#IGN #Gaming #Borderlands4
Join creative director Graeme Timmins and senior project producer Anthony Nicholson and members of the development team at Gearbox Software for a deep dive into the gameplay of Borderlands 4 in this latest overview for the upcoming looter shooter game. Check out nearly 20 minutes of gameplay from Borderlands 4 as the developers introduce you to the deadly regions of Kairos you'll explore, give a peek into the story, two of the four new Vault Hunters (Vex, the Siren and Rafa, the Exo-Soldier), lobby system, show off a mission in a mountainous area, glide skills, some enemies you'll encounter, a variety of weapons, enhancements, overhauled drop rates and loot, combat, different builds, breakdown Action Skills, a cat companion, new characters, familiar faces (like Claptrap), a peek at a boss fight, and more. Borderlands 4 will be available on PS5 (PlayStation 5), PC (via Steam and Epic Games Store), and Xbox Series X/S on September 12, 2025. It is also coming to Nintendo Switch 2.
Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, outrageous enemies, and intense co-op action. Break free from a dangerous hidden planet as one of four new badass Vault Hunters.
#IGN #Gaming #Borderlands4
Join creative director Graeme Timmins and senior project producer Anthony Nicholson and members of the development team at Gearbox Software for a deep dive into the gameplay of Borderlands 4 in this latest overview for the upcoming looter shooter game. Check out nearly 20 minutes of gameplay from Borderlands 4 as the developers introduce you to the deadly regions of Kairos you'll explore, give a peek into the story, two of the four new Vault Hunters (Vex, the Siren and Rafa, the Exo-Soldier), lobby system, show off a mission in a mountainous area, glide skills, some enemies you'll encounter, a variety of weapons, enhancements, overhauled drop rates and loot, combat, different builds, breakdown Action Skills, a cat companion, new characters, familiar faces (like Claptrap), a peek at a boss fight, and more. Borderlands 4 will be available on PS5 (PlayStation 5), PC (via Steam and Epic Games Store), and Xbox Series X/S on September 12, 2025. It is also coming to Nintendo Switch 2.
Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, outrageous 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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00:00Hey-o! I'm Randy Pitchford, founder of Gearbox Entertainment.
00:07Today, we're giving you our deepest look yet at Borderlands 4.
00:12All the excitement, loot, and gnarly carnage all running on PlayStation 5 Pro.
00:22Since creating the looter-shooter genre nearly 16 years ago,
00:25we've continued to refine the formula delivering better loot,
00:28greater freedom, and endless mayhem.
00:31And with Borderlands 4, we push things even further.
00:34This is hands down our best Borderlands ever.
00:37All new movement, abilities, bigger and badder enemies,
00:40and a brand new planet, all in service of making you feel like a total badass.
00:44It's the perfect entry point for new players with incredible new places and a great story.
00:49And for our long-time Borderlands fans, we're throwing back to our more grounded tone
00:55while pushing gameplay ahead further than ever before.
00:59This is the culmination of years of hard work from my teammates across the Gearbox Studios.
01:05So enough talk, let's get it!
01:07This is Borderlands 4.
01:10You play as a Vault Hunter.
01:29where life is cheap and guns are plentiful.
01:34You play as a Vault Hunter,
01:36a badass mercenary with powerful abilities called Action Skills.
01:40Today I'm playing as Vex, our new Siren.
01:43She wields supernatural phase energy to devastating effect.
01:48She can use that energy to empower herself
01:51or channel it to conjure deadly minions that fight alongside her.
01:55And because everything's better in co-op, I'm joining as Rafa,
02:00a former TDR soldier who wears an experimental exosuit.
02:04He can destruct an arsenal of weapons, like the razor-sharp Arknives.
02:10These are two of our four new Vault Hunters that you can play at launch.
02:15Borderlands 4 takes place on Kairos,
02:17an all-new planet steeped in conflict.
