Borderlands 4 YouTuber Tries to Nerf Proof Their Character, Instead Stumbles Upon What Is Almost Certainly an ‘Unintended Interplay’ That Does So Much Damage It Causes Bosses ‘Whole Existence Failure’

Borderlands 4 is rife with overpowered builds that use what developer Gearbox has described as “unintended interactions” to trigger large harm, even to the sport’s hardest bosses on the toughest difficulties. Essentially the most notorious of those is ‘the knife,’ which Gearbox has mentioned it’s conscious of however received’t nerf simply but. Now, there’s one other new finest boss melting construct to add to the listing.

YouTuber NickTew, who had led the cost on-line together with his knife construct discovery, set out to “nerf proof” their Vex in mild of Gearbox’s feedback about probably stamping out knife builds. In doing so, he discovered a manner to trigger a lot harm from a single clip of a gun’s journal that Borderlands 4 spat out a “complete existence failure” message within the boss well being bar — one thing I had no thought even existed within the sport.

In a new video, NickTew had to decelerate the gameplay simply to have the ability to present this ‘complete existence failure’ message in motion, so rapidly did the boss’ well being disappear.

The interplay requires you might have a gun with the Torgue Licensed Sticky Journal and the Taser alt-fire mode. A Torgue Sticky magazine permits the weapon to fireplace sticky projectiles referred to as “gyrojets” that connect to enemies and explode for enormous harm upon reloading or switching modes. On this case, switching to Taser.

NickTew demonstrates how one can load an enemy up with gyrojets by way of an SMG due to its quick price of fireplace and massive journal, then proper earlier than reloading, swap to the underbarrel taser, inflicting the gyrojets to explode and trigger far more harm than they might if reloading usually. As NickTew put it, with this construct you’re in a position to “snap the boss out of existence.” This works on each character, and it doesn’t contain utilizing the knife.

The one subject right here is an SMG with this particular mixture (Torgue Sticky and alt-fire) is a comparatively uncommon discover, so that you’ll want to do a spot of farming to nab one. Or maybe you might have one anyway, sitting in your stock simply ready to trigger havoc.

NickTew isn’t totally positive why this mixture causes a lot harm. Is it a bug, or are there calculations happening beneath the hood that spark this big uptick? It actually seems like one in all Borderlands 4’s “unintended interactions,” so it’s most likely not lengthy for this world.

This week, Gearbox indicated that within the short-term it plans to buff underperforming gear and abilities reasonably than nerf overpowered builds. That means instakill builds like this one are protected for now. Affirmation got here from Borderlands 4 artistic director Graeme Timmins, who took to social media to acknowledge the controversy about what he referred to as “builds that use unintended interactions and/or the knife.”

Right here’s the assertion:

“We’ve seen the discourse about builds that use unintended interactions and/or the knife. We’re not going to act on these instantly, as an alternative, we’re our first spherical of buffs. These will get addressed however we’re going to begin with underperforming gear/abilities first.”

There’s no timeframe for Borderlands 4’s subsequent patch, however we all know some extra of what the studio is engaged on. PC efficiency enhancements are a “prime precedence,” the studio has mentioned. A Discipline of View (FOV) slider is on the best way to the console variations, too.

Borderlands 4 console gamers are additionally eager for a patch to deal with some obvious technical issues. Final week, the tech specialists at Digital Foundry confirmed a gradual worsening of framerate with steady playtime, even on PlayStation 5 Professional and Xbox Collection X. As revealed in (*4*), Digital Foundry discovered efficiency begins dipping after round half-hour to an hour, which it referred to as “too intrusive on the general expertise, too common an interruption.” Even after a very contemporary boot, the sport remains to be susceptible to framerate drops.

Gearbox growth chief Randy Pitchford has acknowledged the issue on social media, promising incoming enhancements. As a workaround, Pitchford prompt console gamers stop Borderlands 4 and restart. Digital Foundry’s Tom Morgan confirmed this does restore efficiency, however criticized the scenario, saying “resetting the sport each hour ought to actually not be an anticipated answer for gamers.”

In the meantime, Timmins has mentioned he’s bought his eye on “cricket leaping,” which lets Borderlands 4 gamers leap throughout big chunks of the map.

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Wesley is Director, Information at IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You possibly can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.