Battleborn’s PVP is Now Free-to-Play

<p><em>Battleborn<&sol;em>&comma; the MOBA-shooter from Gearbox&comma; has just celebrated its one year anniversary&comma; and it was announced that the PVP portion of the game is now free-to-play&period; Gearbox made the announcement earlier this week&comma; and has gone on to clarify what is free for players and what will require a purchase of the full game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the assorted storefronts which you can download <em>Battleborn<&sol;em> from&comma; players can look for what Gearbox has called the &&num;8220&semi;Free Trial&&num;8221&semi; to download&period; After this has been downloaded it gives players access to the PVP modes of the game&period; Gearbox has wisely changed how players start off in <em>Battleborn<&sol;em>&comma; and now there is a training mode for new players to work through to learn the basics&period; Gearbox has now created a specific queue ranking for new players&comma; and as they progress their command rank in the game &&num;8211&semi; up to 20 &&num;8211&semi; various modes will become available&period; Any players over command rank 20 however cannot play in games with those below command rank 20&comma; but lower level players can play with friends that are higher level by joining a higher level player&&num;8217&semi;s party&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;126308" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-126308" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-large wp-image-126308" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;08230120&sol;battleborn&lowbar;gallery&lowbar;01-1-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-126308" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Intense combat and colorful characters&period; &lpar;Battleborn&comma; 2K Games&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>While <em>Battleborn&&num;8217&semi;s<&sol;em> PVP is open for all to enjoy&comma; for those that wish to do private matches&comma; the story missions&comma; or do DLC ops missions&comma; they must purchase the full game&period; For private matches&comma; however&comma; there is a booster that can be purchased in the shop that will allow players access to private matches for 24 hours&period; A reason that players may want to have access to story missions&comma; is that they are great for farming for loot for the game&period; While you can get some of the games packs via currency from PVP games&comma; which can be used to buy assorted packs for gear&comma; it is far easier and faster to play story missions to get gear from them&period; As <em>Battleborn<&sol;em> is basically a MOBA-shooter&comma; gear is essential to set up players to let them play the characters the way they want in their matches&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While <em>Battleborn<&sol;em> has taken quite a hit in player count over the last year&comma; Gearbox has stood by their MOBA-shooter&comma; and provided the game with players&comma; story missions&comma; new maps&comma; and now hopefully this shift to free-to-play for PVP will help give the game a breath of fresh air&period; Have you played <em>Battleborn<&sol;em> yet&comma; or do you plan on joining in for some free MOBA shooter action&quest; Let us know below&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;battleborn&period;com&sol;en&sol;news&sol;view&sol;battleborn-patch-notes&sol;">Battleborn Official Site<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;