"Borderlands 4" will be officially released on September 12, 2025, ready to sabotage the dangerous new planet Kylos!At today's special launch of the game's live demo, creative director Graeme Timmins and senior project producer Anthony Nicholson demonstrated the most in-depth explosive, chaotic gameplay in Borderlands 4's history!Come and have a look at two of the four new secret hunters, all kinds of new equipment, the deadly exploration area on Kylos, and more exciting content!
After the catastrophe of the trailer and the fierce conflict shown in the preview trailer, the tyrannical Venerable of Time appears again, ready to teach us some lessons.We'll welcome four brand new secret hunters in this heart-pounding gameplay trailer.
Since Gearbox founded the Treasure Shooting genre 16 years ago, every Borderlands game has been improving, bringing more loot and action.And Borderlands 4 is undoubtedly the best and most ambitious Borderlands game to date.
This new adventure is the perfect starting point for new players; while the old players will experience the familiar and beloved gameplay that has been upgraded to a new level, with added mobility, unprecedented powerful enemies, vast new planets to explore, and of course, billions of weapons are waiting for you to capture.
Hidden Hunter, create chaos
The Borderlands series is set in a ruthless science fiction universe where life is cheap but guns are within reach.You will play a secret hunter, a villain mercenary, looking for an alien secret, wielding wild guns, and possessing devastating abilities.In the gameplay in-depth analysis, you will learn about two of our four new secret hunters: Witch Vickers, who uses supernatural phase energy to enhance himself and summon deadly summons; and Iron Bone Warrior Rafa, who was a Tedil Warrior, wearing an experimental iron bone suit and able to digitally construct a weapon library.
You can also learn about all four secret hunters: Vix, Rafa, Yamon and Harlow on our new Borderlands 4 game information page.
Each secret hunter profession in Borderlands 4 has a unique gameplay style, and you can choose three iconic abilities as active skills.We have launched the most advanced skill tree system to enable you to strengthen active skills through special reinforcement and capstone abilities.You can also choose from the passive ability paths of three branches to create a variety of unique and powerful skill sets for your character.
Each secret hunter has unique characteristics that influence their fighting style.For example, Vickers's traits will make her active skills resonate with the weapon elements of her current equipment, and encourage players to carry multiple elemental weapons and apply electric shock, burning or freezing effects to the enemy according to the battle situation.
As a secret hunter, you will feel like an unstoppable force on the battlefield, release your active skills to control the rhythm of the battle, and break through the enemy's defense with a series of crazy weapons.In combat, you can also show more skill performances through various new mobility abilities, including gliding, sprinting, double jumping and fixed-point grip!
Welcome to Kelos
In Borderlands 4, you are thrown into the brand new planet Kylos, filled with warring factions, deadly wildlife and desperate residents.For thousands of years, the authoritarian Venerable of Time has hidden the planet, controlling the inhabitants of the planet through a neural mechanical implant called Brain Plug and an army of synthetic soldiers named "Cultural Order".
Six years before the incident of "Borderlands 4", a wandering moon suddenly teleported into the orbit of Kylos, breaking the planet's protective barrier and causing the whole world to fall into chaos.Now, the residents of Kelos have begun to resist, some of whom have even pulled their brain truncated from their skulls.This is the world where our four secret hunters fell: a planet that is about to explode, and you are the fire that ignites the lead.
As you embark on your adventure and prepare to launch a revolution against Venerable Time, you will encounter unique factions that you need to recruit into your career, including a range of new characters and some old faces familiar to Borderland fans.Fan-favorite characters like Little Noo, Mosey and Zane will return, and you will also meet some charismatic allies and a disgusting group of opponents who will all await you in Kylos.Go to the Borderlands 4 game information page to get a first glimpse of some NPC characters you will encounter in your adventure!
To help you through the vast, seamless space of Kelos, you can now summon an exclusive digital locomotive vehicle at any time and quickly drive to the horizon with jet thrusters.Kelos is a world full of ingenuity that encourages you to explore at your own pace.Your ECHO-4 robot companions also provide guidance as you face new enemies, encounter world events and discover hidden treasures.
