Borderlands 4 gets console, performance improvements and gear gain in large new updates

Border 4 Developer Gearbox released the biggest update of the heist shooter since its launch, and added a Field of View (FOV) slider to the console, various performance improvements, and a variety of vault hunters and gear gain agents.

The September 25, 2025 update adds new weekly events, stability and performance improvements, adjustments to certain rewards/advances, and further improvements between UI, audio, vision and gear. from Border websitethe following.

Particularly noteworthy is the addition of FOV sliders on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, What players ask for. Transmission head Randy Pitchford responded to the complaint to show that fairness may be related to the ubiquitous FOV slider 4although these comments do confuse fans because the PC version has it and there are cross-games on startup as well. While welcome to arrive, Gearbox warns console players that increasing FOV to defaults may result in performance degradation.

Creative Director Graeme Timmins tagged In the short term, the gearbox is more interesting than the Nerfing Borderlands 4temporarily leaving broken buildings. Today's update strengthens this approach and there is nothing to say. Indeed, Timmins Enter social media To say the transmission has too much gain to adapt to today’s updates, it breaks them down into their own balance updates, which is coming soon.

The update also includes a fix for the high-profile memory leak issue for Borderlands 4 of Console, which causes frame rate degradation, and the longer you play it. But there are more. “We believe we have made significant improvements there, but we are still investigating the data to ensure that any remaining issues continue to be resolved,” he said. Timmins explains. “We are confident that today’s updates are very different and we are happy to get feedback/data.”

Performance improvements on PC are welcome. The Borderlands 4 is still in a mixed steam evaluation rating, with most negative reviews centering around PC performance. Digital Foundry technician says Preliminary analysis of Boundless 4 on PC Shows serious stuttering problems and is advised not to run the game on its “bad” graphics settings, This shows that there is indeed a problem with the Unreal Engine 5 title.

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Border 4: All vault hunter skill tree ranking

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Border Area Update Patch Notes on September 25, 2025:

Change List:

Weekly Activities:

• The big boss every week The tougher variant of another existing boss has been switched to, providing a more meaningful loot pool for those who accept it.
• this Weekly wildcard tasks Has changed. These quests have guaranteed legendary drops, and you can earn money repeatedly to get the ideal scrolling.
• Morris's Black Market Vending Machine Moved to another location and changed the product. Remember that although the location is the same, your vending machine project is different from other players, so look around to see if anyone is looking for the item you are looking for!

Stability and performance

• Improve stability and performance.
• Fixed various instances of free-ride, low FPS and crashes.
• We are continuing our investigation and will further improve stability and performance.
• Updated character animation for improved performance.
• When using Run Auto-Detect in the Visual menu, the graphics preset can be set to high or very high.
• (Xbox) corrected an issue where players will get a black screen after the Vault symbol loads the screen.
• Solved rare issue with unlimited loading screens during cross-game.
• The load of characters in the menu is improved to reduce visible delays when selecting a role.

Rewards and Progress

• The problem reported solves the problem that players may lose or reward unexpected extra skill points in multiplayer games.
• Addressed an issue that prevents the contract target enemy from continuously laying eggs.
• Updated Repkit Lifesteal Challenge to track life from any source.
• Prevent the area from discovering trophy/achievement unlock before discovering all areas.
• Prevent instances of unowned DLC content that appear on the chest or menu.
• Improved clarity of warning and reward availability related to DLC.
• On reported issues, the reward center can stop working after asking for a gilded Glory Pack reward.
• The Reward Center pop-up now correctly excludes cosmetics you already enjoy.
• The selling price of gilded Glory Pack equipment in vending machines is lowered.
• Updated Disconnect free package bonus bundle Redeem correctly in all cases.
• The challenge timing has been updated so that players can correctly go from Ultimate Vault Hunter (UVH) 4 to UVH 5 after completing the required wildcard mission.
  • When ranking in multiplayer, players on the console do not see changes in their UVH level, but are able to switch to a higher level. This will be resolved in an upcoming update.
• Updated class mods to prevent them from falling with incorrect skill points.

Vault Hunter Change and Balance Adjustment

Harlow's gravity

• gravity Ground state The cover stone has been corrected to eliminate inaccurate vocabulary about enemies that have been removed without damage caused.
• gravity Flux generator No more use Potential transfer peak.
• renew gravity build up Passively grant life to allies at all times.
• Solved various reports gravity Unstable energy Created pockets Chroma accelerator Action skills.
  • Including instances that it does not disappear properly, converting to freeze damage or splitting as intended by some skill tree combinations. See updated skills: Special purpose magnet Enhanced, Broken light Top stone, yes Passive, Break the ice Passive,contain Enhanced and Eureka! Passive.

