Major Borderlands 4 Update Adds Smarter Loot Drops, a New Legendary Loot Indicator for the Radar, and a Lot More

Gearbox has released a important spot for Borderlands 4 that makes immoderate quality-of-life improvements specified arsenic smarter loot drops and a caller Legendary Loot Indicator for your radar. These get alongside ocular polish and stableness updates for a “smoother” acquisition connected Kairos, Gearbox said.

Digging into the detail, Class Mods person been adjusted to driblet much for your existent character, which is simply a invited alteration for those connected the hunt for ever-improving builds. The loot provender is present updated to show full existent currency aft spending oregon receiving money, and the likelihood of unintended movements oregon knockbacks portion reviving a teammate is reduced. And it's worthy noting that the spot adds a caller Legendary Loot Indicator to the combat radar for easier recognition of high-rarity drops. fixed however engaged with loot Borderlands 4 tin get, this is besides welcome.

In the spot notes, below, Gearbox said it was wrapping up enactment connected Photo Mode, portion different updates similar enactment for aggregate progressive Big Encore Machines and much options for scaling trouble are coming.

Further into the future, Gearbox said it’s looking astatine ways to amended shared quality progression, adhd further endgame-focused activities (Takedown), motorboat cross-save support, and more. Major Updates, which present larger-scale changes, are planned to deploy astir a period apart.

Today’s update launches alongside Bounty Pack 1: How Rush Saved Mercenary Day, which is present escaped for each players. How Rush Saved Mercenary Day is the archetypal of 5 post-launch DLC Bounty Packs coming to Borderlands 4. While How Rush Saved Mercenary Day is escaped for each players, Bounty Packs 2, 3, 4, and 5 are included with Borderlands 4 Deluxe Edition, Borderlands 4 Super Deluxe Edition, the Borderlands 4 Bounty Pack Bundle, and volition beryllium disposable for abstracted purchase.

Borderlands 4 November 20 Major Update Patch Notes:

Bounty Pack 1: How Rush Saved Mercenary Day

We're stoked for you to squad up with Rush and thatch Minister Screw the existent meaning of Mercenary Day! This being a holiday-themed Bounty Pack, we knew we had to present it to you by the extremity of the year. However, the squad realized that determination was much mayhem than clip erstwhile it came to getting arsenic overmuch into Bounty Pack 1 arsenic primitively planned portion ne'er slowing down successful their ngo to amended the Borderlands 4 subordinate experience.

So successful the tone of the season, we're giving a acquisition to each Borderlands 4 players by making Bounty Pack 1 free! Thank you for each the passionateness and enactment you've fixed america arsenic a community. We're hard astatine enactment making definite aboriginal Bounty Packs are much afloat loaded with the compelling contented players person been asking for. In addition, we're present adding a caller Bounty Pack 5 (more connected that successful a bit); there's a batch of astonishing worldly coming to Borderlands 4, truthful enactment tuned!

• Added enactment for How Rush Saved Mercenary Day content! Jump into this escaped contented contiguous by uncovering and interacting with the gift-wrapped contiguous (marked connected your representation arsenic a caller mission) successful immoderate large hub, which volition initiate the ngo to assistance Rush!
• Added enactment for the Bounty Pack 1 Vault Card! Playing Borderlands 4 with a Vault Card progressive gives you much loot and XP via Daily and Weekly challenges, and it tin beryllium leveled up astatine your ain gait (no clip limits oregon expiring rewards here). You tin activate it via the Vault Card surface successful your ECHO menu. Vault Card progression works conscionable similar leveling up: it's each driven by however overmuch XP you're gaining. By exploring Kairos, sidesplitting enemies, and completing quests, you'll capable up your Vault Card progression successful summation to your regular XP!
  • This includes 4 caller pieces of rerollable cogwheel and 24 caller cosmetics to earn!

Notable Changes

We wanted to propulsion these retired specifically arsenic they person been heavy mentioned successful the community.

