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Update 7/8: Gearbox Software revealed new details relating to Borderlands 3’s social and streaming systems over the weekend during Guardian Con 2019. Because of this, we have 13 new details about Borderlands 3, in addition to the 86 details we’ve previously learned about the game.
Check out the new info below.
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Borderlands 3 Social Features
87) Borderlands 3’s new pinging system lets players quickly relay the positions of enemies, chests, guns and more to fellow players, both in-world and via the mini-map.
88) A short video on the pinging system shows the player character pointing at enemies and chests, causing an icon and colored outline to appear on the specified target.
– When something is pinged, the character says contextual lines like “See that chest there?”
– Pinging icons appear as different colors depending on what’s being pinged: enemies get a red target icon; chests, items and spots on the map get a blue diamond icon; NPCs get green icons.
Borderland 3’s pinging system in action.
89) Players can use Borderlands 3’s mail system to send items to friends, even when not actively playing with them.
90) Players can similarly check their friends’ vault hunter profiles via their in-game friends list, which displays inventories, skill trees and challenge progress.
91) Asynchronous matchmaking lets people keep playing their game while the system searches for new players to pair with.
92) Activity group-based matchmaking allows players to search for others who are playing in the same mode, or have made similar progress through the main story.
93) The free-for-all dueling feature allows for opt-in 1v1v1v1 multiplayer battles.
Borderlands 3 Streaming Details
94) ECHOcast version 2 includes mobile support, subscriber bonuses that increase player’s chances of winning loot during streams, and certain events that empower viewers to impact the streamer’s game.
– ECHOcast is a Twitch extension that allows viewers to interact with players streaming Borderlands 3.
– ECHOcast version 1 was initially used by streamers and their viewers during the May 1 Borderlands 3 gameplay reveal event, giving viewers the chance to receive the same in-game loot a streamer finds in special rare chests.
– Winners of this in-game loot are chosen at random from the group of viewers watching a stream.
95) Moxxi’s Mixer Events allow viewers to buy streamers in-game cocktails using Twitch Bits, letting them vote on cocktail ingredients that can either buff or debuff the streamer.
96) Badass Viewer Events allow viewers to spawn a “badass” enemy into a streamer’s game named after them or another viewer, and viewers can vote on how that enemy behaves, including if it should heal, taunt or level up.
An example of ECHOcast version 2’s interface during a viewer event.
Borderlands 3 Accessibility
97) Accessibility features in Borderlands 3 include fully re-mappable controls, Xbox Adaptive Controller compatibility, and extensive support for subtitles and closed captioning, which includes text size and opacity options.
98) To assist color blind players, loot in Borderlands 3 makes a different noise when dropped depending on its rarity, and its rarity is spelled out on its loot card when picked up.
99) Borderlands 3 also includes aim assist and toggles for headbob, auto-mantling, running and crouching.
Previous details revealed about Borderlands 3 can be seen below.
Gameplay Additions
1) Borderlands 3’s drop-in co-op features loot-instancing and level scaling. With loot-instancing, each player receives their own unique loot.
2) Loot-instancing and level scaling can be turned off for those who prefer the classic Borderlands co-op experience.
3) Players use their ship, the Sanctuary III, to travel to planets for the first time.
4) Sanctuary III acts as a customizable hub world and home base that houses characters like Mad Moxxi.
5) From Sanctuary III, players can collect lost loot from previous encounters, open gold key chests, buy storage deck upgrades, gamble, interact with characters, purchase wares and travel to new planets.
6) Fast travel can be used to travel between points on these planets, and to other planets players have already visited.
7) Players can use Quick Change Stations to customize heads, skins, colors, emotes, ECHO skins and ReSpec their character’s skill tree.
8) Players can slide while sprinting and mantle ledges to reach elevated surfaces.
9) Borderlands 3 features more boss fights than any previous game in the series, and will be “the biggest game ever for this franchise.”
10) The game retains Borderlands’ cel-shaded artstyle, but runs on Unreal Engine 4.
11) It purportedly features gore and dismemberment similar to what was seen in the first Borderlands.
12) Enemies can catch fire and burn to ashes, cover can be destroyed and players can melee explosive barrels, launching them into enemies.
13) Oil on the ground catches fire and water conducts electricity.
14) The popular ground-pound ability from The Pre-Sequel has returned.
15) Big bosses will have multiple stages during their encounters.
16) Players can revive NPCs, and NPCs can revive the player.
17) Players can capture new vehicles and add them to the Catch-A-Ride station.
18) Those watching enabled Borderlands 3 Twitch streams can see player inventories, scheduled events, and can participate in loot events to get access to what the streamer is playing.
19) Borderlands 3 will be “Rife with Easter eggs.”
Skills That Kill
20) Each Vault Hunter has three action skills to choose from starting at level 3.
21) Vault Hunters can equip one action skill at a time, with the exception of Zane, who has the option to equip a second skill instead of grenades.
22) Zane’s three action skills are Digiclone, Sentinel and Barrier.
– Digiclone makes a digital copy of Zane to confuse and distract enemies, and he can swap places with his Digiclone at any time.
– Sentinel drops a combat drone that can freeze, attack, weaken or bomb enemies.
– Barrier digistructs an energy shield that deflects fire and provides unique bonuses for Zane and his allies.
23) Vault Hunter Amara has the abilities Phaseslam, Phasegrasp and Phasecast.
– Phaseslam is an area-of-effect attack that knocks enemies off the ground
– Phasegrasp summons a giant fist that bursts from the ground and locks the targeted enemy in place for a few seconds.
– Phasecast sends an astral projection of herself, dealing damage in its path.
24) Passive skills, augments and modifiers can also be gained further in the skill tree.
A Tale as Old as Time
25) Like previous games, Claptrap introduces Borderlands 3, now “General Claptrap of the Crimson Raiders.”
26) A new cult called Children of the Vault (CoV) have emerged on Pandora.
27) Lilith and the Crimson Raiders recruit new Vault Hunters to investigate this mysterious group.
28) Borderlands 3’s writing and dialogue are designed to match the irreverent style of previous games.
29) At the beginning of the game, Lilith is looking for a key to lead her to vaults on other planets.
30) Certain parts of the game will have the player fight alongside previous playable characters like Lilith.
31) The cult has a Holy Recruitment Center where a boss named Mouthpiece broadcasts propaganda to Pandora.
32) The Atlas Corporation’s headquarters are on the planet Promethea.
33) Promethea is a futuristic metropolis removed from the wastelands of Pandora.
34) Atlas is under siege by the Maliwan’s Corporation’s private army.
35) Players take on Maliwan’s armed forces with Borderlands 2’s Zer0.
36) The Calypso Twins, Troy and Tyreen, are major enemies in Borderlands 3.
37) Tyreen can siphon life and energy from her victims.
Guns, Guns, Guns
38) Weapons manufacturers include: Tediore, CoV, Dahl, Maliwan, Jakobs, Pangolin, Torgue, Hyperion, Vladof, and Atlas.
39) Some guns will offer multiple firing modes: one Vladof pistol shown shoots semi-automatic bullets, but can be switched to “micro-missiles” that launch from the gun’s under-barrel.
40) Some elemental weapons can switch between multiple elements, like incendiary and cryo.
41) IGN encountered a rocket launcher that fires cheeseburgers.
42) Borderlands 3 features guns with legs, guns that bounce and act like grenades, and guns that split into MIRV-style rockets.
43) Vending machines have returned and let players auto-refill their ammo.
44) CoV manufactured weapons use an overheat mechanic instead of a reload mechanic: one animation shows the Vault Hunter cooling down a CoV gun with a tiny squirt gun.
45) Torque weapons have an alt-fire that’s delayed so players can keep shooting enemies, and those rounds explode when players reload.
46) Familiar weapon tiers: White = Common, Green = Uncommon, Blue = Rare, Purple = Epics, Orange = Legendaries.
47) Legendary weapons are almost outside of the tiering system, and often have unique and completely different mechanics from typical weapons.
48) Players have a better chance of encountering higher-tiered weapons the higher their character’s level is.
49) There’s no way to level up guns that become underpowered as characters level up.
50) Weapon skins and trinkets have been added that can be used across any gun that players pick up.
Update 5/2: Since yesterday’s major Borderland’s 3 gameplay reveal, even more details about the game have come to light. Check out the end of this article to read about even more details that have been revealed about Borderlands 3, including how it handles cosmetic purchases, the renaming of a certain enemy type, and more.
Between today’s live Borderlands 3 gameplay reveal, an interview with creative director Paul Sage and info straight from Gearbox Software itself, we’ve learned a whole lot about this highly-anticipated looter shooter.
In fact, we’ve learned 50 details.
Some of these details come from our interview with Sage, who said Borderlands 3 includes loot and level scaling that can be turned off, and explained Borderlands 3’s fast travel systems to get around the biggest Borderlands game yet. Other details came from the Borderlands 3 gameplay reveal itself.
Even MORE Details
51) The campaign takes about 30 hours if players “beeline” it.
52) Borderlands 3 will definitely be at E3 2019.
53) Gearbox artists actually made the three-handed Psycho box art, and it may end up as an alternate cover.
54) Ray Chase has replaced Troy Baker as the voice of Rhys. [Source]
55) Vault Hunter Fl4k can turn invisible.
56) Hammerlock assigns missions to kill certain beasts and has a trophy room in Sanctuary III to display player’s kills.
57) Players can modify their living quarters in Sanctuary III, and the default design is built around each Vault Hunter.
58) Radiation has been confirmed as the replacement element for Slag.
59) Marcus has taken over as the upgrade vendor for Crazy Earl, Storage Deck Unit upgrades now cost cash instead of Eridium. However, Crazy Earl is still in the game selling something in exchange for Eridium.
60) The “Midget” enemy subclass is now referred to as “Tinks” due to the previous term’s derogatory nature. [Source]
61) Borderlands 3 can be played offline, will have “kick-ass” campaign DLC, and will include paid customizations like heads and skins. During the live event, Randy Pitchford said Gearbox isn’t “doing any of that free-to-play junk, there’s not gonna be any microtransactions,” and Sage later clarified this means the game won’t “nickel and dime” players. [Source]
Update 6/11: With fresh details from E3 2019, we’ve decided to add 17 new bits of info to our ever-growing list of details we’ve learned about Borderlands 3.
Borderlands 3 Details From E3 2019
62) FL4K’s voice actor is Sungwon Cho, better known as YouTuber ProZD.
63) FL4K can command its pets, telling them to attack specific enemies – and they don’t go away like summons.
64) Borderlands 2’s new DLC, Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary, leads up to the events of Borderlands 3.
65) Moze’s action skills, called “hard points,” are guns she can put on her Iron Bear mech, including a flamethrower, mini-gun, grenade launcher, rocket launcher and more.
66) Moze’s rocket pods can sweep multiple targets, or all of these rockets can be used as a barrage on a single enemy.
67) An ability players can activate allows Moze’s Iron Bear to act on its own for a little while, and if it’s equipped with a machine gun, it can become a makeshift turret.
68) A new planet, Eden 6, is inspired by Louisiana swamps.
69) Eden 6 is filled with marshlands, massive trees and structures made out of wood.
70) El Dragón Jr. is a minor Easter egg character in Borderlands 3, referencing the luchador character El Dragón from Gearbox’s Battleborne – one of the last skins released for Battleborne was a Psycho skin for El Dragón.
