Gearbox Software, 2K Games, and Sony PlayStation aired a Borderlands 4 exclusive State of Play on April 30, 2025.
This presentation featured over 20 minutes of developer-guided gameplay, where Graeme Timmins (Borderlands 4 Creative Director) and Anthony Nicholson (Senior Project Producer) will guide us through missions, devastating weapons, badass Action Skills, new and returning characters, and more.
- Date: April 30, 2025
- Time: 2PM PT / 5PM ET / 10PM BST
- Location: PlayStation’s Twitch & YouTube channel
Breakdown
- Kairos is divided into 4 zones
- The rolling hills of the Fadefields
- The frigid peaks of Terminus Range
- The shattered lands of Carcadia Burn
- The Timekeeper’s impenetrable fortress city, the Dominion.
- Playable Character in Cutscenes
- Kairos has been hidden for 1000s of years
- People on Kairos are being suppressed by Bolts. Cybernetic implants fused to their spine.
- Elpis showed up at Kairos 6 years ago. BL3 2019 + BL4 2025 = 6 Year time jump.
- Echo-4
- Hacking Order-Tech
- Scanning Environment
- Setting Waypoints
- SDU Upgrades
- Character Customization on the go
- Guns with legs
- Phaselock
- Grounded Tone
- Tediore Reloads
- Vex Siren
- Summon stuff
- Rafa Tediore Soldier
- Dual Blades
- Zane, CLaptrap, Moxxi, Lilith, and Amara + Hermes (companion) Return
- Rush is the name of the Gears of War-looking NPC
- SHIFT
- Crossplay at launch
- Improved Lobbies
- Almost no loading
- Compass
- Glide (uses an energy meter) and Climbing
- No fall damage
- Res Kits that boost other stats
- Dynamic Weather
- Dynamic Events
- Order Patrols
- World Bosses
- Class Mod Name Displayed underneath the Health bar
- Line around Character LVL charges when using the Grapple Lash.
- Silos
- Silos are points of interest that don’t require a quest activation
- Claimed Silos and reveal the approximate location of a Vault Key Fragment.
- Collect Vault Key fragments to unlock a high-level dungeon with challenging combat and serious loot.
- Claimed Silos and Safe Houses act as Fast Travel points.
- Customize your vehicle, you can customize its components and handling via unlockable Hover Drives, and give it a new aesthetic with collectible cosmetics.
- A red vehicle icon is displayed when you can’t summon your vehicle
- Instanced loot for each player
- dynamic level scaling, individual difficulty settings.
- Fast Travel to your friends
- Fight for Your Life is back
- Splitscreen
- New Vendor Art
- 8 weapon manufacturers
- Jakobs
- Maliwan
- Vladof
- Tediore
- Torgue
- Order
- Rippers
- Daedalus (multiple ammo types)
- Multiple manufacturer traits can spawn on weapons
- Enhancements replace Artifacts
- Loot Drop overhaul (lower drop rates)
- The weapon card shows the DPS of the item
- Ordinance Slot combines Heavy Weapons and Grenades in one and acts as a cooldown ability
- Enemies show their elemental Damage type next to their Healthbars
- Enemies can be augmented with (mayhem) modifiers, adding new effects to them.
- 3 Action Skills + Skill Trees with augments
- Respawn Bosses and Restart Missions with Moxxi’s Big Encore Machine
- June Gameplay Event
My Perspective
Borderlands 4 looks impressive !!!
