Loot is everything in the Borderlands series. The only reason we kill so many baddies and collect so much loot is to use it on harder enemies and get better loot. Longtime fans even farm bosses to get the exact weapon variant they want. Unfortunately, sometimes you miss out on this loot in Borderlands 4.
Sometimes there are bugs in games and bosses may not drop the loot you want. Other times, loot may fall through the floor, leaving you unrewarded for your efforts. But the biggest such complaint in Borderlands 4 is when bosses drop loot right off the side of a cliff, especially in fights like Primordial Guardian Origo. Gearbox seems to have finally fixed it.
Borderlands 4 Loot no longer drops off cliffs
As pointed out by someshooter on Reddit, boss loot will now bounce off an invisible wall if it's about to fall off a cliff. This problem was especially annoying in encounters like the one with Orig, since it's on a small floating island rather than in a closed room or out in the open world. Players would constantly see their loot fall into the void and not appear in the Lost Loot machine later.
Now that most players have completed the game, leveled up their Vault Hunters, and created powerful builds, the boss fight doesn't take much time and the frustration of losing loot is alleviated. But it was a different story when the game first launched and you were hoping for a damage boost only to see it float over your head and into the void.
This change likely came with the last week's update for Borderlands 4, along with an easier way to farm the Bod shotgun and the inadvertent return of the crit knife meta. Fortunately, the developers listened to the community and fixed some minor issues. However, bigger issues like the confusing UI will likely come with a major update to the title, if at all.
Adding an invisible wall to save loot is a fairly simple idea, but ideally it should be there at startup. Fans have complained about some confusing decisions the developers have made, the main one being the user interface. Other complaints include separate invisible walls that make the open world seem less open, and the extremely shallow Horrors of Kairos Halloween event.
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September 12, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Crude Language, In-Game Purchases, User Interaction
