Borderlands September 4 update improves stability and “smooth” progress on PC – but according to patch notes, changes in balance must wait

Border 4 Developer Gearbox has released the first meaningful update of the heist shooter that improves stability and “smooth” progress – but no balance changes have yet.

“This update improves stability on your PC, smooths progress, and updates Gilded Glory Pack loot and rewards for a more seamless experience,” Gearbox in 2K Borderlands posts Next to the patch notes below. “Please restart your game to make sure the update passes and prevent connection errors in the docking meeting.”

Meanwhile, Gearbox said Borderlands 4 will have a secondary update every week. These involve changes to the large Encore Boss and Wildcard Mission once a week. Maurice's black market vending machines are also moving. The weekly large Encore Boss is a tougher variant of existing bosses and has a more meaningful loot pool. Weekly wildcard tasks add new challenging features to existing tasks. These quests have guaranteed legendary drops, and you can earn money repeatedly to get the ideal scrolling.

Here is the official work on Maurice's black market vending machine:

Go find the location where the black market vending machines are transferred to and discover what is available in the weekly game. 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!

Borderlands 4 is currently in the mixed steam review rating, with most negative reviews centering around PC performance. Technical Expert Digital casting Already said Their preliminary analysis of Borderlands 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. From the appearance of the patch description, the point here is crashing, not performance issues. The gearbox recently stated that PC performance issues are its “most important”. Therefore, I hope to enter this area as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, Gearbox has been released on the Borderlands 4 NVIDIA Optimization Guide steamprovides advice on how to optimize its graphics settings on your PC using the NVIDIA application, although users report different results.

The gearbox also issued suggestions to PC gamers To me, reading is like preventing players from responding to the performance of the game immediately after changing settings.: “Note that whenever you change any graphics settings, the shader needs to be recompiled. Keep playing for at least 15 minutes to see how your PC's performance changes.”

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While this patch mentions the PC version, there is no news about improving the performance of Borderlands 4 on the host. Game console players report worse and worse performancesuggesting that Border 4 suffers from memory leakage problems. Randy Pitchford, head of gearbox development, said Gearbox is specializing in this issue on the PS5 Pro, but it doesn't seem to be resolved.

And there is no equilibrium change, which means Those overwhelming buildings are safe… at present.

Border Area Update Patch Notes on September 18, 2025:

Stablize

• Fixed crashes related to animation status, audio and collision checks
• Solved various GPU-related crashes

Gameplay and progress

• Solved an issue where the reward center can stop working after asking for a gilded glory package reward
• A progress blocker was talked about in the “Talk to Zadra” mission, and if the player exits and restarts Dialogue, the target may fail
• Corrected “Don't own DLC” warning error appears on non-DLC gears
  • This will be fixed on the console in the next few days.

Robbery and Items

• Updated loot pool, so the gilded glory gun no longer appears in the standard box

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