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Gearbox announces new free seasonal event and level cap increase for Borderlands 3


Gearbox has announced a new free seasonal event for Borderlands 3, Broken Hearts Day. According to the team, particularly lovesick enemies across the Borderlands will soon have special hearts floating around them. These hearts take a variety of forms, and shooting them produces any of a number of unique effects.

These effects range from buffing your party’s damage output to temporarily converting an enemy to an ally to simply exploding into a pile of loot. Therefore, the more hearts you break, the more rewards you unlock, with five total rewards up for grabs; including special skins and Legendary weapons unique to this event.

Broken Hearts Day can be toggled off and on in the game’s main menu, allowing players to opt out of (or back into) the event at any time. Furthermore, the event will go live on PC once the February patch deploys later this month. You’ll then have exactly one week to break some hearts before this seasonal event ends.

In addition to this new event, Gearbox also announced Borderlands 3’s first level cap increase. Timed with the debut of Broken Hearts Day, the maximum Vault Hunter level will increase from 50 to 53. This will give you three additional skill points to add to your skill trees, allowing you to enhance your existing builds or even experiment with additional abilities. Gearbox will share more information about future level cap increases later, and intend to make any level cap increases free additions to the game.

And that’s not all Gearbox and 2K announced today. The Community Love Letter also included new details on each of these upcoming enhancements:

  • True Vault Hunter Mode
  • Skippable Cutscenes
  • Guardian Rank Toggling
  • Event Toggling
  • Fight for Your Life Improvements
  • Mayhem 2.0
  • Twitch ECHOcast Extension Additions.

Stay tuned for more!