Borderlands 3 is out now, and it's choc-full of all manner of wonderful quests, secrets, and loot to keep players happy for weeks - but that's not enough! The first big event for the game has been revealed, and it'll be a spooky event called Borderlands 3 Bloody Harvest.
The Bloody Harvest event was announced last week at PAX West, but now thanks to Gearbox and a few cunning dataminers we know a lot more about it. Head below for everything we know about the spooky Borderlands 3 Bloody Harvest event.
What is the Borderlands 3 Bloody Harvest event and what do we know about it?
Borderlands 3 Bloody Harvest will be the first big event for the loot shooter, and we know a fair few details now thanks to official announcements and datamines. Here's everything official we know about the event:
- It'll be a free update for Borderlands 3 and is coming in October. More specifically, the event lasts from October 24 until December 5.
- There will be "spooky activities", as it'll be Halloween-themed.
- Anyone who has left Pandora and launched the Sanctuary 3 will be able to access the event.
- As players explore Borderlands 3 they'll discover 'Haunted' enemies, and killing them will see their Ghosts go after you - potentially producing a Terror debuff that clouds your view and weakens your gun handling, accuracy, and spread.
- Defeating Haunted enemies will earn Hecktoplasm, which you can turn in to the monstrous Maurice on the Sanctuary 3.
- Turning enough Hecktoplasm in will gain you access to the Bloody Harvest map, with Rakk-O'-Lanterns, undead Maliwan goons, bloody Ratch pits and a boss.
- The boss is Captain Haunt, the undead skeletal version of the Maliwan Captain Traunt from the story campaign. He has a load of spooky new powers and will be a tough fight.
- There will be Bloody Harvest-specific rewards - including an ECHO Device Skin, a Weapon Trinket, a skin for each of the four Vault Hunters (see below) and a Global Weapon Skin. There's plenty of new Legendary and Anointed loot too.
- The Anointed loot plays off the new Terror debuff inflicted by the Haunted enemies. The debuff makes your aim worse and partially clouds your vision but, with a bit of good RNG, can be turned into a tool of your own.
- Additional customization options - new heads, skins, and weapon trinkets will be added, and presumably will be rewards for completing missions and challenges.
- New Challenges. As mentioned in the point above, there will be specific challenges related to the event - presumably specific goals rather than just new quests, which will probably be included too.
- Balex will be involved and will get new dialogue for the event. Balex is an AI trapped inside of a teddy bear, and is voiced by rapper Ice-T. He may even host the event, and the Sanctuary 3 is involved somehow.
- Balex's dialogue lines include "during Bloody Harvest, all drinking water will now be pumpkin spice-flavoured. You’re welcome," "Bloody Harvest, baby! It’s spooky time!" and "all right, it's the Bloody Harvest. I wanna see costumes, people! Slutty robot, slutty Vault monster, I don't care - just make it slutty!"
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This isn't actually the first Bloody Harvest event Borderlands has seen, as there was a similar Halloween-themed DLC for Borderlands 2 with the same name - which introduced a new area on Pandora called Haunted Hollow. We'll provide you with more details when we get them.
That's all we know about Bloody Harvest so far officially, but dataminer Stephen Chapman (whose video you can see at the bottom of this page) discovered a fair number of additional details in the game's code. Bloody Harvest will apparently include:
