Borderlands 4 Gets FOV Slider on Console, Performance Improvements, and Gear Buffs in Big New Update

Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox has released the biggest update to the looter shooter since launch, adding a Field of View (FOV) slider connected console, assorted show improvements, and assorted Vault Hunter and cogwheel buffs.

The September 25, 2025 update adds caller Weekly Activities, stableness and show improvements, adjustments to immoderate rewards/progression, and further refinements crossed UI, audio, visuals, and gear. Check retired the spot notes, from the Borderlands website, below.

Of peculiar enactment is the summation of a FOV slider connected PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, thing players had asked for. Gearbox main Randy Pitchford had responded to the complaints to suggest fairness mightiness person had thing to bash with the deficiency of a FOV slider successful Borderlands 4, though each that remark did was confuse fans fixed the PC mentation has it and there’s crossplay astatine launch. While its accomplishment is welcome, Gearbox warned console players that expanding the FOV past the default could origin immoderate dips successful performance.

Creative manager Graeme Timmins had flagged that Gearbox was much funny successful buffing than nerfing Borderlands 4 successful the abbreviated term, leaving breached builds unsocial for the clip being. And today's update reinforces that approach, with nary nerfs to talk of. Indeed, Timmins took to societal media to accidental Gearbox had excessively galore buffs to acceptable into today’s update, truthful it broke them up into their ain equilibrium update that’s owed retired aboriginal adjacent week.

The update besides includes fixes for the high-profile representation leak contented for Borderlands 4 connected console, which causes the framerate to degrade the longer you play. But there’s much to come. “We judge we've made important improvements there, but we're inactive investigating information to marque definite immoderate remaining issues proceed to beryllium resolved,” Timmins explained. “We're assured that today's update makes a large quality though, and we're excited to get feedback/data connected it.”

Performance improvements connected PC are besides welcome. Borderlands 4 is inactive connected a mixed Steam reappraisal rating, with astir of the antagonistic comments revolving astir PC performance. The tech experts astatine Digital Foundry person said their 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.

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Borderlands 4 September 25, 2025 update spot notes:

Change List:

Weekly Activities:

• Weekly Big Encore Boss has switched to a tougher variant of a antithetic existing brag with an adjacent much rewarding loot excavation for those that instrumentality it on.
• The Weekly Wildcard Mission has changed. These Missions diagnostic a guaranteed Legendary driblet that you tin repeatedly gain to get your perfect roll.
• Maurice’s Black Market Vending Machine has moved to different determination and changed its offerings. Remember, portion the determination is the same, your vending instrumentality items are antithetic from different players, truthful inquire astir to spot if idiosyncratic has the point you’re looking for!

Stability & Performance

• Improvements to stableness and performance.
• Addressed assorted instances of hitching, debased FPS, and crashes.
• We are continuing to analyse and volition marque further improvements to stableness and performance.
• Updated quality animations for show improvements.
• Graphics Preset could beryllium acceptable to High oregon Very High erstwhile utilizing Run Auto-Detect successful Visual Menu.
• [Xbox] Corrected an contented wherever players would get a achromatic surface aft the Vault Symbol loading screen.
• Addressed uncommon issues of infinite loading screens during crossplay.
• Improved loading of characters successful menus to trim disposable delays erstwhile entering quality select.

Rewards & Progression

• Addressed a reported contented wherever players could suffer oregon beryllium rewarded unintended other Skill Points successful multiplayer.
• Addressed an contented that could forestall Contract people enemies from consistently spawning.
• Updated Repkit lifesteal situation to way lifesteal from immoderate source.
• Prevented portion find trophies/achievements from unlocking earlier discovering each areas.
• Prevented instances of unowned DLC contented appearing successful chests oregon successful menus.
• Improved clarity of DLC-related warnings and reward availability.
• Addressed a reported contented wherever the Reward Center could halt moving aft claiming the Gilded Glory Pack rewards.
• Rewards Center popup present correctly excludes already-claimed cosmetics.
• Reduced merchantability prices connected Gilded Glory Pack cogwheel successful Vending Machines.
• Updated the Break Free Pack reward bundle to redeem decently successful each instances.
• Challenge timing has been updated truthful players tin decently advancement from Ultimate Vault Hunter (UVH) 4 to UVH 5 aft completing the required Wildcard Mission.
  • When ranking up successful multiplayer, players that are not the big volition not spot the alteration to their UVH level, but volition beryllium capable to power to the higher level. This volition beryllium addressed successful an upcoming update.
• Updated Class Mods to forestall them from dropping with incorrect accomplishment points.

Vault Hunter Changes and Balance Adjustments

Harlowe the Gravitar

• Gravitar Ground State Capstone has been corrected to region inaccurate verbiage astir enemies taking reduced harm erstwhile they bash not.
• Gravitar Flux Generator nary longer heals enemies with Potential Transference Capstone.
• Updated Gravitar Accretion passive to consistently assistance Lifesteal to allies.
• Addressed assorted reported issues with Gravitar Unstable Energy Pocket created from CHROMA Accelerator Action Skill.
  • Includes instances wherever it would not vanish properly, person to Cryo Damage, oregon divided arsenic intended with definite accomplishment histrion combinations. Skills that saw updates: Special Purpose Magnets Augment, The Shattering Light Capstone, QED passive, Break the Ice passive, Containment Breach Augment, and Eureka! Passive.

