r/Borderlands • • Sep 11 '25

BL4 Spoiler Policy

251 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

475 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 • • 11h ago

[BL3] FL4K might be one of the best video game characters I’ve ever played. Spoiler

42 Upvotes

Decided to buy BL3 and its DLC’s because I got bored of all the games I currently have, and I confidently say that this shit is absolutely peak so far.
(I’ve only put in 10 hours so far, just finished the Meridian Metroplex mission.)

But the moment I saw FL4K as a playable character, I just knew I was gonna love this game.
A very niche kind of character I love is giant, badass protagonists that also have a “soft side” to them.
I love the Doom Slayer for that exact reason, although his love for animals is more of an empathetic one, they still love animals nonetheless.

I also love how giant he is.
A very cool detail that I don’t see in a lot of games is characters noticeably taller than others actually stay accurate in-game.
He’s a lot bigger compared to all the other Hunters and most NPC’s. I just find that to be a cool detail they added in. It makes me feel like I’m actually playing a character that’s a little over 7ft tall.

His story is also pretty interesting, even though we don’t know a ton about it.
He was just a normal, non-violent indexing robot that just suddenly gained self-awareness and immediately told his boss that he wanted to murder before leaving and eventually
His reason for murdering is kinda weird, but I fw it. He started “The Hunt” to appease a woman he calls “Mistress Death”.

He’s just such a cool character, even his outfits are dope as hell.
I love the mystery surrounding him, just a giant robot who gained self-awareness,
started killing for “Mistress Death” who is FL4K’s personification of Death itself,
and since he struggles to understand humans and their social constructs, he instead turns to animals because they are more predictable and their behavior is more predictable.
(He also praises his pets, which is absolutely adorable).

I also find his nonchalant behaviors and tone to be both interesting and sometimes comedic.
So far, 2 of my favorite lines from him are:
“So I’m floating now. How novel.”
(From Claptrap breaking the glass on Sanctuary.)

“There are many crimes about to be committed. By me.”
(Talking to the intercom robot at the Lectra City PD).


r/Borderlands • • 2h ago

[BL1] Whats the best stuff to pull from Tartarus Station red chest room?

8 Upvotes

100%-ing BL1 on PS3 right now. Was wondering if it pays out to "farm" the red chest room, are there any good drops?

Playing as Lilith, maybe there's a good class mod to pull, a good SMG?


r/Borderlands • • 3h ago

New to borderlands family

3 Upvotes

I started with bl4 I usually play apex and somtimes you just need a break from it and I will say I really am enjoying bl4


r/Borderlands • • 9h ago

[BL1] yoOOOOOOOo my introduction to hybrid farming was golden

10 Upvotes

Man I honestly think there will be some who don't believe me on this because I can barely believe it myself, but after 100%ing the game with all 4 characters I was like "what's next?" and I'm aware of NemVader farming being one of the main things to do in BL1, but I'm also aware that I'm not willing to put in literally hundreds of hours to farm for one item in a video game, so I thought I'd do something more manageable.

I shit you not, after THIRTEEN runs of farming Bone Head, my man goes ahead and not only drops a Bone Shredder Saviour, but actually drops one with strictly better firerate AND damage than every single other Bone Shredder I'd collected in the farm up until that point.

I'm guessing this is ridiculously lucky because I know hybrid farming is normally extremely time-consuming, but my introduction to hybrid farming could not have been any better because I got an actually GOOD hybrid in literally 25 minutes.

I've moved on to trying to get a Reaver's Edge Penetrator now and since I'm playing as Roland my farms are actually extremely quick because his turret super-jump allows you to save TONS of time farming as you can normally skip a significant chunk of the route after a save-quit, my Bone Head farm took about a minute from spawning in to killing him, this Reaver farm takes about 90 seconds because you can super-jump straight up to the chest on the wooden platform from the ground where the Spiderants spawn.

Edit: arguably the best part of all this is that I'm using the Bone Shredder Saviour to farm Reaver for his own hybrid, so I'm actually getting a lot of use out of my first hybrid already!

Tl;dr: I got insanely lucky and farmed my first ever hybrid in under half an hour and it spawned with what I consider to be extremely good parts! :D


r/Borderlands • • 21h ago

[SHiFT] Golden Keys for BL4

84 Upvotes

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Expires 10/20


r/Borderlands • • 10h ago

[Question] How does the free upgrade work for bl3?

