The Borderlands series has always been known for the number of guns it has. Thanks to the power of randomization, no two guns in the Borderlands series have ever been the same. Even two guns with the same name can have drastically different stats. This had never been more apparent than in Borderlands 3, with the trailer of the game consistently touting that it had “over one billion guns.” This was a very impressive feat for its time, but now the bar has been raised even higher with Borderlands 4 Art Director Adam May saying that the new game has “more than 30 billion guns.”
Borderlands 4 Has a Record Number of Guns
Some members of the Borderlands 4 team recently had a chat with EpicGames to talk about different aspects of the game. Of course, with a chat about Borderlands, the subject of loot had to come up. After all, the looter shooter series is well known for having an overly large number of firearms in each of the games. During this time, Art Director Adam May told EpicGames that Borderlands 4 has “more than 30 billion guns.”
Thanks to procedural generation, this absolutely massive number of weapons is possible. This is what has kept the loot pool so high throughout all the games in the series. In Borderlands 3, the number of weapon manufacturers is nine, with each of them featuring special kinds of parts that make them all unique.
Borderlands 4 takes this a step further. Not only does it have the weapons manufacturers, but it also has a licensed part system that allows parts of one manufacturer’s weapons to appear on another’s. This increases the number of weapon possibilities by an enormous amount, resulting in the game having more weaponry than all of the previous games combined.
For comparison, Borderlands 3 had over one billion guns. Borderlands 2 is estimated to have just short of 18 million guns. The Pre-Sequel is estimated to have at most around 35 million weapons. Finally, the original game in the series is estimated to have at most around 17 million guns. Combined, all of the previous games don’t even reach 1.1 billion weapons. Borderlands 4 has officially eclipsed every other game in the series by over 28 billion.
