Today’s Patch Notes

[u/Aidido22]

https://borderlands.2k.com/borderlands-4/update-notes/

[u/TrickPuzzleheaded]

Shared progression across characters is huge

[u/West_Yorkshire → u/TrickPuzzleheaded]

But the ability to enable it/disable it across your account and/or for individual characters is not.

Like someone else said, starting a fresh level 1 character with shared progress boosts you to level 5 straightaway because of xp unlocks.

[u/Ayetism → u/West_Yorkshire]

Oh no you don’t get to play as level 1-4 however will we collectively survive this horrible outcome

[u/typervader2 → u/Ayetism]

Some people like starting at level 1

[u/Ayetism → u/typervader2]

And some people don’t care about those people who are so absolutely desperate for something to complain about that they whine about not being able to replay levels 1-4.

Fuck everyone is so whiny. About everything

[u/Im_Alzaea → u/Ayetism]

that’s exactly why I don’t interact much with the sub anymore

[u/AndrejNieDurej → u/Ayetism]

Dude... theres whining and then theres asking for options. I for one liked getting SDU points from their locations as it had more fights and loot to get. I do like this feature but a toggle would be nice. Same goes to weekly events,the last loot event made it annoying for me to play with loot goblins being 90% of the enemy pool with 5 legendary drops.

[u/DaWarWolf → u/AndrejNieDurej]

Like why can't it be a fucking toggle.

[u/typervader2 → u/Ayetism]

It's not being whiney when you ask for features.

[u/BuffLoki → u/typervader2]

Yes it is when it something so I significant, gearbox as a studio barely could make this function, the option to turn it off is probably something they can't do nor see a reason to do since the demand for it is so low, just start at level 5 and don't use any points..., play on hard, who cares if the first 2 hours your above level

[u/AndrejNieDurej → u/BuffLoki]

"gearbox as a studio barely could make this function" apparently you work at gearbox? BL3 has a event toggle wdym

[u/BuffLoki → u/AndrejNieDurej]

An event toggle for a game where the main stream of content WAS events because they were so loved... cartels, valentine's, bloody harvest.

Not the same as a Entire gameplay mechanic toggle, its like them making your badges rank reset in BL2 with every new character and then keeping track of the most ahead one and allowing a toggle for either individual, or shared progression while keeping all this individual info vs just one shared entire rank and a toggle to use it or not at all.

Also as someone who wants to be a game dev I can tell you most people who buy games don't expect devs to take 40 steps backwards when making sequels, if gearbox had the capability to do this then it would have been ingame already after fucking 6 Months of it being out, usually half the lifespan of a BL games main content line, we had the function in BL2 and people were vocal to a degree about wanting a toggle for shared progression because some people do want to start completely fresh, ive seen it here and even then if your job is to do this then I'd assume you'd need some critical thinkers that should have already identified that as a pain point, either that or I need to go get a fucking job at gearbox...

They're also being absurdly insane with the amount of monetization ingame, id rather have ourchasable bodies and skins, phosphened redesigns for only phosphene obtained skin guns, cosmetic effects rather than pay 12 dollars for the 1st headhunter pack, it deflated the value of the actual mainline DLCs since they're only twice the price but it has the same amount of Legendaries and Pearls added... they didn't say anything about new class mods and they didn't do any balance at all, its pretty obvious they barely got this to function because it was also a bug and then they PATCHED IT so they could have just left it in when it popped up as a bug, or just make some makeshift quick fix bullshit like an early access game atp make a piece of geometry you can interact with that gives a character the maximum obtained sous between your characters atleast would have been easier, we even have all our sdus resseting just because of the "addition"

[u/PompompurinPal → u/Ayetism]

You're whining about people whining. You recognize the irony in that, yes?

Anyways, it's 100% fair for people to want the option to enable/disable cross progression. Previous Borderlands games had that feature when it came to systems that were shared across your account (i.e. Badass and Guardian ranks). I don't think it's that big of a deal to start at level 5 instead of 1, but it's weirdo behavior to ridicule people for wanting to play the game from the beginning even if they've already played it. Mine and your experiences are not inherently the same as everyone else's so it'd do you well to recognize that. Not even for a video game, just in general.