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Borderlands Dev Reveals A New Shooter With A Twist

Having successfully mixed shooters with RPGs, Gearbox will now try to blend shooters and card games.

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Gearbox, which is best known as the developer of the Borderlands series, has quietly revealed its next project. Like Borderlands, Project 1v1 is a first-person shooter, but it offers a twist.

Project 1v1 is described as a "competitive first-person shooter that combines the action of fast-paced 1v1 first-person combat with the metagame strategy of a collectible card game." Unfortunately, that's virtually everything we know; the email Gearbox sent out to some fans and the game's new website both contain little more info than that. You can check out some artwork from the site below.

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Despite a general lack of details, some people will have the chance to try the game out quite soon. A "short" closed technical test is scheduled for this summer, and Gearbox has opened sign-ups for the beta on its website. This will include only a "limited number of players" and is meant to "test the online infrastructure and learn what players like you think about the game in order to inform and influence future development." While international players can sign up, servers will be hosted in North America, so the game may not run ideally for those elsewhere in the world.

This test will consist of three game modes: Challenge lets you take on a friend; Arena lets you take on the "current Arena champion," with a win elevating you to their position; and Ranked, where you play against an opponent of similar skill. Wins in Ranked mode net you experience and crates that provide you with more cards.

Platforms are not explicitly laid out on the website. However, the beta sign-up process mentions the need for a Steam account, which suggests it will be PC-only, at least for now. Additionally, Project 1v1 is only a code name; the final version will be called something else.

This news may come as a disappointment to those hoping to hear about Borderlands 3, but we do know that Gearbox is at work on a new game in the series. Earlier this year, it showed off some new technology that may be used to power a future Borderlands game. And just recently, Take-Two reiterated that a new game from one of 2K's "biggest franchises" will launch by early 2019--a game that might very well turn out to be Borderlands 3.

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Another online FPS...... I feel sometimes developers just dont want to write a story anymore. They just want to design maps weapons characters and publish.

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Cool story. Make Borderlands 3.

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Yayyyyy another game with card packs.....can't wait to see how bad the microtransactions are

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... But does it have loot boxes?

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@Mogan: It'll have so many loot boxes. Of course, you'll have to pay for keys to unlock them.....

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@Thanatos2k: And I'll bet those keys are hobby grade. : p

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Augh... Just stop it, please, and focus all resources on making BL3 as good as BL2. Skip the neon-vomit and low-grav of BLTPS.

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I find it amazing that there are still so few good co-op games being made. Borderlands 2 was in my opinion one of the best co-op games of the last decade and a huge reason for its success. Yet here we go with another competitive shooter.

I get that a lot of people like PvP games but there are a lot of gamers who have no interest in that type of game and we get constantly screwed when it comes to single player or co-op experiences. Especially when it comes to shooters. Just look at all the boring, linear 4-5 hour campaigns of CoD, BF etc.

Please start listening to what people want and not just look for the next micro transaction cash cow which will be forgotten i 6 months.

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@Acheron18: I mean, Destiny 1 was real popular and the sequel is about to come out, and just like Boarderlands, those games aren't nearly so fun if you don't have buddies to play them with.

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uh oh. just make BL3, that could be a viable esport.

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Gearbox is the new THQ.

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Oh great, another multiplayer shooter...but it's also a card game.

So there's at least two reasons for me not to play it.

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Gearbox, stop trying to be inventive. You're bad at it. Stick with what you know, people like it.

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lost me at card game.

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Dear Randy. In the immortal words of Sadavir Errinwright. "Get the **** back to work".

Seriously. Stop crapping out turds and finish BL3.

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@SerOlmy: YES! Give the people what they want

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Didn't they learn from Battleborn? We want Co-Op games from them, not online multiplayer.

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It's going to be multiplayer, aint it. "facepalm"

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Let me fix the headline for accuracy:

Gearbox Announces Their Next Awful Game

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Not my cup o' tea, but I'm still looking forward to Borderlands 3 - what with BL2 being perfect, I have high expectations.

In the meanwhile, there's plenty of class based loot games to keep me busy, some good like Fortnite, some passable like Destiny 2, and some still on the way and WILL be awesome like Monster Hunter World.

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lost me at competitive first-person shooter.......

JUST BRING ON BORDERLANDS 3 FFS!!!!!

is this the next Half Life 3???? eww sorry folks, here's everything including the kitchen sink but no game you want the most......ugh

and that's what Valve is....but worse.....sorry folks here's everything including the kitchen sink and a totally cluttered store with bowels of sh**t cramming up the works but buy from our store, eww here's a sale but no game you most wany and we may never do it now.....ugh

I may have went too far here but this is how I feel about these.....brutally honest :/

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I am open for every new ideas but if they stick with pvp,count me out

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Project 1v1, AKA Gearbox should have made borderlands 3, the sequel (the first one, gearbox should have made borderlands 3, was battleborn).

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Drop the cards and I could be keen. That's just me though, I find card games, and just dealing with card systems extremely boring. Also, I smell micro transactions with this implementation.

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Everything is trying to mix in collectible card games nowadays.....because then they can microtransaction the hell out of the game.

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@Thanatos2k: Let's just blame Magic The Gathering or Pokemon TCG lol

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@Thanatos2k: Sad day to be a gamer.

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Good to see that Gearbox continues to do nothing with the Brothers in Arms franchise. Going on nine years next month since the last game. I honestly wish they would just sell the IP to someone else at this point.

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@asneakypoptart: isn’t there supposed to be 2 more of those games?

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@restatbonfire: The last I heard Gearbox talk about it was that the next one was going to be the final one - which I'm fine with...IF THEY ACTUALLY EVER MAKE IT. Hell's Highway literally ends with "To be continued..."

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Just give us BL3 already. Nobody wants this.

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"Project 1v1 is described as a "competitive first-person shooter that combines the action of fast-paced 1v1 first-person combat with the metagame strategy of a collectible card game.""

That sounds free-2-play to me.

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@Mogan: Smells of RNG microtransactions thats intended to make more than the actual base game.

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LOL

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Why oh why, You already failed with a similar type of game, just make Borderlands 3 as it's what you're good at.

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