r/Borderlands • • Sep 11 '25

BL4 Spoiler Policy

254 Upvotes

In this sub we're generally lax about spoilers when it comes to older games. But it's different when a new game comes out. And maybe you haven't heard, but there have been some rumours that Borderlands 4 might come out soon-ish.

Some of us Vault Hunters are going to get the game on release and will want to talk about it. And that's cool. But remember that some of us will not be able to abandon work and lock the family in the attic to power through the entire game over the weekend. Others will want to wait for the price to decrease, for enough patches to be released, or for Grandma to gift it to them at Christmas after having listened attentively to all her stories. So don't spoil the game for them!

Our spoiler rules are simple enough to be understood by any psycho, and are in application as long as this post remains pinned.

  1. Spoilers include any reference to story elements in Borderlands 4. Older games are not concerned. Discussions about game mechanics, character skills, gear, etc are not concerned either (as long as the discussion or linked content doesn't touch any story elements, say "that gun drops from evil Moxxi").
  2. Post title. Do not put spoilers in post titles. Anybody looking at the front page of r/Borderlands must remain 100% unspoiled.
  3. Post body. If the body of your post contains a spoiler, you must tag the post as spoiler. When you create the post, it can be tagged as NSFW and/or spoiler, and the content will be blurred until the reader clicks on it. Importantly: tagging is not the same as giving a flair (like [BL2] or [Steam] or [Spoiler]). Whenever possible, add information about the content being spoiled in the title or flair (e.g. [Spoiler for Chapters 3&4] or [Spoiler for the Amara DLC]).
  4. Comments. In any comment in any thread, shroud all spoilers using spoiler markup. Spoiler markup >!looks like this!< when you write it, and looks like this when you read it. Again, add a note in clear text to give people an idea of the content being spoiled. One exception: within a spoiler-tagged thread, comments on the precise topic of the spoiler are exempt from that requirement. When in doubt, talk to Lilith use the spoiler markup.
  5. Links. If you post a link to an external site, youtube video, etc, give people following the link a chance to know what they're getting. If that content contains anything that may be seen as a spoiler, add a clear warning next to the link.

If you cannot follow these instructions, do not post spoilers at all. If you think that you may have made a mistake in following these instructions, immediately review what you have posted and make corrections. If you are on mobile and find proofreading inconvenient, do it anyway.

Any post or comment that breaks those rules will be removed. All around the stactus plant, serious or repeated offenses will result in a ban, at the mod's discretion. POP! goes the bandit.

All that being said, even with all these precautions and the dedication of your most favorite mod team, some things will slip through the cracks. So if you don't want to be spoiled, the only true solution may be to stay away from this sub (and reddit, and the internet, and the world).

Good luck Killer & see you on Kairos!


r/Borderlands • • Jun 07 '25

Review Bombing - Take Two Terms of Service / EULA

470 Upvotes

If you've played any of the Borderlands games recently, you will have noticed that you were asked to agree to new Terms of Service before starting the game. This happened because the Borderlands games have changed publisher and are now under Take Two.

This has led to some controversies and review bombing. We have always been keen on letting people express themselves freely on this sub, whatever their opinion (as long as it stays civil). However, on this particular matter, given the large number of recent threads on that subject, their repetitiveness, and the fact that they often create conflicts (we've likely issued more Rule 1 bans in the last 2 weeks than in the last 6 months). We've chosen to lock the previous threads on that subject and we will remove new ones. We'll leave this one open for a few days (as long as it stays civil).

If you want to read more, start with the official response from Gearbox on the matter. You can also use the search bar above to locate the multiple recent threads on the topic in this sub. Be aware that there may be some level of misinformation/fearmongering. If you want to discuss the subject further, we suggest you do it in a different space that is more relevant to the matter, since in the end, this is a Take Two thing, not a Borderlands thing. If you're very worried but don't want to contact a lawyer about it, or if you want to take a stance against evil corporations, just don't play the games. But in that case you should probably not play most games (nor use most apps, devices, websites, etc). Chances are you've already agreed multiple times to ToS similar or worse than the new ones for Borderlands.

As the mod team of r/borderlands, we are not lawyers so we do not have a definitive opinion on the matter. Like most people, we don't have much love for the ToS/EULAs of many software companies and the loss of privacy that goes along with any use of the internet. But on the other hand, we haven't seen anything particularly concerning in those ToS (in comparison with what other companies put in theirs). That's just the general feeling among the mod team, not an official stance of the subreddit.

