
Stripped of gear, passive abilities, and Action Skills, Arms Race drops you into a new zone where youre tasked with getting loot or die trying. Arms Race is a new game mode that was introduced to Borderlands 3 during the Designer’s Cut, which can be purchased individually or in a group with Season Pass 2. We'll have to wait until November 10 for further information on Arms Race Mode, but stay tuned to GameSkinny as we learn more about this upcoming expansion. Arms Race is now available in Borderlands 3 for the next three weeks, offering amped-up mayhem via a fast-paced roguelike experience featuring randomised elements. But to obtain the best items possible in Arms Race, players will need to take down high-level enemies. With roguelike elements, you can expect this gear won't be easily obtainable - and that you'll die quite often trying to get it. Described as a roguelike experience that’s fast-paced, challenging, and consistently remixed by randomized elements, Arms Race is set to challenge players like never before.

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The Vault Hunters are dropped in from the sky into a large map with multiple pathways and a lot of confusion. This endlessly replayable mode is a mad dash to gear up your Vault Hunter from scratch and extract the best loot you can find, lest you die. Edit: also they would have to disable skill trees for pvp because that is where the majority of damage actually comes from. Arms Race acts much like a battle royale-style game. Arms Race is the galaxys premier reality murder show. You’re stripped of all your gear, passive abilities, and Actions Skills and dropped into a new zone where you’ll have to get loot or die trying. WastelandKarl Captain Haunt Then they would be entirely useless in the rest of the game. Arms Race is a roguelike experience that’s fast-paced, challenging, and consistently remixed by randomised elements. The aim, as you may have guessed, is quite simple: grab as much gear as you can. Alongside the announcement of Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition and the reveal of the Multiverse Final Forms cosmetics, 2K and Gearbox lifted the lid on new mode Arms Race. Then again, they said that we can only use guns found in Arms Race for Arms Race, so there is a small possibility. Working inside an area known as the Stormblind Complex, players will be thrust into a battle royale of sorts, with Stormblind Complex including a weather system called the "Murdercane," which restricts player access to certain parts of the map.

As part of the latest episode of The Borderlands Show, though, we finally got a look at just what that Arms Race Mode will entail.Ĭoming in as the first half of the "Directors Cut" add-on for Borderlands 3 (the second half is yet to be revealed), this expansion works as a "roguelike experience," seeing players dropped into an isolated map on Pandora, stripped of their existing weapons and skills. During the initial announcement for the second season pass, an Arms Race Mode was confirmed but details remained vague.
