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Borderlands 4 has a 'very stupid' glitch that lets you unlock a character's most powerful abilities before refunding all your skill points, but don't expect it to be around long as Gearbox says 'we're on it'

The glitch will "change the build meta for every build" according to the YouTuber who brought it to attention.

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Borderlands 4's "most insane glitch" yet lets you break every character's skill tree and changes "the build meta for every build," swiftly catching the attention of Gearbox: "We're on it"

Make the most of it while you can

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Borderlands Online revival still a go, as modder leading the recreation of China's canceled Gearbox MMO says devs are on "one of the latest, if not final, builds of the game"

They've made "significant progress" on the Borderlands MMO

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Nintendo will "never position" itself as a direct PlayStation competitor regardless of the Switch 2's third-party games, former Nintendo of America president says: "It's not in their DNA"

But he "absolutely" thinks there's a player base there for those AAA third-party games to come to Switch 2

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Borderlands 4's sales were 'a little softer than we would've liked' due to PC performance issues, says Take-Two CEO, but he's confident it'll have a long tail

It's okay, Gearbox. One in four games have the same issue. It's nothing to be ashamed about.

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Borderlands 4's launch "was a bit softer than we would've liked" partly because of PC performance issues, Take-Two CEO says, but "we're immensely proud of Gearbox" anyway

"While we experienced some challenges with optimization of performance on PC, Gearbox has been addressing these issues"

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Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6 prove that great performance and low system requirements are king for multiplayer PC games in 2025

People power.

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Otherwise excellent Borderlands 4 patch accidentally brings back the infamous crit knife: "How does this go through testing?"

"This damn knife, dude"

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Magical Randy Pitchford summons the ghost of games discourse past, says games 'Haven't even had our Citizen Kane yet'

The Citizen Kane of gaming is, of course, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos.

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After Randy Pitchford had a game cancelled by EA, he was called by Gabe Newell out of nowhere to ask if he wanted to work on Half-Life: "I don't believe in manifestation - I believe in coincidence"

Half-Life: Opposing Force would release nine months later

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New Borderlands 4 patch stumbles by making the nerfed crit knife an actual DPS loss on some builds, plus a Halloween event that's 'like getting a dead rat in a box for Christmas'

Yowch.

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Borderlands 4's Halloween event is being torn apart by disappointed players who call it a "huge step down" and one of the "worst" content drops in the looter shooter series

The Horrors of Kairos in Borderlands 4 is scary in the wrong way

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Gearbox drops Borderlands 4 patch with "major balance tuning" including some skills it "didn't want to nerf" and others it totally did: "It had to happen, you knew it was going to happen!"

"As a reminder, our primary goal with balance adjustments is to provide you the greatest number of viable builds"

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Borderlands 4 smashes sales in the US, says analyst—it was the top dog in September, the fastest-selling entry in the series, and is already the 3rd most-bought game this year

Phat loot.

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Borderlands 4 set multiple US records for Gearbox as the fastest-selling game in the series, the first to debut as the best-selling game of its month, and becoming the third-best seller of 2025, analyst says

Borderlands is more popular than ever, in the United States at least

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Borderlands 4's nerf-heavy patch misses its already delayed release window as Gearbox still has "a few things we're tidying up," but it'll finally launch tomorrow

Get ready to say goodbye to those broken builds

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Borderlands 4 Horrors of Kairos dates and rewards

Get haunting rewards in the Halloween event.

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Borderlands 4 update that aims the nerf cannon at its most broken builds delayed into next week, so enjoy your crit knife until then

Borderlands 4 is clamping down on those crit knife builds

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Borderlands 4's endgame modifiers make me irrationally angry while I replay old campaign missions on repeat

I'm not looking forward to centripetal's week.

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Despite past posting, Randy Pitchford is actually 'happy to live in that world' where Borderlands 4 complaints aren't about 'how we f*cked up the story', after all

… Sure, alright.

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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"

Gearbox agrees it "diminishes playstyle variety"

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Gearbox's Randy Pitchford is pretty happy with Borderlands 4 story feedback: "Isn't it weird to ship a game where the biggest complaint isn't how we f***ed up the story?"

"Everyone's like, 'nah, story's awesome, characters, we love it'"

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Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford said we'd have to wait at least 5 years to see Borderlands 4 get a major discount, but we've only had to wait 1 month for its first smaller discount as it's already 20% off on Steam

All three versions of Borderlands 4 are temporarily marked down

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Randy Pitchford says sifting through the loot in Borderlands 4 is tickling a fundamental part of you: 'Our brains need to do it, and our brains like doing it, and we’re better off when we do it'

"Most of what our prefrontal cortex is for—why that adaptation exists and what it’s used for—is that skill, or versions of it. We’ve reduced it down into this design."

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Borderlands 4's loot grind is good for your brain, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says, and that the studio would "be dead" if other competitors understood that better

Randy says "most of what our prefrontal cortex is for" is picking better loot

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