Borderlands 4’s first major DLC, Story Pack 1: Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned, launches on March 26, bringing a brand new Vault Hunter, a brand new region, recent gear, and the long-requested shared progression feature. For anyone who has been following the sport’s roadmap, that is the DLC that was promised for Q1 2026, and Gearbox is delivering on schedule.
The star of Story Pack 1 is C4SH the Rogue, the primary of two recent Vault Hunters coming to Borderlands 4 through paid Story Packs. C4SH is a CasinoBot who won a magical deck of cards in a high-stakes game, and his kit is built across the fantasy of going for broke as a devil-may-care gambler. One in every of his Motion Skills, Sleight of Hand, has him drawing cards from a randomized deck and throwing them to unleash powerful spells. As someone who put a ton of time into the bottom game’s Vault Hunters, I’m all in on the RNG-driven chaos of C4SH. Gearbox will fully reveal his gameplay, skill trees, and three Motion Skills on Monday, March 24. C4SH is playable across the whole game, not only the DLC content, so you may take him through the complete campaign from the beginning.
The DLC takes players to The Whispering Glacier, a frozen region of Kairos centered around a corrupted, labyrinthine fortress ruled by the Black Knight Titan. Think colossal Eridium shards piercing frozen ground, rivers of blood, and pulsating growths of flesh that will be destroyed to unlock recent areas and puzzles. Borderlands fans will recognize some returning faces, including Moxxi, Ellie, Mancubus, Pickle, and Crazy Earl, in addition to enemies like Kraggons and Scavs from Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. Two major boss fights and 16 minibosses populate the region, together with DAHL Legion soldiers who abandoned their posts on Elpis.
By way of loot, Story Pack 1 adds three recent Pearlescent weapons, 18 pieces of Legendary gear, and 28 cosmetics. There’s also a brand new World Boss mechanic where communing with eldritch trees warps you to a nightmarish dimension for a random boss encounter. To access The Whispering Glacier, you’ll need to finish the “A Lot to Process” mission within the Fadefields, and the content is advisable for level 13 or higher. For those who own Story Pack 1, you can even roll a brand new Vault Hunter that skips on to the DLC content at level 13.
Alongside the DLC, a free Major Update introduces shared progression, so recent characters on the identical account will gain access to map progression, SDU tokens, Hover Drives, cosmetics, and activity progression. That’s been one in all the community’s most requested features, and it’s a welcome addition for anyone who desires to run through the sport again with C4SH without redoing all the pieces from scratch. Cross-platform saves are still within the works for a later update.
Story Pack 1 is included within the Borderlands 4 Super Deluxe Edition and the Vault Hunter Pack, or it may well be purchased individually. Gearbox has plenty more planned for 2026, including additional raids, Bounty Packs 3 through 5, and a second Story Pack with one other recent Vault Hunter. The Fishing Skill can be coming in April, since it wouldn’t be a contemporary game without fishing. As I said in my Borderlands 4 review, should you’ve got longtime vault-hunting friends, there’s still loads of lootin’, shootin’, and laughin’ available, and C4SH looks like he’ll add an entire recent layer of chaos to the formula.