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Borderlands 4 Launches With Bigger Loot, Tougher Bosses and a Beefed-Up Endgame

Early reviews say the real test lies in bosses and a five-tier endgame.

Borderlands 4
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Overview

  • Borderlands 4 releases today on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, with a Nintendo Switch 2 version set for October 3.
  • Gearbox touts this as the series’ hardest entry, yet critics report the campaign remains approachable, with difficulty spiking chiefly in boss encounters and postgame tiers.
  • Players choose Easy, Normal or Hard for the story, then unlock an Ultimate/Vault Hunter mode split into five levels that increase rewards such as cash and Eridium.
  • Co-op supports four players online and two locally on PS5/Xbox Series X/S, features crossplay and per-player scaling, and gives each player individualized loot.
  • Reviews highlight excellent boss design, livelier movement and enormous weapon variety (around 30 billion combinations) alongside complaints about overwhelming loot and fiddly inventory management; early tips urge advancing the main quest to unlock the summonable Digi-Runner, with main-quest order later proving flexible.