{"id":46368,"date":"2012-10-24T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T09:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46368"},"modified":"2012-10-24T11:43:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T09:43:48","slug":"borderlands-2-dev-hints-at-new-character-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/46368-borderlands-2-dev-hints-at-new-character-classes","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands 2 dev hints at new character classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gearbox has made no secret about their plans for Borderlands 2 DLC &#8211; before the game was even launched, the studio had already confirmed that at least <a title=\"Borderlands 2 to get four DLC expansions by June 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44111-borderlands-2-to-get-four-dlc-expansions-by-june-next-year.html\">four additional &#8220;big, original, themed, fully built out&#8221; expansions were already in the works<\/a>, as well as the pre-order incentive Mechromancer class, which was released a week or so later. But is the Mechromancer the game&#8217;s first and last class-based DLC? Apparently not.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by a fan on Twitter if &#8220;there actually any plans whatsoever for more character classes to be added through DLC&#8221;, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford said simply that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhoenixNoMokou\/status\/260540116634845184\" target=\"_blank\">yes &#8211; we&#8217;re working on it<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also recently confirmed that there will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuvalMagic\/status\/260538246524698624\" target=\"_blank\">level cap increase<\/a>, suggested that there might be some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrodyTrainor\/status\/260864069144305664\" target=\"_blank\">new use for Eridium<\/a> once you&#8217;ve maxed out your backpack and ammo slots, and officially approved <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayPreston\/status\/260538433188028417\" target=\"_blank\">a velociraptor wrangler<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; although that last one might be too huge a concept even for Borderlands 2. Pandora just isn&#8217;t ready for that kind of revolution.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/45072-borderlands-2-review-pc.html\">Borderlands 2 review (PC)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46117-borderlands-2-dlc-info-leaked-again.html\">Borderlands 2 DLC info leaked (again)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45286-borderlands-2-things-to-do-places-to-go-stuff-to-shoot.html\">Borderlands 2: Things to Do, Places to Go, Stuff to Shoot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45142-borderlands-2-achievement-guide.html\">Borderlands 2 Achievement Guide<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Vault Hunters incoming?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":37952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,31,1524,451,2450,2219],"class_list":["post-46368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-2k-games","tag-active","tag-borderlands-2","tag-dlc","tag-gearbox-software","tag-megarom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}