Borderlands 3 News

Today in Borderlands 3, we kick off the Borderlands 3 Anniversary Celebration Show Me The Eridium event and have made some adjustments to various pieces of gear! These changes and the accompanying event will be live on all platforms by 12:00 PM PST. To apply hotfixes, wait at the main menu until you see a sign that says “Hotfixes Applied”! If you are experiencing any issues or want to provide feedback, please submit a ticket to support.2k.com.

With today’s hotfixes, the Show Me The Eridium event goes live! During this event, players will see more Eridium dropping and discounts on items that cost Eridium. This event will be live until August 27 at 9:00 AM PST, when it will switch to the Mayhem Made Mild mini-event with next week’s hotfixes!

• Turns on the Summer 2020 Anniversary Event: Show Me The Eridium, live until August 27 at 9:00 AM PST
• Replaced Mayhem 4 gear with Mayhem 6 gear in the Guardian Takedown boss pools
• Increased the health of Titus, Herb, and Juno in the Bounty of Blood Add-On Content

Monacle

• Increased weapon damage

Headsplosion

• Increased weapon damage

Storm & Firestorm

• Reduced charge time
• Increased weapon damage

ASMD

• Increased weapon damage
• Slowed down the orb and increased the explosion damage

Lyuda

• Increased weapon damage
• Decreased reload time

AutoAimè

• Increased weapon damage

Recursion

• Increased the ricochet cap from 5 to 7

Star Helix

• Increased weapon damage

Ogre

• Increased weapon damage

Sawbar

• Increased weapon damage
• Increased the radius of the child projectiles

Damned

• Increased weapon damage

Smog

• Increased weapon damage
• Doubled amplified damage when weapon shield is at max capacity

Webslinger

• Increased weapon damage

Globetrottr

• Increased the number of shots before the weapon breaks

Juilet's Dazzle

• Increased weapon damage

Good Juju

• Doubled the critical hit bonus per body shot

General Grenade Buff

• Increased grenade damage across the board

Today in Borderlands 3, we kick off the Borderlands 3 Anniversary Celebration Loot Monster Mayhem mini-event and address some reported player concerns! These changes and the accompanying event will be live on all platforms by 12:00 PM PST. To apply hotfixes, wait at the main menu until you see a sign that says “Hotfixes Applied”! If you are experiencing any issues or want to provide feedback, please submit a ticket to support.2k.com.

With these hotfixes, the Bonus Boss Loot event ends, and the Loot Monster Mayhem event begins! During this event, players will see Loot Enemies more often. This event will be live until August 20 at 9:00 AM PST, where it will switch to the Show Me the Eridium mini-event with next week’s hotfixes!

• Turns on the Summer 2020 Anniversary Event: Loot Monster Mayhem, live until August 20 at 9:00 AM PST
• Discounted the listed Item of the Day in the Veteran Rewards Machine

Try Borderlands 3 during the Free Play weekend now through August 12!

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Borderlands 3 is free to play this weekend on select platforms. If you haven't yet embarked on your own Borderlands 3 adventure or you're looking to get some friends involved, now's the perfect time!

Between the start and end times listed below, you can enjoy everything that the Borderlands 3 base game has to offer. Power up your chosen Vault Hunter with killer weapons and superhuman abilities as you shoot and loot across multiple planets in pursuit of the diabolical Calypso Twins.

If you decide to purchase any edition of Borderlands 3 after the Free Play period ends, all your progress and loot will be saved so you can pick up right where you left off. To that end, Borderlands 3 is currently on sale as well; see the Steam store listing for additional details.

Starts: August 6, 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET / 4:00 PM BST / 11:00 PM UTC+8 / August 7, 1:00 AM AEDT
Ends: August 12, 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM BST / August 13, 1:00 AM UTC+8 / 3:00 AM AEDT

Today in Borderlands 3, the Bonus Boss Loot mini-event begins and we address some reported player concerns! These changes and the accompanying event will be live on all platforms by 12:00 PM PST. To apply hotfixes, wait at the main menu until you see a sign that says “Hotfixes Applied”! If you are experiencing any issues or want to provide feedback, please submit a ticket to support.2k.com.

With these hotfixes, the ECHOcast Overload mini-event comes to an end and is replaced with the Borderlands 3 Anniversary Celebration Bonus Boss Loot event! During this event, players have an increased chance of Legendary loot dropping from bosses. This event will be live until August 13 at 9:00 AM PST, where it will switch to the Loot Monster Mayhem mini-event with next week’s hotfixes!

• Turns on the Summer 2020 Anniversary Event: Bonus Boss Loot, live until August 13 at 9:00 AM PST
• Discounted the listed Item of the Day in the Veteran Rewards Machine
• Updated the Beastmaster’s Interplanetary Stalker skill so that weapon damage is affected by Big Game while using the Cosmic Stalker Class Mod
• Added tags to Punk enemies to mark them as humanoid
• Addressed a reported concern where the Gunner would lose bonuses from Sleeping Giant after entering Iron Bear
• Addressed a reported concern that switching Mayhem levels could cause some areas to spawn more Eridium than intended
• Disabled the ability for enemy adds to spawn infinitely during the King Bobo fight

We’ve seen significant improvements to performance after the adjustments made to projectile weapons in the previous patch. Today brings a set of changes to various pieces of gear that were negatively impacted by those necessary changes without sacrificing the stability of the game. We have also included a few buffs to other pieces of gear that we felt needed attention as well.

Lead Sprinkler

• Increased weapon damage

Reflux

• Increased the chance for projectiles to chain

Brainstormer

• Increased the chance for projectiles to chain

Hyperfocus

• Increased weapon damage

Carrier

• Increased weapon damage

Unseen Threat

• Increased the damage of homing bullets with critical hits

Wagon Wheel

• Increased weapon damage

Bearcat

• Lowered the ammo cost from 4 to 3

Rowan's Call

• Increased accuracy

Lucian's Call

• Reduced the spread of projectiles
• Increased weapon damage

King's/Queen's Call

• Increased weapon damage

Tigg's Boom

• Increased weapon damage

Complex Root

• Decreased weapon charge time

Moonfire

• Increased rate of fire

Fastball

• Increased grenade damage

Mongol

• Increased weapon damage

Cutsman

• Increased weapon damage

Today in Borderlands 3, we are kicking off the Anniversary Celebration Events and addressing various player concerns! These changes and the accompanying event will be live on all platforms by 12:00 PM PST. To apply hotfixes, wait at the main menu until you see a sign that says “Hotfixes Applied”! If you are experiencing any issues or want to provide feedback, please submit a ticket to support.2k.com.

The Borderlands 3 Anniversary Celebration events start today, with ECHOcast Overload! During this event, viewers watching their favorite streamers play Borderlands 3 will have a greater chance of winning loot during Rare Chest Events in the ECHOcast Twitch Extension. This event will be live until August 6 at 9:00 AM PST, where it will switch to the Bonus Boss Loot event with next week’s hotfixes!

• Turns on the Summer 2020 Anniversary Event: ECHOcast Overload, live until August 6 at 9:00 AM PST
• Added Rare Chests from the Bounty of Blood campaign add-on to the Rare Chest ECHOcast event
• Increased the amount of loot dropped from Proving Ground bosses in Mayhem Mode
• Adjusted the rate in which Legendaries were appearing in Vending Machines
• Adjusted the Beastmaster’s Galactic Shadow skill to make enemies less likely to target the player over pets
• Applied textures to the Telezapper at the end of the level during “Where It All Started” in the Bounty of Blood campaign add-on content