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Anna Koselke

Borderlands 4 creative lead promises fans "more options are coming soon" as the crit knife build dominates the meta, and offers a warning: "We will be adjusting it"

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Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox is keeping an eye on player feedback, previously admitting the team has "seen the discourse" about OP builds – especially surrounding the infamous "crit knife" – and will soon be "adjusting" things.

Players have been flagging the "broken" and "overpowered" crit knife build for weeks now, with a recent online thread shedding light on just why it's such a problem – and it basically boils down to lack of diversity (and lack of incentive to play literally any other way when the knife is so strong). "It's 100% flat crit chance, absolute," as the post's author explains. "There is nothing in the game that will ever be able to compete with that."

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