Up so far, the protection we have supplied for Borderlands 4 has targeted on the world, core gameplay, and story. However longtime followers of the Borderlands franchise know the sport would not essentially finish when the credit roll. Throughout our latest journey to Gearbox, we requested inventive director Graeme Timmins to share all he may in regards to the Borderlands 4 endgame.
Clearly, the studio needs to maintain many of the particulars beneath wraps, as once I ask Timmins in regards to the type of endgame that exists in Borderlands 4, he initially begins with, “We can have an endgame; I can say that.” Nevertheless, after Gearbox international inventive govt and former Sport Informer editor-in-chief Andrew Reiner chimes in by saying, “It is very bold,” Timmins opens up a bit extra.
“I care about it rather a lot personally, as my function on Borderlands 3 was curating what turned the endgame for that,” Timmins says. “I do know what’s necessary to our group, and that is constructed already into the sport. Like, we made purposeful selections with our Motion Talent tree, assuming what’s going to come sooner or later with our endgame. It is not a secret that we at all times finally do level-cap will increase, proper? That is constructed into the high-level design of claiming, ‘Okay, if that is going to nonetheless be in our future, how can we make our Motion Talent tree this time anticipate that and be balanced from the soar?'”
The group drew classes from previous video games, together with the latest entries within the collection, in designing Borderlands 4’s endgame. “In Borderlands 3, we ended at 72 ability factors,” Timmins says. “It is a actually excessive quantity, proper? And so, for the sport designer in me, that may create plenty of chaos with how these Motion Expertise had been designed. You lose construct range as you add extra ability factors as a result of everybody’s homogeneous, as a result of all of them have the identical abilities in the end unlocked. We have considered [Borderlands 4’s] endgame from the soar, and we now have some nice plans for it that we will share, however I believe we’re taking plenty of the teachings from each [Tiny Tina’s] Wonderlands and Borderlands to ensure that we execute the very best model of the endgame but for Borderlands.”
Presumably, we’ll be taught extra in regards to the Borderlands 4 endgame earlier than it arrives on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC on September 12.
