Two weeks for the general public
Gearbox and 2K are ramping up the downloadable stuff forBattleborn. It was more than two months between the first DLC characterAlaniand the second onePendles. The wait won’t be so long forErnest, who is showing up less than a month after my favorite snake assassin. The demolition bird will be available for season pass holders on August 25, while the general population will have to wait until September 1 to unlock him.
As with the other downloadable characters, unlocking Ernest requires either a Hero Key (provided in a season pass) or 47,500 in-game credits, which is a non-negligible sum. (It comes out to being about 30-50 hours of play time, depending on which mode is played and whether victory is achieved.) Thankfully for those who want to get to blowing stuff up soon, a Double Credits Weekend is planned starting tomorrow and running until Monday. So it should be possible to grind out a good chunk of the money necessary to save for when he drops.
As far as Ernest himself, we’ll learn more about the 28thBattlebornhero in a stream later today onGearbox’s Twitch channel. One interesting point in the blurb we have so far is that he brings “a new means of support and defense.” Just from his look I wasn’t expecting him to be a support character, although his faction the Peacekeepers is notably the only one missing a healer of some sort. We shall see.
There still hasn’t been much word on the first paid story DLC forBattleborn, which wastentatively planned for “late summer.”Not much time left to hit that window!