• Updated the Weekly Wildcard Missions to acceptable further commencement points successful missions
• Dev Note: This diagnostic volition let aboriginal Weekly Wildcard Missions to leap consecutive to the nutrient of a mission.
• Class Mods person been adjusted to driblet much for your existent character
• Converted the Phosphene limb situation from character-based to profile-wide progression
  • Dev Note: This semipermanent grind is aimed astatine our astir dedicated assemblage members who put the astir clip successful the game. Still, we hold that completing this postulation is much a reflection of your dedication to the crippled and not to a circumstantial Vault Hunter. This is the archetypal illustration of allowing much progression to beryllium shared betwixt each characters connected your account.
• Updated the loot provender to show full existent currency aft spending oregon receiving money
• Reduced the likelihood of unintended movements oregon knockbacks portion reviving a teammate
  • Dev Note: When reviving different player, the reviving subordinate is temporarily fixed much mass, making force attacks little apt to bounce you distant from your partner.
• Added a caller Legendary Loot Indicator to the combat radar for easier recognition of high-rarity drops

Gameplay & Mission Progression

• Addressed an contented that could origin the nonaccomplishment of SDU Tokens oregon Specialization points; this besides returns missing tokens and points to those impacted
• Resolved an enactment wherever players could not repurchase a brag brushwood aft each enactment members were defeated and respawned successful multiplayer
• Slide-attacking lootable objects volition present unfastened oregon interruption them consistently
• Resolved progression blockers for much intuitive gameplay during Faction Survivalist, Wayward Gun, Another Day, Another Universe, the Badass Phalanx bounty, and the Black Market Tutorial
• Corrected behaviour wherever ngo items could vanish aft replaying and exiting a mission, preventing completion
• Prevented uncommon instances of immoderate enemies turning into NPCs and becoming unkillable
• Adjusted tracking connected immoderate challenges and achievements to grant advancement arsenic intended
• Dev Note: The Professional present lone awards advancement for designated situation conditions, portion Private Reserve and What Have We Here? volition advancement correctly erstwhile opening chests with melee attacks. The Arena Grande accomplishment should consistently unlock successful multiplayer.
• Mort volition revive players much consistently during Thresher Rancher
• Resolved a information wherever vehicles could beryllium instantly destroyed if summoned instantly aft utilizing a Repkit with the Splat trait
• Adjusted entity placement and pathing crossed aggregate missions, ensuring due force spawns, interactions, Echolocation, and waypoint alignment
• Synchronized immoderate mismatched animations and behaviors successful multiplayer
• Resolved a reported contented wherever players could go concisely suspended successful midair erstwhile exiting ngo replay portion jumping oregon swimming
• Addressed a bug causing the Chopper vehicles to stay successful a falling authorities aft performing a vertical leap oregon powerslide
• Prevented conveyance summoning successful restricted indoor areas specified arsenic the Umbral Foundry Fortress
• Removed the punishment during Scoundrel Roundup: Kilo if the sheet is changeable twice
• Updated Mimicron’s combat behaviour truthful it tin nary longer beryllium stun-locked by singularity effects successful the Tipping Point Bunker
• Updated Patrol Ripper declaration to advancement with intended sources
• Updated the Order Bunker brag Fractis brushwood to guarantee the brag remains defeatable aft entering its shielded signifier successful The Crawlfort
• Adjusted behaviour successful The Next Quest Thing truthful the ngo tin consistently beryllium accepted aft redeeming and reloading
• Improved force physics successful Gone Are My Leggies to forestall The Beastie from being launched retired of the playable country erstwhile deed with high-impact weapons
• Restored ECHO Log rewards for completing optional objectives successful 3 micro-missions erstwhile played solo
• Adjusted Arjay’s resistances truthful presumption effect damage-over-time present applies correctly
  • Dev Note: Visual inconsistencies with Arjay’s wings mightiness look arsenic a effect of this change, but volition not interaction gameplay.
• Adjusted arena boundaries truthful Locust’s state canisters present spawn correctly wrong the arena during the Idolator Sol brushwood successful Fortress Indomita

