{"id":421740,"date":"2026-01-21T23:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421740\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:36:08","slug":"loot-capsules-are-the-worst-part-of-borderlands-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421740\/","title":{"rendered":"Loot Capsules Are The Worst Part Of Borderlands 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the performance issues, annoying jokes, and bugs<\/a>, I\u2019m still playing and enjoying Borderlands 4<\/a>. I\u2019m currently working on my second full playthrough with my wife, who is also a big Borderlands fan, and we\u2019re having a great time. Mostly. Everything is going fine right up until we encounter another damn loot capsule. These things are the worst part of the game and are so bad that they truly baffle me.<\/p>\n

As you explore the open world of Borderlands 4,<\/a> you\u2019ll find side activities and quests to complete. Some of these are elaborate, but other stuff is as simple as killing a specific target or activating a safehouse. One of these supposedly simple and fun little side activities involves Loot Capsules. These are small pods that you can stumble upon and then have to carry back to the nearest safehouse to unlock. Doing so opens the capsule, and you get some loot. Sounds fine, right? Wrong!<\/p>\n

In Borderlands 4, Gearbox created a new mechanic that lets you pick up objects while fighting. This is used in various ways in the looter shooter, and most of the time, it is a nice way to spice up a combat encounter or make solving a puzzle just a bit more interesting. But when you hold something in Borderlands 4, you can\u2019t mantle or climb up a ladder, drive your hover bike, aim down your sights, throw grenades, or fast travel with that object. It greatly limits your toolbox, and that\u2019s fine when it\u2019s used sparingly as a momentary wrinkle you have to contend with.<\/p>\n

Yet that isn\u2019t the case with Loot Capsules, which sometimes require you to walk a very long distance back to the \u201cclosest\u201d HQ to get your reward. And you have to walk it. You can\u2019t use your cool bike. You just run back on foot, unable to take most shortcuts because you can\u2019t even use your sick grapple hook when holding an item. It is so fucking tedious. If you get attacked by enemies and have to fight your way out, you\u2019d better hope that nothing happens that dislodges that capsule from your hand, or you could be searching around desperately for it in a moment. Has this happened to me? Yes, why do you think I\u2019m writing this blog? And when you finally get to your HQ, you might have to solve some platforming puzzle that even involves tossing the damn loot pod across gaps. If it lands in an area you can\u2019t enter, like a bottomless gorge that kills you, then it respawns back where you found it. Congratulations, you get to do it all over again.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a9Gearbox | Go to hell, Claptrap <\/p>\n

Oh, and every time you pick it up, Claptrap starts talking. Every. Single. Time. Sometimes, he\u2019ll talk over himself. And there are only so many lines. And they go on and on. I don\u2019t even hate Claptrap<\/a> like a lot of people do, but I quickly reached my breaking point after just a few capsules.<\/p>\n

These damn capsules annoy me so much, and I deal with them so often that I\u2019ve started to overthink how they even work. In a sci-fi universe that lets me digitize dozens of guns and store them on my person easily, why the fuck can\u2019t I just store the capsule, too? Why must I lug it back? Why can\u2019t I collect it like all the various shields, guns, and other loot I stuff into my digital trousers with no issue? Who thought this was fun? I\u2019d love to chat with them because I\u2019m genuinely curious how this was left in the game. Truly, it baffles me.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the funniest part about all of this: I\u2019d be fine with the bullshit and the capsules if the reward was worth it. In my experience, this is never the case. I\u2019ve opened close to two dozen of these things or more while playing alone and with friends. I\u2019ve never gotten a single legendary weapon. Never. It\u2019s usually the same crappy loot you often find in random chests, which don\u2019t require a tenth of the effort to open. I\u2019ve talked to friends about it and they\u2019ve reported the same thing: Worthless loot that you trash the second you see it.<\/p>\n

At this point, I\u2019ve started to ignore them when playing Borderlands 4 alone. And when I do pick one up, I just gnash my teeth the whole time as I hear the same damn Claptrap line again. At least I enjoy the rest of the game. Mostly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the performance issues, annoying jokes, and bugs, I\u2019m still playing and enjoying Borderlands 4. I\u2019m currently working…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[78398,98531,74],"class_list":["post-421740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-borderlands-4","tag-gearbox","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}