Just before Fall arrives in September, Borderlands 3 will finally launch for Xbox One, PS4, and PC! Bringing another spectacularly wild adventure to fans of the highly-acclaimed franchise. There will be tons of new characters to familiarize yourself with and plenty of recognizable ones too. In a brand new trailer for Borderlands 3, Gearbox and 2K Games gives anticipating onlookers a look at one of the playable main characters. Say hello to Zane the Operative.

As seen in the trailer below, Zane Flynt is a “resident tech expert” stacked with gadgets and the ability to equip two action skills at one once. Born into the Flynt family name, this Operative classified vault hunter is a “semi-retired corporate hitman” with a lot of sass and confidence. Check him out:

Zane has three unique skill trees players can upgrade – Doubled Agent, Hitman, and Under Cover. There’s plenty of area to cover, but we’ll get right to the point. Here’s the main takeaway from his three skill trees and a few of helpful abilities to master in Borderlands 3:

Doubled Agent

• Action Skill: Digi-Clone
  • Become a master of misdirection with the Doubled Agent skill tree. Whenever Zane’s Digi-Clone is active and drawing enemies’ fire, he can trade places with it on a short cooldown. By learning skills in the Doubled Agent skill tree, you can amplify your Digi-Clone for some truly tricky setups that’ll leave your target’s head spinning before you blast it into a bloody explosion.
• Quick Breather lets Zane immediately start recharging his shield whenever he swaps places with his Digi-Clone, which provides a huge boost to survivability.
• Enhance causes your Digi-Clone to consume up to 3 grenades when you summon it, giving the Digi-Clone amped-up stats for every grenade consumed.
• Double Barrel ups your DPS by giving your Digi-Clone a copy of Zane’s current weapon – and swapping places triggers increased gun damage for you and your Digi-Clone.

Hitman

• Action Skill: SNTNL
  • Embrace the ‘kill or be killed’ mentality with the Hitman skill tree. You get substantial bonuses whenever you kill an enemy, and that includes any enemies who run afoul of your SNTNL—a hovering drone that peppers targets with machine gun fire. Specializing in Hitman skills is a means for stoking your bloodlust: scoring kills makes you stronger, which makes killing easier, and the cycle repeats until nothing but bodies and loot lie in your wake.
• Salvation gives your damage a bit of life steal after you score a kill, so you can shoot your way back to health if your life bar starts dwindling during battle.
• Death Follows Close improves the effectiveness and duration of your Kill Skills, letting you tear through large groups of enemies with ease.
• Seein’ Red sets off all of Zane’s Kill Skills any time he activates an Action Skill. If you stagger your Action Skills properly, your overall damage output will be through the roof.

Under Cover

• Action Skill: Barrier
  • Keep your entire team safe and buff their damage output with the Under Cover skill tree. The Barrier Action Skill deploys a shield that blocks all enemy fire and gives you and your allies increased gun damage whenever you shoot through it. You can even pick up an active Barrier to turn Zane into a mobile bulwark, though this decreases its size and damage bonuses.
• Confident Competence buffs Zane’s gun damage and accuracy whenever his shields are active, with better bonuses for stronger shield percentages.
• Calm, Cool, Collected rewards Zane for using cryo weapons; any time you freeze an enemy you’ll regenerate shields, health, or Action Skills in that order, depending on what’s currently full.
• Distributed Denial is a big one, giving your Barrier the effects of your currently equipped Shield Mod, which also applies to any allies near the Barrier (with reduced bonuses for Zane himself). It’ll feel like everyone’s getting together for a big buff party any time you drop a Barrier.

For more information on Zane Flynt, check out all the details here! So, what are your initial thoughts on Zane the Operative? Are you going to get busy getting into the “doubled agent” role, become a hitman, or getting under cover? Let us know what you think in the comments section below or start a conversation on Don’t Feed the Gamers Facebook page. To stay up to date on gaming and entertainment news as it happens, follow us on Twitter! Here are some of our latest:

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Borderlands 3 arrives September 13th for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. Pre-orders available now.