During PAX East, Gearbox revealed the content roadmap for Borderlands 3 Season Pass owners in 2020. Following on the heels of Moxxi’s Heist of the Handsome Jackpot, Borderlands 3 will take a dive into Lovecraft with Guns, Love, and Tentacles on March 26. Two more major expansions will be coming in 2020 as well, the third DLC arrives in the summer while the fourth content drop will be released at some point before the year is up.
“One of the key pillars of [Guns, Love, and Tentacles] was to put the love back into Lovecraft,” Gearbox art director Jonathan Rancourt said in an interview with GameSpot. “We’re going for a strong contrast between those [Lovecraftian] landscapes and the story of a love worth telling. You’re going to be in a frozen wasteland where there are high mountain peaks that convey a sense of horror in some ways. But the story is lighter and it’s about Hammerlock and Wainwright sharing their wedding. There’s always trouble when you’re going through your wedding and, this time around, it’s even crazier.”
Sir Hammerlock and Wainwright Jakobs won’t be the only familiar faces you’ll be running into during Guns, Love, and Tentacles–Borderlands 2‘s first DLC character, Gaige, is finally coming back. Much like Lilith, Mordecai, Zer0, and the rest of the Vault Hunters from previous games, Gaige returns as a companion NPC, not a playable character.
“Gaige is one of the fan favorites and it was super important for us to stay true to the character and to make her a really big [part of] the DLC,” Rancourt said. “So players will follow Gaige throughout the [DLC’s] campaign and interact with her. We also wanted to bring back Gaige because she’s really close to Hammerlock in some ways. It really made sense in this story to have her there.”
Between these major expansions, Gearbox will continue to implement smaller updates for Borderlands 3, like the Mayhem 2.0 patch in March. “The main goal from the design team is that they wanted to make sure everything in Mayhem 2.0 was just fun,” Gearbox public relations manager Austin Malcolm said.
The new Mayhem Mode will continue to provide a post-campaign challenge for players, but will further lean into the wacky nature of Borderlands 3. You could get a modifier like “Big Head,” for example, which makes everyone’s heads noticeably larger–increasing the overall size of the headshot hitbox for both your enemies and your own Vault Hunter.
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