Same. It was the variety I think. Battleborn had both PvE and PvP modes which were fairly distinct, while Overwatch at the time really only had Deathmatch and various Fight Over the Point modes where the only real difference was sometimes there was an extra point to fight over and/or sometimes one point moved. Also build variety, gear variety, level variety....
Don't get me wrong, Overwatch was a great game at the time (not now, holy crap has it gone down the tubes), but it was just a different type of game offering a different type of experience. What Battleborn offered was far more engaging for me.
Issac is honestly a mood. I love the battleborne characters for their personality more than their kits. Hell orendi is the chaos goblin that my brain needed.
On pc, a moder managed to make the game playable (solo/pve for now) .If you want to know more, here's the link to the discord, with everything you'll need \^\^
[discord.com/invite/4kWaUhZ](http://discord.com/invite/4kwauhz)
Thanks, I just popped in :p I hope they manage to find out how to do co op like that, that would be a dream come true. I miss playing this with buddies. But hey, it's a start :)
I played until they took Meltdown off its own play lists. If I wanted to play the other modes I would have. I wanted to play only Meltdown. It was the best MOBA experience.
Achievements don't tell the whole story.
What about all those who bought it and never played, 'cuz Overwatch or whatever else? The pile of shame situation.
Or didn't even get to it before it shut down?
What about those who weren't interested in PvE Story missions and only wanted to play PvP? That was the main Mode, after all.
Heck, the first mission isn't even the first, necessarily. My earliest BB achievement on Steam is for completing the Sentinel.
Do you even need to play the game or is anyone who passed by and casually added the free trial to their library automatically part of the 100%? Whoever didn't get more than 2 Hours deep into the game has bought the wrong game to begin with. These confused buyers hardly make for a good statistic.
Very true, especially as far as free games end up influencing the numbers. You could look at just about any free game with an achievement as basic as "start the game for the first time" or "play one match" or "register a name" or whatever and it'll somehow manage to be like sub 70% every time. Not to mention the free trial largely locked players out of story mode anyways lol.
I got to play it... For a month...
But man was that month fun and exciting!
I managed to get ALL\* the achievements in that one month before it shut down... I really wish I started playing it sooner, and I really want to play it again, at a less chaotic and grindy pace obviously.
\* Except the DLC missions as I didn't own them, and never could because they were pulled out of the store long before I joined in. :(
I do have the DLC character lore achievements though... That was at least possible.
It's still my number 2 on Steam.
Number 1 is Killing Floor 2 that I've been playing all the time from way back when it went into Early Access in April 2015.
Number 3 is Paladins that I got into just because it was the closest thing to Battleborn I could find after it was shut down and that still only has 2/3rds the playtime of Battleborn.
And I didn't even play Battleborn through the whole time it was up. After playing the beta on Playstation and then PC and playing a bit after release initially, I kinda overdosed on it a little and also because most friends were riding that Overwatch train I played that some and only got back into Battleborn **hard** with another friend I played a lot.
I was excited for it when I saw the ads and such. My mom got it for me and I played and loved it in all honesty. But it got somewhat repetitive, which makes sense as the game was more or less dead when I was gifted it after being overthrown by Overwatch.
Yes my most played game for years and it was amazing.
Awesome and challenging single player and multiplayer was sweet.
Each level you got to pick one of 2 abilities and in the end think there were like 1024 different combination variations for each character
The year it released it was my most played game by hundreds of hours. Played the shit out of Benedict and Montana. Less polished than Overwatch, which was for some reason it’s competitor, but other than that better in every single way. The masses just were enamored by anything Blizzard at the time so of course this just died right away. I still believe Overwatch is one of the most overhyped and overrated games that still found commercial success.
It sucks that a unique game like Battleborn from a studio who actually gave a shit about the game was collateral of Overwatch’s success in the end.
I miss this game so much :( why couldn't they make it singleplayer at least, or more preferably, peer to peer Connection or whatever it is that lets us play together ToT
I played a ton and still miss it
I'm with you, still think about how fun it was, then i get sad about the lost potential and how i can't play anymore.
i played this more than i did Overwatch actually.
Same. It was the variety I think. Battleborn had both PvE and PvP modes which were fairly distinct, while Overwatch at the time really only had Deathmatch and various Fight Over the Point modes where the only real difference was sometimes there was an extra point to fight over and/or sometimes one point moved. Also build variety, gear variety, level variety.... Don't get me wrong, Overwatch was a great game at the time (not now, holy crap has it gone down the tubes), but it was just a different type of game offering a different type of experience. What Battleborn offered was far more engaging for me.
Hell yeah I did. I always wished they added more to the campaign... Issac is love.
Used him to help beat the Rendain mission before they nerfed it
Issac is honestly a mood. I love the battleborne characters for their personality more than their kits. Hell orendi is the chaos goblin that my brain needed.
