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Gearbox Shares Borderlands 4 Launch Stats, Grants Free Shift Pack

Server stability held through the surge, with platform-specific patches in progress.

Overview

  • Gearbox logged 764,733,586 non‑common items looted in the first week, with the Steam debut delivering the series’ highest player count in under 24 hours, per GamesRadar.
  • Players attempted 62,718,658 boss fights and won 55,403,323 of them, leaving 16,220,852 failed encounters.
  • Loot sources included 14,814,296 pulls from red chests, 1,530,794 from outhouses, 1,811,970 from grills, boomboxes, and beer coolers, and 487,585 from trash cans.
  • Explosives proved costly with 4,563,416 grenade fatalities and 2,034,399 barrel deaths, while 16,220,852 vehicles were destroyed.
  • A free Break Free Pack Shift code (JS63J-JSCWJ-CFTBW-3TJ3J-WJS5R) grants a vault hunter skin, a scaling legendary Ripper shield, and two ECHO-4 drone skins, redeemable through December 31, 2030.