Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Says It's Prioritizing the First Round of Buffs Over Patching Out Instakill Knife Builds, but It Will Eventually Address 'Unintended Interactions'

Since Borderlands 4 came out, developer Gearbox has released a PC-focused spot that tackles crashes, among a fewer different things. But players are wondering what the workplace intends to bash astir the looter shooter’s balance, particularly astatine a clip erstwhile builds that fto you one-shot bosses are doing the rounds.

Gearbox has present indicated that successful the short-term, it plans to buff underperforming cogwheel and skills alternatively than nerf overpowered builds. Indeed, those instakill builds you've seen online are safe, for now. But, Gearbox insisted, they volition get nerfed eventually.

Confirmation comes from Borderlands 4 originative manager Graeme Timmins, who took to societal media to admit the statement astir what helium called “builds that usage unintended interactions and/or the knife.”

Here’s the statement:

“We’ve seen the sermon astir builds that usage unintended interactions and/or the knife. We’re not going to enactment connected those immediately, instead, we’re looking astatine our archetypal circular of buffs. Those volition get addressed but we’re going to commencement with underperforming gear/skills first.”

So, what’s each this speech astir a knife? As IGN has reported, Borderlands 4 players person discovered an infinite harm physique truthful breached it kills bosses successful seconds — adjacent connected the hardest trouble levels.

To marque this physique enactment you request the Vampiric Vivisecting Throwing Knife with the Penetrator Augment. Land a deed with this weapon and consequent harm to the people are automatic captious hits for 5 seconds. Add bleed stacking and each tick of the bleed effect registers arsenic a captious hit.

Players person travel up with eye-catching builds astir the weapon that fundamentally makes a Borderlands 4 brag combat a trivial experience, and frankincense farming for the game’s champion loot a batch easier. For example, Vex’s Bloodletter passive makes your weapon and accomplishment captious hits person a accidental to use bleed, which counts arsenic weapon harm and is based connected the archetypal harm dealt. Add Vex's Contamination passive, which causes captious hits to summation presumption effect exertion accidental up to 100% and frankincense ensuring the bleed re-procs infinitely, and you’ve got exponential damage. So, propulsion the knife, onshore 1 large changeable connected the boss, and ticker the numbers get bigger and bigger arsenic the bleed ticks it down.

The quality that Gearbox is focusing connected buffs implicit nerfs close present is being celebrated by the community. Borderlands 4 contented creator Moxsy called it “such a immense W.”

“Massive nerfs hitting Wonderlands & BL3 connected motorboat caused immense outrage and vexation successful the community. Love to spot this direction,” Moxsy said successful a station connected societal media.

The question present is what steps Gearbox volition instrumentality to nerf the knife. Will it alteration however it works completely, oregon use flimsy changes to code it down?

There’s nary timeframe for Borderlands 4’s adjacent patch, but we cognize immoderate much of what the workplace is moving on. PC show improvements are a “top priority,” the workplace has said. A Field of View (FOV) slider is connected the mode to the console versions, too.

Borderlands 4 console players are besides 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.”

Meanwhile, Timmins has said he’s got his oculus connected “cricket jumping,” which lets Borderlands 4 players leap crossed immense chunks of the map.

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