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Borderlands 4<\/a> dropped a pretty hefty patch today, and before I tell you how Gearbox has screwed the pooch, I do want to be fair and at least highlight the positives while I roll my sleeves up:<\/p>\n

Sort filters for your inventory now persist instead of auto-setting to “by manufacturer”; Your discovered locations persist when going from multiplayer to singleplayer; The combat radar now highlights legendary loot (well, it will. It’s bugged right now<\/a>); The “toggle junk” bug is fixed, and a bunch of performance tweaks and fixes have been applied. Including one where the “Ocean could occasionally fail to load.” You can read the full list of changes in our Borderlands 4 weekly update<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These are all genuinely solid quality-of-life improvements, and I’m glad they’re in the game; at least two of those made my laundry list of complaints in my Borderlands 4 review<\/a>, and it’s nice to see a game I otherwise really liked striking them out. Alas, we’ve also got to talk about the bad, because boy howdy is there some bad.<\/p>\n

Firstly, Gearbox has kinda messed up the whole crit knife thing. In case you weren’t aware, BL4 had a rather infamous knife<\/a> that could insta-gib endgame bosses. Or, well, close enough not to matter\u2014with certain builds<\/a>, like Vex<\/a>‘s bleed, you could trigger an infinitely stacking damage loop that would see them melt, like hucking a bucket of acid at a block of styrofoam.<\/p>\n

As the patch notes<\/a> read, Gearbox has “Reduced critical chance on Jakobs crit knife to 30%. Dev Note: It had to happen, you knew it was going to happen!” What players didn’t <\/em>know was that the knife would become an active DPS loss for some builds. Per Borderlands YouTuber Moxsy on X<\/a>, who has done some testing, “The new crit knife sets your crit chance to a target at 30%, it DOES NOT ADD 30% Crit Chance.”<\/p>\n

So\u2014let’s say you have enough points in the relevant skills to ramp your crit chance up to, say, 70%. You throw a knife with the Penetrator Augment at someone. Your crit chance is now 30%. Your knife is sticking out of an enemy, and they are now somehow less <\/em>vulnerable to your bullets. I guess because the handle of the knife is blocking them, or something?<\/p>\n

In fairness to Gearbox, this is the most literal interpretation of the Penetrator Augment imaginable. It says your crit chance is 30% when you hit something with it, and that’s exactly what it does. But it’s also incredibly counter-intuitive\u2014applying a debuff shouldn’t reduce your damage. I’ve got no qualms with this thing if it doesn’t stack, but that’s just\u2026 silly.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the Halloween event, Horrors of Kairos<\/a>. My fellow BL4 enjoyer and guides writer, Rory Norris, has plenty to say on this<\/a>, but for now, let me sum up what the event does: You go to a specific world boss. A spooky orange filter floods your screen. You can get some so-so legendaries.<\/a> That’s it.<\/p>\n

Given how comprehensive Halloween events have been in past titles, players aren’t happy. So much so that the Borderlands 4 subreddit has had to quarantine complaints into their own megathread<\/a>, which I’ve assembled some of here for your viewing pleasure:<\/p>\n

“I would rather have had no event honestly, this is like getting a dead rat in a box for Christmas,” writes one player<\/a>. “BL3 gave us a new map, new boss, new music, new weapons that worked, new anoints, and a legit Halloween vibe. BL4 we get a red overlay on normal vanilla random boss fights if we can find them and two items that are garbage,” adds another<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even Moxsy’s<\/a> none too pleased: “Gonna be brutally honest this Halloween ‘Event’ is not it. Very underwhelmed. I know it’s just a mini event but compared to what we had in BL3 it’s a huge step down.”<\/p>\n

As a minor asterisk, also: Zed’s machine doesn’t reset your cooldowns anymore<\/a>, which has been confirmed to be a bug, but it’s another unfortunate wrinkle in a patch that should’ve been an easy slam-dunk for Gearbox and does, to the studio’s credit, have some bright spots amidst the stumbles.<\/p>\n

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Borderlands 4 Shift codes<\/strong><\/a>: The new key connection.
Borderlands 4 Black Market location<\/strong><\/a>: New legendaries, no grind.
Borderlands 4 Harlowe builds<\/strong><\/a>: The amped-up Gravitar.
<\/strong>Borderlands 4 Rafa builds<\/strong><\/a>: The speed-demon Exo-Soldier.
<\/strong>Borderlands 4 Vex builds<\/strong><\/a>: The spooky Siren.
Borderlands 4 Amon builds<\/strong><\/a>: The fierce Forgeknight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Borderlands 4 dropped a pretty hefty patch today, and before I tell you how Gearbox has screwed the pooch, I do want to be fair and at least highlight the positives while I roll my sleeves up: Sort filters for your inventory now persist instead of auto-setting to “by manufacturer”; Your discovered locations persist when going from multiplayer to singleplayer; The combat radar now highlights legendary loot (well, it will. It’s bugged right now); The “toggle junk” bug is fixed, and a bunch of performance tweaks and fixes have been applied. Including one where the “Ocean could occasionally fail to load.” You can read the full list of changes in our Borderlands 4 weekly update. These are all genuinely solid quality-of-life improvements, and I’m glad…<\/p>\n

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