Borderlands 4's Thursday patch will buff the game's cast, but UI improvements are coming later

Borderlands 4's next patch, as , will be focusing on buffs to the cast's . This was reconfirmed on the [[link]] game's X account, which "the Vault Hunter buffs in our Thursday update gonna have you like [pinching emoji, starry-eyed emoji, pinching emoji]". If you need a visual guide for what that pose looks like, they animated doing it.

In quote-replies to the post, Creative Director Graeme Timmins explained that a suite of , many of which I gnawed on during my , have fixes either upcoming in subsequent patches or solidly in the pipeline.

First up, the 'mark as trash' bug, in which the game mistakenly marks items as trash that are [[link]] a few rows above the thing you're clicking on, is "fixed in a future patch," , but it "didn't make this week's update unfortunately."

Secondly, the backpack won't be auto-sorting your loot to "by manufacturer" for some baffling reason, though Timmins that the fix will be "coming in a future patch."

Lastly, Timmins states that a UI bugbear I've been recently wrangling with in the endgame—where Firmware is more important—will be addressed. Firmware bonuses are like tier sets in MMORPGs. You can find them on gear, and they add bonuses to them based on how many Firmware of the same type you have.

You can also transfer Firmware from one piece of loot [[link]] to another. Because of this, you're . However, when you're visiting your bank screen to inspect what Firmware you might want to put on your gear, there's a problem. Unlike in your inventory, inspecting the firmware and then hitting escape kicks you out of the bank screen entirely. No, I don't know why.

Timmins that a fix for this UI buffoonery is "already on our list, the same thing happens in the Firmware Transfer machine, no ETA but we will address that in a future patch."

All in all, I'm happy to see most of my major complaints being addressed. Borderlands 4's is one of my only real problems with the game. Well, that and its performance woes, and while Gearbox is clearly trying to address both, the path to improvement .