Battleborn is a first-person-shooter with a deep roster of 25 playable heroes. Every hero has their own personality and comes equipped with their own unique weapons and powers. Through Battleborn’s accelerated character growth system, players will fully experience each hero’s leveling progression in a single story mission or multiplayer match.

Battleborn is set in a distant future, where nearly every star in the universe has gone dark at the hands of a mysterious enemy. Solus, the last star, is the only beacon of hope for the universe’s surviving population. The fading of stars has led to a great war among those desperate for the last remaining resources. Heroes, called Battleborn, fight for the dominance of their unique factions as all life in the universe teeters on the brink of extinction. Now, the mysterious enemy is threatening to finish what they’ve started, and only an unlikely alliance between the universe’s most powerful heroes can stop them.

The Battleborn Open Beta is coming in 2016 on all available platforms and can be experienced first on the PS4 through exclusive early access. The Open Beta will also be available on PC and Xbox One, and more details will be released soon.

Battleborn’s team-based competitive multiplayer action can be experienced by up to 10 players online in 5v5 matches, and includes three distinct multiplayer modes.

• Capture: Teams of heroes face off in a fast-paced death match and must capture and hold objectives on the map to win.
• Meltdown: Teams of heroes must guide their minions as they march to their death at the center of the map. Points are scored for every minion who throws themselves into the incinerator, and the team with the most points wins.
• Incursion: Teams of heroes must defend their base from waves of AI-controlled minions while working together alongside their own minions to destroy their opponent’s base. Tutorial videos for all three modes can be found on the official Battleborn blog.

Additionally, a smaller, closed technical test for the game begins this Thursday, October 29 at 1PM ET on PS4, Xbox One, and PC (pre-load begins today) and will give players the chance to try out Battleborn’s Meltdown competitive multiplayer mode, as well as experience a new Story Mission called “The Algorithm” with 15 of the game’s 25 playable heroes.

Players can register to help test the game here.

What to Expect:

Story Mode

Hop into a story mission called, The Algorithm, and play solo or in up-to 5-player online co-op. Rogue AI-Magnus, ISIC, is dead set on rebooting the universe. It is up to the Battleborn to take down and debug this war machine. Earn experience points and collect loot packs for all kinds of awesome procedurally generated gear and customize your hero’s loadout.  

Players: Solo or online Co-Op with up to 5 players

Competitive Multiplayer

Send the Battleborn into the trenches. It’s time for five-on-five firefight! Team up with 4 other players and head into battle in the competitive multiplayer mode, Meltdown. Queue up solo into a random team or create a party with up to four friends to join 5v5 competitive multiplayer matches.

Meltdown – Sacrifice your minions to the metal gods. The side with the biggest scrap heap wins.

Map: Paradise

A roster of 15 Battleborn will be available during the Closed Technical Test.  

• LLC
  • Phoebe 
  • Marquis 
  • ISIC 
• Jennerit
  • Ambra 
  • Caldarius 
  • Rath 
• Eldrid
  • Miko
  • Mellka
  • Boldur
  • Thorn 
• Rogue
  • Reyna
  • Orendi 
• Peackeepers
  • Oscar Mike 
  • Montana 
  • Benedict 

Gear up your Battleborn by opening loot packs! Pick up loot packs in Story Missions or purchase them using credits earned by playing Story Missions or Competitive Multiplayer matches. The contents of a loot pack is random and unique to each player, but when one player picks up a loot pack, each party member gets one as well – so no need to fight your team over them!

During the CTT, you’ll be able to earn experience towards heroes’ Character Rank and your player Commander Rank. Please keep in mind that this is a test and any experience or ranks earned may be reset at the conclusion of the test.

2K and Gearbox also revealed ISIC, the powerful spirit-mech, as a new playable character that is one the game’s 25 playable heroes. Once the lead manufacturing Magnus of Minion Robotics, ISIC abandoned his post to crash reality itself through the application of unthinkably complex code. Though debugged by Kleese, this Magnus is still regarded as among the most nihilistic and terrifying of the Battleborn.

Key Features:

• Playable Heroes: Battleborn has a deep roster of 25 playable heroes and no two heroes are the same. For example, Rath is a samurai sword-wielding melee specialist. Oscar Mike fires an assault rifle and plays like a familiar space marine. Thorn is a dangerous archer who can also deal damage through magical attacks. There are many, many more battleborn heroes, and each has unique weapons, powers, and personalities that, through the accelerated character growth system, can be fully experienced in a cooperative campaign mission, or over the course of a single competitive multiplayer match.
• Cooperative Campaign: Battleborn’s team-based cooperative campaign is a narrative experience playable with up to four other friends online, and through splitscreen, much like Borderlands. Player profile experience is earned during cooperative campaign play, will cross over to competitive multiplayer matches and vice versa.
• Competitive Multiplayer Modes: Battleborn’s team-based competitive multiplayer action can be experienced by up to 10 players online in 5v5 matches, and includes three distinct multiplayer modes.
  • Incursion: Teams of heroes defend their base from waves of AI-controlled minions while working together, alongside their own minions, to destroy their opponents’ base;
  • Devastation: Teams of heroes face off in a fast-paced death match and must capture and hold objectives on the map to win;
  • Meltdown: Teams of heroes protect their minions as they march to their death at the center of the map. Points are scored for minions who throw themselves into the incinerator, and the team with the most points wins.
• Persistent Progression System: All experience points, whether earned through playing Battleborn’s Story Mode or Competitive Multiplayer modes, contribute to leveling up individual Character Rank, as well as player profile Command Rank.
  • Character Rank: Each hero can permanently rank up from 1 to 10 outside of missions and matches, allowing players to swap out augments in their helix skill tree, as well as unlock skins.
  • Command Rank: Players can rank up their own player profile, unlocking badges and titles to impress friends, and loot that can be used to benefit any hero the player chooses to command.

Battleborn will be available for $59.99.