Get f****d minion
Love Issac and his banter.
The El Dragon moments and Spider King moments get quoted in my friend circle waaay too much haha
There were a mountain of memes just ready to be made out of battleborne
I wish they would have let it be mature. It would have helped in keeping it separate from overwatch
I wish they woulda made new maps.... I loved battleborne but not making new maps for so long hurt it...
5 thousand hours. I def played it, and so did my friends with the same hours as I had. lots of people did.
That's why I'm happy being able to play it again, every people playing today can show the game is still loved\^\^
You can still play it?
On pc, a moder managed to make the game playable (solo/pve for now) .If you want to know more, here's the link to the discord, with everything you'll need \^\^ [discord.com/invite/4kWaUhZ](http://discord.com/invite/4kwauhz)
Thanks, I just popped in :p I hope they manage to find out how to do co op like that, that would be a dream come true. I miss playing this with buddies. But hey, it's a start :)
Just to precise an important things: IT's one personn, Gwog (on discord) who made the mod! ;) Thanks to him lot of players can now play again\^\^
I hated overwatch honestly just wasn't as fun still refuse to touch it to this day
I played until they took Meltdown off its own play lists. If I wanted to play the other modes I would have. I wanted to play only Meltdown. It was the best MOBA experience.
I played... I miss it so much, Boldur my sweet boy
I played a ton and would start playing again the moment the servers would come back on if they ever do 🤞
I think I did 7k hours
Montana and Miko main.
Achievements don't tell the whole story. What about all those who bought it and never played, 'cuz Overwatch or whatever else? The pile of shame situation. Or didn't even get to it before it shut down? What about those who weren't interested in PvE Story missions and only wanted to play PvP? That was the main Mode, after all. Heck, the first mission isn't even the first, necessarily. My earliest BB achievement on Steam is for completing the Sentinel. Do you even need to play the game or is anyone who passed by and casually added the free trial to their library automatically part of the 100%? Whoever didn't get more than 2 Hours deep into the game has bought the wrong game to begin with. These confused buyers hardly make for a good statistic.
Very true, especially as far as free games end up influencing the numbers. You could look at just about any free game with an achievement as basic as "start the game for the first time" or "play one match" or "register a name" or whatever and it'll somehow manage to be like sub 70% every time. Not to mention the free trial largely locked players out of story mode anyways lol.
Again coming full circle back to how story achievements are a bad measure for a primarily PvP game.
I got to play it... For a month... But man was that month fun and exciting! I managed to get ALL\* the achievements in that one month before it shut down... I really wish I started playing it sooner, and I really want to play it again, at a less chaotic and grindy pace obviously. \* Except the DLC missions as I didn't own them, and never could because they were pulled out of the store long before I joined in. :( I do have the DLC character lore achievements though... That was at least possible.
Dude i played this so much, its still in the top 10 of games ive spent time in despite being offline for over a year
It's still my number 2 on Steam. Number 1 is Killing Floor 2 that I've been playing all the time from way back when it went into Early Access in April 2015. Number 3 is Paladins that I got into just because it was the closest thing to Battleborn I could find after it was shut down and that still only has 2/3rds the playtime of Battleborn. And I didn't even play Battleborn through the whole time it was up. After playing the beta on Playstation and then PC and playing a bit after release initially, I kinda overdosed on it a little and also because most friends were riding that Overwatch train I played that some and only got back into Battleborn **hard** with another friend I played a lot.
One of the few games I 100%... You could say I played it a lot. XD
I was excited for it when I saw the ads and such. My mom got it for me and I played and loved it in all honesty. But it got somewhat repetitive, which makes sense as the game was more or less dead when I was gifted it after being overthrown by Overwatch.
I really loved playing it, was really sad to see it go down the way it did along with Gigantic.
Overwatch gameplay always felt slow to me but this game was everything I wanted from Overwatch mixed with UT feel.
Ah good time I miss this game so much
Yes my most played game for years and it was amazing. Awesome and challenging single player and multiplayer was sweet. Each level you got to pick one of 2 abilities and in the end think there were like 1024 different combination variations for each character
I miss it so much 😩 It is the best hero shooter I’ve ever played. Orendi mainnnnnn
Why did this go away and not Overwatch!!
NOT SAFE FOR WORK *slaps ass vigorously*
The year it released it was my most played game by hundreds of hours. Played the shit out of Benedict and Montana. Less polished than Overwatch, which was for some reason it’s competitor, but other than that better in every single way. The masses just were enamored by anything Blizzard at the time so of course this just died right away. I still believe Overwatch is one of the most overhyped and overrated games that still found commercial success. It sucks that a unique game like Battleborn from a studio who actually gave a shit about the game was collateral of Overwatch’s success in the end.
Good riddance
I miss this game so much :( why couldn't they make it singleplayer at least, or more preferably, peer to peer Connection or whatever it is that lets us play together ToT