOT faster, and and a lot closer to pure Team Deathmatch, if that’s your thing. Spawn times are shorter, and so on…

We’ll see about some shorter content in the future to mix it up a bit more in PvE too. :slight_smile:

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