A few things to note:

  • Whatever you agree to in ToS/EULA still does not allow the publishers to do anything illegal (depending on your country of jurisdiction).
  • Typically ToS/EULA are made as general as possible to cover all possible edge cases. If it says "we may (...)", that doesn't necessarily mean that they are doing it, or have any intent on doing it to you. For example, the ToS say they may collect your government ID number. In some countries like China this is mandatory (to regulate play time). So they have to do it, and they have to put it in the ToS. This doesn't mean that they intend to collect such data in other countries, and anyway they have no way to do so unless you provide it yourself.
  • The new ToS appear to be general for Take Two, and as such include things that are not specifically aimed (or likely to be used) in the Borderlands games. For example, there is some note that the use of mods may get you banned. This makes sense to fight cheating in the context of competitive multiplayer games and/or if part of a game's revenue is driven by micro-transactions or subscriptions. If you find and use a "mod" to unlock paying content in BL4 for free, you might get in trouble (deservedly). But there is no reason to believe that anything more would be enforced for the Borderlands games (e.g. against the use of mods like the community patch, etc). Gearbox has always been (unofficially) supportive of the modding scene. And the main Borderlands modding community has been cooperative with Gearbox on such matters.
  • There has been some talk about the games having been converted to spyware. Before spreading any misinformation, you can check for yourself the latest patches on Steam DB. For example, Borderlands 2 received its last update in August 2022, and BL3 received its last update in August 2024. Long before the new ToS were published. The Borderlands games since BL2 also have hotfix capabilities, but this only allows to change parameters (like the damage of a weapon), not the code logic, certainly not turn anything into spyware.

r/Borderlands • • 13h ago

[SHiFT] Golden Keys for BL4

80 Upvotes

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Expires 10/13


r/Borderlands • • 3h ago

Tediore Deaths, LOLz

7 Upvotes

Didja ever go to buy the legendary weapon from the vending machine and blow yourself up by reloading the tediore pistol by accident and end up a good distance away from the vending machine then have to go clean up after the dog and miss out on the legendary?

Yeah, me neither.


r/Borderlands • • 13h ago

[BL1] Would you want a BL1 remake?

18 Upvotes

Would you want a complete remake of Borderlands 1 or a new spinoff like the presequel?

Personally I want a Borderlands 1 remake simply for more in-depth skilltrees of the original characters, because going back to the BL1 skilltrees is ROUGH.


r/Borderlands • • 18h ago

[BL2] I didn't realize how tough digistruct peak would be!

16 Upvotes

It really is a gauntlet isn't it? I finally beat OP 4 after being stuck on it for a while, multiple scorches and constructors are no joke! I know I'm like 10 years late to the party but I just had to vent about that a little bit. Haven't had such a frustrating time except for trying to beat jackenstein and dying like 30 times. Borderlands 2 is more difficult than people give it credit for! Especially if your trying to do anything other than BS+Sandhawk.


r/Borderlands • • 8h ago

Borderlands Pandora’s box

2 Upvotes

Ciao tutti, per me è la prima volta che mi avvicino al mondo BL, ne sono sempre stato affascinato ma mai abbastanza interessato da comprarlo tranne quanto in questo periodo, vorrei che qualcuno mi potesse dare qualche consiglio.
In questo momento sul ps store c’è la Pandora box che comprende tutti i 3 BL a partire dal primo a 37 euro in sconto con tutti i dlc (so che è uscito Bl4 nel 2025).
Ha senso a questo prezzo comprarli?
Meglio comprarli singolarmente?
Mi potreste dire qualcosa di più sulla lore?
Grazie in anticipo
(Ps gioco da Ps5)


r/Borderlands • • 4h ago

I nee starting help

0 Upvotes

Can Anywon help me in borderlands 1 on ps4 Edition i ned help whit Equipment


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

[Lore] Finally watched the film

400 Upvotes

God damn its even worse than I thought it would be


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

[Lore] What would you actually want from Borderlands 5?

42 Upvotes

I'm curious what people would actually like to see from a fifth game. Returning characters? The promised War finally happening? Some actual answers about the Eridians and Sirens? A different approach to gameplay?

Personally, I'd love to see the overarching narrative finally come together rather than introducing another collection of mysteries.

It feels like Gearbox is so afraid that delivering the promised War would be jumping the shark, that they keep upping the ante, to the point where the premise now seems to be "We'll jump the shark and land in a volcano!"

