Borderlands 4 weekly update and latest patch notes

Borderlands 4 weekly update patch notes: An upper-body shot of Harlowe standing in a doorway with a determined, somewhat disgruntled facial expression.

Borderlands 4 isn't quite a live service game, but its endgame does heavily revolve around a weekly schedule. This weekly update rotates endgame content, shifts the location of Maurice's Black Market vending machine, and is often when Gearbox reveals and releases key patch notes.

With this in mind, the weekly update is an important date to keep track of, whether you're just entering the endgame or perfecting your builds with a shopping list of gear. Below, I'll go over what's available this week and any major changes so you don't miss out.

Borderlands 4 weekly update

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Each week in Borderlands 4, the Big Encore boss, Wildcard Mission, and Black Market vending machine activities change. Since these are endgame activities, you'll have to have completed the campaign before you can access them. These changes go live at the weekly reset time, which is every Thursday at 9 am Pacific.

Here's what's active this week from December 18 to December 25:

• Big Encore boss: Axemaul, who is found in The Toil of Spoiling Vis auger mine in the Carcadia district of Dominion. It has a chance of dropping the Bod legendary shotgun, Kill Spring legendary repkit, and Buzz Axe legendary grenade.
• Wildcard Mission: Unpaid Tab with the ticking, contagious, and armored modifiers, and a guaranteed drop of the Hellfire legendary SMG each time you complete it, a Ripper brand weapon.
• Maurice's Black Market vending machine: At the top of Hull's Handbasket in the Ruined Sumplands area. Fast travel to the Judgements Lapsed silo and then make your way to the Hull's Handbasket POI and climb up the platforms in the north to find the vending machine at the top.

The Hellfire SMG has the Burning Desire special effect, which means it shoots fiery explosive rounds that deal incendiary splash damage. An aptly named gun for all that chaos.

Latest Borderlands 4 patch notes

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There are no patch notes to report on this week in Borderlands 4 from January 22 - January 29. Which is to be expected, as last week's update was pretty big, in that it altered drop rates and buffed Harlowe and Amon. For more details on these changes, keep reading.

Last week's Borderlands 4 patch notes

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Harlowe and Amon got buffs last week, and there was a permanent increase to the drop rate of legendary items. You love to see it!

Here's all of the patch notes for Borderlands 4 from last week (January 15 - January 22):

Gameplay

• A permanent increase to Legendary drop rate chance has been added
• The Phosphene variant of Daedalus Legendary Assault Rifle Bloody Lumberjack has been added to the Foundry Freaks loot pool

Harlowe

• Concurrence: Action Skill Duration increased to 5%
• Control Group: Killing an Entangled enemy now restores 6% of Harlowe's Action Skill Cooldown
• Freeze Frame: Bonus Cryo Damage increased to 20%, Max Stacks are now 5
• Endothermic Reaction: Harlowe's Endothermic Aura bonus damage increased to 6%
• Heat Sink: Action Skill Cooldown Rate increased to 10%

Amon

• Forgeaxe and Forgehammer Detonation damage increased by ~72%
• Get the Lead Out: Amon’s reload speed increased to 5%
• Hour of the Hammer: Increased Forgehammer Impact Damage by ~59%
• Freezer Burn: Increased Cryo and Incendiary bonus damage to 9%
• Armor of Contempt: Amon now gains 5% Overshield when doing Action Skill Damage
• Blade Tempest: Now fires 5 swords per barrage, and addressed a reported issue that could cause a change in cooldown duration