Gearbox has handed out a free loot pack after players looted more than three-quarters of a billion items in Borderlands 4, a week‑one milestone that underlines how quickly the game has been mined for gear and how pervasive powerful builds have become.
Week one has been dominated by broken builds, including so‑called “infinite damage” setups that can melt bosses in seconds. Players have fought bosses roughly 63 million times and defeated them about 55 million times, according to developer figures. Gearbox also released a loot package to mark the tally and to hand back some free swag.
Rewards arrive as the Break Free Pack, delivered via a Shift code distributed by Gearbox’s little data service; full details on claiming appear on the studio’s Shift page labeled Gearbox’s little data-hoovering service. The code is JS63J-JSCWJ-CFTBW-3TJ3J-WJS5R, and the pack contains a vault hunter skin, a level‑scaling legendary Ripper shield, and two ECHO‑4 drone skins.
Stats released alongside the code paint a vivid picture of play habits: roughly 4.5 million players have killed themselves with grenades, about 2 million were too close to exploding barrels, and more than 16 million vehicles have been blown up.
Excluding items of standard quality, players have looted 764,733,586 items. Gearbox also shared a granular breakdown for some loot sources:
- Items looted from Outhouses: 1,530,794
- Items looted from a grill, beer cooler, or boombox: 1,811,970
- Items looted from Trash Cans: 487,585
- Items looted from Red Chests: 14,814,296
Rewards are available now and redemption runs through December 31, 2030, so there is plenty of time to claim the Break Free Pack if it hasn’t been grabbed already.
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