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Borderlands 4 Raid Boss 2 Update for May 28 Released as Patch 1.070

by Alex Co May 28, 2026 12:36 pm in Title Updates and Patches

As promised by Gearbox Software, Borderlands 4 players are getting the Raid Boss 2 content update today, May 28.

Titled Raid Boss 2: Subjugator and Thol the Invincible, console gamers will see this download as Borderlands 4 update 1.070 (complete version 1.070.000, and is what Gearbox tags as version 1,7.

There are also combat mission changes applied today, as well as a slew of bug fixes, which are all detailed in the official patch notes.

Borderlands 4 Raid Boss 2 Live in the Game for Free on May 28

Raid Boss 2: Subjugator and Thol the Invincible

Subjugator and Thol the Invincible have long been languishing in their service to the Timekeeper. They’ve spent ages isolated on an island off the coast of the Fadefields, waiting for a worthy challenger to come along: you, Vault Hunter.

This encounter starts with you facing off against both bosses at the same time, but as one dies, you’ll be taken to the real boss battle. We’ll be testing your skills and endurance in this new fight, and pushing them to the limit.You can read more details in this Subjugator and Thol the Invincible article.

Subjugator and Thol introduce new legendaries, Firmware, and a new Pearlescent that can all be farmed as dedicated drops. Similar to Bloomreaper, you’ll only receive some of the gear if you can complete the fight in a short-enough time and at a high-enough difficulty level. Depending on your completion time, the Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum-tier rewards you get from this chest will be increasingly powerful. You’ll be able to clearly see how much time you have left to hit a certain tier via your mission tracker.

Here’s a breakdown of the Raid Boss 2 content arriving with Version 1.7:

Support for the addition of Raid Boss 2: Thol and Subjugator the Invincible.
- Players must complete the Main Campaign before jumping into Raid content. This will be a tough fight, so make sure you’ve got your best gear equipped!
UVHM 7, a new level available to unlock for those at UVHM 6!
- Complete the Mission for Subjugator and Thol the Invincible in UVHM 6 to play this new difficulty.
- We’ve scaled this level up to better align with the additional gear and levels added to the game since launch.
Multiple new pieces of gear, including:
- 1 New Pearlescent:
  - Ripper SMG Jail-Broken Gatling
- 4 New Legendaries:
  - Torgue Assault Rifle Lockjaw
  - Tediore Pistol Shammy Kablammy
  - Vladof Heavy Weapon Ordnance Flak Cannon
  - Order Shield Collector
- 5 New Legendary Class Mods:
  - Each Vault Hunter has a unique Class Mod in Subjugator and Thol the Invincible’s loot table.
  - When the sixth Vault Hunter joins Borderlands 4 as part of Story Pack 2* in Q3 2026, a Class Mod unique to them will also be added to this same pool of possible Subjugator and Thol the Invincible drops.
- 1 New Firmware:
  - Active Fire: At Tier 3, unleashing a charge weapon’s full-charge shot the moment it’s available will deal bonus damage, providing increased lethality as a reward for your precision timing.

Ordonite Corruption Spreads Across Kairos

Ordonite corruption is spreading throughout Kairos, and as a result, new treasures await Vault Hunters, including new Pearlescent weaponry! Fight your way through the enemies of Kairos, open each and every container, and dig your way through piles of trash in search of these new Pearls. They can be anywhere!

Shared Progression Toggle

As a refresher, Shared Character Progression was added in the 1.5 Update and allowed progression for Collectibles, Activities, Map Progress, SDU tokens, Vault Powers, Vehicle skins, and Hover Drives across all of your Vault Hunters.
We’ve heard the community’s desire for Shared Character Progression to be optional so that starting fresh with a new Vault Hunter is still possible. This update makes this toggle available, starting today, when creating a new Vault Hunter. Thanks for your patience as we worked to make sure this feature accommodated players no matter their preference of playstyle!
This new Shared Progression Toggle will be available when creating a New Character, after you select your difficulty. Please note that this setting cannot be changed after the character creation process is completed.
You can see (via tooltip) if a character has Shared Progression active when selecting the save you’d like to play.

