Gearbox Software and 2K has announced the next playable vault hunter coming to recently released Borderlands 4, and it’s C4SH.
C4SH was revealed during the Tokyo Game Show 2025 Borderlands 4 panel, with the team explaining the character thus: “A former casino dealer bot, C4SH is now a drifter who chases the probability-breaking highs of cursed eldritch artifacts. As luck would have it, Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned is full of cosmic horrors that harbour uncanny curios, some of which can surely bend the odds in C4SH’s favour.”
2K says that: “Like the other Vault Hunters in Borderlands 4, C4SH has three unique Action Skills to choose from, but C4SH’s Action Skills are distinctly unpredictable, as they all involve an element of chance. We’ll be revealing the full details of his Action Skills later on, but C4SH’s risk-reward playstyle can lead to good fortunes like buffing himself and allies, dealing devastating damage, sapping the strength from foes, and more.”
While the new character is paid DLC, if you own the Super Deluxe Edition, or the Vault Hunter Pack (which is included in the aforementioned Super Deluxe Edition), or if you own the Story Pack 1 (Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned), you won’t have to pay any extra. Phew.
Basically if you don’t own one of the more expensive editions of Borderlands 4, you’ll need to pick up “Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned”, which is a story pack set for release in Q1 2026.
In our Borderlands 4 review, Mick said: “It doesn’t play like a greatest hits compilation of what has come before, but rather as an evolution of the series, albeit a fairly obvious one. It’s a game built on the foundation of picking a direction to travel in and dealing with whatever you stumble into, often violently. With so much loot to find, so much class variety, so many enemies, quests, world events, and secrets, soloists will have as much fun as any group of mates blasting across Kairos together. Most importantly, Gearbox seems to have learned the right lessons from Borderlands 3 and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands to recapture some of that essential Borderlands magic.”
Borderlands 4 is out now for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5. A Switch 2 version is planned, but hasn’t got a date as of now.
