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The latest Borderlands 4 update delivers one of the most expansive post launch patches to date, introducing Bloomreaper the Invincible alongside a new arena, additional loot, and two advanced difficulty settings. True Mode scales all encounters to four player intensity, while Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode 6 brings a fresh challenge tier and new Skillcraft firmware that upgrades Action Skills through three escalating tiers. These additions deepen the late game structure and give players new ways to push their builds.
The update also includes extensive refinements across gameplay, gear balance, UI, splitscreen functionality, visuals, audio, and overall performance. Numerous mission fixes, companion enhancements, and technical optimizations help stabilize the experience while improving framerate, responsiveness, and long term consistency. Weekly activities have also rotated, giving players new objectives and rewards to pursue across Kairos.
Patch Notes
Major Update
- Added support for Bloomreaper the Invincible
- Introduced the Bloom arena
- Added nine new Legendaries to Bloomreaper’s loot pool
- Rainmaker Ripper Sniper Rifle
- Mantra Maliwan Shotgun
- Undershield Vladof Shield
- Urchin Tediore Ordnance
- Jett Setter Ripper Ordnance
- Misericorde Siren Class Mod
- Overdriver Exo Soldier Class Mod
- Trooper Gravitar Class Mod
- Lamplighter Forgeknight Class Mod
- Added timed reward chest with Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum tiers in UVHM
- Added True Mode with four player scaling regardless of party size
- True Mode accessible after finishing the campaign
- Added Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode 6
- Added new UVHM challenges
- Added Firmware Skillcraft for UVHM 6 with three tiers
- Skill Damage plus ten percent
- Skill Critical Chance plus ten percent
- Skill Damage stacking bonus up to twenty five stacks
Gameplay
- Fixed unintended regeneration causing Boneface to remain immortal
- Improved Abduction Injunction flow so mission progression continues correctly
- Bandit bounties now appear in the Fade District
- Lost Loot now retains SDU upgrades after Save Load
- Improved vending machine purchase reliability
- Backpack Upgrade SDUs no longer reset after opening a vending machine
- Fixed Mimicron fight continuing after fast travel in multiplayer
- Axemaul now attacks players normally when fighting from the Big Encore Machine
- Improved Kratchman chase behavior
- Destroyed generators no longer affect aim assist in A Lot to Process
- Maliwan gear kill challenges now track correctly
- Vault Card challenges now track Midnight Defiance projectiles correctly
- Long range sniper rifle challenge now tracks kills beyond fifty meters
- Maliwan elemental challenges now award correct progress
- Daily and weekly Vault Card challenges now refresh properly
- Removed unintended Phosphene challenges from specific Legendaries
- Search for Hints objective now completes correctly in No Escape Room
- Improved digistruct tunnel transitions to prevent players getting stuck
- Updated ECHO Location guidance for greater consistency
Gear
- Reduced Repulsor Augment launch distance
- Vehicle rockets and missiles no longer launch enemies excessively
- Updated Midnight Defiance Sniper Rifle ricochet behavior
- Level 3 Bullets to Spare Firmware now functions with COV magazines
- Corrected Sniper Rifle underbarrel impact behavior for Maliwan variants
- Budget Deity pistol no longer shows unintended homing
- Inscriber pistol now interacts properly with Timekeeper’s Radiant Shield
- Torgue sticky projectiles now explode after auto reload transitions
- Rooker Sniper Rifle now plays correct airborne SFX
- Bullet impact decals now fade normally
- Daedalus Missilaser VFX now appear instantly
- Firewerks shield missiles now spawn reliably
- Nova damage now scales correctly with Resolve stacks
- Super Soldier shield no longer regenerates Heavy Ordnance via passive
- Elemental attributes now display correctly on gear cards
- Hellfire SMG damage bonus now applies correctly
- Rooker Sniper Rifle now spawns correct needle count
- Ordnance Vault Card challenge now increases progress correctly
- Weekly Legendary challenge now persists after Save Load
Vault Hunters
- Prevented early skill unlock exploit
- New characters no longer inherit SDU points
- Amon and Rafa stat displays now show correct values
- Shield Boi now allows Rafa and Vex skills to fire through normally
Trouble, Reapers, and Forge Weapon Changes
- Trouble gains Blink Melee Attack every twelve seconds when far from target
- Increased Damage Radius for Trouble, Reapers, and Forge Weapons
- Amon elemental skills now deal increased damage
- Tempered Pyre plus twenty percent
- Tempered Ice plus twenty three percent
- Tempered Lightning plus thirteen percent
- Updated Harlowe’s Potential Transference Capstone to trigger Adrenaline Pump Repkit correctly
- Updated Rafa’s Per My Last to prevent Overdrive behavior
- Fixed Rogue Luty Madlad SMG interaction with APOPHIS Lance
- Updated Vex abilities with increased damage
- Melee benefit added to ranged attacks
- Blink Strike plus fourteen percent
- Violent Outburst plus eleven percent
- Hexus Nexus plus fourteen percent
Splitscreen Improvements
- Improved ECHO Log readability and news article sizing
- Enhanced Vault Card usability in splitscreen
- Splitscreen settings now persist across sessions
- Improved reconnect instructions for online play
- Travel countdown notifications now display for all players
Visual and Audio Changes
- Reduced pre cinematic distortion cases
- Fixed animation transitions between ladders and swimming
- Removed Oddman appearance after replaying Exit Through the Rift Shop
- Updated models, textures, and animations across several assets
- Corrected Black Market Vending Machine backgrounds
- Fixed multiple loot stuck locations
- Updated collision, clipping, and out of bounds areas
- Corrected NPC visibility issues in Genone’s fight
- Improved door lighting displays in How Rush Saved Mercenary Day
- Improved Amon VH 2015 cosmetic visuals in multiplayer
- Vault Card ticket amounts now refresh properly
- Updated various audio systems and combat music logic
UI and Text
- Buy and Buyback tabs now show correct items
- Vending machine cards no longer compare unknown items
- Item level and value now always display in comparisons
- Improved stability across vending menus
- Added tooltips for Class Mod skills in Item Inspect
- Improved weapon wheel responsiveness
- Locked SHiFT rewards now hidden in customization
- ECHO Logs updated with better sorting, dropdown behavior, and highlighting
- Prompts in News section now function correctly
- Flip Card prompt now displays consistently
- Loot to bank prompt now appears correctly
- Improved Vault Card visual consistency
- Updated various UI icons, visuals, and localization
Player Experience Improvements
- Reduced rare black screen cases on consoles
- Improved framerate with Torgue Shotguns using Flameblast underbarrel
- Minor Update download now stops correctly when signing out
- Windows usernames with special characters now restart correctly after Minor Update
- Improved UI performance across menus and HUD
- Enabled PGO for increased CPU performance
- Reduced gameplay hitches from shader and PSO compilation
- Optimized grass, shrubs, and foliage rendering
- Added GPU optimizations from newer Unreal Engine versions
- Improved Lumen lighting, foliage reflections, and water performance
- Improved performance for minimum spec PCs in outdoor environments
- In engine cinematics now run above thirty FPS
- Adjusted AI and NPC spawn counts for better performance
- Removed unnecessary lighting, including volumetric cloud lights
- Improved Physics and Niagara memory use
- Improved Cloth initialization performance
- Added new graphics options to disable shadows, volumetric clouds, and fog
- Improved VRAM usage by reorganizing texture and mesh pools
- General stability improvements
Weekly Activities
- Weekly Big Encore Boss: Bio Bulkhead
- Weekly Wildcard Mission: Her Flaming Vision
- Reward: Katagawa’s Revenge Maliwan Sniper Rifle
- Maurice’s Black Market Vending Machine updated with a new location hint
Borderlands 4 is an action RPG looter shooter developed by Gearbox Software for PC Windows, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X S. It launched on September 12, 2025, with a planned Nintendo Switch 2 version delayed indefinitely.
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