02:21For thousands of years, the Timekeeper kept the planet hidden.
02:25Controlling its inhabitants with bolts,
02:27cybernetic implants fused to their spots.
02:31Anyone who stepped out of line was brutally crushed
02:33by his army of synthetic soldiers known as the Order.
02:39That is until six years ago, when Alpha showed up.
02:42This rogue moon was teleported away from Pandora
02:44at the end of Borderlands 3,
02:46by the legendary Vault Hunter, Lilith.
02:49When it reappeared across the galaxy,
02:51it crashed into the protective veil around Kairos.
02:55The results were devastating.
02:58A planet-wide cataclysmic event that disrupted the Timekeeper's perfect order.
03:02Now people all across Kairos have started rising up.
03:07Some even ripping out their bolts.
03:10And chunks of their brain along with it.
03:12Here it comes!
03:14That's the situation our Vault Hunters have crash-landed into.
03:18A planet ready to explode, and you're the spark.
03:21As you explore, you'll meet a cast of incredible characters.
03:28Fan favorites return, like Zane and Moxie.
03:33You'll also meet new friends like Rush.
03:37And as always, Claptrap is along for the ride.
03:41Last but not least is Echo 4.
03:47This helpful drone follows you everywhere.
03:50Hacking order tech, scanning the environment,
03:53and helping guide you to objectives.
03:56But enough of all that, let's get into the game.
04:04Thanks to our improved lobby system,
04:06it's easier than ever to join up with your friends on the fly.
04:09And with full cross-play at launch, you can play with your friends on any platform.
04:16Today, we're venturing into Terminus Range, a frigid, mountainous region.
04:21This is just one of the four zones on Kairos that you can seamlessly explore.
04:25There's next to no loading time, just endless looting and shooting mayhem.
04:32For our current mission, we need to break into a secret black site located deep in the mountains.
04:37One of the Timekeeper's Generals, Vile Lichter, has been conducting grotesque experiments on locals.
04:44It's up to us to stop him.
04:48All right, let's get moving.
04:51Here, I'm using Glide, one of our new movement abilities.
04:55Along with Dash, Double Jump, Climbing, and Point Grapple,
04:58these make getting around more fun and add a ton of utility to combat.
05:06As you traverse, you'll uncover a vast and beautiful world.
05:10And to bring Kairos to life, we've introduced dynamic weather and events,
05:15so you constantly have new things to discover.
05:17There's also plenty of local wildlife to contend with, like these Cratch, flying bees who attack and flocks.
05:24Here we've come across a Silo, one of several new activities in Borderlands 4.
05:35You'll naturally discover short gameplay experiences like this all across Kairos.
05:41There's no need to pick up a mission first.
05:43These are auto-granted and tracked on your hut.
05:46Silo's house old, decommissioned order tech that you can hijack for the Crimson Resistance.
05:52With the help of Echo 4, we'll hack into their network and release the communications balloon.
05:56Now that we're in charge, we can fast travel to the Silo.
06:17And as a bonus, it's revealed the approximate location of a Vault Key Fragment.
06:20We can collect these Fragments to unlock a Hidden Vault,
06:24a high-level dungeon with challenging combat and serious loot.
06:32Let's get after it.
06:46Another nice thing about Silo's is you can zipline up and take off.
06:50And if that's not fast enough for you, you can always pull out your personal vehicle, the DigiRunner.
07:04Just hop on, hit boost, and get rolling.
07:07You can customize the body, paint job, and even how it handles.
07:11And because this is Borderlands, you best believe it has guns.
07:15As you traverse, you'll encounter a host of dynamic events.
07:19From order patrols to world bosses, there's always something to shoot and loot.
07:26All right, we're coming up on an order outpost. Let's see the new movement abilities in action.
07:43Chaining our new traversal abilities together makes combat more dynamic than ever.
08:01You can dash in and out of melee attacks, dodge projectiles, or quickly reposition to gain an advantage.
