Borderlands 4 director warns next patch will target overpowered builds relying on "unintended interactions"

As the latest 1 focuses connected cogwheel tweaks

This week's Borderlands 4 spot has arrived, firing immoderate cogwheel balancing tweaks into the looter shooter's innards, past astir apt dropping a cringey catchphrase. Developers Gearbox person besides revealed immoderate of what's successful store for the larger spot that's acceptable to get adjacent week, with show fixes backmost connected the paper alongside immoderate much in-depth balancing that'll interaction "those unintended interactions" folks person been relying connected for overpowered builds.

It's each successful the enactment with the bully bushed the workplace person settled into pursuing an archetypal flurry of enactment successful effect to the crippled moving not goodly connected PC retired of the gate. Last week brought a large spot featuring the archetypal circular of vault huntsman balancing tweaks, truthful this week sees a chaser precede the adjacent shot.

"We’re continuing to show feedback to the vault huntsman changes and identifying areas to marque further improvements," Gearbox wrote successful the notes for this chaser patch, earlier listily outlining the pursuing cogwheel adjustage:

• Ruby's Grasp harm accrued by 50%
• Ruby's Grasp occurrence complaint accrued by 25%
• Bully drone harm accrued by 50%
• Bully basal harm accrued by 50%
• Rangefinder basal harm summation by 30%
• Queen's Rest spawn accidental accrued from 30% to 50%
• Queen's Rest occurrence complaint accrued by 50%
• Seventh Sense orb harm accrued by 250%
• Hellwalker basal harm summation 30%
• Convergence basal harm summation by 25%

There are a mates of different tweaks. The legendary tediore shotgun anarchy volition present decently grant stacks of mutualism erstwhile auto-reloading oregon netting kills, each azygous favored present gets the due accidental of a captious deed from passives and gear, and Vex's bleed present counts arsenic presumption effect damage. That past 1 sounds similar it could beryllium atrocious quality for those exploity Vex weapon builds, but adjacent if it isn't, overpowered Vexers apt won't slumber good for the adjacent 7 days.

I accidental that due to the fact that Gearbox person made wide adjacent week's spot volition "address unintended interactions successful definite vault huntsman skills, and marque adjustments to overperforming gear", with Borderlands 4 manager Graeme Timmins going arsenic acold arsenic to operation a tweet astir it arsenic a informing to those with overpowered builds. He's gotten immoderate pushback from anti-nerfage campaigners, and responded by writing: "We person aboriginal contented similar the upcoming Invincible that we privation players to find challenge/accomplishment in. If we balanced that contented astir atrocious gear, it would region physique diversity, forcing players into circumstantial builds utilizing said gear."

Also teased for adjacent week's spot were "another circular of adjustments that volition absorption connected people mods, repkits, shields, and firmware being tuned to supply greater viability for melee builds, and relationship for deficiencies successful different circumstantial vault huntsman builds", and much stabs astatine improving the game's performance. In the meantime, possibly pen a poetic eulogy for Vex's boss-destroying knifeage, lest the heady days of its max bleeding beryllium forgotten.