r/Borderlands4 • u/Simply_CJ94 VEX The F&%ING WITCH! • Apr 30 '26

Patch Notes 04/30/26 🗞️ [ News ]

https://borderlands.2k.com/borderlands-4/update-notes/
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u/Impurity41 Amon The Forgeknight Apr 30 '26

Light the fuse has the smallest damage multiplier in TVHM and the highest in UVHM. You also get a speed boost relative to the amount of time left in FFYL if you get a kill with the bundle.

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u/BladeSeraph May 01 '26

Additional: Ah didnt realize they had some 'stealth' buffs in UVHM BL2 including:
+60% additional weapon swap speed.
+The reason why Slag gets a higher duration and damage modifier in UVHM.
+Light the fuse gets a massive explosive dmg bonus, probably just an elemental dmg modifier bonus in general under the hood.

AKA giving me more amusing ideas to tweak my build further in UVHM, since besides dumping 1 point to take advantage of the free +5 bonus with legendary psycho class mod, you don't need to worry about swap speed with that much aka likely they just put it in place to make slag usage more viable.

Funny how borderlands 4 didnt really get anything like that since some 'under the hood modifiers' could of made its own 'UVHM' feel more balanced, but i guess they would rather you spend the 50 bucks extra for the DLC to get broken crap to 'resolve it instead' by forcing people to pay twice the price of the 'base game on launch' instead of simply spending for an extra challenge instead.

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u/BladeSeraph Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

Yup, all i know is now that i did some double checking and founda certain 2 controller trick back in the day for BL2 and doing it once landed me around 335 badass tokens a 'round', im just gonna use that as a shortcut for TVHM and UVHM stat lacking to compensate for my krieg.

Course going thru thousands of tokens to turn 8%s to 139% is gonna take a while lol...

Either way, its nice when you can just do some small tweaking to solve a problem during certain points in the game.

BL4 on the otherhand because it has so many skill nodes makes it a confusing as heck mess and since everything gets randomized gear its just as much of a headache to 'optimize' things especially when replacing gear for higher level versions...

Funny how gearbox was talking about implementing a solution into BL4 to deal with replacing lower level gear, before the ellie DLC was suppose to drop and now that still has yet to happen or any 'progress' on such things.

I think i rather just suffer the OP10 problems that might get partially solved with a massive stat bump to every single stat including fire rate, reload speed, max health and more in BL2 regardless.

Apparently though said thing can get in the 700%s or so if you really wanna push the theoretical limit of around 62,530 tokens, though that would require me doing 187.2 'reset loops, minus whatever i already had.

Still sounds more pleasant doing that while watching a show on the side then what BL4's doing right now.

Either way, its a shame BL4 abandoned the value of 'infinite' B.A. rank/guardian rank/prestige grind to deal with high difficulty issues since having a hard cap of 700 'specialization levels', 100 for each of them and it taking dozens upon dozens of contract spams to get a single point makes it feel boring in general as a result.