Borderlands 4 Reveals Bounty Pack 1: How Rush Saved Mercenary Day, the First Seasonal Mini-Event, an Invincible Boss, and More

Gearbox has revealed Borderlands 4 Bounty Pack 1: How Rush Saved Mercenary Day, the archetypal seasonal mini-event for the game, an invincible boss, and more.

Bounty Packs are paid DLC that bring caller “bite-sized-yet-flavourful” communicative contented to Borderlands 4. In Bounty Pack 1, owed retired November 20, players squad up with Rush and “show the Timekeeper's Minister of Culture the existent meaning of Mercenary Day, a jolly clip for gift-giving and gunslinging with friends and family.”

Bounty Pack 1 besides includes a Vault Card with caller rewards that players volition gain done gameplay, with 24 cosmetic items to unlock and 4 pieces of rerollable gear. The rerollable cogwheel tin beryllium earned arsenic galore times arsenic players like, truthful it tin beryllium an accidental to get a rotation with stats that perfectly suit a circumstantial build, Gearbox said.

Here’s the authoritative blurb:

Rush, the affable person of the Outbounders, is feeling homesick and nostalgic for the holidays he's cherished successful years past. By his calculations, it's astir to beryllium Mercenary Day, a jolly clip for gift-giving and gunslinging with friends and family, and he'd similar to bring that aforesaid festive cheer to the radical of Kairos. But his hopes for vacation merriment basal successful nonstop absorption to Screw, the Timekeeper's Minister of Culture who's charged with keeping celebrations arsenic bland and homogenous arsenic possible. Across a bid of all-new Main Missions, you'll amusement Screw the existent meaning of Mercenary Day by immoderate means necessary, and possibly people immoderate caller Legendary loot successful the process.

Here's the afloat breakdown of the Borderlands 4 Bounty Pack 1 Vault Card loot:

• 4 rerollable weapons
• 4 Vault Hunter Heads usable by Vex, Rafa, Amon, and Harlowe
• 4 Vault Hunter Skins usable by Vex, Rafa, Amon, and Harlowe
• 5 Weapon Skins
• 5 Vehicle Skins
• 4 ECHO-4 Drone Skins
• 2 ECHO-4 Attachments

Bounty Pack 1 besides features a fewer extras to find:

• 1 New Digirunner Vehicle (available soon aft starting the archetypal Main Mission)
• 1 Vault Hunter Style usable by Vex, Rafa, Amon, and Harlowe (available aft beating the brag and completing the Bounty Pack's last Main Mission)
• 1 ECHO-4 Drone Skin (available aft beating the brag and completing the Bounty Pack's last Main Mission)

To entree Gearbox has revealed Borderlands 4 Bounty Pack 1: How Rush Saved Mercenary Day, the archetypal seasonal mini-event for the game, an invincible boss, and more., you request to person either bought the Borderlands 4 Deluxe oregon Super Deluxe Edition (both see the Bounty Pack Bundle), oregon bought the Bounty Pack Bundle that includes Bounty Pack 1, oregon bought Bounty Pack 1 individually.

Borderlands 4 Bounty Pack 1: How Rush Saved Mercenary Day contents.

Meanwhile, Gearbox revealed Borderlands 4’s escaped seasonal mini-event, Horrors of Kairos. This limited-time lawsuit celebrates Halloween from October 23 to November 6. Players volition brushwood a terrifying caller upwind effect of humor rainfall erstwhile warring satellite bosses, and sidesplitting them has a accidental to gain you caller Legendary loot, Gearbox said. Seasonal cosmetics volition beryllium offered done SHiFT codes, too.

• "Murmur" Legendary Tediore Assault Rifle: Executes weakened enemies with guaranteed crits connected targets nether 35% health
• "Skully" Legendary Order Grenade: This death-dealing grenade fires retired projectiles arsenic it seeks retired the nearest target

Horrors of Kairos LTE.

And finally, there’s a escaped endgame update successful the signifier of Bloomreaper the Invincible. This is the archetypal of the endgame Invincible Bosses coming to Borderlands 4 arsenic escaped DLC, and is owed astatine immoderate constituent successful December.

The "Invincible" moniker is simply a throwback to the raid bosses of Borderlands 2, truthful these aren't virtually unkillable enemies, Gearbox explained, but players' skills “will beryllium tested by the monolithic wellness pools, highly lethal onslaught damage, and caller modifiers of these all-new bosses.”

The December update besides adds a caller Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode level for an added furniture of difficulty.

Bloomreaper the Invincible.

Last month, Gearbox revealed Borderlands 4’s archetypal of 2 caller Vault Hunters coming to the crippled arsenic portion of the paid Story Pack DLCs. C4SH, owed retired during the archetypal 4th of 2026, is simply a playable quality whose luck-based powers tin marque him either the champion oregon worst quality successful the game.

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 we 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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