08:07We're all right, but to rescue the team, you can do the best!
08:10Stay in and out of the way, mehr than ever.
08:12Now the Force has a strong one of our opponents.
08:14Every soldier's area has a strong one-time strong three-time strong three-time strong three-time strong.
08:15This is the main force of ㅋㅋㅋ
08:17by and the Force are in the last three-time strong.
08:19We're all ready to check its way outpost.
08:21No, this is exactly the way.
08:23You can't do anything.
08:24Now, I know that there's a vault fragment around here somewhere, but we've got a mission
08:49to get back to.
08:50Let's pull out Echo 4 to show us where to go.
08:57We're meeting up with none other than the tiger of Partali herself, Amara.
09:02She's a former vault hunter and exotic pet sitter from Borderlands 3.
09:06She came to Kairos in search of Lilith and is now helping us take down the timekeeper.
09:15Don't you whine at me Hermes, we'll play in a moment, huh?
09:22You'll be ready to pet sit for a few weeks and the next thing you know you're having
09:24full conversations with animals.
09:29You don't use security like that unless you've got something to hide.
09:32This must be the path to the black side.
09:34Agreed, but if Lilith is on the other side, I don't mind some property destruction.
09:39Ooh, your specialty.
09:41Please, be my guest.
09:46Come, let's throw some light on this black side of his.
09:54This place is crawling with creeps.
10:00Clear them up.
10:02Co-op has always been at the heart of Borderlands, and we've put a ton of work into making it
10:07better than ever.
10:08Our improved lobby was just the start.
10:10You can also set your own campaign difficulty independently of the rest of the party.
10:14This way, everyone can tune the experience to their liking.
10:17And you don't have to worry about looting and just stealing your drops,
10:20as loot is always instanced for each player.
10:23Plus, if you ever get split up, you can easily fast travel to your friends.
10:27And two-player split-screen returns so you can enjoy couch co-op.
10:31Regardless of how you play, we just want you to be able to hang with your buddies and have a great time.
10:36Tim! Tim!
10:39What the hell is that?
11:00Uh, everyone else heard the talking creep, right?
11:04Tim feels like the product of Lictor's twisted mind.
11:08Another of his experiments.
11:10If he's doing this to creeps, I shudder to think what he's doing to Lilith.
11:15We need to get inside.
11:17That air vent.
11:18Let's check it out.
11:28Hermes is really creeped out in here.
11:31Not me, obviously.
11:33Hermes.
11:35Now that we're in the black side, let's take a moment to talk about Lue.
11:41In Borderlands 4, each piece of gear comes from one of eight manufacturers
11:45with their own characteristics and trademarks.
11:49There's Jacobs, with crit-friendly black powder weapons.
11:53The elemental expertise of Maliwan.
11:55Vladov, who solve lower accuracy with more bullets.
12:00The Toss to reload TD ore.
12:04Or Tord, with explosions!
12:07We also have three new ones.
12:09The Order, with powerful charge and release blast.
12:13Fully auto ripper.
12:15And the reliable, easy-to-use Daedalus, which can use multiple ammo types.
12:19But that's just the start.
12:21We've introduced an all-new licensed parts system.
12:24This allows for behaviors and abilities from multiple manufacturers
12:27to spawn in a single weapon.
12:29For instance, this flat-off assault rifle features a Torg Mag,
12:33Hyperion Shield, and a Maliwan elemental switch.
12:37Meaning it shoots fast and explodes things.
12:39The higher the rarity, the more parts that can randomly spawn,
12:43creating wilder and wilder loot.
12:45And that's before even getting into alt-fire modes,
12:49under-barrels, and elemental damage.
12:53The possibilities are truly endless.
12:57To support playing with your favorite manufacturer,
13:00we've added enhancements.
13:02This new type of gear replaces artifacts
13:04and provides bonuses to specific manufacturers.
13:09Take my current enhancement.
