[PC Gamer} 'This happened because of the best elements of our community': Borderlands 4 won't have a minimap, but thanks

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Borderlands 4 showed it lacking a minimap, some players were distraught. If you can hear psychos ranting but can't tell exactly where they are, how will you figure out they're actually on the other side of that hut in particular? Well, as Gearbox founder Randy Pitchford explained on the hatesite formerly known as Twitter, Borderlands 4 actually will have a combat radar in time for its September launch.Explaining in detail why Borderlands 4 was initially designed without a minimap, Pitcfhord said, "Borderlands 4 is much larger than ever before, and seamless. There are main missions and side quests (lots of them) that often have objectives, sometimes multiple objectives, further than the scope of a useful mini-map. So we invest *more* into the main, big map—make it more useful, faster, better. And we invest in other features for navigation, like the compass and the EchoBot AI drone companion."Those other features sound pretty great. The drone can paint a path for you, like you're casting clairvoyance in Oblivion Remastered, and the compass highlights targets as well as destinations, and indicates their height at the same time—something minimaps are often bad at. However, when Gearbox showed off Borderlands 4 on a recent world tour of preview events (Tyler Wilde attended one for us, and came away pleased with its consistency and also the cool hoverbike), some players did bring up the combat-usefulness of a minimap."The people who stuck with their feelings about a combat radar had a point", Pitchford said. "WE got good at the compass for combat, but combat is all *feel*. Should we require everyone to learn the compass for enemy situational awareness?"And so, the creative director and UI team pulled together and whipped up a combat radar—though it'll be off by default. It wasn't ready in time for the Borderlands Fan Fest, but it will be ready in time for the game's release on September 12, when Borderlands 4 will be available on Steam and the Epic Game Store.Borderlands 4: What we know so far
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