* Free for all Borderlands 4 players. Base game required. Terms apply.

Borderlands 4 Update 1.070/1.7 Patch Notes

Gameplay/Systems

Harlowe stays on the correct path when using the Jaunt passive, making sure the “Enter Hollows” objective is checked off successfully
Phalanx bounty spawns reliably by Watershed Gate when you follow contracts from the Someday Rise safehouse
Mount Guy and Gouch will always appear for their bounties at Vestal Garrison
Bludgeon Bounty has also found renewed confidence and will spawn when his contract is taken
Grapple points in Bloodstained Hollow have been restored for easy climbing
A save/load will keep your progress after completing the 3rd Nightmare and checking the “Re-surface” objective
Killing Crankus and Jankus reliably completes the objective so you can move on to your next challenge
Bitterblight stays inside the arena for the entire fight

Rewards

Non-dedicated sources have an increased chance to drop Legendaries. There is also a greater chance for Badasses and their variants to drop powerful weapons. This does not reduce the chance of anything else from dropping.
Defeating Badass enemy variants and completing boss fights provides you with more consistent XP rewards; different archetypes of bosses and badasses will scale the XP they grant
Phosphene weapons retrieved from the Lost Loot machine unlock Phosphene challenges and skins
Reward chests from completed activities and collectibles clear out properly when using Shared Progression
The “Hunks of Junk” cosmetic is available for all of your Vault Hunters when playing with Shared Progression
Rewards from Axemaul drop in accessible areas
Entering and exiting a World Boss bubble will give rewards only after the Boss is defeated

Challenges, Achievements, Progression

The Vault Card Challenge “Kill Enemies with Tediore guns and gears” counts kills from Tediore Shooting Legs Licensed Parts
The Vault Card Challenge “Kill Enemies with Jakobs guns and gears” counts kills from projectiles created from King’s Gambit Holy Hell Unique Ability
The Vault Card Challenge “Heal 100,000” text clearly states that health must be regained using RepKits
The Dahl Cache collectible in DCN Feuermann is listed for the proper zone
Finding the Vault Symbol collectable in the Windswept Wastes adds progress to the correct area
The “Gear Five!” Achievement unlocks automatically for players who completed it previously
The Final Defiance and Prostration Road Fast Travel stations unlock at the correct time during Shared Progression and Replay Missions
Players’ screens remain clear of challenge pop-ups connected to an existing Vault Hunter character when creating a new Vault Hunter character
The smallest lootable ammo containers properly count toward the “What Have We Here?” loot challenge

Combat Updates

The Nightmare Rift Boss appears more frequently in Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned
Nightmare Rifts further challenge your survival skills by making RepKits unavailable during the fight
Destroying Brass Mortars launched by Meatheads grants you a Second Wind when players Fight for Your Life
Singularity effects pull in targets without paralyzing Badass Flying Threshers or trapping frozen Phalanx enemies
Captain Willis moves with better speed and balance, letting him quickly orient himself for his next attack after a charge

Mission Updates

It’s a Whole Phase Situation Mission: Placing Votive will get you to the next objective, even when visiting the Main Menu
On Icebound Shores Abandoned: Kraggons appear when the “Clear the Lake” objective activates to keep your mission moving
The Legend of the Stone Demon intro cinematic plays when players use matchmaking
A jump pad during the “What Lies Dreaming” objective receives power, and will launch you safely to your destination
An Exit Portal appears immediately after you defeat a Nightmare Boss, giving you a clear path out of the arena
Mission waypoints and item interactions update instantly for a smoother gameplay experience
Defeating Gunner Lupin automatically clears out any remaining extra enemies in the area
Exiting the game while playing Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned returns you back into the action next time you load your character

