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The Borderlands sequence is well-known for a lot of issues, together with its emphasis on co-op, distinctive visible type, and humor, however it’s also fairly well-known for its distinct participant characters, who typically use superior tech or psychic superpowers to put waste to enemies. Harlowe, one in every of Borderlands 4’s new playable characters, is not any totally different, and Gearbox has lastly offered some perception into how they play.
Harlowe has a bunch of toys at their disposal contemplating their previous as a fight scientist for Maliwan, one of many Borderlands universe’s weapons producers. They appear to be significantly nice at utilizing this high-tech weaponry for crowd management, typically debuffing or straight up incapacitating enemies to create benefits for themself and their group.
For instance, one in every of Harlowe’s important skills is the Chroma Accelerator, which fires an unstable ball of vitality that drifts ahead and plows by means of crowds, all of the whereas dealing cryo harm to anybody it floats previous. Harlowe gamers also can detonate it an anytime to deal radiation harm or seemingly anticipate it to burst on affect. This ability could be additional upgraded to bounce haphazardly between enemies, retailer harm time beyond regulation to be dealt when it will definitely explodes, and it may possibly even be given a larger gravitational pull.
Harlowe also can throw out a flux generator that emits an freezing vitality area, and enemies which can be caught in it are additionally entangled. Which means that different enemies with the identical debuff share weapon and ability harm dealt to them, like a sequence impact. Moreover, it may possibly achieve a slew of latest properties, together with a larger radius, secondary area-of-effect triggers, and might even be used to concurrently buff teammates and debuff enemies.
Harlowe’s flashiest device seems to be their Zero-Level skill, which suspends enemies in mid-air by way of a colourful, high-tech bubble. They’ll fireplace upon enemies trapped in them, however they’ll additionally press the motion ability button once more to slam these foes in no matter course Harlowe is going through, which seems like one thing I could by no means tire of. It can be upgraded to offer therapeutic to Harlowe or their teammates, entice ricocheting bullets to suspended enemies, or create a singularity and subsequent cryo explosion upon slamming an opponent in a bubble.
If you wish to begin planning your Harlowe builds, there’s already a preview of their skill trees out there, however you additionally will not have to attend too lengthy to play the sport for your self. In any case, Borderlands 4 is releasing on September 12 for PS5, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC, with a Swap 2 port coming a couple of month afterward October 3.