
Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, deadly enemies, and intense co-op action. Break free from a dangerous hidden planet as one of four new badass Vault Hunters.
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Borderlands 4 brings intense action, badass Vault Hunters, and billions of wild and deadly weapons to an all-new planet ruled by a ruthless tyrant.
Crash into Kairos as one of four new Vault Hunters seeking wealth and glory. Wield powerful Action Skills, customize your build with deep skill trees, and dominate enemies with dynamic movement abilities.
Break free from the oppressive Timekeeper, a ruthless dictator who dominates the masses from on high. Now a world-altering catastrophe threatens his perfect Order, unleashing Mayhem across the planet.
Become an unstoppable force of battle, blasting through enemies with an all-new arsenal of outrageous weaponry. Move across the Borderlands like never before—double jumping, gliding, dodging, grappling, and more—dealing death from every direction. Explode each encounter with devastating Action Skills that unleash your Vault Hunter's unique abilities. Craft your perfect build with branching skill trees and a deep, rewarding loot chase full of wild weapons and powerful gear.
Wreaking havoc across Kairos is awesome alone and even better with friends in 4-player online co-op.* Borderlands 4 is designed for co-op from the ground up; whether you're hunting for loot, tackling missions, or wandering freely, level scaling and individual difficulty keeps the party together and having fun.
Freely explore a vast and dangerous world rife with warring factions. Hop on your hover bike and ride through lush fields, towering peaks, and deadly deserts full of fearsome enemies, dynamic events, and engaging quests with unforgettable characters. Unite the people of Kairos and ignite a revolution, tackling this adventure however you see fit in a seamless Borderlands experience.
*Online play requires Internet connection, and cross-play requires SHiFT Account. Terms apply.
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Hours played at review time, across 710 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Played game on release and finished it with some fps issues, decided to try it again since some new content came out. Can't even get past the screen saying 2kgames before crashing. No fixes on the internet have worked.
I had high hopes. Mediocre at best. Borderlands 2 was peak. My playtime says everything. Haven't played since release month. Buy only if deep sale. Wait for 1 more year for complete edition and a good deal. The price for highest tier is ludacris. Hard pass
Game okayish, performance is so ♥♥♥♥ i can't really believe it that someone with working eyes or hands worked on the performance on this game, why does the host instantly lose 20 fps when someone joins. Buy on sale never full price pzdr 600
I was so profoundly disappointed by this game after hearing some good revies and eventually bringing myself to give it a shot. I was a fan of the early Borderlands games, but this has nothing that they had. Playing it, I got the impression that nobody who was developing this game had an idea they were excited about. - The writing feels like a bad AI parody, soulless, meaningless, chasing its own tail and inflating its own ego. It cannot make a decision about what it wants its story or characters to be and then stick to that decision. - I found zero likable or even interesting characters. - I had zero feeling about the main villain except the expectation that he would represent that there was no plot or story development. - There were factions of enemies with different types, different groups, different abilities, and I still felt like I ran down the list almost immediately and ran into nothing new for the rest of the game. I don't know how much of this is due to the art and how much is due to the combat. - Absolutely none of the skins looked interesting, which doesn't matter because you still spend most of your time seeing none of the character. - I couldn't crouch and shoot because the character's knee blocked my view. This should never have gotten past beta. - The menus feel like someone spent tremendous effort to make them easy in exactly the wrong way. You can sent items to your vault from the item menu, but most of the time, when you get a gun, you can equip it but can't compare it to what you have equipped. - Getting to the echo logs you pick up is incredibly tedious. About half of them don't play automatically and aren't identified in a way that lets you find them in your inventory, and when you do find them, you can't play them while you play the game. You have to stay in the menu. This is lunacy. - I've completed the game and I have absolutely no clue what these icons on the left of the main menu are for. They seem to be a leveling up system for my gun and a class mod, but there's zero explanation of how to change or get rid of them. These pertain to items I think I picked up in the first hour of the game. I'm not going to look it up. I'm not going to do the game tutorial's work. - The skills feel pointless and are poorly explained. At no point did I feel like maxing out a skill would affect how I played the character. I still have no idea whether I need to invest a point into a skill to benefit from a class mod's bonus. - Class mods show an icon of one of SO MANY DIFFERENT SKILLS but don't tell you what the skill is called or where to find it in your skill tree beyond "one of these three paths." You have to just equip it over the one you already have (which will take a while to find in your inventory again) to see the effects or go hunting the icons on your skill tree by nicknames you give them. - Every gun looks the same. You can't tell at a glance what is a shotgun and what is a pistol. - The new different-brand gun mechanics are largely a variation on "it takes longer to do damage." - There are three types of guns: Worthless guns, guns that have a shot of being worth equipping (purple only), and the guns that trivialize every battle. - The plane clipping was astonishingly bad. It doesn't matter how clear a line of sight you have to your target, your bullet still might be blocked by a boulder to your right. - Invisible walls. You knew this was coming when they gave you a double-jump and glide mechanic. Some visibly climbable things just want to punish you for even trying. - And come on. This is a cel-shaded game. It's supposed to run on just about anything, and look cheap, cartoony, and fun. This game feels heavy with contrary design decision that work against that. Nothing that added to the game justifies putting it out of the technological reach of people who want the game. And somehow, that isn't the worst. The worst is that they're still doing that horrifying thing with missions where after you drop something off, your next step in the quest is locked behind minutes upon minutes of poorly-written dialogue. You know you're going to be sent to point X on the map, but you're going to stay right there and listen to every word until they give you the go-ahead to leave. This has been a problem since the Pre-Sequel. My blood boils as my time is wasted. If I'm good at the game and I love the game and I remember the game, don't hold me up from playing the game, make me stand and listen, and call it gameplay.