Levels

The transition area for Legend of the Stone Demon displays on your map with a lock icon if you do not own it, offering a quick shortcut to purchase the content
The Legend of the Stone Demon “Thundercleft” Fast Travel Station stays on your map permanently for easy tracking
Corruption and Ordinite crystals across the galaxy react to your homing abilities, allowing Rafa’s turrets and Amon’s Scourge shield throw, Forgeaxes, and the Forgehammer to damage them reliably
Zone transitions guide you smoothly into new areas without unexpected teleports
Reinforced map boundaries to keep you playing in the map and staying the the fight
ECHOlocation is updated for accuracy for “Voices Carry,” “Hearing Things,” and “The War on Mercenary Day” missions

Vault Hunters

General

We updated the descriptions of several Class Mods to more precisely explain how their bonuses work. Our goal in doing so was to make it easier to plan your perfect Vault Hunter build. This will be an ongoing process across Borderlands 4 as we identify items that can be better explained to improve your experience. We made other minor tweaks as well:

The Respec Machine completely resets all augment slots alongside your skill points
Skill Tree descriptions use the term “incendiary” for consistency

C4SH the Rogue

We are giving C4SH a big tune-up! This update helps with skill tracking, improves how your cards target enemies, and makes sure your abilities scale into the late game. We also rebalanced a few skill combinations so your combat numbers stay powerful without breaking the game’s challenge.

Skills

Infinite Bleed C4SH

We found that several skills players have been pairing with the Gamer Class Mod led to situations where enemies bled out significantly faster than we intended. There were multiple causes for this, and after taking a close look, we’re introducing updates that will result in the Gamer Class Mod functioning more along the original lines we intended. Specifically:

Can’t Stop Winning: Triggers specifically from Gun and Action Skill damage, and applies its Critical Hit chance exclusively to Action Skills
Sounds of Rain: Applies its Critical Hit chance to Action Skills
Call: Excludes Status Effect damage from scoring Critical Hits

Roll the Bones – Green Tree

Serendipity: Healing missiles from Serendipity heal C4SH if you kill an enemy while driving a vehicle
Tooth and Nail: Applies its bonus melee damage whenever you fire the Maliwan Shotgun Mantra

Luck of the Draw – Blue Tree

Sleight of Hand:
- Magic Missile Cards hit Splice enemies that have lost their upper bodies
- Fireball Cards create Ruptures on the ground when striking a floating enemy or large Bosses
- We’ve updated the skill description for consistency and clarity
Sweeten the Pot: Windfall grants an extra random element when the Color Spray Card triggers more than 10 times
C4SH Game: Allows Fortune bonuses to scale higher, rewarding you for earning bigger Fortune stacks
Ace in the Hole: This is no longer a Fortune skill; the Gun Damage bonus is based on the number of stacks, rather than the Fortune ratio, and we’ve updated the skill’s description appropriately
Bet on Red: Vampiric Touch Cards kill standard enemies instantly and deal critical damage against Badasses in Windfall; these cards also leave Ordonite Crystals attached to enemies intact
Payout: This has been updated so that it buffs all active Fortune skills
Furious Fingers: Adds charges when Windfall is triggered and removes them when the skill is inactive; please be aware that the charges will appear on the Action Skill icon even when the skill is not active
Ante Up: This skill description has been updated to list it as a Fortune Skill
Big Pull: Both the range and damage will be increased for Black Hole Cards while the Big Pull augment is equipped
Insurance: Corrected a typo on the shield recharge delay amount
Wretched Shadows: Creates Grasping Tentacle Cards in the correct location, as well as ensures they will attack enemies with crystals
Dead Man’s Hand: Bone Splinters will appear and do kinetic damage
Show Your Hand: Increases the duration of your Action Skills

Chaos Walking, Red Tree

Cross-Fire: Features better lock-on tracking against orbs, projectiles, crystals, interactables, as well as Vile Lictor, with Cross-Fire. This will keep you destroying everything in sight!
- Auto-aim will turn off when the target is destroyed
- C4SH’s recovery animation will play when the Action Skill ends
- Jumping into water will preserve your Action Skill Cooldown
Show your Marrow: Capped the amount of stacks to four (4) and ensured that stacks will expire
From Gloam to Glow: Increases your maximum Overshield by +8% with active weapon fire dynamically using a portion of that shield to power your shots
And Hell Followed With Him:
- Added Max Stacks to the skill based on current max Fortune stacks
- If you gain increased Max Fortune stacks, they will also increase here
- Stacks have been given an active duration and the skill will trigger Windfall

Class Mods

The Elite Gamer Class Mod activates its bonus effects exclusively on Gun Damage. We updated the description accordingly!

