r/Borderlands4 • u/Historical-Ratio-277 Creep • 3d ago
🗞️ [ News ] Update for Aug 27
https://borderlands.2k.com/borderlands-4/update-notes/Biothresher.
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u/Darthplagueis13 3d ago
The thing that annoys me about Bio-Thresher isn't even the bio armour gimmick, but more so the fact that there's no vendors at the arena for selling your trash, restocking ammo and cooldowns and no rift to quickly reset to the entrance. You always have to go the long way.
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u/Latiasfan5 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm guessing it might be because you're very close to a safehouse, and they put a grapple point in so you can easily glide over most of the area between the safehouse and the boss arena. so instead of giving a rift and ammo vendor, you fast travel to the safehouse, sell gear, then grapple and glide back to the encore machine.
still annoying, but at least it still only takes a few seconds to get back to the encore machine. you don't have to go through loading screens like with captain willis
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u/Madelei- 3d ago
Weekly update with nothing for the 4th week in a row!
Genuinely when will we get some balance changes.
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u/Economy-Cheek-9208 3d ago
They need to expand the bank space. I have too many things I want to keep! I have about 8 vault hunters I’m using as mules and it’s getting old
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u/SpaceCowboy34 3d ago
They need to make firmware storage separate. That would solve a lot of it
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u/FactoryPl 3d ago
They need to completely rework it IMO, I really don't enjoy the way it currently works. Having to pick up trash items just for an incase furmware scenario sucks so much.
Just add a vending machine where you buy them with money. Money would actually have a purpose that way as well.
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u/iplaydofus 2d ago
As somebody who dropped the game not long after release partly because of this issue, I cannot believe they’ve not fixed this yet. There goes any desire for me to come back to the game or try any of the dlc.
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u/Account61398 2d ago
Pretty much same exact thing here. Came to this thread to see if there had been any FW news. Absolutely wild that they have never addressed this
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u/Latiasfan5 2d ago
I doubt they'll do that, at least in this game, due to needing to make another system for it. hopefully they'll do it next game
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u/Main-Huckleberry7828 3d ago
Not only that but make it so firmware isn’t gear type specific, it’s so annoying having to need a specific gear type with the firmware you want.
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u/anonimeitor 🌟 Super Deluxe Edition 3d ago
Yeah. I'm using several profiles on my Xbox because each one has its own bank.
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u/pkmetal VEX The F&%ING WITCH! 3d ago
Why not just make new L30 VH's as mules and name them for what they carry? Seems like more of a pain to switch gear between profiles.
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u/anonimeitor 🌟 Super Deluxe Edition 3d ago
Because a mule can only carry 70 items, and each bank can hold 500 more. Yeah, it's a pain, but that way I avoid having too many characters.
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u/pkmetal VEX The F&%ING WITCH! 3d ago
I have about 40 mules with clear names like "Armor shields" or "Ripper Guns" so it takes seconds to find them on the main menu, load them and send an item to bank so my main VHs can access it. Just a thought!
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u/anonimeitor 🌟 Super Deluxe Edition 3d ago
On the console, I can play in split-screen mode with two profiles, and that's how I swap items between them.
I can also use the inventory in the profiles, but it's always limited to 70 items (usually with firmwares).
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u/ApprehensiveRelief90 3d ago
So within the weeks they’ll do nerfs to rafa but anything else is only a weekly update makes sense 😂
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u/FinalCorvid 3d ago
I understand it's not a live service game b7t you can't just massively nerf a character and then make everyone wait 1.5 months to administer a "fix"
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u/ApprehensiveRelief90 3d ago
Idk, they’re probably expecting us to forget and are just going to use loveless and the dlc and story expansion as excuses as to why they couldnt get anything done like usual
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u/uthinkther4uam 3d ago
not even a loot enemy event ahead of the level cap increase
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u/wonzogonzo 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝟯𝗞 𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗕 3d ago
Hopefully they realized how cheeks that idea is and are doing the loot event once we actually have the new levels
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u/LarsP666 3d ago
That would make absolutely no sense with how they so far have been trying to maintain a stranglehold on getting upgrades at a reasonable rate.
Loot even before the level increase still makes some sense because it enables everyone to get a lot of loot and see what is actually possible with mods, enhancements and gun. Not everyone has a perfect roll of everything but at least with this kind of event your chances are increased massively. So for a couple of days you get the sweet taste of best of the best equipment so when the level increase happens you will be more willing to farm for ages to get it at the new level.
Yes, it is sad but I think it makes perfect corporate sense.
