Borderlands 4 Players Are Tearfully Waving Goodbye to Their Hard-Earned Legendary Loot as It Erupts From Bosses and Gets Trapped Out of Bounds

Borderlands 4 is simply a looter shooter that revolves around… loot. But what happens erstwhile you can’t get your hard-earned Legendary driblet due to the fact that it got trapped retired of bounds oregon down an invisible wall? Desperate Borderlands 4 players are moving into that nonstop occupation and are present pleading with developer Gearbox for a fix.

If you’ve played Borderlands 4 you’ll astir apt cognize the feeling. It’s the europhoria that comes from a Legendary driblet among the confetti-like detonation of loot that erupts from a downed boss. This is thing the Borderlands bid has ever done well, possibly better, even, than immoderate different looter shooter. When Gearbox main Randy Pitchford precocious said if much developers amended understood wherefore gamers emotion loot, past Borderlands would person “good competitors,” astir agreed with him.

But if that Legendary flies disconnected and lands retired of bounds, the vexation is conscionable arsenic aggravated arsenic the euphoria that proceeded it. Double the strength if the Legendary spirals distant aft a peculiarly hard brag fight.

This has been a occupation with Borderlands 4 since launch, but it was exacerbated this week with the play endgame contented reset, which rotated The Oppressor into this week’s Big Encore brag fight. The occupation present is The Oppressor is simply a flying force (flying enemies successful shooters are astir ever much annoying to combat than immoderate other), which means it darts astir the sky, sometimes implicit areas the subordinate can’t reach. And what happens erstwhile you onshore the sidesplitting changeable arsenic it’s successful the air? The loot flies sometimes lands connected a roof, down an invisible partition conscionable retired of reach, oregon disconnected the representation entirely.

Players are, understandably, infuriated. “Do not discarded your Eridium connected this week's Big Encore Boss Opressor unless you privation to suffer loot,” declared redditor PuzzleheadedDust8094. “If you worth your Eridium and dislike getting screwed retired of your items due to the fact that Gearbox can't look to forestall your loot from flying extracurricular of the arena oregon done walls, you perfectly should debar warring this brag UNTIL THEY FIX THIS.

“I person mislaid truthful overmuch loot to bosses dropping worldly successful places you can't get to due to the fact that it's a elephantine decease pit oregon due to the fact that of bogus invisible walls. This week’s Big Encore brag mightiness conscionable beryllium the biggest offender yet. I've mislaid (and I privation I was joking) 7 OUT OF 10 Big Encores worthy of loot. That's 700 hard earned Eridium down the drain.”

The Oppressor is 1 of the astir frustrating brag fights successful Borderlands 4.

“I curse to deity if they don't hole The Oppressor loot issues (out of bounds oregon dispersed astir the full arena alternatively than wherever the brag is) and flying astir for a afloat f***ing infinitesimal earlier you tin adjacent deed him, I whitethorn suffer a spot of faith,” said StretchDizzy7792.

“Please QC your Big Encore picks. Two weeks successful a enactment of bosses with issues (loot nether level connected past weeks). It takes 15 minutes of farming the brag to recognize if there's an contented astir radical volition experience.

“I anticipation to deity they pushed backmost the spot to adhd a hole successful for this.”

“Big Encore… 6 kills. 3 Legendary’s retired of bounds. 0 Legendary’s successful the mislaid loot box,” said S0LWAY. “Horse apples! Absolute equine apples!!”

That’s a notation to Borderlands 4’s Lost Loot Machine, which is expected to beryllium a backup for this precise occupation by scooping up mislaid loot and redeeming it for postulation later. But it doesn’t look to beryllium moving decently — astatine least, players judge it isn’t moving decently — due to the fact that it tends to favour debased prime loot implicit uncommon loot and frankincense fills up, leaving nary country for those prize guns.

“The Lost Loot Machine has to beryllium broken,” said 1 disgruntled player. “There is nary mode it's moving correctly close now. I've lone seen 1 purple and 1 bluish point successful it. The remainder has ever been achromatic and green.”

“It's expected to regenerate cogwheel with higher prime loot erstwhile afloat but it's decidedly not doing that,” said another. “I perpetually permission down bluish cogwheel and that happening should beryllium littered with blues, but nope.”

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Flies astir sporadically with nary inertia looking awful, gets stuck connected representation geometry, upon dying flies retired of arena to driblet each loot successful inaccessible places. Arena is filled with invisible walls for nary reason. Did this combat adjacent spell though QA? pic.twitter.com/JFUwmWKqJr

For now, Borderlands 4 players are trying to assistance each different retired by suggesting fixes for the problem, though there’s nary statement connected what works and nary guarantees, either. Some suggest redeeming and quitting arsenic soon arsenic the Legendary goes retired of bounds, and then, upon loading backmost in, heading consecutive to the Lost Loot Machine. Maybe you’ll beryllium lucky. Maybe not.

This week’s hotly anticipated spot — the 1 acceptable to nerf “unintended interactions” specified arsenic the crit knife, was delayed to aboriginal adjacent week. Some are hoping this ‘Day 30 Update’ volition besides benignant retired Borderlands 4’s mislaid Legendaries problem. In the meantime, there’s a caller mod, connected the Borderlands 4 NexusMods page, that immoderate players are uncovering occurrence with (this is lone if you’re playing connected PC, of course). It’s called Ground Loot Helpers and lets you teleport each the loot to your character. Now that’s a quality-of-life betterment I tin get behind.

Unlike an invisible wall.

We’ve got plentifulness much connected Borderlands 4. Last month, a Borderlands 4 dataminer unearthed grounds to suggest that 1 of the astir hated characters from Borderlands 3 was chopped and replaced comparatively precocious successful development. 2K Games and Gearbox declined to remark erstwhile contacted by IGN.

And IGN precocious interviewed a Borderlands 4 subordinate who spent 150 hours connected implicit 3,000 brag kills to find retired the game’s existent driblet rate.

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