Amon the Forgeknight

Endless Bombardment: Preserves your grenade cooldown timers during rapid throws, and your menu accurately displays your maximum charges when extra grenades are refunded
Onslaughter Action Skill: When coupled with the Impetus passive, this Action Skill successfully boosts your Shield Regeneration Rate when triggered

Harlowe the Gravitar

Group Study: HALO Sidekicks move to stay out of your line of sight, keeping your view clear during firefights
Force of Will: This no longer dazes Harlowe when in combat

Rafa the Exo-Soldier

Collaborative Ignition: Applies bonus elemental damage to skills and Ordnance based on the element of the held weapon while Overdrive is active
Shock Market: Deals Bonus Shock Damage when directly hitting an enemy with Shock Damage
First Impression and Vitriol: These two skills function properly with the first shots fired from Daedalus’ weapons secondary fire mode

Vex the Siren

Skills

Energy Vampire: This targets additional types of enemies
Dead Ringer: Specter and Reaper companions properly display their health and duration bars on all platforms
Sacrificial Essence: Preserves your stacks when Dashing, with the damage taken has been reduced to 2%
Unsealed: Trouble’s marks will fade away cleanly on death
Blood is Magic: Description has been updated to display that its power scales up using Skill Damage, not Action Skill Damage

Class Mods

Misericorde: Grants a stack of Misery on Vex’s critical hits, including those scored by Trouble, Specters, Reapers, and Eldritch Blasts from Incarnate
Illusionist: Cooldown has been reduced to 30 seconds from 90 seconds

Gear

General

Vending machines and lootables have a chance to drop gear with Atlas, CoV, and Hyperion parts and enhancements
RepKits with Overshield Augments will just grant Overshield

Pearlescents

Crazed Earl Shotgun: Item card has removed mentions of element damage and chance for accuracy

Daedalus

Bod Shotgun:
- Dev Note: We’ve been looking at this piece of gear for some time now. Given that this gun simultaneously counts as an assault rifle, pistol, shotgun, sniper rifle, and SMG, we saw it quintuple dipping from bonuses derived from generic Gun Damage. We decided not to change that this gun can still be counted as each of those weapon types simultaneously, but we did elect to reduce how the Bod scales with generic Gun Damage.
- The Bod’s damage scaling from Gun Damage will decrease by about 60%
- The increased damage tied to specific gun types still scales appropriately at 100% (Assault Rifle Damage, etc.)
Mercredi Assault Rifle: When transitioning to different areas of the world, the buff icon will stay visible
Missilaser Shotgun: The laser will fire from the correct place while moving
Daedalus SMGs with Atlas underbarrels maintain their full reload speed

Jakobs

Blood Moon RepKit: Consistently heals after taking damage
King’s Gambit Pistol: The orb from the Holy Hell unique ability has been updated to only register a single hit at a time
- Dev Note: Of note is that this will impact, among other interactions between skills and weapons, Rafa’s Double-Ought Autoshot skill. Specifically with the orb only registering one hit at a time, the increased pellet count from Double-Ought Autoshot and its other ricochet projectiles will deliver damage more in-line with what was intended when using this weapon and skill combination.

Order

Roulette Pistol: When going through any in-game transition, the buff icon will remain on-screen

Ripper

Roil SMG:
- Dev Note: Previously, if your gun was already overheated and you tried to reduce heat by switching firing modes, you were prevented from doing so and the magazine was effectively locked up. To change this, we’ve modified the timing of when the gun starts to repair.

