Borderlands 4's First Premium DLC, Bounty Pack 2, Drops Later This Month — This Is What You Get

Borderland 4's archetypal premium DLC, Bounty Pack 2: Legend of the Stone Demon, volition driblet February 26, 2026.

Described by Gearbox arsenic an "all-new bite-sized yet flavorful communicative content," the DLC includes a caller ngo and Legendary loot to collect, arsenic good arsenic a themed Vault Card featuring 24 cosmetics and 4 "rerollable pieces of cogwheel unlocked done gameplay."

While the squad held backmost connected the communicative details, promising that we'll find retired much astir Legend of the Stone Demon "closer to the launch," we bash get much info astir the "major" update that volition beryllium released alongside Bounty Pack 2: Pearlescent gear. A caller rarity tier "with powerfulness levels superior to adjacent Legendary gear," this caller rarity volition beryllium disposable to each players careless of what variation of Borderlands 4 they own, though immoderate pieces of Pearlescent cogwheel volition beryllium exclusive to Bounty Pack 2.

We were besides treated to a small update connected what's inactive to come, too. The archetypal Story Pack for Borderlands 4, entitled Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned, volition get adjacent period and introduces aggregate main and broadside missions acceptable successful a caller portion of Kairos, arsenic good arsenic caller cogwheel and cosmetics, of course.

The communicative volition halfway connected the "return of the indomitable fan-favorite Ellie," and "focuses connected a cosmic fearfulness taxable with a bloodier, darker tone." It'll besides see the archetypal caller playable Vault Hunter, C4SH, a erstwhile casino trader bot.

"Borderlands 4 gives the bid the monolithic footwear successful the pants it has needed, with a fantastic unfastened satellite and greatly improved combat, adjacent if bugs and invisible walls tin sometimes propulsion disconnected that groove," we said successful IGN's Borderlands 4 review, which returned a 8/10.

Earlier this week, we reported that Borderlands 4 steadfast Take-Two announced the game's Switch 2 mentation is present connected "pause" pursuing its last-minute delay. A Switch 2 larboard for the Gearbox looter shooter was initially announced during Nintendo's large April 2025 Direct and past pegged to get connected October 3, 2025, earlier its merchandise was scrubbed conscionable a week anterior to launch. Pre-orders were cancelled, though Gearbox framed the determination arsenic a delay, not a afloat scrapping of the project.

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