Gearbox breaks out some free loot because Borderlands players have already looted over 750 million items, half a million of which were from trash cans

Borderlands 4 Twitch Drops: The Watch, Drop, and Roll Echo-4 drone skin waving, surrounded by shattered glass that forms a frame around the image.

The big theme in the first week of Borderlands 4? Whether you're talking about technical issues or character builds: it's busted. There are so many broken builds it's untrue, and players are running around with "infinite damage" builds that nuke bosses in under 10 seconds… which is either great or terrible, depending on your mood.

But it's probably why, in the first week of release, players have fought bosses 63 million times and defeated 55 million of them. Pretty good hit rate, and the numbers come from developer Gearbox itself, which has released a loot package for all players to celebrate… erm, all the looting.