Borderlands 4: Release Date, Gameplay Trailer, And Everything We Know So Far About The Looter-Shooter

On the subject of treasure, easy gunplay, and chatterbox robots, Borderlands is in a category of its personal. A brand new mainline entry within the looter-shooter sequence is ready to reach quickly, and this new chapter within the ongoing saga of Vault Hunters and alien booty seems to be set to introduce some attention-grabbing adjustments to the formulation of this long-running sequence. Forward of its launch in September, we have gathered up every thing we find out about Borderlands 4 to this point, and what you possibly can anticipate from the sport when it is unleashed on PC and console.

When will Borderlands 4 be launched?

Borderlands 4 shall be launched on September 23, and is one in all a number of huge video games that Take-Two has lined up for the yr. With a confirmed launch date for the brand new Borderlands, it seems to be just like the launch date for the extremely anticipated GTA 6 is coming into view, as Take-Two is seeking to have a snug hole between every AAA sport launch.

Borderlands 4 trailer

Borderlands 4 platforms

Borderlands 4 will launch for PC, PS5, and Xbox Collection X|S.

Borderlands 4 story, setting, and characters

“Ignite a resistance and blast your means via mechanical monstrosities, bloodthirsty bandits, and harsh beasts. Amass an arsenal of death-dealing firepower to wreak havoc as you tear your means throughout Kairos,” the official synopsis for the sport reads.

We’ve confronted extradimensional monsters, a genocidal CEO from hell, and deadly social media influencers in earlier video games, however for Borderlands 4, we’ll be taking up the oppressive Timekeeper. We’ve seen glimpses of him within the trailers for Borderlands 4, and from what little data has been revealed, we do know that he is a sharp-dressed dictator aiming to create an ideal world order. That, and he is apparently way more harmful than Good-looking Jack ever was.

Whereas Borderlands 3 expanded past Pandora to a number of different worlds, Borderlands 4 will happen on the planet of Kairos. As a result of the sport has been designed for PC, Xbox Collection X|S, and PS5, this makes Kairos a seamless and “expansive” location to discover. In response to Gearbox Software program CEO Randy Pitchford, should you see an space of the world that pursuits you, you will be free to discover it.

“One of many challenges with the time period ‘open world’ is different video games have carried out various things with that and there is issues that we’re doing that none of them have carried out,” Pitchford mentioned. “However there are issues that we, particularly, do not do as a result of we’re Borderlands. And we care so deeply about fight dynamics and care so deeply about that moment-to-moment feeling. We craft this [world]. Everything that unfolds has [purpose]. You may really feel the guts of the designer behind it. You may inform, those that care lots made this shit.”

“They’re placing this right here for [the player]. This is not all only a systemic, algorithmically stuffed world. So watch out once you’re speaking about this. I would not say ‘open world’ as a result of that [term] will include baggage. That is not what we’re. However it’s seamless, and it’s expansive, and it’s bigger than something we have ever carried out, and it’s stuffed like nothing we have ever carried out.”

As for the world itself, Gearbox describes it as a high-tech however lo-fi location stuffed with attention-grabbing alternatives for gamers to experiment with gameplay and weapons.

Now let’s speak about what we all know in regards to the sport’s playable characters to this point.

Vault Hunters are the bread and butter of Borderlands video games, as every distinctive character permits you to expertise the primary marketing campaign from a distinct angle. There will be 4 Vault Hunters to select from on launch day–a custom that dates again to the primary Borderlands game–and each will supply a particular archetype function. Gearbox hasn’t elaborated on the Vault Hunter lessons but, however judging from the early gameplay trailers, it seems to be like we’ll get to play as a hulking gunslinger, highly effective Siren, and melee-focused swordsman in Borderlands 4.

Borderlands 4 improvement information

Just like the earlier video games, Borderlands is a looter-shooter that mixes an unique collection of weapons with distinctive motion abilities. The earlier sport shook up its bread-and-butter gunplay by making every weapon family–Dahl, Hyperion, Maliwan, Atlas, Vladof, Tediore, and Torgue–feel much more distinct from one another, so it will be attention-grabbing to see if this concept carries via to Borderlands 4.

Gearbox has added that it needs to discover a stability between approachability and complexity with the gameplay, each with the core first-person-shooting motion and the RPG skill-trees that could possibly be personalized to create highly effective Vault Hunter builds. On the identical time, you possibly can anticipate billions of various weapons to gather in your journey and Gearbox needs to chop again on the “overabundance of bathroom humor” that Borderlands 3 closely relied on.

It additionally would not be a Borderlands sport with out an choice to catch a experience! So far, we have seen a chunky hoverbike and a high-tech chariot straight out of the pod-racing scene from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, and it will be attention-grabbing to see what else we are able to get behind the wheel of within the full sport.

Whereas you can get round Kairos with one in all a number of new autos, a giant improve to the gameplay is a grappling hook that can be utilized to succeed in areas and make it easier to out in fight.

The different huge query we’re nonetheless ready to see answered pertains to what we are able to anticipate after Borderlands 4 launches.

In a practice relationship again to the very first Borderlands sport, Gearbox has repeatedly supported its looter-shooters with post-launch DLC expansions. The developer has but to substantiate if this would be the case for Borderlands 4, however we would not be too stunned to see historical past repeat itself right here.

A few of the finest Borderlands tales have come from these expansions after all–like Assault on Dragonkeep, The Claptastic Voyage, and Moxxi’s Heist of the Good-looking Jackpot–so here is hoping we get a couple of extra post-launch episodes.

A Borderlands 4 State of Play occasion is ready for this spring, so it won’t be for much longer till Gearbox reveals off and discusses the sport much more.