71) El Dragón Jr. is an example of a rare spawn, which has a “roughly 20% chance to spawn” in any given game.
72) If a player sees that rare spawn in their game, a mission is dynamically created for somebody in their friends list to go in and kill that enemy.
73) Borderlands 3’s mini-map has a “fog of discovery” that paints the map as players explore, enticing players to search every nook and cranny.
74) Eden 6 is the ancestral home for the Jakobs’ corporation, and one of the maps is the Jakobs’ estate.
75) Loot-Tinks are special enemies that only last for a short period of time – if you kill one, it drops loot.
76) Borderlands 3 features a day/night cycle for each planet, with different lighting and effects to make each world “feel alien.”
77) Promethea is almost always in a state of twilight.
78) There’s an early mission where players have to shoot somebody in their butt as part of a bonus, and the reward weapon players get for doing this is called… the butt plug.
Update 6/17: While we already had new Borderlands 3 gameplay details from E3 2019, footage from its behind-closed-doors demo has leaked on YouTube, giving us even more new Borderlands 3 details.
IGN attended the demo and saw these new details firsthand, which include more info on social aspects of the game and specifics about vault hunter Moze’s skill tree.
Borderlands 3 E3 2019 Demo Details
79) When people on your friends list sell weapons in Borderlands 3, you can see and buy them from vendors in your own game, regardless of if you’ve ever played co-op with that friend.
80) Rare Spawn enemies have a 20% chance to spawn, but when a friend encounters one in their game, it will dynamically create a mission in your game to take the enemy down.
81) You don’t have to exit the game to invite a friend – just look through your in-game friends list at any time, and invite them to play.
82) Couch co-op splitscreen will return (only two-player splitscreen was demonstrated).
83) You can trade items to friends in the game off-line, meaning they don’t have to actively be playing with you online to make that trade.
84) Borderlands 3 is introducing emotes to the series.
85) The demo showed off skills of the third playable character, Moze. Each skill tree has two equipable weapons, but players can choose to use two of the same weapon if they wish.
– Moze’s Demolition Woman skill tree was detailed, which focuses on her Iron Bear mech’s explosive upgrades.
- One Demolition Woman weapon is the V-35 semi-automatic grenade launcher, the other is the Vanquisher Rocket Pod, which fires a rapid-fire volley of un-targeted rockets.
- The Stainless Steel Bear skill improves armor and maximum fuel.
- Torgue Cross-Promotion adds the chance for splash damage to double in size.
- Means of Destruction adds the chance to gain ammo and grenades with splash damage.
- Shaped Charge increases V-35’s direct hit damage.
- Augmentations can be added to these weapons, changing the way they behave (including the ability to lock on with rockets).
– The Shield of Retribution skill tree is about risk and reward.
- One weapon for this skill tree is a rail gun with shock damage, and the other is a melee weapon Bear Fist.
- Hell on Rails converts the rail gun’s electric damage to fire damage.
- Capacitive Armature chains the railgun’s shock damage between enemies.
- Corrosive Sabot Round creates a round with a delayed explosion and corrosive damage.
- Wild Swing delivers random bonus elemental damage to enemies.
– Bottomless Mags is a skill tree that rewards players who don’t stop shooting.
- It includes the Minigun and Salamander flamethrower weapons.
- Redistribution allows critical hits to regenerate ammo.
- Scrappy increases Moze’s handling.
- Stoke the Embers increases fire damage.
- Let Off Some Steam deals more damage as heat increases and can let the weapons last longer before overheating
- General Winter fires Cryo rounds and reduces heat and fuel drain.
86) Friends can jump on Iron Bear and use one of your turrets while you play.Be sure to check out our guide to everything you need to know to preorder Borderlands 3, from the different editions and what they include, to where you can snag your own copy.
Borderlands 3 has a release date of September 13, 2019, as a PS4 game, an Xbox One game, and a PC game.
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