Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox has given fans a seven-day warning: these boss-melting builds based on “unintended interactions” will be nerfed next week.
Borderland 4 rife with overpowering setups that take advantage of what developer Gearbox called “unintended interactions” to cause massive damage to even the game’s toughest bosses on the hardest difficulties. The most renowned of them is the “critical knife”. which Gearbox claims to be aware of. But there are many others.
Gearbox spent the first few weeks of Borderlands 4’s life tweaking performance and beefing up weaker hardware, rather than nerfing things or eliminating those broken builds. But now it’s time for a change.
Borderlands 4 Creative Director Graeme Timmins it hit Twitter say “next week there will be some changes in specific equipment and these unintended interactions, this is your 7 days notice ;)”
Next week’s update will also include “many improvements to stability, performance, and some highly anticipated quality of life changes!” Gearbox added to the official account.
“We’re looking forward to next week and are planning another round of patches that will focus on tuning class mods, repkits, shields, and firmware to provide greater usability for melee builds and address gaps in other specific Vault Hunter builds,” Gearbox said. “We’ll also address unintended interactions in some Vault Hunter skills and make fixes for over-performing hardware. Importantly, next week’s update will include a number of stability, performance and some highly anticipated quality of life improvements!”
Today, October 9, there is a diminutive update focusing on minor gear changes. Patch notes, z on the Borderlands 4 websiteare below.
Borderlands 4: All Vault Hunter skill trees, ranked
Borderlands 4: All Vault Hunter skill trees, ranked
Last week a Borderland 4 dataminer has uncovered evidence suggesting that one of Borderlands 3’s most hated characters was cut and replaced relatively delayed in development. 2K Games and Gearbox declined to comment when contacted by IGN.
If you’re diving into Borderlands 4, don’t give up on hourly updates SHiFT code list. We have it too huge interactive map ready to utilize and a fool Borderlands 4 scheduling tool courtesy of our friends from Maxroll. Also check out the choices of our experienced players what character to choose (no one agreed).
Borderlands 4 October 9, 2025 patch notes:
Weekly activities:
- Weekly boss of the gigantic encore changed to a more hard variant of another existing boss with an even more rewarding loot pool for those who face it.
- The Weekly Wild Card Mission changed. These missions offer a guaranteed legendary drop that you can earn multiple times to achieve a perfect score.
- Maurice’s black market slot machine moved to another location and changed its offer.
Gear Balance Adjustments:
- Ruby’s Grasp damage increased by 50%
- Ruby’s Grasp fire rate increased by 25%
- Bully drone damage increased by 50%
- Bully’s base damage increased by 50%
- Rangefinder base damage increased by 30%
- Queen’s Rest spawn chance increased from 30% to 50%
- Queen’s Rest fire rate increased by 50%
- Increased Seventh Sense orb damage by 250%
- Hellwalker’s base damage increases by 30%
- Increased base convergence damage by 25%
Additional changes:
- The legendary Tediore shotgun Anarchy has been adjusted to properly provide reciprocity stacks when auto-reloading or killing enemies
- All pets of all classes (such as Trouble, Wraith, Reaper, and Forge Weapon) now correctly gain critical hit chance from passive skills and equipment
- Adjusted Annoying Siren’s Bleeding to count as Status Effect Damage
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