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Borderlands 4: Essential Beginner's Guide (Settings, Combat, Controls)
Essential tips and tricks guide for Borderlands 4 beginners. Provides useful information for gameplay, including motion sickness prevention settings, enemy identification, navigation, backpack expansion, skill reset, inventory management, attribute attack usage, and gamepad control settings.
Note: Unlike previous games, the method has been changed to upgrade with resources obtained through field activities, rather than paying money to merchants.
1. 🤢 Borderlands 4: Essential Settings Tips to Eliminate Motion Sickness and Dizziness
- ✅ Field of View (FOV) Adjustment: The default field of view set to 80 can cause dizziness by zooming in on the screen. Widen the field of view to 110 to see more information at a glance.
- ✅ Turn Off Motion Blur: Motion blur can blur the screen and cause dizziness. Be sure to turn it off before playing.
- ✅ Set Screen Shake and Camera Shake Intensity to 0: Minimize screen shake during combat to reduce dizziness.
00:00 - 02:35
1. 🤢 Borderlands 4: Essential Settings Tips to Eliminate Motion Sickness and Dizziness
- ✅ Field of View (FOV) Adjustment: The default field of view set to 80 can cause dizziness by zooming in on the screen. Widen the field of view to 110 to see more information at a glance.
- ✅ Turn Off Motion Blur: Motion blur can blur the screen and cause dizziness. Be sure to turn it off before playing.
- ✅ Set Screen Shake and Camera Shake Intensity to 0: Minimize screen shake during combat to reduce dizziness.
02:36 - 03:42
2. 👁️🗨️ If You Can't See Enemies Well? Minimap & Navigation Setting Tips
- ✅ Change Minimap to Radar: Use radar instead of a compass to easily identify enemy locations.
- ✅ Increase Navigation Path Display Time: Turn on the 'ECHO Location Tracking Path Display Duration' feature in the options to make the navigation path last longer.
03:43 - 05:11
3. 🎒 Increase Backpack & Ammo: Find the Vault McGuffin!
- ✅ Acquire Vault McGuffin: Find and acquire the 'Vault McGuffin' at the location marked with a speaker-shaped icon on the map.
- ✅ Backpack and Ammo Upgrade: Use the acquired 'Vault McGuffin' to increase backpack size and ammo capacity.
Note: Unlike previous games, the method has been changed to upgrade with resources obtained through field activities, rather than paying money to merchants.
05:12 - 05:38
4. 🔄 How to Reset Skills: Re-Spec Machine Location and Usage
- ✅ Find the Re-Spec Machine: Find the 'Re-Spec Machine' icon on the map and move to that location. It is often located near fast travel points.
- ✅ Skill Reset: You can reset your skill tree and redistribute skill points by paying about 10% of your holdings.
05:59 - 07:04
5. 🧰 Weapon Inventory Management Tips: Use Scraps Toggle & Favorites
- ✅ Use Scraps Toggle: Designate items to sell as 'Scraps Toggle' to easily sell them in bulk.
- ✅ Use Favorites Feature: Set important weapons or items as 'Favorites' to prevent accidental sales.
07:05 - 11:11
6. 🔥⚡️🛡️ Core Combat Tips: Complete Guide to Using Attribute Attacks
- ✅ Importance of Attribute Attacks: It is very important to use attribute attacks appropriately depending on the type of enemy.
- ✅ Understanding Attribute Effects: Press Inspect (Y key) to see detailed information about each attribute (shock, fire, corrosive, etc.).
| Attribute | Effect | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Shock | Very strong against shields | Shield |
| Fire | Very strong against flesh | Flesh |
| Corrosive | Very strong against armor | Armor |
| Radiation | Strong against shields, weak against armor | - |
| Cryo | Strong against armor, very weak against shields | - |
| Non-Elemental | High base damage, no attribute effect | - |
- ✅ Recommended Weapon Combinations: Fire + Shock (Humanoid), Corrosive + Shock (Robot)
- ✅ Non-Elemental Weapons: If attribute attacks are annoying, use non-elemental weapons from Jacobs.
11:12 - 12:14
7. 🤸🏻 Borderlands 4 Action: Body Slam, Dodge, Jetpack Usage
- ✅ Body Slam: Press the crouch key after a double jump to slam the ground.
- ✅ Dodge: Press Shift + direction key to dodge.
- ✅ Jetpack: Use the jetpack while gliding to land smoothly.
12:15 - 13:12
8. 🗺️ Map Shortcut: Hold Down the Menu Button!
- ✅ Open Map Directly: Hold down the menu button to instantly open the map, no matter what menu you are viewing.
13:13 - 13:54
9. 🚗 Vehicle Usage Tips: Escape Crisis & Shield Recharge
- ✅ Vehicle Summon: Summon a vehicle when your health is low to quickly recharge your shield and escape from a crisis.
- ✅ Unlimited Ammo: Vehicle ammo is unlimited, so you can use it aggressively.
13:55 - 14:10
10. 🧗 Make Parkour Easy: Turn On Forward Climbing Option
- ✅ Activate Forward Climbing Option: Turn on the 'Forward Climbing' option to easily do parkour with just the movement keys, without pressing the jump key.
14:11 - 17:35
11. 🎮 Personal Gamepad Sensitivity Setting Tips
- ✅ Dead Zone Setting: Set the right stick inner/outer dead zone to 0 to increase responsiveness to stick movement.
- ✅ Horizontal/Vertical Look Sensitivity Setting: Set the horizontal look sensitivity (1.8) and vertical look sensitivity (1.4) differently to adjust the up/down and left/right viewing speed.
- ✅ Change Sprint Key: Change the sprint key to RB and the grenade key to LS to improve ease of operation.
- ✅ Aim Assist: Controller Aim Assist On, Controller Aim Snap Off (Default Setting)
17:36 - 19:30
12. 💥 Gamepad Weapon Change Tips: Tap Y Key Three Times!
- ✅ Using the Y Key: Press and hold the Y key to bring up the weapon selection screen, or quickly press the Y key three times to instantly switch to weapon 4.
- ✅ Weapon Cycling: Quickly switch to the next weapon by tapping the Y key twice, and to the previous weapon by tapping it three times.