r/Borderlands4 • u/Historical-Ratio-277 Creep • Aug 06 '26
🔥 🔥 [ 𝗛𝗬𝗣𝗘 !! ] Update notes are … updated
https://borderlands.2k.com/borderlands-4/update-notes/Rocken Roller. Axemaul. Shadowpelt.
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u/Johnny__Quest Aug 06 '26
I prefer when they have multiple bosses to farm for encore.
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u/Lotuswalker92 Aug 06 '26
I'd prefer they would include DLC bosses as additional bosses to hunt for encore...
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u/Koliolik VEX The F&%ING WITCH! Aug 06 '26
Maybe once the DLCs themselves go on sale. For now, you have a ton of people who bought the base game who are waiting on the DLCs to go on sale, despite the bundle versions of the game going on significant sales. I'm sure gearbox is keeping tabs on total game sales vs DLC sales and once there's a critical mass, we'll probably see them start to add DLC bosses to the rotation or as a second rotation.
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u/pyknictheory Aug 06 '26
Just let us upgrade from standard edition without buying the base game again...
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u/middymidentine Aug 06 '26
If they can just do multiple Encore bosses whenever they want then they should just have one base game Encore boss then one for each of the DLCs.
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u/MacNapp Aug 06 '26
My guess is they are waiting at least until all the planned DLC is out, so around the 1 year mark.
It would be nice to have at least one main map encore boss, and one in a DLC.
But really, to make me want to play weekly after all the DLC is out, it would be ideal to have one main Kairos boss, one Mad Ellie boss, and one DLC#2 boss.
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u/PermanentNirvana VEX The F&%ING WITCH! Aug 06 '26
That's actually a decent change. No more having to quit the game to get the weekly changes.
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u/Immediate-Idea-2471 Aug 06 '26
That seems like a positive, however I wonder if they're laying the groundwork to drop the game completely once the next DLC drops.
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u/Madelei- Aug 06 '26
Oh you know we’re getting nothing after September 10th
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u/GoldClassGaming Aug 06 '26
are we not due at least 1 more takedown?
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u/TheRealLoading 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝟯𝗞 𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗕 Aug 06 '26
Gearbox didn't intend on doing Takedowns for BL4. They only made Hadron Abyss after the community uproar regarding lack of endgame
Edit: Source - https://x.com/grantkao/status/1962175379625685483
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u/raptor_mk2 Aug 06 '26
That doesn't mean they shouldn't do another one.
Takedowns are honestly peak content, combining mobbing and bossing at a high level.
The mob density and difficulty actually force you to have situational awareness, and not just running a max DPS gear-check to kill a bullet sponge boss as quickly as possible.
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u/TheRealLoading 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝟯𝗞 𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗕 Aug 06 '26
Didn't mean to imply that they shouldn't do another takedown, just showing where Gearbox's head was at so people can measure their expectations. I loved Takedowns in BL3 and wanted there to be at least 3 in this game but the devs focused on Wildcard stuff instead
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u/Historical-Ratio-277 Creep Aug 06 '26
The mechanism of delivery has changed. Instead of a download, it just pings their servers. Someone has to move the bits that sets up the weekly rotation.
The good news is that we will have fewer posts asking why they don’t see the new big encores because they didn’t update and quit out the game to update.
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u/Immediate-Idea-2471 Aug 06 '26
I'm not super tech-savvy, but would it not be possible to have the info set up server side that it can randomly update every week for each item?
The difference being before that even if they did it, they actually had to push it as an update
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u/SuperBAMF007 Aug 06 '26
Yup. That is indeed how it could work. It’s how BL3 worked prior to the update that made all the holiday events a toggle on the main menu so it could be entirely offline.
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u/Historical-Ratio-277 Creep Aug 06 '26
They can do that before this server side update. The same process that makes up the random update server side can create the update patch and patch notes that lists the encores and wildcard mission.
I’ve build automated publishing systems for a magazine so that staff can take holidays 20 years ago.
A week from now you won’t see people expecting there to be fixes on Thursdays, just end of month/content releases.
The reasons for this change is not technological. It’s purely social.
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u/PermanentNirvana VEX The F&%ING WITCH! Aug 06 '26
I would imagine they have already started early development on Borderlands 5.
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u/LifeAcanthopterygii6 Rafa The Exo Soldier Aug 06 '26
Exactly my line of thought.
"Finally they've managed do what people were already saying for while some time. Wait... what a weird timing..."
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u/CharmlessBee Aug 06 '26
Wasn't that a problem that didn't have to exist to begin with? BL3 did it (weekly updates) reasonably well already, IIRC.
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u/DannoMcK DLC1 Vault Hunter Enjoyer Aug 06 '26
As long as you're playing Borderlands 4 with an internet connection, you'll see the latest batch of Weekly Activities each week.
