The clock is ticking toward the first story DLC for Borderlands 4, and Gearbox is still feeding the hype machine with new trailers. This round brings a short, cinematic piece rather than gameplay footage: a story short film put in the spotlight.
Center stage belongs to the bandit robot N@L — formerly a casino attendant, later a winner of a game that cost him his old job but granted freedom plus a strange deck of cards. The short frames his origin through his own voice; he recounts the twist that set him off on this path, half rueful, half thrilled.
Gameplay-wise, N@L leans hard into chance. His kit revolves around that deck: in combat he can draw up to 1–2 cards at a time, and each draw triggers different outcomes — some direct, some weirdly situational (i.e., not always the same trick). It’s a playstyle that asks you to roll with the unexpected rather than plan every move.
Borderlands 4 runs on PC (Steam, Epic Games Store), PS5 and Xbox Series, and it includes Russian text. The DLC Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned drops on March 26 across all platforms.