I want to love this. I want to love it so bad but you just wont fix what is wrong with it. I am so in love with these games, all of them, I have loved every single one from the day I loaded it up the first time. Say what you want about the ones that aren't 2 but they are so special to me and it hurts that this game is so poorly optimized. i dig the story and the gameplay. the characters could use some work but they're okay. I like C4sh a lot and the weapons are sick but the game hardly runs on the lowest settings and i have a pretty damn good pc. I believe that if you love this franchise, you should play this game either find it on sale, for free from a friend or find a steam key for cheap online. With how poorly this game runs and is taken care of i don't recommend buying this game for any price that Gearbox thinks is reasonable. IF they can run it back and build up what they have produced, then maybe i will edit this in the future but with how The Man Randy talks about this game i don't see that happening
keeps crashing on the loading screen
どのキャラ使っても行きつく先が過度なオーバーキルか無限ブッパくらいしか無くプレイフィールの変化が乏しいうえにエンドコンテンツであるレイドボスやテイクダウンは全てタイムアタック形式なので遊び方をプレイヤー側で工夫する要素がほぼ無い。最高報酬を受け取れる制限時間内にクリアすることが全てで、基本どのボスも演出やギミックをすっ飛ばして瞬殺すれば終わりみたいな安易な最適解が簡単に作れてしまうゲーム性なので強敵だった相手も強い装備を掘っていけばどんどん楽になっていく、といったRPGの醍醐味が非常に薄い。 難易度による報酬の再スケーリングが無いのも残念。 キャンペーンクリアまでを評価するのであればそれなりにボーダーランズとして及第点かもしれないが、掘って掘って掘りまくるといったトレハンゲーとしてはボダランシリースの中で一番ツマラナイ
Uh, multiplayer doesn't really work, after sinking 50+ hours into the game all of a sudden it kept deleting all my currencies and items when I would join any of my friends lobbies. No point in dealing with an extremely unenjoyable inventory experience when a big part of the game is inventory management. "Just don't play multiplayer" was the fix GB told another player it happened to 8 months ago, so it's safe to say they know and they don't care. Don't buy. 1 star
unoptimized bloatware
Have played for over 150 hours, tried various characters, had a decent time as Vex, the others were a constant slog. Made it through quite a few boss fights, opened a couple of vaults..... At some point all the characters become overwhelmed by adversaries, stuttering gameplay, broken navigation. You can change to the "easy" mode, or go broke. Normal gameplay seems to be out of my realm.... Xbox controller "Partially Supported", and they mean it. Better with keyboard and mouse for most stuff. Navigation is basically impossible, mostly blind and searching trying to figure out what to do, even for simple tasks. No real story line, brings back a lot of memories from Borderlands 3, a game with a plot, and even some really deep moments. Typhon De Leon, I missed you on this one. Plays alot like doom eternal, not much joy as a follow on to a decent game. 5/10, save your money. amd 3950 16 core, 64gb ram, Nvidia 3080ti, 2560x1440, ran mostly at ~70fps, taichi board, TB msata samsung 960 pro, miserable performance for an old, but solid system, top 10% of gaming computers on 3d mark..... 160hz benq monitor. Good luck.
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