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PSA: Borderlands 4 has a progress-erasing bug with players reporting lost skill points upon crashes and multiplayer disconnections, but Gearbox is looking into it

"If you join someone's game, or load into your game, and your skill points don't load in, DO NOT QUIT"

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All Borderlands 4 vault key fragments and vault locations

Upgrade your glidepack and score some legendary loot.

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Borderlands 4 shed its iconic UI and all it got was this stupid live service-y inventory that doesn't let me filter my crap properly

Bad design.

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Performance woes plague Borderlands 4 on Xbox as Gearbox considers FOV slider fix

Borderlands 4 players on Xbox report severe performance issues, including memory leaks and frame drops, as Gearbox Software works on adding an FOV slider and other missing features.

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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director feels "bad" for Borderlands 4 devs "who are just trying really hard to make players happy" as Randy Pitchford fights back against performance criticism

The Gearbox boss has been very vocal online, even telling unhappy players to "please get a refund from Steam"

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How to get the Hot Slugger in Borderlands 4

Grab one of the best legendary shotguns.

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Where is Maurice’s Black Market location in Borderlands 4 this week?

Maurice's Black Market moves each week.

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Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes

"If you're not happy using the tools available to you to improve frame rate and you're not happy with the frame rate you have, you should play a different game"

GamesRadar

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford claims "less than one percent of one percent" of Borderlands 4 PC players reported "valid performance issues" via customer support, says "I have personally helped users go from 30FPS to 90FPS+"

Surely this will calm everyone down

GamesRadar

"Some need to learn how their PCs work" — Borderlands 4 head fires back as optimal settings for 68 GPUs released

Borderlands 4 was released on PC with some serious performance issues, and while the Gearbox CEO is arguing with gamers, a list of optimal settings for 68 different GPUs has arrived.

Windows Central

I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game

Still, a fix is a fix. Mostly.

PC Gamer

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford's chronic tweeting syndrome strikes again, says 'less than 1% of 1%' of players are filing tickets about performance so clearly the internet's overblowing it

Interested to see how this one's gonna play out.

PC Gamer

Do yourself a favour and turn off this annoying grapple setting in Borderlands 4

You don't need to give yourself whiplash.

PC Gamer

I finally tried the first Borderlands, and yeah, y’all were right

I know I'm a decade and a half late, but better now than never.

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Dot Esports

All Borderlands 4 Twitch drops and how to get them

There are multiple legendary weapons to be claimed for free.

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'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'

I'm not entirely sure this helps.

GamesRadar

As Borderlands 4 players dub Vex "the strongest vault hunter in the entire series," Gearbox responds to worries regarding potential nerfs: "Chill guys, we're not going to knee-jerk react to anything"

"Do not nerf this, it's part of the fun"

Windows Central

Borderlands 4 CEO: "Code your own engine and show us how it's done please" — as performance woes hit the game's Steam review score.

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford issues a barrage of posts on X over the game's performance criticisms, as Steam reviews hit "Mixed."

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TechRadar

Amid a tidal wave of performance complaints on PC, the first Borderlands 4 patch has arrived to address stability – but no one knows what it does

Good news, PC fans: Borderlands 4 just got a patch to help with optimization. Still, with no patch notes, it's hard to work out how it does that.

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Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4 performance isn't bad, your expectations are just too high: "If you’re not 4k stubborn and just want to have a great, fun time with higher perf, please consider running at 1440p resolution"

A stark reminder there's no one above him at Gearbox to tell him to stop tweeting

GamesRadar

Gearbox and Randy Pitchford aim a fire hose at the Borderlands 4 PC port, share "optimization guide" and a tip to "boost your performance" which is, big surprise, enabling DLSS performance with frame gen

I don't think the magic AI buttons are really doing the job this time

PC Gamer

How to respec your skills in Borderlands 4

Reset your skill points to square one.

PC Gamer

Borderlands 4 takes a shot at Embracer Group by naming a town filled with trash and an AI talking toilet after it

Subtle as ever.

Destructoid

What does ‘compiling shaders’ mean in Borderlands 4?

Let me compile my thoughts and anger.

Tom’s Hardware

Borderlands 4 on PC crushing even the most powerful rigs — RTX 5090 struggles in some scenarios, but day one patch solves plenty of issues

Borderlands 4 has arrived on PC to a chorus of criticism over performance and stuttering. Early reports from players described low frame rates and frequent crashes, even on high-end hardware.

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