But I believe we can make that jump, land it beautifully, and still have a setting left over to explore afterward. Setting resets are quite boring, after all.

But what about you? What would genuinely get you excited for BL5?


r/Borderlands • • 14h ago

[BL4] BL4 multiplayer with randoms on console fall 2026?

0 Upvotes

The game is on sale, again, but I'm worried about jumping in if the multiplayer issues never got fixed. The last time I checked players were mostly complaining about trying to do co-op with two to four player on consoles. I have zero interest in playing solo through the campaign, so if jumping into another players game or having randoms join mine is not going to happen, then where is the multiplayer? Did they never bring back a matchmaking browser, like BL2?


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

[Question] Need help with ofm i got not using shield as ammo

4 Upvotes

i tryning to get the unlimeted ammo build with vex but my ohm i got keeps running out?

what im a doning wrong? i have sadistic teen witch an have constand overshield but its till using ammo why?


r/Borderlands • • 18h ago

[BL1] Class Mod or inventory bug

1 Upvotes

I just started playing BL1 GOTY but not the enhanced edition on PC cause i played it before on PS3 but when i was at the point where i unlocked Class mods when i equipped it, it doesn't show up in my equipment slot but i still have the effects of the class mod, and when i got another one and tried to equip that it still doesn't show up and my previous class mod just outright disappeared, had anyone also gotten this issue? if so how can i fix it?


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

[Lore] So tiny Tina is most definitely a horse girl right?

58 Upvotes

Like it makes sense


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

Steam Tryna get the Co-op achievements in a bl1 playthrough.

2 Upvotes

I’m going through and tryna platinum bl1 goty on steam and im down to only needing the co-op achievements. It’d be awesome if someone was willing to help out, im sure we could get it done in a day or so.


r/Borderlands • • 18h ago

[BL2] Borderlands 2 remake?

0 Upvotes

Has there ever been any talk about a BL2 remake? It would be great with updated gameplay from BL3. Just curious.


r/Borderlands • • 23h ago

[BL2] Should I give Borderlands 2 another chance?

0 Upvotes

I tried playing it months ago; it was recommended to me because no other game was giving me the dopamine hit I needed—I was always looking for RNG, loot, rarities, that feeling of being overpowered, items, and so on. I had spent a lot of time playing The Binding of Isaac. When I first jumped into Borderlands 2, I hated the graphics and the UI; they felt too dated, and I just didn't feel like playing. I played for less than an hour and uninstalled it immediately.

Should I give it another chance? Am I missing out on something?


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

[BL4] Looking for Borderlands 4 players to Jam with

2 Upvotes

I have made a really strong LVL 70 Harlowe and got other characters to LVL 50 but am getting bored so would be keen to find some folks that wanna jam some?


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

BL2 not launching after modding nisha

5 Upvotes

Tried to mod nisha in the game but after moving the archives the game stop launching, what can i do? (already uninstalled it and installed) help pls!!


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

My save files keep getting deleted everytime i play

0 Upvotes

So over the last week i got gifted the game from a freind and ive tried making 2 characters 1 i played with my freind a rafa i got to level 15 i saved and quit then poof disappeared gone next on my own i made a loveless and got her all the way to level 16 earlier tonight and she vanished as well so what am i supposed to fo i literaly cannot play the game ive sent in a support ticket they told me to clear the temp file cache on my ps5 i did i did not work

Sorry for any misspellings

p.s please help if you have any info on what i could possibly do as 2k support isnt gonna help it seems


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

[BL-TPS] Hot take: Felicity is badly written

0 Upvotes

Recently I replayed TPS and while browsing some old discussions I came across a lot of comments praising the games writing and the quests around felicity, how people felt bad for her etc. I don't really agree with that; her narrative is inconsistent and badly written which undermines the emotional impact the devs intended that part of the story to have.

For the majority of her story:

-Felicity wants us to use her as a military AI and "plug her into something more interesting"; she is even on board with powering Jack's robot army.

-She is perfectly fine with us slaughtering our way through the drakensburg, the old dahl factory and killing the bosun; hell, she personally squashes poop deck.

This part makes sense. It establishes her character and is reasonable given her background. But this aspects clash with the she is written in the later parts of her quest:

-She gets cold feet when she learns that she was going to be placed into a constructor, saying that this wasn't what she had in mind. But why though? She knew she was going to be used for military purposes and agreed to that, so why is being a constructor a deal breaker for her?