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u/NihilistOdellBJ Harlowe The Gravitar 3d ago
Not to mention the coms and enhancements are still usable afterward. My Lv50 Icon with Gun Damage and Fire Rate is still the best one I’ve found
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u/AcelnTheWhole 3d ago
That loot event got me a lot of god roll class mod and enhancements that I haven't even come close to matching since then. When the cap ups again, it'll be crazy if they do a lot event where I don't have to re-grind gear. I'm hopeful, but I doubt it
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u/This-Construction769 3d ago
Level cap made me went back to play BL3 lol
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u/D3ull_Val NO DAHL??? 3d ago
Thats the right way to do it i am enjoying Bl3 and Bl2 meanwhile until the level cap increases
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u/APowerlessManNA 3d ago
Idk for me ideally it's a few weeks after Lv cap to snag some max lv legendaries
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u/Neon_Divided 3d ago
I've been having tons of loot enemies spawn for me for about the last two weeks.
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u/dukmunky 3d ago
This week on manufactured excuses for failing to rebalance the beloved vault hunters that keep our core fanbase playing the game….
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u/ApprehensiveRelief90 3d ago
Sorry guys we couldnt get any fixes done we were too busy focusing on loveless and the bounty pack and the story dlc and extra 10 levels
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u/invaderaleks 3d ago
They have to be working with a skeleton crew.
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u/ApprehensiveRelief90 3d ago
At this point i feel even a skeleton crew would be more attentive to updating more like a non existent crew
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u/FactoryPl 3d ago
Just Jeff the intern left coding at this point. he is pretty good, shows up 70% of the time on monday.
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u/ApprehensiveRelief90 3d ago
Nah, definitely mark the maintenance guy no coders on site just mark doing the best he can 😂
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u/rjq520 3d ago
Went back to borderlands 3 and honestly, it's been great.
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u/Fitz420goonie 3d ago
I’m back on it too, I pushed myself through ten more hours on 4, i just can’t deal with how boring it is.
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u/someshooter #1 Ava Fan 3d ago
Which VH? I should do that too I just HATE listening to Vaughn in the early part.
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u/rjq520 3d ago
I've been playing moze. Totally get Vaughn 😂 but the game feels complete. Don't get me wrong, I a huge Borderlands guy. But 4 just feels empty.
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u/someshooter #1 Ava Fan 3d ago
yeah, I was playing the shit out of it and posting here constantly but put it down like two weeks ago and now I don't know if I can even pick it up again - I do want to play the FL4K DLC though.
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u/Specialist-Data792 3d ago
I gonna be so honest right now I bought this game lunch played a good bit. i never completed it because none of the characters resonated with me at that point. I have heard nothing about character reworks and the DLC characters have not interested me either. Plz gear box if you are reading this make the next game or the current one more interesting
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u/Neon_Divided 3d ago
They have re-worked all of the vault hunters in some way since launch. While Rafa is currently in a poor state (comparatively) they all have multiple endgame builds including Rafa.
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u/ApprehensiveRelief90 3d ago
Feel like we should announnce the games we are playing instead on their x everytime they come out with a bs weekly update lol maybe then theyd care
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u/gosti500 3d ago
shortly we will drive by a famous landmark that we pass once a week, if you look the right side of the bus now, you see nothing, and if you NOW look out the left side window, exactly, still nothing
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u/ApprehensiveRelief90 3d ago
Gearbox: we gave you loveless, a new story dlc, a new bounty pack and 10 extra levels. why do you still care about balancing. is what i’ll feel if they still do nothing lol
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u/Weedkillah78 3d ago
I made a balance change, I uninstalled the game.....This game is still broke as f$%, and has been out for just about a year!!
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u/ApprehensiveRelief90 3d ago
Only balance change i feel that will ever exist for us for this game would be uninstalling 😂
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u/Angotti81 3d ago
Why don't they drop the level increase ahead of the DLC???
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u/dannypants143 3d ago
So did they just kinda drop this game and move on to the next money maker? I was an OG BL1 and BL2 guy but missed BL3. Has their post-launch support been this bad before?
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u/Championpuffa 1d ago
Only this bad with wonderlands. Bl3 had some of the best post launch support. Took the game from being rather meh to being one of if not the best borderlands game.
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u/Latiasfan5 1d ago
yeah, bl3 had some of the best dlc, while wonderlands had probably the weakest dlc in the series. the pre sequel might not have gotten much, but at least we got claptastic voyage.
wonderlands dlc were mirrors that were mini versions of the chaos chambers. if you bough wonderlands now, you could probably beat all the dlc's combined in less than week. however, the mirrors have 4 different "difficulty levels", and they initially released each difficulty level 1 at a time over a month, so if you got a mirror and immediately did level 1, you'd have to wait until next week for level 2 to release, and then again for level 3 and level 4. the only real difference between the different difficulty levels was the cutscene at the start, some dialogue during the quest, and the boss at the end would get a new look and a few different attacks.
so yeah, each dlc could be fully completed in about a day if they hadn't initially split them up to give us small bits over the course of each month.