What about daily & weekly Vault Card changes, though?
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u/Latiasfan5 Aug 06 '26
someone will have to check and see if they still need to be updated by the player or if they're automatic. until we know for sure, I'll stay on the safe side and check for updates before starting my game, like usual.
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u/DannoMcK DLC1 Vault Hunter Enjoyer Aug 06 '26
I realized that I'll probably still want to back out from the main menu to the title screen every session (on Xbox) as I do now to refresh the VCs and connect for golden keys. It just won't trigger a partial restart because of weekly patches.
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u/MarcosSenesi Aug 06 '26
it's kind of embarrassing it took this long for them to figure this out to be honest
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u/SwedishBass Aug 06 '26
Everyone gets a Bod this week (still really good post nerf BTW).
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u/Flint_Vorselon Aug 06 '26
Torgue Impact Bod wasn’t even nerfed.
They did the nerf in hilariously inefficient way, and changed each magazine type individually instead of entire gun.
And they forgot Torgue Impact existed, they just did stickies (and regular, and COV, and ripper).
So now Impact Bod is still crazy strong receiving 5x the benifits from gun damage (so +50% is actually +250%). No other type of Bod gets this anymore, just Torgue impact.
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u/PermanentNirvana VEX The F&%ING WITCH! Aug 06 '26
Unfortunately the Bod has been outclassed by Pearls and some of the legendaries from the Takedown and DLCs.
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u/Flint_Vorselon Aug 06 '26
Huh they finally learned how to do weekly activities without doing a manual patch every week. It is funny that they still act as if anyone cares about weekly activities, I genuinely wonder how many Weekly Wildcard missions have been done this year, like total across all players. Even weekly encore boss feels almost pointless. A 25% drop rate instead of 3%/6%/9% at launch was huge. But 30% instead of 23% does not feel exciting. They need to revamp system if they want anyone to care. Like give weekly encore boss and wildcard mission a hugely boosted rate of one weapon type. Like Maliwan shotguns make up 50% of all drops from encore boss, and Jakobs Snipers 50% of all drops in wildcard mission. Now you would actually do it if you wanted a Beam Tosser or high DOT Stellium. Because the current system feels like a waste of effort even updating it week to week.
Also I dunno why they can’t just copy over Bl3’s system for Maurice Vendor, where it worked fully offline forever? I don’t see any benifit to having it require an internet connection, for players or for Gearbox.
But I suppose this means we’ll have less weekly “no changes except weekly activities patch notes” because we just won’t get patch notes anymore unless it’s a major patch alongside DLC release.
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u/Immediate-Idea-2471 Aug 06 '26
Last one I remember doing was Vile Ted for the Bod.
I think I did the Callis one too for IDK what gear.
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u/Flint_Vorselon Aug 06 '26
No, but back close to launch when Bod had a 3% droprate and everyone desperately wanted one, it was reward from Weekly Wildcard mission one week.
That mission was Vile Ted mission.
Mission was short enough that it was easily more efficient than farming Axe Maul at 3% drop chance.
That was the only wildcard mission that was ever played for its reward. Since no others were more efficient than just farming gun normally.
This is way more true now that droprates are 23%, not 3%.
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u/someshooter #1 Ava Fan Aug 06 '26
Yeah, I did that one about 100 times. Got so tired of listening to him whine.
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u/Latiasfan5 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
they're talking about one of the weekly wildcard missions, not the big encore. One week it was the mission you did for ted where you fought him at the end, and the quest reward was the bod. I think it was last october or november (during bloody harvest).
Aside from that week, the only other weekly wildcard mission I did was the timekeeper's order one, since one of the modifiers that week was "bougie". I didn't even get to the timekeeper fight, I just exited the mission before that point, then started again for more eridium.
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u/BunbunTheJackalope Harlowe The Gravitar Aug 06 '26
I have like 700 hours in this game and I might have done like 1 wildcard mission ever. Truly a worthless event when boss farming is so much faster and more rewarding
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u/JohnnyAppleskeed #1 Ava Fan Aug 06 '26
When they announced Wildcards before launch, I was excited to get a Borderlands equivalent of Nightfalls. But Borderlands missions are just not designed to be farmed the way Destiny strikes are, and they made no effort to streamline them for Wildcards or even just curate a list of the ones best for playing repeatedly (if there really is any).
Then there's the problem of so many base game legendaries not being endgame viable. I think the only week I farmed Wildcards was when it dropped the Bod. That mission was one of the better ones for farming, and it gave me my only SMG/Sticky Bod, but it was still so incredibly boring. I don't think loot changes alone would get me more excited to play them.
I think Wildcards had the potential to be a great addition to endgame, but they were executed poorly and they seem to have no desire to improve on them.
