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Borderlands 4 has officially become my most-anticipated game of the year, between how good its previews have looked and the glowing hands-on reviews that have just hit the internet this past week. <\/a><\/p>\n Now, I am deeply impressed by what Gearbox has just announced. Due to a load of fan feedback and debates about the issue, they have added a feature to the game that will launch with it in September, a demonstration of both listening to the playerbase and nimble development.<\/p>\n The debate was whether or not the Borderlands 4 \u201ccompass\u201d system of locating objectives and enemies was better than a \u201cminimap\/combat radar\u201d system that did the same thing but in a different format. Gearbox adamantly defended the compass decision, but the conversation was so pervasive that it has just been announced that Borderlands 4 will indeed launch with a combat minimap option. Here\u2019s Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford showing off the system during a 32-tweet thread<\/a> covering the issue:<\/p>\n Randy credits the community for helping to reinforce how important this issue is and that it needed to be addressed:<\/p>\n \n \u201cThis happened because of the best elements of our community. I\u2019m talking about the real fans who sincerely want the best for the game and gave constructive notes and made reasonable arguments. You know who you are and you rock! You made this happen!\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Play Puzzles & Games on Forbes<\/p>\n I\u2019m not exactly sure which side of this I come down on. I think perhaps the compass, as it seems less intrusive in the UI, but I\u2019ll try both out to be sure. Regardless, it\u2019s great that there\u2019s an option, and you really do not see this sort of thing happen this quickly and way ahead of launch, rather than a \u201cyeah, we\u2019ll look into that for the future\u201d sort of thing.<\/p>\n It seems like it\u2019s all green lights for Borderlands 4 so far. The only negative things I\u2019ve heard about it are not about the game itself, but people saying they didn\u2019t like Borderlands 3, so they\u2019re not excited about 4. But a lot of the praise about Borderlands 4 is that it\u2019s fixing many of the issues of 3, from combat movement to looting to even the tone of its writing. That, combined with what appears to be a very reactive dev team on top of their game, I think this is going to be a big fall launch, particularly with a number of other games moving out of its way. Can\u2019t wait to play.<\/p>\n Follow me <\/strong>on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong><\/a> Bluesky <\/strong><\/a>and <\/strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Pick up my sci-fi novels the <\/strong>Herokiller series<\/strong><\/a> and <\/strong>The Earthborn Trilogy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n