Vault Hunters

Amon, the Forgeknight

• Updated Forgeknight Forgedrone situation truthful it unlocks decently upon gathering completion requirements
• Corrected accomplishment histrion concern functionality to forestall Forgeknight from applying accomplishment points retired of order
• Updated limb input handling truthful Forgeknight tin reliably swap weapons aft utilizing the whip attack

Rafa, the Exo-Soldier

• Exo-Soldier's Soltado Kill Skill passive has been adjusted to relation decently with 2 accomplishment points
• Improved PROJECT: Raiju capstone behaviour truthful APOPHIS Lance consistently damages enemies during extended uptime
• Adjusted Booming Business passive's functionality to forestall grenade spawns erstwhile the passive accomplishment exceeds its intended level cap
• Updated the Temerario passive accomplishment truthful it provides the intended weapon harm bonus alternatively than a wide harm increase

Vex, the Siren

• Updated situation tracking truthful the Target Prescience passive lone progresses erstwhile damaging valid targets

Harlowe, the Gravitar

• Ensured that QED passive accomplishment would stay functional successful multiplayer
• Updated Gravitar’s Zero-Point Action Skill truthful it present decently enters cooldown erstwhile utilized connected enemies immune to Stasis. Previously, utilizing the accomplishment connected a Stasis-immune people aft affecting a mean force could origin it to stay progressive alternatively of triggering cooldown

All Vault Hunters

• Adjusted captious deed calculations truthful weapon and enhancement harm present applies correctly to each valid deed regions
• Adjusted Cryo absorption scaling truthful force resistances present correctly lucifer each player’s level successful multiplayer sessions
• Prevented Action Skills from activating during the archetypal loading surface earlier entering progressive gameplay
• Updated termination measurement logic to guarantee Vault Hunters cannot cheat decease portion successful FFYL and healing with the Legendary Shield Guardian Angel
• Ensured sniper ammo displays afloat capableness erstwhile creating a level 30 Vault Hunter

Gear and Rewards

• Adjusted melee harm connected Bayonet weapons truthful that melee harm increases with bayonet parts
• Updated beam limb behaviour truthful they volition woody due harm erstwhile thrown
• Addressed an enactment allowing players to infinitely standard the splash radius of homing sticky projectiles erstwhile utilizing Torgue Legendary Pistol Queen’s Rest with definite builds and firmware combinations
• Updated Skully grenade to set projectile harm for accordant output
• Corrected brag wellness barroom updates truthful sustained dense Ordnance harm with Amon present displays correctly
• Updated Torgue Heavy Weapon Ravenfire truthful it present correctly applies elemental harm erstwhile equipped with elemental parts
• Adjusted Maliwan Heavy Weapon behaviour truthful projectiles created from a deed don't detonate instantly aft spawning
• Corrected the detonation hold of Fuel Rod Discharge to lucifer its statement of 3 seconds erstwhile utilized connected Ripper shotguns
• Adjusted Rolling Thunder underbarrel grenades connected Torgue shotguns to behave predictably connected vertical surfaces alternatively of ricocheting excessively
• Prevented bosses from floating erstwhile Exo-Soldier's Booming Business passive accomplishment was triggered with Order Legendary Grenade Skully
• Addressed a information wherever the Vladof Legendary Shield Heavyweight could suffer functionality aft activating Forgeknight Onslaughter skill
• Adjusted projectile enactment during the combat with Vile Ripper truthful players tin present destruct the homing “Unstable Ore” projectiles
• Updated collision behaviour truthful Jakobs Throwing Knife grenades correctly interaction the orb surrounding Vile Ordonite of Corrupted enemies
• Adjusted immoderate cogwheel that was behaving inconsistently successful multiplayer, specified as: the bounce-back unit of The Order Legendary pistol Noisy Cricket, reload animation timing for the Jakobs shotgun Hot Slugger, and misaligned accuracy of the Daedalus pistol Bonn-91
• Standardized immoderate instances of Firmware 3-piece bonus cooldowns to look consistently. Visual cooldowns person been added for Oscar Mike, Ahoy, and Daed-dy O’
• Drops are nary longer kept successful the aerial erstwhile lowering the level successful All Charged Up
• Restored functionality allowing players to loot and preview weapons from reddish chests aft completing the Blacklime Bunker

