Let's conduct a small experiment: right now, drive in the search engine “The best games for the cooperative”. We argue that almost each of the fallen links will find a mention of the series Borderlands? And not just like that – nevertheless, Borda is famous as one of the best shooters for the company of friends. Excellent action, ironic and in some places slightly “toilet” humor, bright characters and universe, unique art design and mountains, mountains, mountains of trunks!
For at least five years now, fans of the series, having lurked their breath, have been waiting for a new license plate. After Borderlands: Pre-Equel! And Tales from the borderlands Everyone only did that they gnawed their nails in anticipation of the continuation of the story; Fortunately, it is not for long to wait, the third part comes out in September, but for the first time you can look into the world of Borderlands 3 now: Gamemia brought from sunny Los Angeles not only a lot of new details, but also the first notes of gameplay (the roller will come to ours in the near future in our near future YouTube channel).
So, you want to hear Another Story ..
To begin with, let's figure out what we forgot on this god of forgotten and teeming with crazy bandits Earth. After the events of Borderlands 2, when the second four legendary storage seekers won the villain of handsome Jack, seven years passed. During this time, the characters already familiar to us managed to grow up, and the world around has changed – and not for the better. The benefit of fighting new threats is also new heroes – the third in the history of the four storage seekers in the story. Although it is not a fact who is a real threat in this story: the protagonists of the Borderlands series are known for their skill not only to solve existing problems, but also to generate new.
Sam Winkler, leading screenwriter Borderlands 3 : After the events of Borderlands 2, seven years have passed. Lilith and scarlet raids to this day are looking for storage facilities, and the rest of the heroes found work on the side. Zero, one of the playable characters in Borderlands 2, began to work on Atlas, having joined the security team, and now works directly on Riza, the new president of the company. There are many familiar characters in the game. All of them pursue their personal goals, even if they were once seekers. Not everyone dreams of finding a storage-someone just wants to survive or work somewhere a bartender.
Zane
Zane is a hired killer, a lover of sabotage and all-out-chitman. In his arsenal there is a SNTNL drone, ready to cover the owner first from a machine gun, and then from a rocket launcher, as well as a multifunctional digital shield and a double (almost like a jack from Pre-Equel) to distract enemies. By the way, Zeyn comes from the Flint clan – the most dangerous and, what a sin to hide, family bandits on Pandora, the planet, where the events of the Borderlands series used to take place.
Mouz
Mouz is a soldier, behind which is not only a large combat experience, but also a hefty fur. Yes, just like in Titanfall! Mouz is able to change the course of any battle, simply calling on this giant robot on the battlefield. Tons of metal and hundreds of bullets – all for the sake of expensive opponents.
Amara
Amara is one of the sirens, without which not a single license plate of Borderlands did. True, if sirens from previous issues controlled the elements, owned telepathy or arranged phase shifts, then Amara calls for three pairs of huge magic hands, which you can not only fill the enemy of the face, but also grab it to hold it in place (in this case a huge luminous https://royal-lama-casino.co.uk/ hand "Grows" from the ground right under the feet of the enemy). And Amar can send her astral copy aside the enemy – she will be carried by a ram of the battle, causing damage to everything that stands in her way.
FL4K
And finally, FL4K (reads as Flack). This is a robot that has so close to nature that he even tamed several local animals – representatives of the very types that gave us many problems in the previous parts. In the menagerie Flake of the Battle Skag (dog -like creature from Pandora), several raks (flying monsters from there) and a lion -like animal that ..
… Ah, hell with him, you will see in the game. Comparisons with the earth's fauna exhausted themselves.
Gemini Calipso
The newly made team of heroes got the new main villain. Rather, there are two at once: to put us sticks in wheels in the third part will be the Gemini Kalipso. Their goal, at first glance, is only one – to open a new repository. It was for the sake of this that the twins created a whole cult, consisting mainly of killers, bandits, deserters, terrorists and just lovers to profit from a big road. And they advertise their new religion not on billboards, like a handsome Jack, but right on the Internet: in social networks, twins are known as one of the most popular streamers. Well, and the most bloody too ..
Sam Winkler, leading screenwriter Borderlands 3 : Gemini Calipso are our main villains, and they have many allies. When a mighty antagonist appears in the Borderlands universe, all the bad guys immediately begin to work for him. In the third part, all the filthants either simply joined the cult, or concluded an alliance with the Gemini for their own reasons. Maybe they sincerely believe in this cult, or maybe not. Gemini created a real religious sect, becoming streamers and stars of social networks.
Critical Hit!
Immediately after the start of the demo, we go out to the impressive panorama of one of the megacities of Promethelia
In the demo version shown to journalists, the storage seekers fall on Prometheus – one of the planets between which the heroes of Borderlands 3 will travel. We have to fly between the planets on the Space Shattla "Shelter 3", where the main characters will have their own team. Prometheus is very different from Pandora: instead of the usual scorched wastelands – megalopolites with huge skyscrapers, covered by the war between Atlas and Malivan corporations. In the hands of the heroine (at first we played for Amar) a powerful submachine gun “Dal” with fiery cartridges, Lilith, the heroine of the previous parts, and the first task is to find the source of the alarming signal.
