Gearbox has locked in the next big drop for Borderlands 4. Story Pack 2: FL4K and the Last Resort arrives on September 10, and it is not travelling alone: the same day brings Bounty Pack 5: Amara and the Vile Shadows, a brand-new playable Vault Hunter in Loveless the Hacker, and the free version 1.10 update that pushes the level cap up by another ten. It is the fullest single day of post-launch content the game has had since it shipped last September.
FL4K is back, and the Hunt has gone personal
Story Pack 2 hands the spotlight to Borderlands 3's Beastmaster. FL4K's pursuit of the perfect Hunt has taken them to Kairos, but the campaign's actual hook is smaller and a lot more effective than another galactic threat: FL4K's skag companion Mr. Chew is missing. What starts as a search turns into a run at the Tediore corporation, which is quietly staging an invasion of a volcanic, overgrown resort island.
That island is Providence, the new map at the centre of the pack, and it is the most vegetation-heavy space Kairos has offered so far: jungle canopy, tropical ruin and a corporate footprint pressing in at the edges. Gearbox has leaned into the tonal contrast, with a rescue-a-good-dog premise driving a campaign full of Tediore's throw-it-and-forget-it hardware. Enemy variety is one of the pack's headline additions, with new Tediore units built specifically around the map's verticality.
Loveless the Hacker joins the roster
September 10 also marks the arrival of the game's second post-launch Vault Hunter. Loveless is an ex-Anshin hacker turned assassin, kitted out with high-end cybernetics and a self-authored digital virus that can digistruct into a physical extension of her will. In practice that means a kit built around summoning and commanding constructs rather than simply buffing a gun, which puts her closer to a controller archetype than anything currently in the lineup.
She follows C4SH as the second added Vault Hunter, and she lands the same day the level cap moves, which is deliberate: a new character launching into a ten-level cap raise gives returning players a reason to build from scratch instead of parking their existing endgame character.
Bounty Pack 5 and the free 1.10 update
Bounty Pack 5: Amara and the Vile Shadows runs alongside the story campaign as the repeatable content layer. Amara is tracking Phase disturbances before their propagation unravels the known universe, which gives Gearbox an excuse to build a Siren-flavoured pocket dimension full of new bosses and Legendary drops. Finishing the mission chain unlocks a Vault Hunter Skin usable across the whole roster, a vehicle, and an ECHO-4 drone skin.
The loot list is where the two packs converge. Two new Pearlescent weapons headline it: the Astonisher, a Ripper shotgun, and the Quadratus, a Vladof Heavy Weapon Ordnance. Eighteen new pieces of Legendary gear round it out. The free version 1.10 patch that ships the same day carries the level cap increase and a set of build-flexibility changes aimed at every player, DLC owner or not, which is the part that matters most for anyone who stopped playing after the Bounty Pack 4 wave in July.
Where this leaves the roadmap
Story Pack 2 is the second of the narrative expansions covered by the game's season pass offerings, and its release cadence tracks with the pattern Gearbox established earlier this year: a story campaign, a bounty pack and a numbered update landing together rather than trickling out across separate weeks. Stacking a new Vault Hunter on top of that is the escalation. For players who bounced off Kairos after the main campaign, September 10 is a single date that changes the level ceiling, the build options and the playable roster at once.
Borderlands 4 is available now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Nintendo Switch 2. Story Pack 2: FL4K and the Last Resort, Bounty Pack 5: Amara and the Vile Shadows, Loveless the Hacker and the version 1.10 update all arrive on September 10.
