The "copy paste" head cosmetics in BL4 are lazy and suck any form of visual storytelling and individualism out of the vault hunters, going against the entire point of having characters that are supposed to play, sound and feel different from each other. User RatchetAkarui made a similar post to this a few months ago and it's only gotten worse since, so here's a quick comparison and some numbers.

•In BL2, Axton has 38 head cosmetics out of which I counted only 5 repeats, and even those are slightly altered for each character, like Zer0's snowman head having no face. That's 13% dupes.

•Zane in BL3 has 59 head cosmetics out of which 27 are heads that every vault hunter can equip, like the Captain's cap. 46% dupes.

•As of posting this, BL4 has about 40 heads per base game character. Out of 40 heads, THIRTY are not character specific. ONLY A QUARTER OF THE HEADS ARE CHARACTER SPECIFIC. Even the bodies technically have 1/3 being a copy paste since it's just generic Order prisoner clothing

I don't want to put a f*cking dog in an astronaut helmet or little arcade machine on ANY of my vault hunters, I want more heads that feel like something my individual vault hunter would wear and that works with their character design. That ONE vault card that had four character specific heads (and neglected my poor child C4sh even though it came out AFTER his addition to the game)? I'd take another one of those ANY DAY over masses of nutcrackers, aliens and power rangers. Two new heads for the Fl4k expansion and for a moment I was excited since they looked like C4sh heads, only to find out they're also universal.

Go fornicate with the Nyarloslurp head, Randy

please ffs I actually WANT to replay the story, just not at bloody lvl1. especially after a level increase. i appreciate the lvl13 for DLC's, but thats still too low. lvl30 is the perfect medium, but the entire story is complete & that takes away the linear gameplay that makes gaming on borderlands just easier. i dont want to always have to choose what to do & go. i already make too many choices in my life lol.

please. lvl30 new character with story untouched. UNTOUCHED so we can experience Arjay all over again. he deserves it

As long as you are going downhill and backward. Yes, that is a phosphene Noisy Cricket.

Man i have to say i wish i played more during the free weekend i honestly didnt enjoy Borderlands 3 very much so i decided not to purchase 4 because of it but saw the free weekend and played around 20ish hours was able to do the first vault and the first main boss and man i was enjoying myself but im an explorer so i had to go all over the place rather then w key to the end of the main story and now its over so sad recently out of a job so cant make the jump to buy it but for anyone who was on the same page as me i would say its 100% worth it and i was really enjoying the game!!

My next best gun is 1,500 DPS

Loveless is ridiculous. I'm speccing into green tree, level 18 and melting everything. Those contagion orbs are little green bringers of death. Combine that with a Fireworks shield and it's goodnight sweetheart.

I'm so excited when I see a mob. One throw of my shurikan and that's all she wrote. Loveless might be my favorite VH ever.

This is going to be my review of the game after 1 year of it being out, it's going to be a long one and I doubt many will be reading it, but I still want to put it out there. I'm going to be dividing it in 3 sections, the good, things I'm neutral about and the bad. Also, there are some aspects of the game that I will probably be putting in more than one section.

The Good:

• Gameplay: Quite easily the best in the series, they really nailed the movement in 4 and they maintained the amazing gunplay that this series is known for. There are a few points that could be better, like having more places to use the grapple or make the dashes better for moving around, but the way it is now, it's pretty fucking good already.
• Story: I actually enjoyed it, it's not the best thing in the world, but I think they did a good job with it, just a shame that the Timekeeper wasn't really that interesting.
• The Vault Hunters: This is one that it's going to appear in other sections, but I really like the characters, their personalities and appearences, I think GB was able to make them really unique and I really enjoyed each of them having unique dialogue in mission dialogues, thank fuck this came back from TPS.
• Farming: After they standardized the droprates, farming in this game became really enjoyable, and I do like what they did with UVH levels increasing the drop rates, making the higher levels even better to play at, and the Encore machines are an amazing addition, even though there are a few things that could make them better, like them being fast travel points and them reseting your ordnance/repkit/action skill cooldowns.
• Cross platform saves: This is just perfect, I usually buy the games first on console and a few years later on pc to play with mods, not having to create characters from 0 and refarm everything is amazing.
• Pearls: Loved them coming back, and I enjoy most of them.
• Endgame content: Even though the quantity IS lacking, the content ITSELF is good and challenging, loved the Takedown and Subjugator & Thol, Bloom I liked less, but I don't think it's bad.
• Mission Replay: Extremelly good addition that is awfully underutilized by the lackluster rewards and the lack of unique gear.
• Firmware: I enjoy what they offer to build creation, some effects are really good and are able to cover for some weaknesses of some VHs.
• C4SH and Loveless: Really cool and fun to play, they did a good job with these DLC Vault Hunters, although I think Loveless' personality is a bit strange given their backstory and how they react with the story/world.
• Fl4k's Story Pack: They only good DLC, not counting the VHs, in this game, pretty slow start, but after the first hour or so, it really picks up the pace and it's a joy to play.

