Borderlands 4’s Version 1.8 puts Zane back in the spotlight with a new bounty and free raid

Borderlands 4 Version 1.8 didn’t arrive quietly on June 25, 2026. Gearbox folded in Bounty Pack 3: A Zane to Kill For, the free Takedown at Hadron Abyss raid, Circle of Slaughter, Cross-Platform Saves, and a long list of gameplay fixes.

Gearbox had already laid out the summer stretch in a June 18 roadmap update, and Version 1.8 now delivers the first big piece of that plan.

Cross-Platform Saves are now live, so players can move their progress through SHiFT between platforms where they own Borderlands 4. The patch also pushed boss tuning, gear adjustments, UI cleanup, audio work, and stability improvements into the same release.

Patch Notes: Version 1.8

Version 1.8 mixes paid and free content with targeted boss tuning, loot tweaks, user interface fixes, and a stability pass.

New Content

Bounty Pack 3: A Zane to Kill For*

Zane Flynt is dead.

Wait, scratch that: it’s his Digi-Clone that’s been murdered, sent to that big trash folder in the sky. Now the actual Zane wants you to nab the scumbag who deleted his Digistructed twin. You’ll need to do some detective work in the virtual realm, warping into a pair of classic arcade machines to hunt down the culprit.

In this all-new repeatable mission featuring a new boss and two new mini-bosses, jack into the digital realm for a neon-noir mystery as you chase leads, crack skulls, and close in on the Digi-killer. Violence is the only solution when you’re up against new Glitched enemies that have a habit of swapping places mid-fight.

Players can jump into this new piece of paid content once they’ve completed the “Wrath of the Ripper Queen” main mission, which unlocks access to Moxxi’s Bottoms Up! bar in Carcadia Burn.

Once you’ve unlocked access to the bar, you can find the mission-starting token on any Bounty Board in a major hub area, which will be marked on your ECHO map as a new mission.

New loot unique to this new bounty pack includes:

• 1 New Pearlescent weapon

  • Raiden (Daedalus SMG)

• 6 New Pieces of Legendary Gear

  • Artillery Sphere (Ripper Grenade Ordnance)

  • Brickhouse (Vladof SMG)

  • Cooper Duper (Maliwan Heavy Weapon Ordnance)

  • Discy Business (Maliwan Shotgun)

  • Hard Dark (Daedalus Assault Rifle)

  • Hugger (Ripper Repkit)

• 1 New Vehicle

Vault Card 3: Arcade Invaders

Bounty Pack 3: Vault Card 3 lets you earn new arcade-themed rewards through gameplay, with 24 cosmetic items and four pieces of rerollable gear to unlock! Here’s the full rundown of the new Vault Card’s unlocks:

• 4 rerollable pieces of Legendary gear

  • Over Swarm (Ripper Shield)

  • Rhythm (Order Pistol)

  • LightGun (Vladof Sniper Rifle)

  • Cormano (Torgue Shotgun)

• 4 Vault Hunter Heads usable by all Vault Hunters

• 4 Vault Hunter Skins usable by all Vault Hunters

• 5 Weapon Skins

• 5 Vehicle Skins

• 4 ECHO-4 Drone Skins

• 2 ECHO-4 Attachments

Takedown at Hadron Abyss**

Takedown at Hadron Abyss is here and is free for all Borderlands 4 players! This is the ultimate endgame challenge as you fight your way through an underwater research station filled with mutated horrors and aquatic apex predators. For the raid’s final showdown, you’ll have to go toe-to-fin with the Child of Terramorphous.

Players must beat the main campaign before you can embark on this Takedown and try to defeat the Child of Terramorphous. You can start the Takedown at Hadron Abyss mission via any Raid Board found in Kairos’ major hub areas.

New loot unique to this Takedown includes:

• 1 New Pearlescent weapon

  • Shark Bait (Tediore Shotgun)

• 9 New Pieces of Legendary gear

  • Ishmael (Order Sniper Rifle)

  • Shoals (Jakobs Pistol)

  • Marshall’s Claw (Maliwan Sniper Rifle)

  • Swan Song (Daedalus Shotgun)

  • Fishward (Jakobs Assault Rifle)

  • Little Sister (Tediore Shield)

  • Vitae (Jakobs Repkit)

  • Ordinance (Tediore Grenade Ordnance)

  • Draupner (Order Heavy Weapon Ordnance)

• 1 New Piece of Firmware: Bruiser

  • Killing an enemy grants +10% damage dealt for 30 seconds. Multiple stacks can overlap. Max 5 stacks.

• 5 New Class Mods:

  • Each Vault Hunter has a unique Class Mod in the Takedown at Hadron Abyss loot table. When the sixth Vault Hunter, Loveless the Hacker, joins Borderlands 4 alongside Story Pack 2*** in early September, a Class Mod unique to Loveless will also be added to this same pool of possible Takedown drops.

Circle of Slaughter

Circle of Slaughter mode is back, and it’s free for all Borderlands 4 players! See how long you can survive against waves of increasingly deadly enemies in this mayhem-fueled gauntlet.