Gear Balance:

Darkbeast

• Addressed a scaling issue
• Explosion Chance accrued from 5% to 20%
• Damage accrued by 15%

Prince Harming

• Addressed a scaling issue
• Self Damage magnitude reduced from 5% to 1.5% of harm done
• Damage accrued by ~24%

Onslaught:

• Damage accrued by 75%

Ruby's Grasp:

• Damage accrued by ~40%

Lucky Clover:

• Damage accrued by 37.5%

Vamoose:

• Damage accrued by 20%

Asher's Rise

• Addressed a scaling issue
• Damage accrued by 5%

Firmware Balance:

Get Throwin':

• Ordnance Damage accrued from 10% to 35%

Daed-dy O':

• Damage accrued from 20% to 35%
• Mag Size summation from 15% to 20%

Rubberband Man:

• Damage Reduction accrued from 5% to 10%
• Lifesteal accrued from 5% to 10%

Jacked:

• Zoom-in Speed bonus accrued from 20% to 35%
• Hyperion Shield Capacity bonus accrued from 25% to 50%
• Ricochet accidental accrued from 30% to 40%

Atlas Ex:

• Mode Swap Speed accrued from 25% to 33%
• Damage portion locked accrued from 10% to 25%

Atlas Infinium:

• Fire Rate bonus accrued from 5% to 12%
• Damage bonus accrued from 10% to 15%

Reel Big Fist:

• Explosion Radius somewhat increased

Airstrike:

• Missile harm accrued by 35%
• Decreased Cooldown from 8s to 5s

UI, UX, & Text

• Restored filter functionality to Lost Loot menus and addressed non-functional filter selections and sorting dropdowns
• Updated the Lost Loot paper truthful the selected benignant enactment is retained aft exiting and re-entering
• Adjusted representation icon layering truthful Main Mission icons nary longer overlap Wildcard Mission Giver
• Adjusted scrolling behaviors successful menus successful splitscreen
• Ensured the Transfer Machine remains unfastened aft exiting inspect mode
• Added abstracted sensitivity sliders for rodent and controller inputs successful the Controls (Basic) paper connected PC
• Corrected the buddy widget show truthful respawned characters nary longer look arsenic “still respawning”
• Updated point rarity displays to amusement the close colour and tier erstwhile playing successful non-English languages
• Removed other ECHO Log slots
• Restored missing point thumbnails successful the slope paper and improved loading velocity for equipped and backpack point thumbnails erstwhile ample numbers of items are stored successful the bank
• Updated Explore Menu positioning truthful it displays correctly successful beforehand of the explored portion during vertical split-screen
• Adjusted layout truthful Item Cards nary longer overlap erstwhile compared successful horizontal split-screen
• Addressed a reported contented wherever weapons could unequip and vanish erstwhile changing their customization successful the Status menu
• Corrected overshield coloration and behaviour for pets and buddy widgets truthful that health, shield, and armor visuals present show properly
• Adjusted Contract trackers to lone look erstwhile the Contract is active
• Resolved a reported contented wherever mission-related celebratory notifications could show duplicate icons
• Added the missing “Restart to Apply Changes” punctual erstwhile adjusting texture prime during gameplay
• Updated enactment descriptions to beryllium much intuitive and player-friendly
• Addressed the chaos displayed by the “SHiFT codification is valid” countdown successful the SHiFT menu
• Updated controller prompts truthful the close input benignant displays erstwhile opening the SHiFT paper from the main men
• Removed an other scrollbar that could look erstwhile Reporting Users
• Addressed substance inconsistencies successful immoderate broadside missions
• Updated D-pad functionality connected controller to behave arsenic expected
• Preserved cardinal bindings that could beryllium removed betwixt sessions for non-English keys
• Standardized ECHO Log tracking for the Kairos Speaks situation to guarantee totals show consistently betwixt wide and ngo log views
• Updated localization, ngo naming, and assorted substance descriptions crossed the game
• Updated extremity credits

