Battleborn

Battleborn is a team-based hero shooter where you fight as one of 30 playable heroes, each with a distinct personality, weapons and powers. Online multiplayer supports up to 10 players in 5v5 matches across three modes. The game also includes a PvE story mode.

Multiplayer modes

In Incursion, teams defend their base from waves of AI-controlled minions while working with their own minions to destroy the opposing base. Meltdown has teams guide their minions toward an incinerator at the center of the map; each minion that throws itself in scores a point, and the team with the most points wins. In Capture, teams compete in a fast-paced death match, capturing and holding map objectives to win.

Face-Off pits teams against Varelsi. You defeat them to collect masks and score points, balancing your team’s collection against efforts to stop the other team. The Varelsi grow tougher as the match goes on, including through arena boss battles.

Heroes and factions

The 30 heroes belong to five factions:

• The Peacekeepers: protectors sworn to defend Solus.
• The Eldrid: preservers of the universe’s natural order.
• The Rogues: mercenaries concerned only with their own survival.
• The Last Light Consortium (LLC): war profiteers who exploit others for their own gain.
• The Jennerit Empire: rulers who use force and value power above all else.

Progression and skills

Each hero has a Character Rank that can be permanently raised from 1 to 20 outside missions and matches. Ranking up lets you change augments in the hero’s Helix skill tree and unlock skins. The Helix system also lets you level a character from 1 to 20 during a single story mission or multiplayer match, giving you the chance to experience that hero’s weapons and powers in one session.

Your player profile has a separate Command Rank. Ranking it up earns loot that can benefit any hero you choose to command.