Borderlands 4, the game that is most definitely not a live service, has laid out its plans through the end of the year, which includes three separate launches and events ahead of its big story update early next year, which launches an entirely new Vault Hunter. Here are the events and what’s coming with them: Horrors of Kairos Halloween Event …
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Don’t Miss Borderlands 4’s New Gun Buffs Ahead Of Its Monster Patch
This week, Gearbox rolled out a mid-sized Borderlands 4 patch that has a number of buffs to what it deems underperforming gear. But they also promised that the big, buffing and nerfing mega-patch would be the following week with a warning that broken builds were finally about to be targeted after a couple weeks of moderate weapon and character buffs. …
Read More »Borderlands 4 Fan Kills 3,000 Bosses To Discover Depressingly Low Drop Rate
There are two ways to approach Borderlands 4. One is as a colorful sci-fi comic book sandbox where people say entertaining stuff as you shoot things in the face. The other is as a claw-game lottery to be mathematically solved, with players optimizing strategies to earn prizes as efficiently as possible. Both of those things can be fun! The magic …
Read More »‘I Want to Know What Sort of Odds I Am Trying to Beat When I Am Grinding a Game’ — 150 Hours and Over 3,000 Boss Kills Later, a Superfan Has Worked Out Borderlands 4’s Disappointingly Low Drop Rate
If you’re big into Borderlands 4, you’ll be wondering about its drop rate. The looter shooter is, when it comes to the endgame, all about getting the right items for the right build so those damage numbers keep on going up. But what are the actual chances of getting a legendary drop from a boss in Borderlands 4? Developer Gearbox …
Read More »Borderlands 4 Might Have Included The Franchise’s Most Polarizing Character, Dataminer Claims
A Borderlands 4 dataminer has claimed that the game might have featured one of the franchise’s most polarizing characters at one point in its development. Having dug through files for the game, EpicNNG uploaded their findings online. Warning: Spoilers for Borderlands 3 and 4 below After spending a chunk of time on Kairos, players eventually run into the Siren Amara …
Read More »Borderlands 4 Dataminer Unearths Evidence to Suggest a Much-Maligned Borderlands 3 Character Was Cut and Replaced Late in Development
A Borderlands 4 dataminer has found evidence to suggest that one of the most hated characters from Borderlands 3 was cut and replaced relatively late in development. Warning! Spoilers for Borderlands 3 and 3 follow: Borderlands modder and dataminer EpicNNG took to social media to confidently proclaim that Borderlands 3 NPC Ava was cut from Borderlands 4, based on their …
Read More »‘Borderlands 4’ Replaced Ava With Amara Late In Production
Now this is an interesting bit of Borderlands news. While the campaign of Borderlands 4 is widely thought to be a step up from Borderlands 3, it turns out that it almost carried over a much-derided character from the previous game, one that appears to have been cut late in production. That character is Ava, the young, burgeoning Siren from …
Read More »One of Borderlands’ most hated characters seems to have been cut from Borderlands 4
It looks like one of the most disliked characters in the Borderlands series may have been cut from Borderlands 4, according to datamined file names posted online. As posted by to EpicNNG, a Borderlands content creator and dataminer who previously led an archival effort for the defunct Chinese Borderlands MMO, files exist within Borderlands 4 that explicitly name a character …
Read More »New Borderlands 4 Update Buffs Vault Hunters
Borderlands 4 just received a major update on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S that buffs the game’s four Vault Hunters to make their many builds more viable. Developer Gearbox Software took to the game’s official website on October 2 to detail the latest update. In the blog post, the studio said the focus was to create “greater build …
Read More »Borderlands 4’s Worst Character Sucks Less After Today’s Update
A new update for Borderlands 4 is available now on all platforms, and after installing it you’ll discover that all of the game’s playable vault hunters are now stronger. But one in particular, Amon, is much, much more powerful after the patch, which is great because many (myself included) considered him to be the worst and weakest of the bunch. …
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