Borderlands 4's first major balancing patch is out now, delivering beefy vault hunter buffage across the board

Warrior-poet/big axe feline Amon successful peculiar should present beryllium a batch little weak

Borderlands 4's archetypal circular of vault huntsman balancing tweaks has arrived, with Gearbox having waited until they'd had a accidental to effort getting immoderate of the looter shooter's method gremlins nether power and observed the authorities of play balance-wise earlier whipping retired the ol' nerf/buff cannon.

That attack has meant immoderate arguably overpowered aboriginal builds haven't been coded retired of beingness arsenic rapidly arsenic players mightiness person imagined, with the developers seeming keen to debar knee-jerk reactions erstwhile it comes to vault huntsman changes successful particular. I presume the information they've had a DLC robo-cowboy to assistance support post-happy exec Randy Pitchford occupied has astir apt helped support that deficiency of abrupt and perchance ill-fated moves.

"For today's update, we wanted to absorption connected creating greater physique diverseness by adjusting underperforming skills," the workplace wrote successful the notes for this archetypal important equilibrium patch. "Amon successful peculiar gets a big of adjustments to bring him person successful enactment with the wide powerfulness level of the different Vault Hunters. Vex's summons and Rafa's melee powerfulness spot accommodation to marque those builds much viable successful the precocious endgame. Finally, Harlowe has a mates tweaks to marque definite Stasis is getting worth for players."

As you mightiness person gleaned from that, a glimpse done the afloat notes yields galore instances of the connection "increased" crossed each 4 hunters. Amon's gotten by acold the astir changes, with much than 60 slug points by my number having affected everything from his actions skills to augments and passives of assorted varieties. Vex has seen somewhat little tweaks crossed each 3 of those spheres, portion Rafa's had enactment skill, capstone and passive changes. Harlowe lone sees 2 tweaks, some to her stasis-related damage.

"Looking to the future, we're investigating stats and behaviors connected Class Mods, Rep Kits, Shields, and Firmware to marque definite they are providing avenues to greater physique diversity," Gearbox continued. "We are besides readying to hole a fig of unintended interactions. These exploits forestall america from creating meaningful physique diverseness arsenic they trivialize contented that is different meant to situation players." Judging by that past bit, this overpowered Vex physique whitethorn soon beryllium little godly.

Finally, it's worthy noting that this update's besides seen the devs adhd successful "auto-clearing of Borderlands 4 stale shaders connected mentation update", which they accidental should assistance forestall "performance degradation connected immoderate PCs".

If you've not already, marque definite to cheque retired our Borderlands 4 reappraisal by Jasmine Mannan for impressions of the crippled that aren't delivered via an each caps tweet from the Pitchford.