Despite high scores from critics, users on Steam are massively criticizing the game. The average rating of the project over the past week has dropped to 62%.
The main complaint is related to performance. According to Hardware Unboxed, on an RTX 5060 Ti video card, Borderlands 3 in the same location and on Badass settings delivers about 115 fps, while Borderlands 4 delivers only 37 fps.
At the same time, the graphics do not look revolutionary. Borderlands 4 on Unreal Engine 5 visually surpasses the previous part, but the difference does not justify the drop in fps. Borderlands 3 on Unreal Engine 4 still looks decent, as can be seen in the third minute.
The project performed especially poorly on low settings. To achieve a frame rate comparable to Borderlands 3, you have to turn on Low quality. In this case, Borderlands 4 shows only 82 fps on the RTX 5060 Ti, but at the same time looks much worse than the six-year-old Borderlands 3 on Badass, where the same card delivers 115 fps.