13:10It adds a kill bonus to all guns with Daedalus parts,
13:13along with more reload speed and critical damage.
13:19This lets you min-max your build around your favorite manufacturer,
13:22immediately turning just-okay guns into amazing weapons.
13:27Finally, we've heard your feedback,
13:29and we've overhauled our drop rates and loot across the game.
13:32We've worked hard to make sure all our gear feels better than ever,
13:35while also making rarity matter again.
13:37This makes for our most satisfying loot chase ever.
13:39And at the top of everything are legendaries.
13:41These have always had unique effects
13:43that you won't find on any other piece of gear.
13:45But in Borderlands 3, they drop too often.
13:47This not only devalued legendaries,
13:49it made everything feel less valuable.
13:52In our new system,
13:53not only do all guns feel great,
13:55but now legendaries will truly be special events.
13:57We've added the magic back to our loot chase,
13:59and we know you'll love grinding all that great gear on Kairos.
14:07But let's get back to combat so I can show you my favorite thing,
14:11Ordnance.
14:12This is the new gear slot for grenades and heavy weapons
14:15like rocket launchers.
14:16Instead of taking up a gun slot and ammo,
14:24Ordnance now has cooldown timers.
14:26No more saving the big guns for boss fights.
14:29Now you can blow stuff up as often as you want.
14:32Before we go further,
14:34let's talk a little bit about action skills.
14:46Every Vault Hunter has a set of three unique action skills.
14:50These are class-defining abilities with devastating effects.
14:54Up until now,
14:55I'd been using Incarnate to deliver powerful phase blasts.
14:58But let's switch it up to phase familiar
15:00and pull out trouble.
15:02As you can see,
15:03each action skill has its own branching skill tree,
15:06giving you more build freedom than ever before.
15:09On top of passive skills,
15:10you can further customize action skills
15:12with augments and capstones.
15:14These are socketed enhancements
15:15that add new behaviors and functions
15:17to your action skill.
15:19Different builds completely change how combat plays out,
15:22resulting in near endless freedom to experiment.
15:25You can swap unlocked augments or capstones on the fly
15:28or completely respec your skill trees at hubs around Kairos.
15:32This gives us a chance to talk about traits.
15:35Each Vault Hunter has a unique passive ability called a trait.
15:38For Vex,
15:39her action skills attune to the element of her equipped weapon.
15:42So by swapping guns,
15:44I can change trouble's damage from kinetic to shock, fire,
15:48or any other elemental type.
15:50And also,
15:51you can pet the cat.
15:52Dead end.
15:54Or is it?
15:56Let's see where this vent takes us.
15:58God,
16:02are those...
16:04test tubes?
16:05no ps.
16:19no,
16:20no,
16:21no,
16:22no,
16:24no.
16:25no,
16:26no.
16:26no,
16:29no,
16:29no,
16:32no.
16:32I'm down, but thankfully, our fight for your life mechanic makes a return.
16:56Of course, I could have avoided it in the first place if I had just used my ref kit.
17:00This new piece of gear provides health and other buffs, like temporarily boosting my elemental damage, rate of fire, or movement speed.
17:12I'm almost afraid to ask what's in the tube.
17:15Ugh, look at these guys. Are those crystals growing out of them?
17:20By the way, if you're looking to experience the story again or just grind for loot, we've added full mission and boss replay.
17:30That's right. No more save loading to run bosses.
17:34Now you can return to the arena and use Moxie's big encore machine to spawn another run.
17:40But we'll talk more about Endgame later.
17:42For now, let's jump ahead and show you something truly badass.
17:49In Borderlands 4, our bosses are bigger and better than ever, putting all your new skills, gear, and abilities to an ultimate test.
17:56Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Spoilers.
18:14That's enough of that for now.
18:16But we look forward to showing you much more this June at our first hands-on gameplay event.
18:21And from everyone at Gearbox, thank you for joining us.
18:29Woo!
18:51You