'This Is Your 7 Days Notice' — Borderlands 4 Dev Warns Those Insane Boss-Melting Builds Based on 'Unintended Interactions' Aren't Long for This World

Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox has fixed fans a 7 time warning: those boss-melting builds based connected “unintended interactions” volition beryllium nerfed adjacent week.

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 crit knife,' which Gearbox has said it’s alert of. But determination are galore others.

Gearbox has spent the archetypal fewer weeks of Borderlands 4’s beingness improving show and buffing underperforming gear, alternatively than nerfing things oregon stamping retired these breached builds. But the clip has present travel for change.

Borderlands 4 originative manager Graeme Timmins took to Twitter to accidental “there volition beryllium immoderate changes adjacent week to circumstantial cogwheel and those unintended interactions, this is your 7 Days Notice ;)”

Next week’s update volition besides see “a big of improvements to stability, performance, and immoderate highly requested quality-of-life changes!” Gearbox added implicit connected the authoritative account.

"Looking guardant to adjacent week, we are readying different circular of adjustments that volition absorption connected Class Mods, Repkits, Shields, and Firmware being tuned to supply greater viability for melee builds, and relationship for deficiencies successful different circumstantial Vault Hunter builds," Gearbox said. "We volition besides code unintended interactions successful definite Vault Hunter skills, and marque adjustments to overperforming gear. Importantly, adjacent week's update volition see a big of improvements to stability, performance, and immoderate highly requested quality-of-life changes!"

Today, October 9, there’s a tiny update focused connected insignificant cogwheel adjustments. The spot notes, from the Borderlands 4 website, are below.

Last week, 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.

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Borderlands 4 October 9, 2025 update spot notes:

Weekly Activities:

• Weekly Big Encore Boss switched to a tougher variant of a antithetic existing brag with an adjacent much rewarding loot excavation for those who instrumentality it on.
• The Weekly Wildcard Mission changed. These missions diagnostic a guaranteed Legendary driblet you tin gain repeatedly to get your perfect roll.
• Maurice’s Black Market Vending Machine moved to different determination and changed its offerings.

Gear Balance Adjustments:

• Ruby's Grasp harm accrued by 50%
• Ruby's Grasp occurrence complaint accrued by 25%
• Bully drone harm accrued by 50%
• Bully basal harm accrued by 50%
• Rangefinder basal harm summation by 30%
• Queen's Rest spawn accidental accrued from 30% to 50%
• Queen's Rest occurrence complaint accrued by 50%
• Seventh Sense orb harm accrued by 250%
• Hellwalker basal harm summation 30%
• Convergence basal harm summation by 25%

Additional Changes:

• Legendary Tediore Shotgun Anarchy was adjusted to decently grant Stacks of Mutualism erstwhile auto-reloading oregon sidesplitting enemies
• All Pets from each classes (such arsenic Trouble, Specters, Reapers, and Forgeweapons) present decently summation Critical Hit Chance from Passives and Gear
• Adjustment made to Vex the Siren’s Bleed to number arsenic Status Effect Damage

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