4 most requested features for Borderlands 4

Many fans love the Borderlands series and are looking forward to the next game, Borderlands 4. Unfortunately, these same fans are skeptical about the upcoming sequel, thanks to a short string of bad releases. Because of this, they have been asking for specific upgrades and features to be added to Borderlands 4 to ensure its success. Whether or not Gearbox Entertainment will listen is up for debate, but many have said that these features are required if the developer wants the game to succeed.

One of the biggest disappointments of Borderlands 3 was the inability to skip cutscenes or dialogue. Every time you spoke to a character in the campaign, you had to stick around and wait until they were done, and you got the next objective. This was vastly different from Borderlands 2 — a game that allowed you to run away when someone spoke to you. The lack of freedom annoyed fans, especially those who wanted to play through the main story with multiple characters. It ultimately made the story feel slow and led to most players only playing through the campaign once. This point has been brought up in multiple Reddit posts and throughout comments on X.

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Borderlands 3 introduced more guns than ever before to the Borderlands series. The marketing for the game exclaimed that it had "bazillions of guns." This became even more apparent when the game was released, and legendary farming took off. Depending on the boss and the level of mayhem you were playing, sometimes you could get upwards of 10 or 20 legendary weapons to drop from a single boss. While at first this was amazing, many quickly got tired of seeing legendary items drop. This has since led to many asking Gearbox to tone down the legendary items and make them a more rare commodity.

Speaking of legendary items, another point that many have made is that Borderlands 4 needs to have dedicated drops. Past games had specific weapons that could only drop from specific boss enemies. This made farming easier as players knew where to go to find a specific weapon or item they wanted. The legendary crisis of Borderlands 3 caused this to change again as many legendary items became world drops. These world drops overshadowed the dedicated drops from bosses, making players care more about farming a single boss that had a chance to drop larger numbers of legendaries.

It is safe to say that very few fans liked the story of Borderlands 3. After being shown a great and memorable villain in Borderlands 2 in the form of Handsome Jack, many were excited to see who the big bad of Borderlands 3 would be. Upon first glance, the main antagonists of Borderlands 3 are live streamers with a cult work, but once you got into the game, you were met with a whiny pair of siblings and jokes that relied too heavily on current times to be funny. This focus on meme culture and popularity was ultimately the story's downfall, and many refuse to replay Borderlands 3 because of it.

This point has been brought up on many occasions and is one of the most requested changes for Borderlands 4. Thankfully, Gearbox has seemingly addressed this issue as the trailers point to a more serious villain, and the writers have also stated that they plan on toning down the use of meme culture comedy. Same Winkler, one of the writers on Borderlands 4, stated, "I’m not gonna say there’s no toilets, but if the word skibidi ships in the game under my watch I’m gonna cry real tears," in a post on X and even agreed that there was an overreliance on toilet humor in the previous title.

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While Borderlands 4 has some great gameplay, the endgame was lackluster for many. This is largely because it consisted of smaller raids and trials that didn't take much time to complete. While there are players who agree that the raids were decent, they will also tell you that the raids weren't big enough. Those with a decent build can run through one of the raids in a matter of minutes. While it makes farming easy, it is also a bit of a letdown.

Some have requested that Gearbox implement Destiny-style raids that have multiple bosses, puzzles, and hidden mechanics to make endgame content more interesting. Others have suggested adding smaller DLCs similar to the headhunter DLCs from Borderlands 2 instead of the season events that didn't add much to the game.

Multiple studios seem to be having these moments lately where the last pieces of content they created are bad, and the next one needs to be good, or it could be disastrous. The Borderlands series appears to be at this moment in time, when everything is riding on the next title. Many fans want Borderlands 4 to be good because they genuinely care for the series and if Gearbox wants the game to succeed, the developer had better start listening to the desires of the fans.

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Who's making these requests? I don't know any actual Borderlands fan who's complaining they're getting too many legendary drops. And getting 20 legendaries from a single enemy is not only stupid, it isn't happening.

The biggest thing I've heard from the ACTUAL Borderlands community is a fully open world.

Pretty sure whoever wrote this just tried to remember a few surface level things from when they called the game 4 years ago and didn't actually talk to anyone who's still playing the games

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