Borderlands 4 launches this week and seems like it’s going to keep us busy for a long, loooong time.

Alongside the previously announced DLC, at PAX West Gearbox lifted the lid on the end game content and there’s a lot to unpack. Here’s a few of the highlights…

For starters, weekly bosses, battles and missions will be added into the game with increased rewards which will encourage replayability off the bat. You’ll also be able to replay ‘almost all’ of the missions in the game if you want to and there will be the opportunity to tackle them at higher difficulties.

By beating challenges in game, you get to unlock the higher difficulties and this essentially means the game could be infinitely replayable already. But on top of that you can also start alt characters from Level 30 if you don’t want to go through the initial grind of the opening of the game, so you can get started on end-game content sooner and try out anothr class.

End game will begin following completion of the main campaign, and you’ll be presented a series of missions that essentially prepare you for that content. This is apparently known as UVHM and in that, enemies have buffs that will make them stronger, harder to kill and even more resistant to certain types of damage.

From launch, you can also dive into Moxxi’s Big Encore Machine which lets you fight previous bosses if you want to get some particular loot and each week there will be a special ‘big encore boss’ that has a cost attached to it, but may offer some additional rewards.

A weekly wildcard mission is also added in on rotation and it guarantees a legendary drop if beaten repeatedly. And a black market machine which spawns in a new place each week and contains different, rare, unique loot for ingame currency.

And once you do beat the campaign, a ‘specialization XP bar’ opens up which can levelled up over and over again, giving you new ranks as you do, which further incentivises that replayability.

This just seems to be scratching the surface too and certainly means Borderlands 4 is offering a ridiculous amount of content right out of the gate, before we even get to the DLC.

Borderlands 4 launches on PC, PS and Xbox on September 12. It then launches on Nintendo Switch 2 on October 3