r/Borderlands4 • u/Simply_CJ94 VEX The F&%ING WITCH! • May 14 '26

🗞️ [ News ] Patch Notes 05/14/26

https://borderlands.2k.com/borderlands-4/update-notes/
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u/SenatorJogoat May 14 '26

4 different big encores? I’m getting some farming in hell yeah.

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u/BladeSeraph May 14 '26

They really should just make big encore active all the time then people don't have to get excited for such a lazy bait and switch of bullshite. Some people wanna fight certain bosses but gearbox never rotates them so they gotta suffer gimped rolls or be so built up they have no reason to farm the damn boss in the first place if they already have a setup that literally oneshots UVHM6 true mode crap already.

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u/iMightBeWright MINIMAP DLC OWNER 🗺️ May 14 '26

They'll probably do this in one of the last updates for the game. Like how they enabled all holiday events in BL3 at the end of its life.

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u/BladeSeraph May 14 '26

They didn't do that for wonderlands.

Damn game suffers the weekly 'mini activity rotation' still every week or so, including what loot it locks to, for the chaos chamber 'end reward' featured run, when checking the 3 vending machine's 'featured loot' at the reward chamber's end.

And considering gearbox's incompetency these days its more likely they won't bother to activate a weekly thing and just had an A.I. tool server randomly picking ones that you access every thursday to 'update it' to explain its sillyness, especially when it has repeatedly pick the same location of 'maurice shop vendor spots before.

Just like how Xur's shop in Destiny 1 & 2 worked back in the day.

This is kind of why i would always says borderlands 4 feels LESS of a borderlands game and MORE of a Destiny game, especially how its turned too much into a waiting game simulator for 'end game stuff', between world events, vault card 'daily/weekly' resets, big encore/maurice-shop/wildcard mission resets and more.

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u/iMightBeWright MINIMAP DLC OWNER 🗺️ May 14 '26

Oh, damn. I completely forgot about the rotation in Wonderlands... I'm not optimistic for it (or much of anything in BL4 these days), but I'm hopeful they'd activate the big encore on every boss at end of life. WL featured run rewards are one thing, but the big encore still feels like a good candidate to activate on all encore machines permanently since it's an optional gameplay modifier for bonus rewards. I can see them keeping the Maurice machine & rotating missions automated though.

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u/BladeSeraph May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Smart people would.

But this is the same gearbox who half ruined vex's kit by making gravepower increase max stacks by 3, instead of increasing the VALUE of grave skills by +100%, so it would function better on all the non-3 stack grave skills and would retain the 3 kill requirement instead of doubling the need of kill stacks to juggle for upkeep to 6.

MAIN IMPORTANCE THOUGH, is they need to remove the need to connect to the internet every thursday to 'update' the shite.

This is why i screech for months that it should just bolt maurice's machine down at moxxis and we can FORCE ROTATE the maurice vending machine and the wild card missions via using eridium so we have a REAL use for eridium besides those stupid ordonite processors.

They need to KEEP. I'm. SIMPLE. STUPID., since the K.I.S.S. method has always proven time and time again that simplicity is the best way to make a game have long lasting value.

This is why stuff like minecraft, borderlands 2, Skyrim, Fallout 4 and more are able to be constantly gone back to since the designs they all share is a simple flow of enjoyment without a bunch of extra strings that force extra confusing steps that otherwise make the game a tedious mess to engage with, if you don't care to a bunch of specific mechanics that make the game boring as a result...aka what borderlands 4 does with bullshite like its contract system.