From the patrolman of the sect to the world-class boss, there are always targets waiting for you to shoot or grab treasures while exploring Kelos.You will also encounter some short live experiences and brand new activities - tasks will be automatically unlocked once discovered, such as "Silo": These facilities contain old tech that the Order has scrapped, which you can use with the assistance of ECHO-4 to support the battle of the Scarlet Resistance.
Once you regain the silo, it will reveal the approximate location of a hidden key fragment.Collect enough debris and you will unlock a hidden treasure library – a high-level dungeon full of challenging battles and rich loot.The recaptured silo releases a cracked communication balloon that you can quickly lift off the air through a zipline and fly to the next target, and also use them as fast moving points!Creating chaos in Kelos. Fighting alone is exciting, but playing with friends will be even more exciting - which is why collaborative multiplayer games are extremely simple here.Through our improved lobby system, we can conduct online cooperation of up to 4 people, and fully cross-platform online* is supported when it is released.Borderlands 4 is designed for cooperative gameplay from beginning to end, providing each player with tailored loot, dynamic level scaling, personalized difficulty settings, and options to move directly and quickly to the partners, allowing the entire team to stay together throughout the campaign and enjoy the game.
Prepare to fight
In the new gameplay video, you can see Vickers and Rafa attacking in the ending mountain range, where one of the generals of the Time Venerable, the despicable ghost Rictor, is conducting an evil experiment.You need to break through his secret jail with the help of Amara, an ally witch who was once a secret hunter (you may have played her in Borderlands 3).
You can also see the devastating forces of lethal weapons from eight unique manufacturers in Borderlands 4: The Order, The Crane Opener, Daedalus, Tedil, Mariwan, Jacobs, Fradov and Tog, each with its unique devastating advantage.Old Borderland fans will notice that three of the manufacturers are brand new and have brand new features:
The weapons of the Order focus on accuracy and high power explosiveness
The craniotomist's weapon can be fully automatic after being charged
Daedalos' weapons are easy to use and support multiple ammunition types
Throw the Tedil firearm as a grenade and reload it
Maliwang guns focus on elemental damage and can be used to burn, freeze or electric shock enemies
Jacobs fires bullets at the speed you fire and triggers bullet rebound effect when critical hits
Vladov's gun has extremely high firing rate and super-capacity magazine
Tog firearms are equipped with heavy bombs, which can be switched to viscous ammunition mode, causing higher explosion damage
With a new authorized component system, you can find weapons that combine multiple manufacturers' behaviors and skills to bring the wildest loot combinations in history!In addition, Borderlands 4 also refactored the iconic legendary weapon, which has unique special effects and cannot be found on any other equipment.In "Borderlands 3", the legendary equipment drops too frequently, which leads to its value degradation and makes other loots seem no longer special.And in the new system of "Borderlands 4", not only does each gun feel great, but legendary drops will also truly become an expected special moment.
Nowadays, it has become more intuitive to get your favorite equipment - you can repeat the entire mission, or challenge the boss at any time with Mosey's Shanda Encore.Speaking of bosses, the scale and design of "Borderlands 4" are better than before, such as Despicable Rictor, who is a shocking look at the end of the real-time deep analysis.These boss battles will comprehensively test your new skills, equipment and abilities, and require you to respond quickly and flexibly to the various tactics and attack modes that the boss uses.
The game has also added a brand new equipment space, allowing you to further customize and strengthen your genre structure:
The gunstone is a shared bar that can be filled with grenades and heavy weapons, such as rocket launchers, which are charged by cooling, allowing you to maintain adequate firepower during particularly difficult battles.
Strengthening replaces the artifact column in "Borderlands 3". Strengthen your weapon according to the weapon manufacturer. When you optimize the equipment configuration, you will get an additional firepower bonus.
The medical kit adds practicality, allowing you to self-heal or activate temporary buffs, helping you reverse the fierce battle.
We are very excited to announce that we will hold our first trial event in June this year, where more content from "Borderlands 4" will be displayed, and the official release on September 12, 2025 will be preheated in advance!Add Borderlands 4 to your wishlist and we will reveal more exciting content in the next few months!
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