Borderlands 4 performance issues have been "pretty stressful," admits dev, but Gearbox has done "a pretty good job" fixing them

It feels a little weird that, six months on from launch, we’re still talking about Borderlands 4’s notorious PC performance issues, but to be fair, it’s been developer Gearbox itself dredging up the issue in recent days. Just this week, the studio admitted it still has more work to do on PC optimization, and now, one of the game’s developers is opening up about the toll it’s taken on a personal level.

“I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t a little stressful, but at the same time, I feel like that’s part of what our jobs are,” managing producer Eli Luna tells IGN. “When you’re organizing these groups of people and nothing’s really done in an assembly line, we don’t wait for one part to be done, then we hand it off to the next part. Everybody’s working simultaneously. And so trying to balance all that as we’re moving along is always going to be a real challenge no matter what.”