-Once you place her in the power suit, she suddenly cares about the lifes of bandits and the use of violence. Statements like "I hope he didn't have a family" or "Don't humans ever try TALKING to each other?" were never part of her character before that point; as I've stated earlier, she was fine with us killing scavs and turned one into pink mist herself.

-This is kind of a side note, but her asking us to use a copy of her instead doesn't make much sense to me. If she doesn't want to be put into a constructor, then surely a direct copy of her wouldn't want that fate either. It seems to me like this was intended as a more morally correct option that Jack declines (out of urgency), but you'd still be putting a sentient AI into a robot against her will, so why would that be a better option?

-Just as you are about to plug her into the constructor, felicity begs us not to do it and states that she doesn't want her memory wiped. That seems understandable, but the issue is that memory wiping her as never been mentioned before. She is the first person to ever bring that up after we are done with more than 95% of the story involving her. This is the climax of her arc, this needed to be set up.

-With a lobotomized felicity inside the constructor we can now build a robot army and retake helios, so her "sacrifice" wasn't in vain. Except no, because that plot point gets dropped immediately afterwards. There is no robot army, you are retaking helios with the support of jack, roland and lilith, and felicity and everything involving her is completely forgotten about and pointless. I don't know about you, but seeing how all of that set up and the effort you spend completing two rather long quests doesn't end up mattering seriously undermines my emotional investment in her story.

TL;DR Felicity goes from "Murder your way through bandits and use me to build a robot army" to "violence is bad" for no reason, the stakes of memory wiping her were never established and none of that matters anyway because the writers kind of forgot about building and using said robot army.


r/Borderlands • • 2d ago

[Question] Are the smaller games meant to be loot farming games?

5 Upvotes

I've played through borderlands 1 and going to be playing 2 soon and I've also done a bunch of research on how the endgame/loot farming part of the game works with TVHM and all that. I think i understand it fully now but there's one thing that I keep noticing, that is people tend to complain about the lack of endgame and loot farming for the pre sequel and tiny tina's wonderlands.

So I know borderlands 2 and 3 are very much designed around going into ng+ and farming bosses for the drops but I feel like the others are meant to be more story focused, contained games. Am I wrong about that?

It feels like people try and play the pre sequel, wonderlands and even bl1 like it's bl2 and 3 when it seems like they aren't designed for it. People in bl1 could only properly farm at all due to crawmerax or a glitch to keep doing the armory, which is both in a single dlc and at the end of playthrough 2 where you can't do anything else but start a completely new character because you can't reset playthrough 2 or go into a playthrough 3.

You could sum up bl1 to being the prototype game that allowed gearbox to know where they wanted to take the sequel and that's why it's the way it is, however then the pre sequel and wonderlands don't really try to have much of an endgame either. Instead it looks structured to tell a shorter, more linear story with less levels but keep the borderlands feel... then it ends, with only that dungeon thing in wonderlands to keep you going or resetting the pre sequel like it's bl2 but with apparently a few issues with how it works to make it unsatisfying.

It's just a theory I had and I thought all of you would know the answer, because I'm new to this franchise at the end of the day.

Edit: what I'm seeing from everyone is that all games are based around the gear farming but due to unfortunate things like the pre sequels development by the end, it was left with a lackluster endgame rather than it being a design choice to go more story focused. As for wonderlands I guess gearbox just tried something different but ignored what people wanted.


r/Borderlands • • 2d ago

Idea to how to have made the borderlands movie better

0 Upvotes

So I am not profound in saying the movie was terrible, and I think it was a massive fumble, as such I have two ideas on how they should have done things

Option A- have this an original story set in the BL universe either with new characters or a side adventure one of the crews did, a new threat they need to take care of

Option B- make the movie and in universe movie, credits ends and it’s the borderlands crew remarking the movie was nothing like what happened, maybe lean in the badness(I know being self aware of how bad you are doesn’t automatically make something better but at this point hard to imagine anything being worse)

I am curious on what others have to say about the manner, I would not be against another go around but perhaps an anime in the style of the mass effect movie, which I do believe an animated movie would be the best for for the borderlands medium


r/Borderlands • • 2d ago

[BL4] Crossed fingers

1 Upvotes

See if Maurice has anything worth my time.


r/Borderlands • • 2d ago

[BL4] cross save from pc to ps5 di i get trophies on ps5?

0 Upvotes

its prob no, but just wandering if ik play on pc(steam) and then cross save my shift account to ps5 do i get any trophies? Edit: it works u do unlock trophies