Borderlands 4 YouTuber Tries to Nerf Proof Their Character, Instead Stumbles Upon What Is Almost Certainly an 'Unintended Interaction' That Does So Much Damage It Causes Bosses 'Total Existence Failure'

Borderlands 4 is rife with overpowered builds that usage what developer Gearbox has described arsenic “unintended interactions” to origin monolithic damage, adjacent to the game’s toughest bosses connected the hardest difficulties. The astir infamous of these is 'the knife,' which Gearbox has said it’s alert of but won’t nerf conscionable yet. Now, there’s different caller champion brag melting physique to adhd to the list.

YouTuber NickTew, who had led the complaint online with his weapon physique discovery, acceptable retired to "nerf proof" their Vex successful airy of Gearbox’s comments astir perchance stamping retired weapon builds. In doing so, helium recovered a mode to origin truthful overmuch harm from a azygous clip of a gun's mag that Borderlands 4 spat retired a "total beingness failure" connection successful the brag wellness barroom — thing I had nary thought adjacent existed successful the game.

In a caller video, NickTew had to dilatory down the gameplay conscionable to beryllium capable to amusement this ‘total beingness failure’ connection successful action, truthful rapidly did the boss’ wellness disappear.

YouTuber NickTew managed to origin a Borderlands 4 brag "total beingness failure!"

The enactment requires you person a weapon with the Torgue Licensed Sticky Magazine and the Taser alt-fire mode. A Torgue Sticky mag enables the limb to occurrence sticky projectiles called "gyrojets" that connect to enemies and detonate for monolithic harm upon reloading oregon switching modes. In this case, switching to Taser.

NickTew demonstrates however you tin load an force up with gyrojets via an SMG owed to its accelerated complaint of occurrence and large magazine, past close earlier reloading, power to the underbarrel taser, causing the gyrojets to detonate and origin overmuch much harm than they would if reloading normally. As NickTew enactment it, with this physique you’re capable to “snap the brag retired of existence.” This works connected each character, and it does not impact utilizing the knife.

The lone contented present is an SMG with this circumstantial operation (Torgue Sticky and alt-fire) is simply a comparatively uncommon find, truthful you’ll request to bash a spot of farming to nab one. Or possibly you person 1 anyway, sitting successful your inventory conscionable waiting to origin havoc.

NickTew isn’t wholly definite wherefore this operation causes truthful overmuch damage. Is it a bug, oregon are determination calculations going connected nether the hood that spark this immense uptick? It surely feels similar 1 of Borderlands 4’s “unintended interactions,” truthful it’s astir apt not agelong for this world.

This week, Gearbox indicated that successful the short-term it plans to buff underperforming cogwheel and skills alternatively than nerf overpowered builds. That means instakill builds similar this 1 are harmless for now. Confirmation came 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.”

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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