Gearbox Reveals Upcoming Borderlands 4 Vault Hunter and Story Content

Gearbox and 2K Games have officially debuted new content for Borderlands 4, including an upcoming new vault hunter, new free endgame content, and a number of paid DLCs with new bosses, missions, vehicles, and other activities. As per the announcement, the first round of upcoming new features and content will drop on June 26 with version 1.8, and one of the major new features in update 1.8 is cross-platform save. Cross-platform saves will depend on players’ SHiFT accounts, and players can manually sync save files via the in-game SHiFT interface in order to continue on another platform. Notably, Golden Keys will not transfer between platforms and will only be available for the platform the keys were redeemed on. June 26 will also herald the arrival of the Takedown at Hadron Abyss, which is a new free endgame challenge that will be available to all Borderlands 4 players, as well as a new raid boss, a new mini-boss, nine new legendary items, a new pearlescent item, and new challenge-based cosmetics. The Takedown at Hadron Abyss reveal trailer gives players an idea of what to expect from the new challenge, which takes place in an undersea research station and sees players face off against the Child of Terramorphous. The new content comes alongside claimed performance improvements, general balance updates, bug fixes, and vault hunter balance updates.

Borderlands 4 will also receive four new paid DLCs: Bounty Pack 3: A Zane to Kill For, landing on June 25, Bounty Pack 4: Murders & Acquisitions, landing on July 30, Story Pack 2, and Bounty Pack 5, both of which land in early September. A Zane to Kill For adds a new mission, a new boss, and two new mini-bosses, as well as new pearlescent and legendary gear, a new vehicle, a vault hunter skill, and an Echo-4 drone skin. A Zane to Kill For will hurl players into an investigation into who killed Zane’s clone. Bounty Pack 4 will again introduce a new mission, a new boss, and three new mini-bosses, as well as a new vehicle and cosmetics. Most excitingly for many, the early September Story Pack 2 paid DLC will introduce the next playable vault hunter, Loveless, an ex-Anshin hacker who relies on cybernetic enhancements and shares her mind with a digital virus that can manifest in physical form via digistruct tech to enact her will. Not much has been revealed about Loveless’s abilities, other than what was shown in a short character teaser and a character sheet in an X post, and that isn’t much to go on. These DLCs will be available in both bundles and individually, with Bounty Pack 3’s narrative content and gear available for $5.99 and the Vault Card 3 portion (new cosmetics and related gear) costing another $5.99. Loveless and her cosmetics will cost $9.99, while the narrative content for Story Pack 2 will cost $19.99.

The trailer for Loveless, the Hacker, follows.