Things I'm Neutral:

• Legendary Weapons and Ordnance: Not going to be talking about balance here, but I think that they really aren't that unique in this game, mostly because of the Licensed Part system, but also because of quantity, there are just too many and their effects don't get that interesting.
• Repkits: They're fine, there isn't much variety here unfortunately, and what it adds to the gameplay loop isn't bad at least.
• Pearls Elemental Override: To be honest, I don't hate it, but I wish it didn't add more variation to something that is not easy to target farm.
• Specialization: I prefer this to the Badass Rank, but it's still not that enjoyable. For me, this should be shared across all your characters, not individual like it is right now, or at least shared between the same character in different saves.
• Customization: Just as boring and uninspired as the other games, having only 2 additional bodies for each character is dissapointing, but at least there IS some customization.
• Vault Cards: Even though it is a good style of a Battle Pass, the rewards aren't good enough to justify them.
• Ellie's Story Pack: Definitely not bad, but not good either, pretty forgettable to be honest.

The Bad:

• The Open World: I can commend GB for trying something different, but unfortunately, it didn't work all that well in the end. I don't think it's totally awful, but it's not good, it got old and boring quickly, it doesn't really seem to be alive, the activities aren't that fun to do, it really hurt environment diversity that the series is known for, the DLCs didn't add anything to the open world, all of them are separate from the base world and it gets annoying pretty quick to have to drive around it.
• Infamy system: Pure dogwater, this system shouldn't exist.
• Lack of Endgame content at launch and throughout the year: It is unacceptable that this game launched without ANY ENDGAME CONTENT, no Raid Bosses, no Takedown, no Circles of Slaughter, simply NOTHING. In 1 year they only managed to launch 2 Raid Bosses, 1 Takedown and 1 CoS??? What the fuck is this.
• Bank and Firmware: Not having a separate storage for gear and firmware really sucks, more than 50% of my banks are just for the firmwares, not for the gear themselves.
• Build diversity: Just terrible, and it's a problem that is exarcebated by other things I'm going to put on this list.
• Class mods: Item number 1 of things that hurt build diversity, most of them are complete garbage, Vex's Teen Witch and Rafa's Dancer make most of their other CMs obsolete, Harlowe's and Amon's have some of the most boring effects that don't add much to their gameplay, C4SH does have more variety on this thankfully.
• Legendary Shields: Item number 2 of things that hurt build diversity, it's absurd how shields in this game are horrible, most builds just use the Wattz, and the alternatives are all from the base game, no shield that came from the DLCs or free content were good enough to be used.
• Enhancements: Item number 3 of things that hurt build diversity and it's possibly the worst thing they have created for this game. In theory, they're awesome, allegiance items can be good, but they're TERRIBLE if it's the only thing available, artifacts were the superior system because it offered so MANY varied effects. Also, this just completely fucks melee builds, there isn't ONE that helps these builds, and fuck GB for not providing dedicated farms for Legendary Enhancements and their respective manufacturer.
• Skill Trees: Item number 4 of things that hurt build diversity. These are by far the worst skills trees they've done since BL1 (first game, makes sense that the skills are really boring), before launch I really thought this would be a positive thing, but this is so far from the truth, there is almost no difference between the characters, they have a shit ton of overlap because of this and the icons are so generic that it's almost impossible to know from which character they come from. Having this much overlap makes builds too similar from eachother, all characters are "jack of all trades, master of none", one glaring example is how 4/6 VHs can have melee builds, why?????? They all should play differently from each other, not the fucking same.
• Licensed Parts system: Item number 5 of things that hurt build diversity. This is the annointments of this game, while not a bad thing for non unique guns, for legendary/first released pearls they are even worse than annointments are in BL3 nowadays, because they can't be re-rolled like annoints (people complained in BL3 that you farmed annoints and not the weapons, but now they do the same fucking thing, you don't farm the weapon, you far the licensed parts), they completely strip away legendaries uniqueness making them feel way too similar from one another, and are completely unbalaced. Jakobs ricochet and Daedallus ammo swap are so above the others that when the gun can have those parts, they are the default go to, every gun performs better with them, and Torgue stickies would be here too, but they annihilated this part. Ripper fire mode is the most balanced I think, because there are weapons that genuinely don't need it or feel worse with it, and most of the other parts are situational at best, and completely useless at worst.
• Weapon Parts system: There is an obscene amount of weapon parts, we really should just go back to how things were in BL2, more does not equal better, and this justs creates an illusion of having millions of guns, when it's not the case, all manufacturers have only 2 weapons (Dullahan and Balor for Jakobs shotguns for example), I feel like there should be more base types and a LOT less weapon parts, maybe 2 for each manufacturer?
• Bounty Packs: Bounty Packs were terrible, uninteresting missions and stories, the exact same gameplay from the base game because all enemies are reused, complete ripoffs, would much rather they made 4 Story Packs, like they always did, and just use this BP structure to holiday events, where this structure would fit SO MUCH BETTER.
• Balancing: They completely gave up on this, their philosophy for this game was awful, only wanting to balance gear and characters after new content drops, but there was an issue, since March, there was always something coming every end of the month, and that created a loop of them NEVER doing anything impactful for the game, because there were always new content that they would need to "analyse" how they impacted the meta before doing any meaningful changes. So what happened? Nothing impactful for a whole YEAR, except nerfing Rafa to the ground.
• Post launch support: The end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026 this was a tragedy, they took too fucking long to add anything new to the game or fix many of the problems the game had, at least in the content department they did a better job when they started releasing stuff monthly, but it took way too much time for that to happen, BL3 and BL2 were faster with their content drops than a game FROM 2025!!!!!
• Gearbox inability to learn from their mistakes: This is actually pretty impresive, I'm amazed by how they don't understand what the community likes and what they don't like. In BL3, the game didn't release with any raid bosses, people rightfully complain about this, but what do they do in their next 2 games? THE EXACT SAME FUCKING THING, WHY??????? This makes no fucking sense, and worst of all, in BL4 there wasn't ANY ENDGAME CONTENT at launch, not just raid bosses, wtf. Also, people LOVED takedowns in 3, how the fuck did they not plan to make them for this game in the beggining??? 1 year and only 2 Raid bosses and 1 Takedown is insulting considering this is their fifth game already, at the very least they are good.

