What Players Can Expect From The ‘Battleborn’ Competitive Incursion Mode


Working with teammates to overcome a serious adversary while pushing minions toward an object to destroy is a pretty familiar idea to most multiplayer online battle arena games. That theme continues in Gearbox Software’s upcoming Battleborn first person shooter albeit with welcome differences to the formula and a number of personalities peppered throughout thanks to 25 unique Battleborn heroes.

Three competitive modes will be available at launch in Battleborn. Capture, Meltdown, and Incursion each feature distinctive strategies and tactics for players to master in order to overcome the opposing team. Capture challenges players to take and hold certain areas on the map while Meltdown tasks both teams with sacrificing minions in the incinerator located in the center of the map in order to score points. Incursion, the mode previewed today by Gearbox Software on the official Battleborn website, is a classic struggle between two teams to destroy each other’s Sentry bots.

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Players can build turrets to harass enemies [Image via Gearbox Software]
In an Incursion match, like all competitive matches in Battleborn, two teams of five players will compete against each other. Collecting shards found on the map and looted from foes can fund players’ special buffs in addition to being used on build projects on the map. Players can build Healing Stations, Automatic Turrets, and Accelerators to benefit their team. Shards can even be spent on a Super Minion to give a team an extra bit of minion support while pushing forward. Leveling up a character and building structures is important, but the overall goal is to destroy the enemy Sentry bots, of course.

Each team has two Sentry bots on the map when the match starts. Both need to be destroyed in order to secure victory in Battleborn‘s Incursion mode. Sentry bots have a pretty tough shield that will have to be destroyed before the bot itself can be taken down. Traveling with minions can make things more difficult when a foe appears, and teams should consider each hero’s strengths and weaknesses before starting a match. It is pointed out on the 2K Games blog that pairing defensive heroes with support-inclined ones will make both allies last longer on the front lines. For instance, a player using the axe- and shield-wielding dwarf Boldur will work well with a supportive hero like Miko that can provide heals to the dwarf.

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The perspective of Toby in an Incursion match [Image via Gearbox Software]
The Incursion mode in Battleborn even features mercenaries to hire for addition muscle. Players can head to the sides of the map to find Thrall mercenaries. Defeat them in the combat and capture their location to make them march down the battlefield. Thralls really shake things up for the enemy team with big health pools and high damage. Thralls and Super Minions are a great way to draw the ire of enemies or even a Sentry bot while players work to take them down. Check out an entire Incursion match in the video below.

Battleborn is scheduled to release on May 3 for the PC, PlayStation 4, and the Xbox One. The coming months are filled with games like Battleborn, too. In fact, the early access to the Overwatch open beta is launching on the same day that Battleborn officially releases. As the Inquisitr reported, Battleborn developers reacted quite playfully over Blizzard Entertainment’s timing. The adorable Toby character posed with the words “Come at me bro” on the game’s official Twitter account, and the president of Gearbox Software even went on to say that the “Competition is real” on his personal Twitter.

There are a few features of Battleborn that distinguish it from its May competitor. In addition to the previously described competitive mode, two other unique modes will pit players against each other. More paramount to some, however, is the story campaign that Battleborn boasts. Several story missions will not only give players a bit of background on the game’s lore, but they are also repeatably giving players a chance to play completely non-competitively if they so wish. Basically, players will be able to level their heroes and their account in either competitive or cooperative play when Battleborn releases.

[Image via Gearbox Software]

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