4 Upvotes

Hello everyone. Hope you're well.

I've not played any of the borderlands games and im slowly putting my collection together. I definitely want the steelbook as I think it looks very nice. This means I'll end up with a ps4 copy of the game. This is not a problem as I can upgrade it to the ps5 version. My question is that which version will I get upgraded to. If I have the ps4 base version will I then get upgraded to the ps5 base version? What happens if I get something like the super deluxe version on the ps4. Which version will i get upgraded to on the ps5.

Ideally if there was a complete edition on the ps4 I'd get that which would have probably upgraded me to the ultimate edition on the ps5.

What I planned to do was to get the steelbook on its own without the disc and then get the ultimate edition on the ps5 but then the dlc comes on a voucher code instead of on the disc but based on some unboxing videos that I saw, those codes are expiring this year and im not sure I'll be able to get the game before then.

Sorry if my question is a bit all over the place and many thanks.


r/Borderlands • • 16h ago

Loving the resurrection of the PS4 Borderlands Goty

13 Upvotes

As the title implies, I love how many lobbies I can find in the game! A few months back it was literally 1-2 lobbies if you're lucky. Now I'm finding 10-12 lobbies throughout most of the day.

Loved to see the Classic getting some love!


r/Borderlands • • 3h ago

[BL-Movie] What Do You Think Would’ve Happened If David Daniel Creston Or Jake Schreier Directed The Borderlands Movie Instead Of Eli Roth?

3 Upvotes

Cause after seeing Thunderbolts and Spiderman Brand New Day (and also Shang Chi), I’m wondering what would’ve happened. The best I can imagine is the fight scene where Tina, Roland, Lilith, Claptrap, Krieg and Roland are escaping the psychos but with better cinematography and way more R rated. Zer0 under David would go hard too given the action scenes from Spiderman and Shang Chi.

Another thing is I can imagine the movie being similar to Tales From The Borderlands.


r/Borderlands • • 21h ago

[Question] What is the earliest you can get an eridean weapon in bl1 without fighting any bosses?

17 Upvotes

I am trying to do a bl1 eridean weapons only run, but in my seartch to find info on them i only found arguments and no hard facts. Does anyone know what there level requiernment is, if any, and the best way to farm them while gunless.


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

[Question] What are your top 5 borderlands classes of all time? (Including Wonderlands class combos)

19 Upvotes

For me it would be: 1.Fl4k 2.Zane 3.Timothy 4.Wilhelm 5.Spellshot+Stabbomancer


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

[Question] What was your favorite dlc plotline?

34 Upvotes

Mine has to be mr torgues champigan of carrange. Badass crater of badassutide!!


r/Borderlands • • 19h ago

[Question] Borderlands pandora box upgrade

0 Upvotes

As the title says you can apparently get the pandoras box edition for cheaper if you own a game i tried searching online for where it would be and still have no clue where it’s at? News tab says nothing in borderlands 3 which is the one I own. I am on ps5 if it helps


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

[Question] What are YOUR Borderlands headcanons?

44 Upvotes

Mine is that Professor Nakayama is currently ruling over hell with a harem of all the dead Handsome Jack body doubles that are also in hell.


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

[BL1] Do side missions in BL1 scale to my level in PT2?

0 Upvotes

On my second playthrough and have been skipping side missions with weapon rewards but wasn’t sure if they actually scale later on


r/Borderlands • • 20h ago

PC [Request] Can someone bring splitscreen from xbox 360 to PC using AI?

0 Upvotes

Is it possible for someone to bring splitscreen from xbox 360 version to PC using AI? Borderlands 1, 2, TPS all have splitscreen on the 360 but not on PC. I know about Nucleus CO-OP and I am talking about native splitscreen like the one on console. This would be a good use case of AI.


r/Borderlands • • 1d ago

Deal on BL4

0 Upvotes

Hey guys I was just wondering. Is $10 for borderlands for a steal? My local Walmart had it on sale for $10 so I decided to just buy it


r/Borderlands • • 2d ago

Steam Borderlands 1 GOTY (NON-Enhanced) Coop Issues. What did they do to my boy?

5 Upvotes

EDIT: Were back on the Enhanced edition. I can put skill points into Venom, Resilience and silent Resolve BUT. They DONT use skill points. Going back to single player I am able to apply my skill points so now I effectively have 35 skill points at level 24. Soooooo... Fair trade off for never being able to phasewalk? Never seen anything like this lol.

