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Battleborn's Multiplayer Is Now Free

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2K and Gearbox today announced and released a free trial for Battleborn, giving people the opportunity to play all of the multiplayer "without any limits or level caps."

In the free version, you have access to a rotating group of six heroes (there are 30 in all), as well as all the gameplay modes and maps. Progression for each character is permanently applied, so when it comes back into rotation, you can keep playing and not have to start again.

New players will be grouped today so they won't have to compete with veterans right away. Once you reach rank 20, you'll move out of the Novice Queue and can play with everyone else.

People who purchased Battleborn before today are upgraded to Founder status, which comes with in-game currency and flair; you can read more about the Founders pack here on the Battleborn blog.

You can download Battleborn's free trial through the links below.

All the details about Battleborn's free-to-play conversion can be found here.

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Such a fantastic game. With 13 highly replayable coop/solo missions, 30 characters that feels different, tons of stuff to unlock, great Borderlands FPS chaotic frantic action. If people can try it and finally get a good sense of the game, good!

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Forgot all about this game..lol

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Edited By Pyrosa

It's a decent game, but the constant neon-vomit makes it utterly annoying.

As in, having spent ~10 or so hours with Battleborn made me LESS excited about Borderlands 3. It took the "already too far over-the-top" hyper-neon-vomit of BL:TPS and turned it into a major negative aspect of the entire series of works.

...and this is coming from a 750hrs+ BL series-long fan, with tshirts from every gun manufacturer, various other merch, and a Butt Stallion statue.

Battleborn's art style actually HURT Borderlands, IMO.

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@Pyrosa: k............. but stallion statue... yeah you went a bit to far

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Why do people compare this pos MOBA to Overwatch? They are nothing alike gameplay wise other than they are both FPS'.

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@indojimbo: It's because same genre and they pretty much released around the same time. That kinda led to this game's defeat

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@indojimbo: We've been saying that from the start!

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well I played beta and ps4 and said this gona be free to play game in some time because model already in beta was perfect for f2p. Now it gona earn more money in this model but now it has more completion as paladins are out. Its more better in some ways than overwatch first you have goals(unlocks) second you have build diversitiy(same with paladins)

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Free you say? No thanks....

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Battleborn: AKA Gearbox should've made Borderlands 3...

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@everson_rm: They are - try to keep current.

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@dlCHIEF58: Yeah, i know. But we could be playng it now :)

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Overwatch won the war, but this doesnt look as bad as everyone says it does. Im a big fan of borderlands, so I guess I'll try it out

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@biggamerdude: it's a great game with lots of borderlands humor.

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@restatbonfire: I've heard one of the jokes, it was when someone kills a women and then you shout...

feminism is awesome...

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@biggamerdude: IF you like MOBAs , you will like it. I learned quickly in playing the beta I don't like MOBAs. I hate having to level up in match every single match.

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@spartanx169x: Oh really? Thats interesting, I do like MOBAs.

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LOL, I thought this was free months ago.

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@sellingthings: They are making Borderlands 3. There is a decent possibility we will see a trailer at E3 related to it. Gearbox for some reason thought there would be big demand for a MOBA on console (maybe since SMite is on console). But Battleborn has been an epic failure. The timing of the release was not thought out as well.

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@spartanx169x: I'm convinced the timing of the release is what led to this game's doom

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@sellingthings: They are making it now.

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What.veterans.

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That took too long.

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@khanwashere: Yeah this is definitely something they should've done around launch. Give people a trial of the game while it still had a little bit of life in it. Doing it now is like putting a bandage on somebody who's already been embalmed and is getting prepped for the wake.

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@catsimboy: See "Evolve"

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@khanwashere: now their candy's gone ... that's what happens ... BA GOW!

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