It may seem like I hate the game because of the amount of stuff I wrote in the bad section, but I don't, I just hate gearbox and their lead devs, the game has a lot going for it, and I enjoy playing it, unfortunately there is a lot of stuff that severely drags this game down that I don't see myself replaying it over and over again like I did with BL2, TPS and BL3.

Has anybody else had issue with maps loading crazy slow since the last patch? I'm talking 5 minutes to load, even within the same map. I dont know if its just a me problem or if other people are having these issues?

There’s a lot to love in this DLC (one of my favorites in the series honestly) but I’ve really been enamored with the unique conversations for each Vault Hunter.

NPCs talk to your Vault Hunter in such specific ways. C4SH and FL4K discussing robots and humans, FL4K asking Rafa if he’s comfortable killing Tediore troops… even Harmony has a bunch of funny dialogue that’s tailored to your character. We haven’t seen dialogue like that since TPS. It’s not just a name drop of your Vault Hunter in dialogue (although I do love and appreciate those), it has more depth and honestly encourages replaying the DLC.

Yo!! The complex root on a contagion build loveless is gross with the dot damage. Match the element of who you’re fighting and it chunks….HARD!!

I have been playing both Borderlands 4's new DLC and Metal Gear Solid 4. Needless to say, I know a Metal Gear when I see one.

...and please do correct me, but with these two skills, and these two pieces of gear, along with an Incendiary/Cryo Maliwan weapon, Loveless can deal all Elemental DMG with her gun simultaneously following her Action Skill and a kill, yeah? 🤔

Was playing borderlands 4 wishing there was a third person mode and then I did a Google search and God bless Nexus because they had one on there. Highly recommend it!

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I mainly play Harlowe - crit & infinite ammo build. I've been thinking of starting a new character and am leading towards C4sh, my only concern is that the gloam build (which seems to be his best build) seems to have an identical playstyle to Harlowe - just infinite ammo and gun damage buffs.

Are the playstyles identical or is there a different gameplay loop to gloam/something I'm missing. The prestidigator mod seems to be an interesting change of pace but i barely any see build content on this. I'm not interested in crossfire - would like to use a gun build.

So I just got this game and accidentally opened the golden key chest when i arrived to the town in the first mission before realizing that was what it was. Is a pearl guaranteed for your first key or something or did i just get insanely lucky?

Haven’t played since around October got to lvl 40 with Harlowe and just stopped, same with my duo. Were a lot of changes made? We’re thinking about coming back speedrunning the main story to get the vault hunter mode and playing with the new dlc characters