Borderlands 4 Receives Post-Launch Roadmap
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Key points
- Borderlands 4’s post-launch roadmap was revealed during the Gearbox Main Theater Show at PAX West on Aug. 29, 2025.
- Story and Bounty Packs will be coming to Borderlands 4 as paid content.
- Invincible Bosses will be added to the game as free content.
Borderlands 4’s post-launch roadmap was revealed during the Gearbox Main Theater Show at PAX West on Aug. 29, 2025.
According to the roadmap, the game will be extended with post-launch narrative content, including two Story Packs coming in 2026. Each Story Pack will include both main and side missions set in a new zone called Kairos, a new Vault Hunter, new gear and new cosmetics.
The first Story Pack, which is arriving in Q1 2026, is described by the game’s developer as a bloody, cosmic-horror-inspired story that centers around Moxxi’s daughter, Pandoran mechanic Ellie.
Borderlands 4 will receive four Bounty Packs filled with narrative content of smaller size, along with new gear, cosmetics and a Vault Card that lets players unlock additional loot through gameplay. Each Bounty Pack will feature new Main Missions, revealing more about the various NPCs of Kairos, as well as a new boss, with the first one focused on Rush, the leader of the Outbounders faction stationed in the Fadefields.
Both Story and Bounty Packs will be coming to Borderlands 4 as paid content.
As for the free content, a few months after launch, Invincible Bosses will drop in new arenas on Kairos, bolstered with new mechanics, massive health pools, extremely lethal attack damage and other new modifiers, promising to drop the “absolute best loot” when defeated. The first Invincible Boss is planned to be added to Borderlands 4 in Q4 2025.
On top of that, the game will see weekly challenges, seasonal mini-events and the comeback of the loot tier above Legendary, called Pearlescent.
The sequel to Borderlands 3 (2019) and the fifth entry in the main Borderlands franchise is slated for launch on Sept. 12, 2025, for PlayStation 5, Windows PC and Xbox Series X|S, with a Nintendo Switch 2 release planned for Oct. 3, 2025.
The first-person shooter developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K features two gameplay modes: solo or co-op with up to three other players.
In Borderlands 4, players assume the role of one of the Vault Hunters, who leads the resistance against a dictator, Timekeeper, and the Order on Kairos while searching for secret alien treasures.
