Welcome to our Borderlands fansite! As we approach the launch on September 12, 2025, here’s an interactive mind map compiling all the key details from official sources. Click on nodes to expand/collapse branches.
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Borderlands 4
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Release Information
- Launch Date (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S)
- September 12, 2025
- Launch Date (Nintendo Switch 2)
- October 3, 2025
- Platforms
- PC (Steam, Epic Games Store)
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox Series X|S
- Nintendo Switch 2
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Editions
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Standard Edition ($69.99)
- Full base game
- Pre-order Bonus: Gilded Glory Pack
- 1 Vault Hunter Skin
- 1 Weapon Skin
- 1 ECHO-4 Drone Skin
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Deluxe Edition ($99.99)
- Full base game
- Pre-order Bonus: Gilded Glory Pack
- Firehawk’s Fury Weapon Skin
- Bounty Pack Bundle (4 post-launch DLCs)
- 4 unique areas, new missions, bosses
- 4 Vault Cards (challenges, rewards)
- New gear & weapons
- New Vault Hunter cosmetics
- 4 New vehicles, cosmetics
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Super Deluxe Edition ($129.99)
- Full base game
- Pre-order Bonus: Gilded Glory Pack
- Firehawk’s Fury Weapon Skin
- Bounty Pack Bundle
- Ornate Order Pack
- 4 Vault Hunter Skins
- 4 Vault Hunter Heads
- 4 Vault Hunter Bodies
- Vault Hunter Pack (2 post-launch DLCs)
- 2 new playable Vault Hunters
- 2 new Story Packs (story, side missions)
- 2 new map regions
- New gear & weapons
- New Vault Hunter cosmetics
- New ECHO-4 cosmetics
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Standard Edition ($69.99)
- Launch Date (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S)
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Gameplay Features
- Genre: First-person Looter Shooter
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Vault Hunters
- 4 New Vault Hunters at launch
- 2 New DLC Vault Hunters (post-launch)
- 3 Action Skills per Vault Hunter (1 equipped)
- 3 Branching Skill Trees per Vault Hunter
- Augments & Capstone abilities
- Deep build customization
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Amon the Forgeknight
- Resilient frontliner
- Mechanically complex Action Skills
- Forgeweapons via Forgedrones
- Trait: Forgeskill (secondary Action Skill)
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Action Skills
- Crucible (Twin Forgeaxes, Incendiary/Cryo, Primed explosion)
- Scourge (Forgeshield, Vengeance Meter, Cryo Forgewave)
- Onslaughter (Forgefist, Rocket Punch, Stagger)
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Forgeskills (Secondary Action Skills)
- Double-Edge (Crucible equipped): Twinned Forgeaxe, Cryo/Incendiary
- Firewall (Scourge equipped): Absorbs projectiles, boosts friendly, Incendiary DoT
- Molten Slam (Onslaughter equipped): Molten Forgehammer, Incendiary AoE
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Vex the Siren
- Supernatural Phase abilities
- Companion class, elemental damage
- Trait: Phase Covenant (Action Skill/Melee attunes to weapon element)
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Action Skills
- Dead Ringer (Phase Clone Minions: Reapers/Specters)
- Incarnate (Phase Explosion, heal, Eldritch Blasts)
- Phase Phamiliar (Trouble, teleport, Badass form)
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Rafa the Exo-Soldier
- Battle-ready combat veteran
- Wields weapons from Deadframe exo-suit
- Trait: Overdrive (Movespeed/Damage buff when Action Skill active)
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Action Skills
- Arc-Knives (Twin energy blades, melee, Blade Fury Shock Damage)
- Peacebreaker Cannons (Extra guns, seek/destroy, ammo types, Insta-Fort)
- APOPHIS Lance (Arm cannon, plasma orbs, piercing, charged projectiles)
- Harlowe the Gravitar
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Weapons
- Billions of guns
- 8 unique manufacturers
- Order (precision, high-powered bursts)
- Ripper (charge up to full auto)
- Daedalus (easy-to-use, multiple ammo types)
- Tediore (toss as grenades to reload)
- Maliwan (elemental damage: burn, freeze, shock)
- Jakobs (fire as fast as you shoot, ricochets)
- Vladof (high rate of fire, huge magazines)
- Torgue (heavy-duty explosive rounds, sticky projectiles)
- New Licensed Parts system (multiple manufacturer behaviors)
- Reworked Legendary guns (special events)
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New Game Mechanics
- Dynamic Movement Abilities (double jump, glide, dodge, grapple)
- Digirunner Vehicle (summon anywhere, customize)
- ECHO-4 Drone (guidance, ammo/cosmetic upgrades)
- Crimson Resistance Points of Interest
- Claim safe houses (Fast Travel)
- Reclaim silos (communications balloons, gliding, Vault Key Fragments, Fast Travel)
- Ordnance (Grenades, Heavy Weapons, cooldown recharge)
- Enhancements (augment weapons based on manufacturer)
- Repkits (heal, temporary buffs)
- New gear slots
- Replaying missions/Boss farming (Moxxi’s Big Encore Machine)
- Bigger, better boss fights
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Story & World (Kairos)
- All-new planet: Kairos
- Ruled by oppressive Timekeeper (cybernetic implants: Bolts)
- World-altering catastrophe: Elpis (rogue moon)
- Population rising up (ripping out Bolts)
- Ignite a revolution against Timekeeper
- 4 distinct, seamlessly connected regions
- Fadefields (temperate paradise, ruled by Idolator Sol)
- Terminus Range (frigid peaks, overseen by Vile Lictor)
- Carcadia Burn (shattered lands, ruled by Callis the Ripper Queen)
- Dominion (Timekeeper’s fortress city)
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Factions & Characters
- Crimson Resistance (led by Claptrap)
- Outbounders (led by Rush, crash-landed, want to leave Kairos)
- Augers (led by Defiant Calder, mountainous miners, Kairos is home)
- Electi (led by Levaine, former Dominion citizens, locked out)
- Rippers (formerly Bolted Kairosians who removed Bolts, led by Callis)
- Returning characters: Amara, Moxxi, Zane
- Perfect entry point for new players
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Multiplayer
- Designed for co-op from the ground up
- Up to 4-player online co-op (all platforms)
- 2-player splitscreen couch co-op (PS5, Xbox Series X|S)
- Full crossplay support at launch (requires SHiFT Account)
- Improved lobby system (drop-in/drop-out)
- Instanced loot for each player
- Dynamic level scaling
- Individual difficulty settings
- Fast Travel directly to co-op buddies
- Nintendo Switch 2 local play
- Nintendo Switch 2 GameChat, screen sharing, camera support
- Nintendo Switch 2: features mouse controls with Joy-Con 2 controllers
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Customization
- Vault Hunter Cosmetics
- Vault Hunter Skins
- Vault Hunter Heads
- Vault Hunter Bodies
- Weapon Skins
- ECHO-4 Drone Skins
- Vehicle Cosmetics
- Cosmetics do not affect gameplay
- Gun behaviors/functional components not customizable (loot chase focus)
- Vault Hunter Cosmetics
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SHiFT Accounts
- Free service for cross-platform multiplayer
- Redeem in-game rewards (SHiFT codes, Golden Keys)
- Unlock ‘Hazard Pay’ Weapon Skin by signing up and opting into newsletters
- Link to preferred platform accounts
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Release Information