Visuals

• Addressed reported instances wherever players could go invisible erstwhile performing a Vault-level modulation during a question tunnel
• Addressed an contented with missing parts and textures connected gear
• Updated ECHO-4 quality exemplary and digistruct to person lights, eyes, and thruster effects look correctly
• Adjusted sportfishing constituent visuals truthful markers nary longer look incorrectly connected terrain adjacent Sandytoes Villa
• Updated level geometry and collision crossed aggregate regions to forestall players from becoming stuck, falling retired of bounds, oregon being blocked by invisible surfaces
• Adjusted grappling points and traversal paths successful aggregate missions to forestall players from chaining grapples into unintended areas oregon losing functionality
• Addressed misplaced oregon inaccessible loot containers, including strongboxes and vending-area chests successful The Wireworks and Windspear
• Addressed inaccurate rendering of h2o successful immoderate locations
• Corrected lingering descent fume effects that could look erstwhile moving oregon jumping aft performing a slide
• Turned disconnected the mining laser aft shutting down the 2nd Eridium generator successful Terminus Range
• Corrected ocular stretching connected quality and NPC cloth erstwhile adjusting the FOV portion the crippled is paused
• Updated Dark Subject ngo truthful Tim’s limb present decently disappears with his exemplary during the “Kill Tim”
• Addressed aggregate reported animation inconsistencies including gear, NPCs, manus stuttering, root-lock issues, and ocular glitches during combat actions. These improvements region disposable sliding oregon snapping during melee oregon grapple sequences
• Improved biology synchronization successful multiplayer
• Adjusted rima animation timing for Callis successful Another Day, Another Universe and for Numba One successful Mob Mentality truthful dialog syncs correctly
• Balanced underwater lighting and brightness adjacent Belton’s Bore (The Low Leys, Mountains) for much accordant ocular clarity erstwhile diving beneath the aboveground
• Repaired a purple airy texture that appeared aft interacting with the Auger Shrine successful Terminus Range
• Optimized beam effects connected immoderate Order cogwheel with lasers
• Standardized slug ammunition ejection visuals for Daedalus pistols
• [SPOILER] The fume during Sophia’s decease wasn’t goth capable and was changed from orangish to achromatic
• Updated the slice connected digistruct to beryllium little uniform
• Resolved flickering from Exo-Soldier’s PROJECT: Raiju Capstone effect erstwhile utilized wrong the Order Bunker
• Updated conveyance materials to show correctly aft applying paintjobs successful the customization menu
• Adjusted deployable obstruction visuals connected shields and Shield Boi
• Faded the reddish airy trails from Atlas underbarrel tracking Darts and Balls connected Jakobs pistols
• Tuned brightness of people marker visuals erstwhile utilizing the Ripper Sniper Rifle tracking mode against definite bosses
• Corrected firing animations for Vladof submachine guns with the Extra Barrel underbarrel and Torgue shotguns with Daedalus ammo switcher
• Adjusted Order grenade to nary longer descent crossed the crushed erstwhile dropped from the inventory
• Adjusted animation blending for Daedalus shotguns utilizing Maliwan Element Switcher to destruct abrupt snapping and to forestall the secondary mag from appearing loaded erstwhile utilizing the superior firing mode

Audio

• Resolved a reported contented wherever the assemblage could proceed to marque sounds aft they stopped spawning during the Null and Void mission
• Prevented big players from temporarily losing audio if different subordinate joined their league portion they were successful an ECHO paper successful multiplayer
• Addressed missing oregon incomplete dependable effects erstwhile looting successful multiplayer sessions
• Made the truly large vertebrate successful Grasslands quieter
• Additional audio equilibrium adjustments

Player Experience

• Improvements to stableness and optimization
  • Dev Note: We are continuing to analyse and volition marque further improvements to stableness and performance.
• Updated PS5 controller LEDs to alteration colour based connected the player’s progressive elemental type
• Addressed unintended adaptive trigger feedback that occurred with Ripper weapons portion reloading oregon firing without ammo

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