Last week a few lucky ones got to experience Batteborn early and gave their impressions. This week Gearbox Software and 2K Games are bringing the game to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 2015). There they will show off the first 10 Battleborn heroes and some of the single-player experience. During the course of the E3 Gearbox will show their game at a few live streams that you can follow.
Battleborn E3 Schedule
- Monday, June 15, 2015 – 3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT – YouTube Gaming
- Tuesday, June 16, 2015 – 3:40 PM ET / 12:40 PM PT – Gamespot
- Tuesday, June 16, 2015 – 8:15 PM ET / 5:15 PM PT – Battleborn Twitch
- Wednesday, June 17, 2015 – 8:40 PM ET / 5:40 PM PT – IGN
Battleborn Live stream at Gameslice
We hope to do a Battleborn Beta
Randy Pitchford
Geoff Keighley interviews Gearbox President, Randy Pitchford about Battleborn. They talk about the story and some of the Heroes. How big the step is between making a Borderlands Vault Hunter and a Battleborn Hero. Battleborn will launch with 25 playable heroes and some of the crazier characters still have to be revealed. Randy hope that they can do more DLC characters. They talk about how they approach PvP and how the game features an episodic campaign of a minimum of 9 episodes . You don’t have to wait for every episode the whole season comes with on the disc.
Battleborn Stage Demo at E3 2015
Randy Pitchford is hyped and talks ambitious about Battleborn at the gamespot booth at E3 2015. There he talks with Chris Watters about the heroes that are playable on the show floor. Also Randy goes over the helix skill tree how you are making a binary choose between two skills and how you spec out your character and giving you over a 1000 ways to do that.
i’m still giving out shift codes on Borderlands and soon hope to do that with Battleborn
Randy Pitchford
Besides leveling your character that way , there is also a player profile leveling system (Command Rank). You will be able to find loot & gear, in between matches you are able to outfit your character and modify your gear (Called it). Montana is confirmed as a previous Brothers of Arms characters.
Battleborn interview on Twitch
Here Randy goes over the same content, and he is still hyped. Tells a bit more about their background and that they have big plans with SHIFT.
Battleborn Gameplay Demo
*turn up the volume
Randy Pitchford sits down with IGN and of course, they talk about Battleborn. In this interview, they do talk about some other characters that weren’t discussed in the other presentations. Also spotted some different scenes that are not present in the other videos. You also learn something about how our universe is actually expanding. Another interesting question is why Gearbox showed off the multiplayer mode first.