Today in Borderlands 3, the Bonus Boss Loot mini-event begins and Gearbox address some reported player concerns! These changes and the accompanying event will be live on all platforms by 12:00 PM PST.

Quote from Borderlands.com:

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With these hotfixes, the ECHOcast Overload mini-event comes to an end and is replaced with the Borderlands 3 Anniversary Celebration Bonus Boss Loot event! During this event, players have an increased chance of Legendary loot dropping from bosses. This event will be live until August 13 at 9:00 AM PST, where it will switch to the Loot Monster Mayhem mini-event with next week’s hotfixes!

• Turns on the Summer 2020 Anniversary Event: Bonus Boss Loot, live until August 13 at 9:00 AM PST
• Discounted the listed Item of the Day in the Veteran Rewards Machine
• Updated the Beastmaster’s Interplanetary Stalker skill so that weapon damage is affected by Big Game while using the Cosmic Stalker Class Mod
• Added tags to Punk enemies to mark them as humanoid
• Addressed a reported concern where the Gunner would lose bonuses from Sleeping Giant after entering Iron Bear
• Addressed a reported concern that switching Mayhem levels could cause some areas to spawn more Eridium than intended
• Disabled the ability for enemy adds to spawn infinitely during the King Bobo fight

WEAPON CHANGES

We’ve seen significant improvements to performance after the adjustments made to projectile weapons in the previous patch. Today brings a set of changes to various pieces of gear that were negatively impacted by those necessary changes without sacrificing the stability of the game. We have also included a few buffs to other pieces of gear that we felt needed attention as well.

Lead Sprinkler

• Increased weapon damage

Reflux

• Increased the chance for projectiles to chain

Brainstormer

• Increased the chance for projectiles to chain

Hyperfocus

• Increased weapon damage

Carrier

• Increased weapon damage

Unseen Threat

• Increased the damage of homing bullets with critical hits

Wagon Wheel

• Increased weapon damage

Bearcat

• Lowered the ammo cost from 4 to 3

Rowan’s Call

• Increased accuracy

Lucian’s Call

• Reduced the spread of projectiles
• Increased weapon damage

King’s/Queen’s Call

• Increased weapon damage

Tigg’s Boom

• Increased weapon damage

Complex Root

• Decreased weapon charge time

Moonfire

• Increased rate of fire

Fastball

• Increased grenade damage

Mongol

• Increased weapon damage

Cutsman

• Increased weapon damage