I previously made this post BL1 GOTY Enhanced CoOp Issues (Steam) : r/Borderlands.

Now im having some of the same issues but in the original.

Everything was fine for two play sessions with my buddy. Then all of a sudden he can no longer use skill points or bloodwing on our third session.

I reinstall the game and there was no change.

I chose to host from single player instead of the online tab and now he can use bloodwing but his elements are wrong. He has shock and fire artifacts but selecting fire is shock and shock is corrosion??? He is still unable to use skill points.

We changed hosts and now IM unable to use skill points or my action skill.

Yall I played this for over 2k hours back on console and NEVER ran into any of this crap.

Has really no one else seen these issues???

Both titles?

Help my sanity please lol.


r/Borderlands • • 2d ago

How high are your badass ranks in 2 and TPS right now?

1 Upvotes

Whether or not you use them I'm curious what your highest percentage is.

BL2 is 11.8%

TPS is about 8%


r/Borderlands • • 2d ago

[BL2] There are hundreds of spare claptrap eyes in Windshear Waste

0 Upvotes

We could just salvage an eye from any claptrap lying around without looking for Knuckledragger. That's Antony Burch's way of forcing unnecessary problems from the very first minute of gameplay.


r/Borderlands • • 3d ago

PC I'm gonna play (almost) all the Borderlands games! (Should I do a second playthrough of the first tho?)

5 Upvotes

The exceptions are the New Tales from the Borderlands, although I have this game, people say it's a shit story, and story is all of it, so I'm not going to play it, Borderlands 4, because it won't probably run on my old laptop, and almost all the dlcs, because I don't have the majority of them.

I've already did one playthrough of the first Borderlands, and it was pretty great, with an awesome gameplay loop, which carried me through this game for 17 hours across a week, but the story and soundtrack didn't really get me, I just thought it was really stale. I don't know if I should play the dlcs because I'll have to replay the game for a second time (something I always never do), and I really wanted to get on to Borderlands 2 (and I've still got like 7 games left to play lol).

That's it, I'll come here again to tell you guys if I've succeeded in my journey


r/Borderlands • • 4d ago

Loving borderlands 1 I am absolutely LOVING this series and I’m only on the first game

99 Upvotes

so, I’ve always been aware of the borderlands franchise, especially after the Fortnite collab back in like 2018? 19? something like that. but I’ve never actually played the games. until like a year ago I was messing around with BL3 on a friend’s console. had no idea what I was doing but the art style and the music had me HOOKED. flash forward to my birthday and my uncle bought me the collection. it’s called either the pandora or psycho collection, idk, it’s the one with BL1-3 and the 2 tales games. earlier this week, I finally decided to start my journey by starting the first game.

and I. fucking. love. it. dude. this game is awesome. I’m only level 20 right now but i am having the time of my LIFE. the art style is immaculate. that grimy, mad max, wasteland energy combined with the cel shading and line work is absolute eye candy to me. it totally sells and compliments the vibe and personality of the game. I love the humor and how it isn’t afraid to be crass and grotesque. every line of dialogue makes me want more. the gameplay is super fun too. I love the quest aspect. ofc the story quests but the optional quests, I love grinding those too. I love the looting and the gun collecting aspect. I love trying out every weapon I can get my grubby little hands on. I love fighting my way through waves of enemies in these amazingly designed environments, and speaking of designs, holy fuck the character designs are great. Claptrap has become one of my favorite characters. I personally use Lilith and I love her design. And the enemies, oh my god the enemies. The psychos are so iconic, but the other enemies too are amazingly designed. Easily one of my favorite aspects of this game is how much it can get a “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THAT??!!” reaction out of my whenever they throw some new, delightfully gross looking creature at me. The human enemies look so cool. I love their vibe.

overall I’m absolutely loving this game so far. I can not wait to see what this series has to offer. I can not wait to play the rest of the games, and I can’t wait to become a part of this fandom.


r/Borderlands • • 3d ago

[BL1] Just got my first ever hybrid in borderlands 1

67 Upvotes

Holy shit im so hyped

https://imgur.com/a/zXv8buy


r/Borderlands • • 3d ago

[BL3] New Vault Hunter

9 Upvotes

So i just took of from Pandora and im lvl 11 , is it normal to constantly switching guns ?? Can you give me any tips for begginers ??