'I Think He and I Have a Lot in Common' — Borderlands 4 Developers Used First-Person Footage of Randy Pitchford Throwing Cards to Help Animate the Game's First DLC Vault Hunter

Gearbox has 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, Gearbox improvement main Randy Pitchford said during a sheet astatine Tokyo Game Show 2025.

Here’s the authoritative blurb, from Gearbox:

A erstwhile casino trader bot, C4SH is present a drifter who chases the probability-breaking highs of cursed eldritch artifacts. As luck would person it, Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned is afloat of cosmic horrors that harbor uncanny curios, immoderate of which tin surely crook the likelihood successful C4SH's favor.

C4SH has 3 unsocial Action Skills to take from, arsenic you’d expect, and 3 accomplishment trees that each person 3 branches afloat of passives and different customization options. C4SH works otherwise to the different Vault Hunters, however, by having unpredictable Action Skills. Gearbox said they each impact an constituent of accidental arsenic portion of a risk-reward playstyle that “can pb to bully fortunes similar buffing himself and allies, dealing devastating damage, sapping the spot from foes, and more.”

During the panel, Pitchford revealed a work-in-progress look astatine C4SH’s paper Action Skill, which has large Gambit vibes. Pitchford, a nonrecreational magician himself, said C4SH was “very beloved to me, precise idiosyncratic to me.”

“Because of chance, with luck helium tin beryllium the astir almighty Vault Hunter successful the game. But of course, with atrocious luck it’s the opposite. The gameplay with currency is decidedly precocious risk, precocious reward. I deliberation it’s a batch of fun. It makes my bosom pound.

“C4SH is important to maine due to the fact that I deliberation helium and I person a batch successful common. Some of you mightiness not cognize this, but I person played poker professionally, arsenic a gambler. I person appeared connected a unrecorded world tv amusement successful America astir playing Texas Hold'em Poker. And I’ve felt what it’s similar to instrumentality risks and to person that enactment retired and person utmost occurrence from chance, but besides to miss retired and suffer my money.”

C4SH is owed retired Q1 2026.

He continued: “Another happening immoderate of you whitethorn cognize astir maine is that successful summation to being a crippled developer, I’m a nonrecreational magician. And I’ve mastered sleight of manus with playing cards, and we utilized my objection to assistance animate the quality successful the game.”

Pitchford proceeded to amusement behind-the-scenes footage of the developer successful his bureau astatine the Texas workplace palming, flicking, and throwing playing cards from a first-person perspective, footage helium said the animators utilized to assistance animate C4SH. Pitchford past showed a work-in-progress look astatine C4SH’s paper enactment accomplishment alongside first-person footage of himself performing the paper actions.

IN GAME ANIMATION FOR C4SH'S CARD ACTION SKILL#Borderlands4 pic.twitter.com/R59KmkhFrZ

— EpicNNG (@EpicNNG) September 28, 2025

You’ll get C4SH arsenic soon arsenic he’s disposable by owning the Borderlands 4 Super Deluxe Edition, the Vault Hunter Pack (included successful Super Deluxe Edition), oregon Story Pack 1: Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned (included successful Vault Hunter Pack).

Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned, meanwhile, adds aggregate main and broadside missions acceptable successful a caller portion of Kairos, caller cogwheel to earn, and caller cosmetics arsenic good arsenic C4SH.

Borderlands 4 launched this period with 4 playable characters: Vex; Rafa; Amon, and Harlowe. Here’s the post-launch roadmap heading into the archetypal 4th of 2026 and beyond.

Borderlands 4 roadmap into 2026.

Gearbox is inactive moving to amended Borderlands 4 pursuing complaints astir performance, and has delayed the Nintendo Switch 2 version. A spot released past week volition beryllium followed by a caller equilibrium spot aboriginal this week.

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