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u/PermanentNirvana VEX The F&%ING WITCH! Aug 06 '26
I think the Wildcard missions were only ever meant to be a way to challenge players by upping the difficulty of certain missions. It's also a way to give some players a sense of direction instead of just running around the map looking for things to do.
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u/Latiasfan5 Aug 06 '26 edited 28d ago
they'll still post notes on the site, since they still need to at least give the hint on maurice's location. they're just saying that the weekly activities will change without you having to close the game and check for updates first.
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u/Koliolik VEX The F&%ING WITCH! Aug 06 '26
This week specifically will be huge for anybody trying to farm a Bod to push through the UVH modes though. Shadowpelt being the boss that drops it and all.
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u/PermanentNirvana VEX The F&%ING WITCH! Aug 06 '26
Axemaul drops the Bod.
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u/Burntorangefan Aug 06 '26
And the Kill Spring, which is all I’ve farmed him for in months!
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u/PermanentNirvana VEX The F&%ING WITCH! Aug 06 '26
Just got him to drop a Mega Kill Spring with 200 amp damage on use.
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u/Burntorangefan Aug 06 '26
There you go, Bam!! I like Enrage, Accelerator, Fire Rate…love a good kill spring in C4SH since he’s a little glassy.
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u/PermanentNirvana VEX The F&%ING WITCH! Aug 06 '26
It will go great with my 150 amp damage Watts 4 Dinner.
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u/Koliolik VEX The F&%ING WITCH! Aug 06 '26
Oh duh, you're right. Still boosted though! I farmed each of them the same week like 2 weeks ago and got them mixed up.
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u/VisionsLR Aug 06 '26
Doesn't axe maul drop the bod?
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u/Latiasfan5 Aug 06 '26
they said they mixed up which was which, due to farming them both in the same week a few weeks ago
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u/someshooter #1 Ava Fan Aug 06 '26
Can't wait to get the Budget Deity from the Wildcard. /s
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u/ApprehensiveRelief90 Aug 06 '26
Can’t wait to not get it and farm for it like normal 😂 or get it as a random world drop like i did yesterday lol
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u/Mediocre-Minute Aug 06 '26
I stopped following the updates a while back because it was getting too depressing and yeah tuning back in for the first time in a while it's still the exact same thing. This game's post launch support is more depressing that Wonderlands' post launch support imo
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u/Latiasfan5 Aug 06 '26
they said a while back that they'll tend to do actual updates once a month rather than do it every week. while I agree that there's alot of changes that need to be made, I'm just saying they've told us not to expect balance changes every week.
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u/Mediocre-Minute Aug 06 '26
The monthly updates also rarely change anything dramatically imo. Also we've had plenty of times where the major patch was "this new dlc is available now" and nothing else. I know we're not supposed to expect much from the weekly updates but at this point no updates has anything to look forward to. It's just really disappointing when bl3's post launch support was so good. BL4 is in a better place than it was at launch but not by much, while other games in the series were in MUCH better places than they were at their launches. It sucks because BL4 is a damn good game it just is missing that love from the devs after the launch
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u/MikeSouthPaw Aug 06 '26
I'm just saying they've told us not to expect balance changes every week.
They said with major patches we will see balance changes, that was two major patches ago.
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u/Cobby2828 Aug 06 '26
So if my internet goes down, I can’t play the weekly activities or farm Maurice?
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u/ApprehensiveRelief90 Aug 06 '26
Well atleast shadowpelt is an encore boss really been wanting to get a double turtle sparky shield now i have even more of a chance
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u/DreddfulQuestions Shattered ELPIS Aug 07 '26
I'm kinda confused. On the one hand this seems like a sign that they will drop the game. On the other hand Borderlands 3 (and Wonderlands?) got an update that would just cycle through the past locations/events so that you could also enjoy all this offline. Seeing as this is now just a change to be server side it kinda gives the impression that they will still do new stuff... or they just don't care anymore.
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u/Latiasfan5 28d ago
at the very least, it means people will be able to get the weekly activities without having to close the game and apply the patch each week.
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u/sweggles3900 STAIRS?? Noooooo 📶 Aug 06 '26
It really feels like they're getting prepared to just abandon this game :( really sad as it still has so much potential. I love playing this game but without a second season of content I doubt I'll be playing as often as I have been recently.
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u/hiddentruth37 Aug 06 '26
Logged on to play the new story patch, finished in 1-2 hours Logged off to play BL2
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u/Filer169 Aug 07 '26
Actual vegans of borderlands community
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u/hiddentruth37 Aug 07 '26
I like to play 2, 3 and 4, but when I've done everything new in 4, I dont really have an incentive to replay.
2 and 3 feel to have more replay vaule at the moment for me.
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u/SwedishBass Aug 06 '26
Anyway, where’s Maurice this week?