Borderlands 4 'Cricket Jumping' Lets Players Skip Huge Chunks of the Map — Gearbox Dev Says 'I've Got My Eye on This'

Borderlands 4 players person discovered a mode to skip immense chunks of the representation successful a method dubbed “cricket jumping” — but a developer astatine Gearbox has warned enactment whitethorn person to beryllium taken to spot it retired of the crippled if it starts causing issues.

As demonstrated by streamer Bahroo, Borderlands 4 players tin propel themselves crossed the representation by utilizing a glitch astatine The Prospects’ Ripper Drill site. To bash this, you basal connected the apical of the drill, enactment yourself up successful the absorption you privation to travel, with your backmost towards the absorption you privation to travel, tab retired of the game, past fire. Your quality hurtles done the air, which, successful operation with Borderlands 4’s glide ability, lets you walk implicit important areas of the map.

As noted successful a societal media post, cricket jumping volition play a important relation successful Borderlands 4 speedrunning. But volition it last? Creative Director Graeme Timmins responded connected societal media to accidental “I’ve got my oculus connected this.”

But it sounds similar cricket jumping is present to stay, astatine slightest for now.

“My lone interest is streaming issues oregon if this introduces instability,” Timmins continued. “Not retired to ruin people’s fun, but can’t person it origin tech issues. For present tho, not going to bash thing until proven issues arise.”

I’ve got my oculus connected this. My lone interest is streaming issues oregon if this introduces instability. Not retired to ruin people’s fun, but can’t person it origin tech issues. For present tho, not going to bash thing until proven issues arise.

Timmins went connected to code a ailment from 1 Borderlands 4 subordinate astatine the deficiency of updates for the console mentation of the crippled compared to the PC version, which has seen 2 post-launch patches.

“Console investigating and certification is much progressive than pushing retired PC builds,” Timmins explained. “It conscionable takes longer with 1st parties making definite we're sending retired bully prime patches. It's coming and we're doing everything we tin to marque it hap quickly.”

Borderlands 4 console players are keen for a spot to code immoderate glaring method problems. Last week, the tech experts astatine Digital Foundry confirmed a gradual worsening of framerate with continuous playtime, adjacent connected PlayStation 5 Pro and Xbox Series X.

As revealed successful a caller video published to YouTube, Digital Foundry recovered show starts dipping aft astir 30 minutes to an hour, which it called "too intrusive connected the wide experience, excessively regular an interruption." Even aft a wholly caller boot, the crippled is inactive prone to framerate drops.

Gearbox improvement main Randy Pitchford has acknowledged the occupation connected societal media, promising incoming improvements. As a workaround, Pitchford suggested console players discontinue Borderlands 4 and restart. Digital Foundry’s Tom Morgan confirmed this does reconstruct performance, but criticized the situation, saying “resetting the crippled each hr should truly not beryllium an expected solution for players.”

The PC version, meanwhile, is inactive connected a mixed Steam reappraisal rating, with astir of the antagonistic comments revolving astir PC performance. Digital Foundry has said its archetypal investigation of Borderlands 4 connected PC shows important stutter problems, and person advised against moving the crippled connected its ‘Badass’ graphics setting, which suggests determination are so problems with the Unreal Engine 5 title.

Gearbox has said addressing PC show is simply a “top priority” for the studio. In the meantime, the workplace pointed to a Borderlands 4 Nvidia Optimization usher connected Steam, advising players however to optimize their graphics settings for “better show and framerates” connected PC with the Nvidia app, though users study mixed results.

Gearbox has besides issued a portion of proposal to PC gamers that to maine reads similar an effort to forestall players from making knee-jerk reactions to the game's show arsenic soon arsenic they’ve changed their settings: “Please enactment that immoderate clip you alteration immoderate of your graphics settings, your shaders volition request to recompile. Please support playing for astatine slightest 15 minutes to spot however your PC's show has changed.”

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