New Borderlands 3 Twitch extension earns you in-game loot 4 months before release

Borderlands 3 won’t be out until fall, but developer Gearbox Software is giving fans an early opportunity to collect guns and gear. On May 1, you’ll be able to watch popular streamers on Twitch play the cooperative shooter for the first time and collect loot alongside them.

This all part of the new Echocast Twitch extension. If you enable it (via clicking on the Borderlands vault icon on Twitch’s video player), you can inspect the streamers’ weapon loadouts, skill tree abilities, and inventories while they’re live. But the extension has another layer of interaction if you link your Gearbox Shift account to Twitch: Whenever the streamer opens up a rare treasure chest, you’ll have a chance to get some of that loot for yourself.