Gearbox Software and 2K Games hosted two panels during Guardian Con in Orlando, FL this past weekend. During Friday’s panel “Borderlands 3: At the Corner of Social and Streaming,” Gearbox shared new details about three key aspects of the Borderlands 3 experience: social features, livestreaming tools, and accessibility options.
During the panel, Gearbox confirmed dueling is not only back, it’s better than ever. In a series first, Free-for-All Dueling allows for opt-in 1v1v1v1 competitive multiplayer, letting you take on your friends in a brand new way. Gearbox also announced rich presence Discord integration, activity group-based matchmaking, and asynchronous matchmaking, which allows you to play while the system searches for players to pair you with.
Regarding streaming Gearbox confirmed additional functionality though the innovative ECHOcast Twitch extension (which was originally announced back in May). In addition to allowing viewers to look through a streamer’s loadout/skilltrees and giving them a chance to score real in-game loot while watching on Twitch, the extension also allows viewers to spawn events in a streamer’s game once certain conditions are met. Options include Moxxi Mixer events, Badass Viewer events, and more.
In an effort to ensure all players are able to enjoy Borderlands 3, Gearbox has developed a full suite of accessibility options. Mostly notably, you can fully remap all of the controls, whether you’re playing on console or PC. This aims to make Borderlands 3 fully compatible with the Xbox Adaptive Controller. In addition, players will be able to toggle headbob, auto-mantling, and aim assist options, and will also find extensive closed captioning options (including text size and opacity) as well as deep considerations for color blindness.
Last but not least, Gearbox unveiled a new pinging system that allows you to quickly and effectively communicate with your co-op partners without speaking. If you ping enemies, loot chests, guns, or other key points of interest in the game world, those interest points are highlighted in-world and on the mini-map for all players to see, and your character fires off a contextually relevant VO line.
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i’m killing myself, bye everyone.
finally
Day one, Super Dex Copy!!
why? Just play all the other borderlands games an dlc.
Did that too many times lol .
you need help.
Oh no, you need help, being extra over nothing lmao, BL2? Two Times, Two Runs, Borderlands 1? Two Times and Borderlands TPS? Two Times .
That’s still lots yet normal amount of BLs. I am not going to explain my posts, you need help . Fk you next .
how much time did all of this take you?
It’s just an EPIC exclusive for the first 6 months……LUCKILY not forever tho.
“If you ping enemies, loot chests, guns, or other key points of interest in the game world, those interest points are highlighted in-world and on the mini-map for all players to see, and your character fires off a contextually relevant VO line.”
Taking a page out of Apex Legend’s book ? The more games do this the better.
*L4D’s book
That feature is a lot older than Apex and L4D.
Could be, L4D is the earliest I could remember
Day one purchase on Epic Games Store.
Co-op Mate?
Want a cookie?
I’ll pirate it. Maybe buy on Steam when it releases.
Epic, make piracy great again.
Any confirmation if the game is actually offline or always online? all that features smell a lot to an always online game.
Let’s go Whaling shows how companies use social proofing to sell microtransactions – and that’s just one of many exploits. Being a 100% offline game goes against the ESA partners’ anti-consumer and unethical monetizing philosophy. If there are ANY microtransactions whatsoever, cosmetic or otherwise, then absolutely without question it will have some form of shadyness. Every single microtransaction model in existence is detrimental to the gaming art form, and no game with them will ever have the fraction of the quality as the best games without them – ever.
Games should be sold as goods, just like they’ve always been in the past as full products for a flat price. Like buying a chair, or a tv. Monetizing games is a scam.
With Randy, always expect the worst.
Gearbox has developed a full suite of accessibility options. Mostly notably, you can fully remap all of the controls…………… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/518d22e3507fab1ccdb5be68d6f35a3f0d68431bc3e934f0b6dd27f9a0c1c631.jpg
“Influencer” marketing garbage tools for streamers (and catering to them over consumers). Social proofing through streams and mp games so everyone buys up more microtransactions.
Cry more