PS4 players: It’s time to unleash your inner badass – the Battleborn Open Beta begins today on PS4! Check out this post for everything you need to know about the Open Beta.
Dive solo into Battleborn’s Story Mode or bring some friends for up to 5-player co-op in two full episodes, “The Algorithm” and “Void’s Edge.” Then challenge other players to duke it out in two Competitive Multiplayer Modes: Incursion and Meltdown.
In the Open Beta, you’ll start with 7 unlocked heroes and you’ll unlock more as you rank up and complete objectives. Experience the natural progression of the game as you unlock heroes, skins, taunts, titles, and more. Test out Battleborn’s multiple progression systems where playing either Story Mode or Competitive Multiplayer Modes will earn you XP towards temporary Helix augmentations as well as persistent Command Rank and Character Rank levels.
As a thank you to PS4 players who participate in the Open Beta, you will receive the first Battleborn DLC Pack 1 and instant access to the 26th character, Alani, upon release. In addition, PS4 players will have access to the Battleborn hero Toby (the mech-driving penguin!) during the Open Beta.
An Introduction to the End of the Universe
The end of the universe isn’t pretty. Hell, here in the Solus System, we’re looking down the barrel of extinction. The Varelsi are consuming stars – whole stars! – while we’re fighting amongst ourselves over the few remaining table scraps of existence. And if we ever catch up with Rendain, that treacherous jerk will get what’s comin’ for selling out every sentient being left.
Nihilistic robots, dwarves, space luchadores, interstellar soldiers, penguin-piloted murder machines and lots of others, all teaming up to save what’s left of the Universe… that’s Battleborn.
For a more in-depth breakdown on what Battleborn is all about, check out the Battleborn Bootcamp Trailer above!
The fight to save the last star in the universe begins May 3, 2016.
Looking forward to trying out the beta tonight!
Looking forward to this! Downloading now…
Awesome trailer,I’m lookin forward to try the beta tomorrow that I have that whole day free,never gave much attention to Battleborn cuz I always thought it was an online-only game but looks like its not…nice of you guys to add 2 story missions on the beta.And wow 5 player co-op?…nice!
BTW I must say…good job with the characters.
Won my first two matches. Seems pretty good. But will I have to be online to play split screen story mode?
I don’t get why this game isn’t a free-to-play game, and then just have the $60 version be a physical copy + season pass.
I think you’d make so much more money that way because all the people who don’t have PS+ and can’t play Destiny or the Division or Plants Versus Zombies can play your game and give you money. People who only have $10-20 a month to spend on games, can play your game and put down $5 here, or $8 there. Proper free-to-play seems like a no brainer to be honest.
As long as you can earn everything in game, (though it will take forever) and you can buy unlockable skins… it gives people a reason to buy stuff, but not feel like buying stuff is mandatory otherwise you’ll fail miserably.
No, thats a terrible idea
You know it have full, single player campaign, with story, raid-like bosses, full VA etc.
It’s not just another 100% online MOBA/hero shooter.
It have one in, but it also have $60 game on top of it.
It’s good to see a game that hasn’t caved into the f2p market. Because you have only $10 – $20 to spend on games monthly isn’t an excuse to devalue any title that has content on different levels.
You have enough choices for f2p games, go play Warframe or Smite and grind away to heart’s content. Some of us don’t want to spend hours on hours grinding for meaningless progression
This is not vanilla MOBA.