Borderlands Update to Increase Level Cap

The upcoming Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution DLC for Borderlands will not increase the level cap. Instead, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford announced at PAX that a free update will be released to increase the level cap and rebalance the game.

Now the good news: They are being included in a free update for the game across all three platforms, Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford told a live PAX audience that his studio resisted making it a part of a DLC pack since, if they included those features, “you’d have to buy every previous DLC” to get access to said features. So, instead, Pitchford said they were going to release a “free update to Borderlands that will both rebalance the original game around the level cap and increase the level cap for everyone.”

But Pitchford said the studio still struggled with how high to raise it. On the one hand, Gearbox didn’t want to match the 11-point upgrade that many people paid for with the “General Knox” DLC, but on the other the devs didn’t want it to be too low, like 5-points. Instead, they came up with another number. “With the current level cap at 61,” Pitchford teased, “we realized if we added 8 levels … “