LOL!
Well, one of our characters IS a giant mushroom, after all.
Let’s just call it Special Eldrid Magic.
@Jythri Marketing loves to tease us. You get to show of a few characters during your presentation and they sneaky release CSSSSST in one of the screenshot for us to find and talk about. Speculating if it’s a playable character, enemy or maybe a NPC. Then we haven’t started on speculating about it’s skills/abilities. for example who are these two
- looks quite big for a playable character so a boss
- looks like a playable Battleborn that can throw fireballz
About the getting high 
During a Gearbox Panel last year you guys talked about trying to get the gundam characters to fly in the game. A lot of time has passed since then. Looking at your cryptic sentence i can presume that CSSSSST & Caldarius are capable of this and it’s a thing in the game. Looking at the Game Informer cover, CSSSSST is 37px in size and like 51px of the ground making him fly over 1.378 of his own height. Checking that with the screenshot that seems right. Although looking at the background art of this forum that also looks right for Phoebe, but CSSSSSST & Caldatius seem to get a bit more air.
Too many details, is pixel counting going to far ???
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Hmm. So, yeah. Pixel counting might be a -bit- far. BUT…we definitely have a couple of characters that can get airborne, at least for a limited time. We also have a few floating characters - levitating or repulsors and whatnot.
I can recap the ones we’ve already talked about. 
Phoebe floats, which is cool.
Caldarius is a great example of a character with really high mobility. A LOT of up and down movement from him (jet pack soldier, right?). Caldarius is definitely gundam-inspired, both in look and play. He’s one of the more popular characters in internal playtesting right now, and I’m pretty sure he’ll stay a very popular character in release.
We don’t have long term persistent flight for any character. That makes playing melee-centric characters really frustrating in PvP. Advantage - I’m okay with. Outright immune to attack - not as okay with. So, there’s some give an take in design.
Forgot about BigGuy! He was in early background shots, but we might not be hearing from him for a while.
On “Fireballz” - We demo’d Thorn with blatant magic-like abilities earlier. Our goal all along is to capture several different play-archetypes. So, yeah…guns, bows, swords, energy-hurling…lots to choose from!
Lots more to talk about soon, though.
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E3 Demo’s?
Definitely Orendi.
Absolutely awesome characterdesign-wise, both her unique looks and personality. Also a mage, which i totally like.
Was thinking about trying Marquis at Gamescom, since i like sniping as well, but his Temporal Distortion and Predatory Strike didn’t really fit my interests.
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Orendi here also, and then surely Miko and Mellka too 
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( <= Also just changed my icon to show my allegiance ha ha !)
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Unless one of the final nine characters absolutely blows me away, I’ll be trying out Miko first…
It is nine that are still unknown, right? The ten on the site, the four just officially announced, plus ISIC and Ghalt? Did I miss anyone?
Not that anyone probably cares, but my personal top five right now (in order) are: Miko, Thorn, Rath, Orendi, Mellka
I do find it interesting that there’s three Eldrid in my top five though since a) the idea of not having shields scares me a little and b) the lore points me more towards the LLC. That said, the faction quiz did say I was Eldrid so… 
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Benedict, obviously.
A somewhat narcissistic bird with a big gun. What the hell could beat that, really.
Disregard my old post in this thread all up above.
Points at avi
She’s the one I’ll be maining.
LLC has Phoebe though, one of the other characters I do like.
I’ll probably wait for the others before I make that decision.
I’ve found some characters “interesting” but none really seem to fill all the requirements for “Main Choice”. Eldrids and Rogues are so far the more interesting factions to me.
Right now it’s a toss up between
Birdman and…
Phoebe
The gundam is not that trailing far behind but i’d need to play with him first to be sure.
What makes gundam battles so cool is the speed, versatility and agility of the mobile suits (, and I know he has that). I’ll have to play as him to know if it feels right.
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Although I haven’t seen him play yet, i’m gonna go with ISIC as my starting character (gotta bring the love for my robot peeps y’all!).
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As already mentioned there are still 9 Characters to come at the moment I would probably try Mellka, Reyna or Oscar Mike first. I am already hyped and it´s still 6 month to go…
Oscar Mike, Benedict and Miko.
I really like the character design so far, not much into Reyna and Mellka though 
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God its hard to say. Its like my top Battleborn changes every week! This week its Marquis, even though there isnt any exciting gameplay footage of him…
I think his ability to switch from mid to long range on a dime is versatile. I kinda wish Hoodini was tweaked to better complement his playstyle. IMO Hoodini’s effect is not readily apparent, but I can see it being more useful in PvP.
Theres a full playthorugh of the e3 demo as him. Have you seen that?
Its seems to be Bloodwing from Bl1, which is great in my opinion. A nice damage bonus another enemy, since Marquis’s primary weapon is for focused shots on a single target.
Marquis is definetly my favourite asthetically (and seems to have become the un-offical “mascot” of BattleBorn), but gameplay wise Im equally looking forward to Marquis, Caldarius and Wrath.
Really though, I’m excited to play them all, so far only Orendi hasnt appealed to me.
Finally jumped onto the Battleborn hype train, and of all the characters so far Thorn’s definitely my favorite. Her helix looks really attractive from a Borderlands perspective, and her abilities have the corrosive corruption affinity that I never got in TPS. Plus her stats suggest that she’s a fragile speedster type character which as a former scout main in TF2 I find pretty sweet.
My other favorite is Ghalt/Papa Shotgun because I like shotguns.
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From what I’ve seen I like him aswell. Rogue faction ftw!
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I saw that footage. It just wasnt very…good :s