Borderlands 4 has launched its new Season’s Lootings vacation occasion, that includes some fairly absurd drop charges for Legendary loot till January 8, 2026. Gamers can hop in now and make the most of the chance to get a few of Borderlands 4‘s Legendary gadgets at a a lot faster fee than earlier than. Gearbox has additionally made three Huge Encore Bosses lively on the similar time, giving the event crew time to chill out in the course of the vacation season.
Because the launch of Borderlands 4, Gearbox has tried to maintain up with the live-service parts of the sport, with frequent in-game occasions to maintain gamers returning to Kairos. Some would say it has been to blended impact to this point – the sport has suffered dwindling participant counts from its sturdy launch, main some to query whether or not the developer had taken the correct strategy with Borderlands 4. Specifically, BL4‘s Halloween event got here in for explicit criticism, with gamers feeling that Gearbox had launched a boring grind for what was in the end not very worthwhile rewards. Hopefully, the brand new vacation occasion will ship it the opposite approach and take away loads of the grind from one space of Borderlands 4.
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Borderlands 4 Season’s Lootings Occasion Will increase Legendary Drop Price By Up To 5x
In an announcement on Steam, Gearbox confirmed that the brand new Borderlands 4 vacation occasion, titled Season’s Lootings, is on the market now in-game till January 8, 2026. Whereas Season’s Lootings is lively, gamers might be 5x extra more likely to obtain a Borderlands 4 Legendary drop, except for Huge Encore Bosses and Bloomreaper. Which means now could be the right time for any gamers who nonetheless have their eye on a selected Legendary merchandise to spherical off their excellent construct, to leap in-game and get farming. It may even be good for players who know what their subsequent character goes to be, and farming the Legendaries upfront to keep away from the grind exterior the Season’s Lootings window. Though “as much as 5x extra possible” seems like a fairly absurd Legendary drop fee, Gearbox insists that they “will nonetheless be rare sufficient to really feel particular, in line with our total design intent.”
To shut out the yr when it comes to minor updates, Gearbox has additionally added a triple menace of Big Encore Bosses in Borderlands 4 to hold gamers by way of to January 8, with three True Bosses lively without delay. That is to permit the Borderlands 4 crew to take some well-earned time without work for the vacation season, with the weekly rotation of bosses resuming as regular from January 8. This goes for the standard Thursday change to Weekly Actions, too. Gearbox says that from now, Weekly Actions won’t be switched out till the crew returns within the new yr. A while off is definitely honest, particularly with all of the upcoming arduous work for the deliberate Borderlands 4 content material in 2026. In addition to the above modifications, the brand new Borderlands 4 minor replace has one different change, fixing an exploit the place Final Vault Hunter Mode rewards may very well be claimed in non-UVHM Bloomreaper fights.
2026 is ready to be an enormous yr for Borderlands 4. Though the participant rely could also be falling, that does not fairly inform the total story. Many players have already accomplished their first playthrough of the sport, and are on the lookout for a fantastic cause to return. Small occasions are nice for present gamers, however massive content material drops are actually what will deliver players again into the fold. Subsequent yr, Gearbox is releasing Borderlands 4‘s first new Vault Hunter, C4SH, alongside Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned. That is deliberate to be the primary Story Pack for Borderlands 4, which ought to assist reinvigorate curiosity in Gearbox’s newest looter-shooter.
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September 12, 2025
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Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Robust Language, In-Recreation Purchases, Customers Work together
