Borderlands 4 is an FPS, sure, but first and foremost it's an ARPG—with all the intersecting build shenanigans you'd come to expect. Players have already started uncovering a few of these—for instance, if you get the right knife, you can basically instagib anything. See, throwing knives can have the "Penetrator Augment" rolled on them, which causes all damage to be critical damage for a few seconds. Per creative director Graeme Timmins on X, the studio will be going buffs first, nerfs later:"We've seen the discourse about builds that use unintended interactions and/or the knife," Timmins writes. Those will get addressed but we're going to start with underperforming gear/skills first."