• How to Play: You can unlock this mode after finishing the “Wrath of the Ripper Queen” main story mission.

• Where to Find It: Head to the corner of Moxxi’s Bottoms Up! bar to find Zane’s arcade cabinets. Interact with the Silent Crisis: Time Scope 5 machine to teleport directly into the virtual arena.

Cross-Platform Saves

Cross-Platform Saves are now live! This feature lets you upload your saves from one platform via SHiFT to continue playing on another platform where you own Borderlands 4. Please note that SHiFT code rewards like Golden Keys will not transfer platforms as part of Cross-Platform Saves, but will still be available on the platform you redeemed them for.

Change Notes

Subjugator and Thol the Invincible

• Subjugator the Invincible’s health has been reduced by ~7%

• Subjugator the Invincible’s healing behavior has been removed from elemental transfusion shifts

• Reduced Shield Striker’s health and Shield health by 20% each to give better Second Wind opportunities during phases in which these are the only normal enemies

Gameplay / Systems

• Bounty Pack 2* completion rewards only show once

• New characters receive their “Guns Blazing” mission rewards right away and earn steady progress toward Character Level Challenges

• Pearlescent gear sells for a higher price

• Firing at the fuses reliably opens the factory during Story Pack 1: Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned***

• Your critical hits to Subjugator’s Superego and Subjugator the Invincible will do critical damage, and Subjugator the Invincible will appear when he’s supposed to

• Shields from Sentinels will no longer block you from Thol’s melee attacks, and Thol will target more effectively when jumping close to walls

• Primordial Guardian Radix consistently unleashes his whole suite of attacks in the fight

• A Kraggon’s death projectile spawns a new Kraggon the second it hits the ground

• Wildcard Missions for Ultimate Vault Hunter 4 Rank Up Challenges unlock smoothly when players have defeated Primordial Vault Guardians

• Vault Card challenges track your progress as intended

• “Nothing Left to Guard” unlocks when all Guardians are killed

• Heavy Weapon Ordnance successfully counts toward your “Kill Enemies with Heavy Weapon Ordnance” challenge on Vault Card 1: How Rush Saved Mercenary Day

• Players start at the proper location when starting Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned content while offline

• A new grapple point in the Heart of the Mountain has been added for smoother movement through the map

• Smoother map boundaries keep you moving forward and prevent you from getting stuck

Player Characters

C4SH the Rogue

• Cross-Fire x Wretched Shadows: C4SH stays in place when you activate Cross-Fire while using the Wretched Shadows passive

• Bleed the Bad x And Hell Followed With Him: Burst fire resets Action Skill Duration

Amon the Forgeknight

• Lightning Rod x Strike the Anvil: Elemental Bolts erupt from both skills at the same time when you equip them together

Harlowe the Gravitar

• Plasmaphila Class Mod deals area Cryo damage to enemies, as long as they are not immune to Stasis

Gear

Jakobs

• King’s Gambit Pistol – Holy Hell projectile flies 30% slower and lasts 1.5 seconds longer

Maliwan

• Pandoran Memento Shield – Grants reliable elemental resistance immediately after taking damage from that element

Order

• Solar Temper Sniper – The item inspection screen displays accurate splash radius details

Ripper

• Disc Jockey Heavy Weapon Ordnance – Successfully damages Vile Ordonite crystals

• Jail-Broken Gatling SMG – Item card description update for consistency

Tediore

• Shammy Kablammy Pistol – Deals Incendiary damage in multiplayer

Audio / Visuals

• Addressed reported instances of inconsistent visuals

• Lights in the Speakeasy now illuminates Moxxi and Ellie’s reunion in Story Pack 1: Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned

• Visual effects for Sticky Projectiles and lasers appear in the right places and extra water clears out. C4SH’s card effects spin more naturally, and Rift Boss Beams appear from further away

• Improved voiceover audio so you can better track dialogue

• Critical Hits play their sounds at correct levels and Phosphene pickup sound effects only play once

• Added sound effects when corrupted shards stick in the ground

UI / Menus

• Added Secondary Stats to Item Cards for gear

  • Dev Note: This addition was in response to requests we saw often from our community. Now, you’ll be able to see information such as the damage range of grenades, shots fired from shotguns, and more!

• ECHO Location points you in the right direction when tracking Bloomreaper and while in a Nightmare Rift in Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned

• Clearer prompts for you to engage with the post-launch content

• Menus appear and respond as expected, and various texts are easier to read

• Photo Mode: Updated the visual toggles to make sure everything turns on/off for the best shots

Player Experience

• Improvements to stability and optimization

  • Dev Note: We are continuing to investigate and will make further improvements to stability and performance.

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Source: Steam

Borderlands 4

Developed by Gearbox Software

See if you have what it takes to go down in history as a legendary Vault Hunter as you search for secret alien treasure, blasting everything in sight.

• Genre: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
• Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
• Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
• Release: 2025-09-11
• Publisher: 2K
• Age Rating: GRAC 19+ / USK 18 / CLASS_IND 18 / ACB MA 15+ / PEGI 18 / CERO Z / ESRB M
• IGDB Rating: 72.0/100

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