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Alani joins Battleborn, along with updates to Incursion and character tweaks, in meaty patch

Battleborn

Battleborn’s first major patch is now live, adding new hero Alani to the roster, as well as making some much needed tweaks to Incursion along with the usual balance tweaks. 

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Alani is the first of five planned DLC heroes and she comes ‘free’ for anyone with a Season Pass or actually free for anyone who took part in the beta. If you fit this criterea you should have access to a Hero Key, which you can use to instantly unlock her.

Additionally, a few new skins and taunts have been added to the game, along with those aforementioned changes to Incursion.

“We made a few changes to Incursion to prevent teams from snowballing to victory after defeating the first sentry,” said Gearbox. “Now both teams get equal opportunities of lane pushing power at select times during the match. In addition, we added some extra power to the Thralls so that they help expedite team pushes.”

The patch notes for Incursion are below:

  • Empowered Minion Waves no longer spawn for a team after killing the enemy’s first Sentry. They now spawn for both teams every fourth minion wave.
  • Incursion Thralls:
  • All Thralls, when captured, no longer target enemy players
  • All Thralls no longer flinch when hit in the legs by players or minions
  • All Thralls no longer get knocked off the map
  • Thrall Crushers:
  • Now only attacks minions directly
  • No longer charges
  • New Skill: Has an area attack that destroys minions instantly and knocks up players (Usable once every 7 seconds)
  • Thrall Guards:
  • Now only attacks minions directly
  • New Skill: Targets a sentry with a mortar that deals heavy damage to the Sentry (Usable once every 10 seconds)
  • Overgrowth:
  • Modified the sniper nests to prevent players from engaging the first sentry from across the map.
  • Shepherds spawn every fourth wave instead of after the first Sentry is destroyed.
  • Various level geometry changes to reduce collision issues.
  • Fixed a rare issue with the central Thrall mercenaries not pushing.
  • Echelon:
  • Shepherds spawn every fourth wave instead of after the first Sentry is destroyed.
  • Various level geometry changes to reduce collision issues.

For a look at the bug fixes and character tweaks, head over and look at the full Battleborn patch notes.