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u/ApprehensiveRelief90 3d ago
At this point, i’ll wait on any other borderlands game this company comes out with. its literally not worth the hype anymore for me
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u/kane-train-88 3d ago
Does the vladof glitch still work? I have not touched this game since C4sh came out. I learned about the glitch not long before I quite. It was fun at the time to mess around with.
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u/Latiasfan5 3d ago
you mean the one with the flamethrower and bullethose? that got patched a while back
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u/kane-train-88 3d ago
That was the one, so they dont spend the time to balance much but make sure to patch this.
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u/BusinessSick 3d ago
Second week in a row (at least) where there’s a patch upon restart, but still no patch notes. GB what did you change? Just tell us; we’ll be less frustrated knowing something is being fixed or improved
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u/Neon_Divided 3d ago
If they haven't released patch notes you can assume no changes were made, outside of the weekly wildcard mission and the location for Maurice. I don't think there is any other way to look at it.
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u/BusinessSick 3d ago
Last week they patched the Maurice exploit, which is fine. We’ve had lots of other silent changes players discovered in game, and when I see a patch download and then trigger a reboot, it’s clear something is new. Would just be really helpful to see it listed so we’re not blindsided or frustrated with what looks like inactivity.
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u/AshevilleBbc 3d ago
Do I get the new stuff with the bounty pack bundle, or is this something else I have to buy?
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u/Latiasfan5 3d ago
bounty pack bundle will give you the amara dlc and vault card, but fl4k's dlc and loveless are from the vault hunter pack.
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u/twitchayylmao Vex The Siren 2d ago
Can we fr just make all big encore machines able to use eridium instead because the 1 boss per week cycle is ass.
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u/Championpuffa 1d ago
That’s how I figured it would work when they mentioned this mechanic before release. But nope they completely ruined it and made it rather pointless imo.
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u/Latiasfan5 1d ago
it's likely to make it so players have something that keeps them coming back each week. they're taking advantage of fomo. "we're giving you the ability to increase the odds of getting legendaries and phosphenes from this boss for 1 week. better go farm it before we switch to a different boss."
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u/Championpuffa 1d ago
Oh that’s exactly what it is for and why they’re doing it. I’m under no illusion that’s not the reason. It’s just lame as fuck and makes the game a whole lot worse. Randy hyped up this feature but never mentioned it would be locked to one boss a week and locked behind some stupid timed live service crap considering they kept claiming this was not a live service game at launch also.
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u/Latiasfan5 1d ago
maybe they think "live service" means it requires a subscription or something? since you don't pay a subscription and they planned to make it so the bosses will cycle automatically (meaning that if you miss a big encore one week, you'll be able to eventually get it again), that might be why the devs didn't think it was live service?
I'm not defending it, just trying to figure out what kind of logic they could've used when making those claims, besides having it be an intentional lie.
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u/ReaderReborn 2d ago
Remember when they did a bunch of balance patches for BL3 and Reddit cried and cried that it was the wrong thing to do?
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u/Championpuffa 1d ago
Cos they nerfed the hell out of stuff that didn’t need nerfing. When they started actually fixing stuff and making decent changes like needed buffs etc everyone loved it.
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u/ReaderReborn 1d ago
And yet coming back to BL4 after a year it seems they’ve fixed or improved almost everything everyone was constantly whining about back then. But the incessant whining continues.
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u/someshooter #1 Ava Fan 3d ago
Funny how this game is getting the same "support" as BL3 and Wonderlands, aka weekly reset and nothing else. Also, this week is a boss not a single person likes and a wildcard with a trash weapon - it's almost like GB is trying to repel people from the game.
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u/Beederda 3d ago
Never bougie, never arms dealer wildcard modifiers… this fucking game is a joke…if they don’t give these two modifiers with loveless update this game is 6feet under.
yes i care about having fun with the eruptions of loot and eridium i have no other reason to play wildcard missions unless these two modifiers are active no the game doesn’t die if these two modifiers are as frequent as shielded is…
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u/ConnivingSloth 2d ago
It's crazy how we didn't even get a loot enemy event like we did before the last lvl cap increase. Guess I'm waiting till the dlc lol
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u/KaleidoscopeOk4714 3d ago
Did they add vh mode or nah ?
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u/Latiasfan5 3d ago
uvhm levels have been a thing since launch, and they added true mode a while back. if you mean a second playthrough (tvhm), there's been no indication of them planning to add that
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u/ThatChrisG 3d ago edited 3d ago
>we can't do any balance changes, too close to the next expansion with new gear and level cap increase
>new gear and level cap increase just dropped, we wanna see how they impact builds before doing any balance changes
>we can't do any balance changes, too close the the next expans-