Tediore

Anarchy Shotgun: Mutualism stacks apply at the end of the reload animation rather than at the beginning
Visual effects from shooting Tediore Pistols, Assault Rifles, and Shotguns have had their brightness reduced

Torgue

Sticky Projectiles: Capped the stacking Torgue Sticky bonus to 200% damage
- Dev Note: This decision was made to prevent infinite damage scaling that occurred with builds that benefited from infinite magazines. This change equates to about two full magazines of stuck projectiles, which is more in-line with our damage expectation for this feature.
Linebacker Shotgun: Kills with the bouncing projectiles add progress towards the “YEAH! HELL YEAH!” challenge

Vladof

Vladof Heavy Weapons with Elemental and Additional Barrels traits have updated descriptions on their item cards

Audio/Visuals

Visuals

Movement, enemy behaviors, and NPC conversations have more predictable animations
Introduction cinematics will only play once
Environments contained in cinematics were given an optimization and visual review pass
The appearance of loot, interactive environments, projectiles and animations are better synced during multiplayer
Moxxi found her hat so she can wear it in the Speakeasy!
When creating a new C4SH character in level 40 Ultimate Vault Hunter mode you can receive the “D15h3v313d” cosmetic head
Environmental decals, weapon models, and world textures have been updated to display more accurately
Blood pools no longer obstruct the camera in Story Pack 1: Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned; Shuggurath eggs and crystals have had their lighting effects stabilized
Trouble has visible particle effects when teleporting during combat

Audio

We turned up the volume on Minister Screw’s taunts and reacts so that you can better hear him during the fight!
Added updated processing and realistic volume scaling effects to VO across Bloomreaper, Legend of the Stone Demon, and Story Pack 1: Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned content
Moxxi and Ellie’s private conversation will no longer be broadcasted to your ECHO device if you move too far away to hear them talking during the “Hearing Things” mission
Character dialog has improved timing and additional prevention for VO overlaps and missing VO
Dahl Grunt weapons and Ripper Heavy Weapons with beams play their sound effects
C4SH’s grand slam and ladder-climbing are audible in multiplayer

UI/Menus

Menus & HUD

A new menu tutorial guides you through switching and activating Vault Cards
The “equipped” icon is bigger when viewed over the thumbnails in your inventory, as well as in customization menus, making it easier to see your active gear
The persistent item card stays neatly out of the way while you manage your bank and backpack, giving you a full, clear view of your inventory slots
Dropdown menus stay open reliably when you drag the scroll bar across certain menus
Item card details and weapon-swap options will keep their information visible in the menu
The Firmware Transfer machine has been updated for consistency and better usability
Text, notifications, button prompts, and icons have had a pass to give you the cleanest readability across the game
Vault Card completion notifications clearly reference specific content, such as Bounty Packs, and specify if you completed a Daily or Weekly challenge
Contract Boards feature a clear pop-up for Bloomreaper Raid content, letting you know the activity unlocks right after you finish the main campaign
Bounty contracts for Story Pack 1: Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned load instantly when you approach the Bounty Board inside the Speakeasy
Defeating the Bloomreaper at the Bronze rank triggers your well-deserved celebratory notification each time
SDU resets from Shared Progression will no longer cause Vending Machines to display a negative number
Enemy radar stays visible and clear of overlapping the multi-boss bar

Photo Mode

The Photo Mode camera stays clear of weapon barrels and special effects after you fire the Pearlescent Crow-Sourced assault rifle
Your mouse cursor displays reliably on your screen if you exit Photo Mode or die while actively moving the camera

Split Screen

Secondary Split Screen players will no longer get stuck in the Speakeasy travel tunnel

Player Experience

FOV settings will save to 70 when playing on the Steam Deck
Improvements to stability and optimization
- Dev Note: We are continuing to investigate and will make further improvements to stability and performance.

For details on the weekly activities, read Gearbox’s post about it.

With a patch this big and the content it brings, don’t be surprised to see a hotfix be released in the coming days and weeks.

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Alex Co

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