Amon forgeknight

• Forgeknight Original surge Now passively restore shields and ammunition.
• Forgeknight Firewall The action skills have been adjusted so the firewall cannot store revenge until the scourge is active.
• Forgeknight kill Rocket Fist now connects more reliably with blocking enemies.
• Resolved the report issue Forgeknight Forgiveness does not always seek nearby enemies.

Sirens troubles

• Resolved the report issue siren Serious harvest Enhancement triggered reflect Inactive.
• Resolved the report issue siren Adjustment of epidemics Passiveness may sometimes not harm the timer.
• Damage caused siren Spiritual bomb Now passively damages and changes its color for the partner to match the adjustment elements.

Rafa the Exo-Soldier

• Addressed prevention reports Exo-Soldier blow out Passive stacking correctly stacked when repeating the action technique.

How to play the game

• In the side task of “overwrite error”, it solves a reported issue in which nodes do not continue to spawn.
• A problem mentioned in the Talk to Zadra mission, if the player exits and restarts the midterm, the goal may fail.
• Updated beam hit detection because it causes the beam to not block correctly. For example: Forgeknight forgive.
• Now repkts continues to consume the correct fees after activation Forgeknight Disaster Action skills.
• Prevent Forgeknight Slide from at the end Melting Grand Slam.
• It talked about the various reports of the enemy being trapped.
  • Affected Missions: “Kill Order”, “His Evil Sanctuary” Mission and “Many Handling” Mission in Fadefields.
• DESANC problems were reportedly observed using lightweight enemy sports in multiplayer games.
• After discovering, updated Zadra's lab fast travel.

gear

• Vladof Atling Gun Heavy Weapon Armory is now appropriately targeting the original guardian.
• The Queen's Rest Pistol is now filming the correct projectile with Daedalus Ammoswitcher licensed Underbarrel.
• Gears with Short circuit Now, enhancements can track enemies correctly instead of random orientations.
• Reported edge cases interruption of reloading may result in ammunition desancs, thus preventing ammunition firing.

Gear balance changes:

• shock: Now it is always produced with the fire element.
• Tedil Weapons: +10% damage and +10% magazine size.
• Order the Pistol Lucky Crocodile (Rocket Reload): Increase the fire rate.
• Order sniper rifle fisheye: Increase damage.

UI and UX

• If it is not displayed correctly, update the gear thumbnail and make sure the alternate thumbnail is correct.
• Various UI visuals have been updated for alignment, consistency and clarity.
• Adjusted the Inventory drop-down menu to prevent unexpected selection changes.
• Added D-PAD navigation support in the Reward Center and improved processing of inventory overflow messages.
• When joining another player's game, prevent the docking menu prompt bar from displaying incorrect prompts.
• Address the compass, occasionally displaying the incorrect location name after transmission.
• Localization and various text descriptions have been updated throughout the game.
• Various improvements are added to the compass, custom space point positions and Echo positions.

Visual effects

• The resolved carryable object disappears or appears in the wrong position after being picked up; including cases Ready to blow,,,,, Lost capsulesand Hangover Assistant Task.
• When the shield capacity effect expires, the trigger trigger of the improved armor segment destroys VFX.
• Updated NPC and enemy paths.
• The problem with VFX is solved through various weapons, vehicles and elemental states.
• Various animation updates.
• Various visual updates and improvements.
• Adjusted Rift Portal Effects to Correct the Visual Effects.
• Updated Echo-4 has correct positioning when viewing various menus and prevents cropping.
• Environmental animals have more natural egg-laying behaviors.

Voice

• Carcadia Burn and Fadefields' DJs are now playing a role when starting or completing a contract.
• Adjusted radio music combination for improved audibility.
• Added missing audio for multiple weapon types, customizations, and menu navigation.
• The instances of voice-cutting during the task have decreased.
• Updated startup movies to have the correct audio.

Settings and accessibility

• (Xbox/PlayStation) The View (FOV) slider on the console is enabled.
  • Note: Increasing FOV beyond the default value may result in performance degradation.
• Now, when playing with split screen, both users' view settings will now change.

Miscellaneous

• An example of an incorrect or deleted character event that appears in the menu or lobby.
• The tab key in Shift UI is enabled.
• Added haptic feedback to the controller Exo-Soldier Unexpected missiles Enhanced.
• Updated points list.

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