Despite revealing so much about Borderlands 4’s factions, story, new Vault Hunters and loot changes, Gearbox Entertainment is still keeping several cards for the looter shooter close to its chest. That includes the endgame, though creative director Graeme Timmins recently told Game Informer that it’s “very ambitious.”
“I care about it a lot personally, as my role on Borderlands 3 was curating what became the endgame for that. I know what’s important to our community, and that’s built already into the game. Like we made purposeful decisions with our Action Skill tree, assuming what will come in the future with our endgame.
“It’s not a secret that we always eventually do level-cap increases, right? That’s built into the high-level design of saying, ‘Okay, if that’s going to still be in our future, how can we make our Action Skill tree this time anticipate that and be balanced from the jump?'” Interestingly, he said that the number of Skill Points in Borderlands 3, which totalled 72, was “a really high number, right?”
For Timmins, this created “a lot of chaos with how those Action Skills were designed,” and resulted in lost build diversity because, “As you add more skill points because everyone’s homogeneous because they all have the same skills ultimately unlocked. We’ve thought about [Borderlands 4’s] endgame from the jump. We have some great plans for it that we’re going to share.”
And while he stopped short of revealing anything, Timmins said the team is “taking a lot of the lessons from both [Tiny Tina’s] Wonderlands and Borderlands to make sure that we execute the best version of the endgame yet for Borderlands.”
Thus far, it confirmed that players can rematch against bosses to farm loot, and even in the middle of the story, revisiting Vaults and defeating their Guardians is a good way to get stronger. You can also replay missions, but whether there will be higher difficulty options that award more loot remains to be seen.
Borderlands 4 launches on September 12th for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC, with the Nintendo Switch 2 version out later. Stay tuned for more details and updates on the endgame until then.
