Gadgetory

if multiplayer teams worked like high school sports teams I would be picked last pretty much every time not because I don't play a lot of games or because I'm particularly bad at them but because I've never really had a knack for multiplayer shooters due to my just like a competitive gaming and my general inability to aim it's a big part of why I usually just avoid them since for me that's synonymous with avoiding embarrassment there's only so many times you can die in spot your name at the bottom of the leaderboard before it's just not fun anymore but then I got a chance to play battleborn gearboxes take on the hero shooter genre a place the blizzards overwatch sits in more specifically I got to play the MOBA asked incursion multiplayer mode where two teams of five fight alongside waves of AI to push their way into the opposition's base after flipping through literally all 25 characters i opted for a guardian looking chick called galilea who fights with the sword and a shield yep this shooter also includes a number of characters who in fact don't shoot half an hour or so later the match ended we'd one and I was at the top of the leaderboard most kills most assists highest score and wondering what the hell just happened well here's what happened I knew from the start that I wanted to go for one of the male characters because of my whole shit at aiming thing in addition to being way more confident Russian to the front of the pack and doing close range / e damage galilea was a perfect pic with a shield and suit of armor she wasn't so squishy that she was being sniped immediately by the gun-toting characters and as soon as I could get her in close nine out of ten times it spelled the end for my opponent and not me for the first time in my gaming life I played a multiplayer game that catered to the strengths I had to offer to a pvp team a play style based on aggression speed and fast brutal melee combat I think that's what feels so promising about battles born to me it really feels is that there are so many uniquely different combat styles among the 25 different characters which will hopefully play to the strengths of different kinds of players I'm pretty sure anyone could and probably will find the character or characters who work best the way they liked much like dota 2 and street fighter players do that said unlike those games battleborn doesn't have terribly complicated systems and it's pretty easy to pick up and play even if you don't know the mechanics you point you shoot you get up to three special abilities to use and the only resource you really need to worry about is your help a common point of comparison for battleborn ears hero shooter overwatch but with only one true male focus character reinhart it doesn't appear to have the same flexibility in plate style that I find so exciting in battle born it's still very attached to the idea of being shooter and while that's great for those who excel at range the buck pretty much stops there for the rest of us like overwatch many multiplayer shooters cater to different kinds of gunplay but battleborn throws in all manner of sword fighters and brawlers on top of their different types of ranged attackers healers and supports it feels like battle born balances them all out in a way that leads me to think it has the potential to be much more accessible than team shooters like overwatch another factor which led me to feel this way is that the size of the incursion map I played on was pretty small so it was easier to stick close to your team get back to the frontline and contribute to extra tasks along the way like liberating AI mercenary camps to get your team some extra grunts or collect shards which can be used to build towers and other defenses those kinds of tasks are especially attractive to place who may not feel confident enough to help out on the front line without a doubt this is the kind of game that will undergo a whole lot of rebalancing before it releases that said this could be the kind of multiplayer game that your friends can not only easy get on board with but also find that they're on a relatively level playing field for I'm excited about the idea of a multiplayer shooter which appears to be flattening the barrier to entry where players of all levels and expertise can find their own niche play styling character especially those gamers who may have thought they wouldn't or couldn't enjoy themselves in a game like this one because I'll tell you what seeing your name at the top of the leaderboard bloody fantastic power enemy forces that forty percent you