Amon the Forgeknight

• Forgeknight Primal Surge passive present decently restores Shield and Ammo.
• Forgeknight Firewall Action Skill has been adjusted truthful Vengeance cannot beryllium stored by Firewall earlier Scourge is active, arsenic intended.
• Forgeknight Onslaughter Rocket Punch present connects much reliably with shielded enemies.
• Addressed a reported contented with Forgeknight Forgeaxe not consistently seeking adjacent enemies.

Vex the Siren

• Addressed a reported contented with Siren Grave Harvest Augment being triggered portion Incarnate is not active.
• Addressed a reported contented wherever Siren Blight Attunement passive could occasionally neglect to harm the Timekeeper.
• Damage caused by Siren Spirit Bomb passive present counts decently arsenic Companion Damage and changes its colour to lucifer attuned element.

Rafa the Exo-Soldier

• Addressed a reported contented preventing Exo-Soldier Blowout passive from stacking decently erstwhile repeating Action Skills.

Gameplay

• Addressed a reported contented successful the “Overwriting a Wrong” Side Mission wherever nodes would not spawn consistently.
• Addressed a reported contented successful the “Talk to Zadra” Mission wherever the nonsubjective could neglect if players exited and relaunched mid-dialogue.
• Updated beam deed detection, arsenic it was causing beams to not beryllium blocked properly. Eg: Forgeknight Forgeshield.
• Repkits present consistently devour the close magnitude of charges aft activating Forgeknight Scourge enactment skill.
• Prevented Forgeknight from sliding astatine the extremity of Molten Slam.
• Addressed assorted reported instances of enemies getting stuck.
  • Impacted Missions: during “Kill Order Forces” successful the Fadefields, “His Vile Sanctum” Mission, and “A Lot to Process” Mission.
• Addressed reported desync issues observed with Lightweight Armature force question successful multiplayer.
• Updated Zadra’s Lab Fast Travel unlock to aft discovery.

Gear

• Vladof Atling Gun Heavy Weapon Ordnance present decently targets Primordial Guardian Inceptus.
• Queen’s Rest Pistols with Daedalus Ammoswitcher licensed underbarrel present sprout the close projectiles.
• Gear with the Short Circuit Augment present traces decently toward enemies alternatively of random directions.
• Addressed reported borderline cases wherever interrupting reload could origin ammo desyncs that would forestall ammo from firing.

Gear Balance Changes:

• Hellwalker: present ever spawns with Fire element.
• Tediore weapons: +10% Damage and +10% mag size.
• Order Pistol Lucky Clover (Rocket Reload): accrued occurrence rate.
• Order Sniper Rifle Fisheye: accrued Damage.

UI & UX

• Updated cogwheel thumbnails successful cases wherever they did not show properly, and ensured stand-in thumbnails load properly.
• Updated assorted UI visuals for alignment, consistency, and clarity.
• Adjusted inventory dropdown menus to forestall unintended selected changes.
• Added D-pad navigation enactment to the Reward Center and improved handling of the Inventory Overflow message.
• Prevented Matchmaking Menu hint barroom from displaying incorrect prompts erstwhile joining different player’s game.
• Addressed compass occasionally displaying incorrect determination sanction aft teleporting.
• Updated localization and assorted substance descriptions crossed the game.
• Added assorted improvements to compass, customized waypoint placement, and ECHO location.

Visuals

• Addressed carryable objects disappearing oregon appearing successful the incorrect determination aft being picked up; includes cases successful Ready to Blow, Lost Capsules, and Hangover Helper Missions.
• Improved triggering of Armor Segment breaks VFX erstwhile Shield Capacity effects expire.
• Updated NPC and force pathing.
• Addressed VFX concerns with assorted weapons, vehicles, and elemental states.
• Various animation updates.
• Various ocular updates and improvements.
• Adjusted rift portal effect to corrected visuals.
• Updated ECHO-4 to person close positioning erstwhile viewing assorted menus, and to forestall clipping.
• Ambient critters person a much earthy spawn behavior.

Audio

• DJs successful Carcadia Burn and Fadefields present play their VO erstwhile starting oregon completing Contracts.
• Adjusted vigor euphony premix for improved audibility.
• Added missing audio for aggregate limb types, customization, and paper navigation.
• Reduced instances of voiceover cutting retired during Missions.
• Updated startup movies to person close audio.

Settings & Accessibility

• [Xbox/PlayStation] Enabled Field of View (FOV) slider connected console.
  • Note: Increasing the FOV past the default could origin immoderate dips successful performance.
• Vehicle Field of View settings volition present beryllium changed for some users erstwhile playing successful splitscreen.

Misc

• Addressed reported instances of incorrect oregon deleted characters appearing successful Menu oregon Lobbies.
• Enabled Tab cardinal successful SHiFT UI.
• Added haptic feedback for controllers to Exo-Soldier Unmissable Missiles Augment.
• Updated Credits listing.

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