The interface was “pushed” throughout the screen, and at the first entrance, a small navigation tutorial is activated in the inventory
The skills mechanics have changed noticeably: now in each tree of abilities you can choose one of the three active skills. Another innovation is Augments (improvements) that give a particular skill special amplification. For example, one of SNTNL Zane is a rocket launcher with which the drone will be able to use both machine guns and rockets at the same time.
In addition, your character has a slot for an additional active skill that can at the last moment change the course of the battle and give you an advantage. Well, or just help to finish the next boss-psychopath.
After a little acquaintance with the basics, the battle begins more serious: the bandits armed to the teeth are teleported from heaven to the earth, and from the communicator we are ironically threatened by the Kalips’s twin sister named Tyrin. From this minute you begin to recognize the same Borderlands, which I missed all this time: fiery psychos with axes, fanatics with machine guns and other opponents with anything at the ready rush about you with shouts: “Direct, die in the name of the queen!" – and as if there were no five years. Borderlands 3 did not become a less carbon monoxide and reckless.
Lorelee, according to her business card, "bloody and cool". However, like 90% of the other characters of the series
The source of the signal is a new NPC-ilizer named Lorelia. After meeting her, we are first allowed to drive, and at the same time we get the next quest: contact the Riza (main character Tales from the borderlands), which over the past years has managed not only to revive Atlas corporation, but also to acquire a disgusting mustache. For them, by the way, he is teased right according to the plot: Lorelei literally from the threshold asks what for the crap he grew on his physiognomy.
So far, it was possible to meet the riza only in the form of a hologram
As for transport, it seems that it has become one of the key chips of the third part – in the garage we will have the usual trucks from Baggie and the funny monocycle "Cyclone". Castomization has become much deeper: any machine can configure weapons, appearance, armor, wheels and special equipment. So, from a conventional buggy with a machine gun, you can make a buggy soaring on the induction waves with grenade launcher (and, of course, repaint it into pink). Moreover, if earlier in the “battles on the wheels” it was only possible to destroy the enemy’s transport, now they allow you to kill the driver, and the spare parts from his car are taken to the nearest traffic clock to open more options for pumping.
Updated trash system and cyclone – transport in the form of a wheel with a seat inside
Sam Winkler, leading screenwriter Borderlands 3 : In the third part there will be a couple of answers about the ending of Tales from the borderlands. For example, Reese became the president of Atlas Corporation. It is important to him, he wants to be a good head of the company, so he tries to. But you still have to look for the rest of the answers yourself. Our scriptwriters are responsible for this responsibly: we have long recognized Tales from the borderlands part of the canon, so we are doing everything possible so that the lines of the main games and spin-offs harmoniously combine into one.
Looks Like a Roun Ride. You Still with Us, Killer?
Gameplay, feelings that are more complicated and complex than the one we are accustomed to. Each weapon has its own additional modes and features, the tree of skills pleases with a much more flexible setting, introduced normal customization of the technique, and there are even more guns. A new elemental effect “Radiation” has appeared – it works in approximately the same way as “slag”, only enemies explode after death and inflict radioactive damage over the area. The firearm from Vladof now has an additional slot for under -barrel weapons – it can be anything, at least another six -barrel, at least a rocket launcher. The “Hyperion” has a shield attached to the weapon, at the Jacobs – ricochet, at “Dahl” – switching the firing and sights, for Malivan – the change of elements. And the weapons of the new manufacturer, the “cult of children of the storage”, simply do not need cartridges – it is charged with energy.
You just look at this shotgun from Hyperion! Both a powerful gun and a spectacular accessory
Even in Borderlands 3, you introduced a new Luta distribution system: if you connect to a friend’s session with an order of magnitude higher than yours, you will still receive objects of your level. But for those who better like the old rules, Gearbox left the opportunity to switch to them in the settings.
But you can find fault with the graph. In places we noticed a frank “soap” and underloaded textures-however, this will surely correct this, as well as bugs, departures, loads and other flaws that we met in a press dememo. But lighting and reflections work with a bang: it is clear that Unreal Engine 4 is used. The excellent 3D sound is also present, so prepare the monitor headphones: if you believe the developers, for the third part, they recorded twenty-five times more shots than for the second.
According to the results of what they saw, there are generally good impressions. Gearbox They chose the right course and confidently follow him: this is the same Borderlands, which we all lovely love, but “on steroids”. Fans can only wait for September, and the new players just have time to get acquainted with the rest of the series. By the way, the head of Gearbox Randy Pitchford will soon come to Moscow at Devgamm, where he will make his lecture. Gambling will also be there, so follow the news!
In the meantime, a pack of curious screenshots.
The two -dimensional map from the previous parts was replaced by three -dimensional, just like in Doom 2016
The aforementioned branded capture from Amara is an astral hand from the ground
The stores of Dr. Zeda and Marcus are now opened not in a separate menu, but directly “inside” the game world in 3D
Similar Hovercraft can be scattered for yourself
"Cyclones" in action
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