The latest hotfix to hit Borderlands 3 has arrived, and it makes Amara a little less of a speed demon.
The Bloody Harvest event is officially over! With the December 5th hotfix, Borderlands 3 has finally ended the Halloween-themed event. This is probably because it's December now and that event would have to start swapping styles to be more like the Nightmare Before Christmas if it kept going.
Anyway, the hotfix means that you can't travel to Heck anymore, there are no more Haunted enemies, and you can't do any of the event challenges until it comes back next year.
Another big change in the hotfix is a nerf to what was quickly becoming the most busted thing in the game. Amara had an "issue" where her Mindfulness ability could be combined with the new Spiritual Driver class mod to make her both extremely fast and extremely powerful.
Mindfulness applies a movement speed boost whenever Amara takes damage, while Spiritual Driver gives you a damage boost whenever Amara is moving. However, it was having a strange interaction with Mindfulness and allowed it to apply damage to everything. Casting Phasecast on herself would cause a damage-over-time effect that kept making Amara progressively faster on top of providing a huge damage buff.
This was so huge that it would make most of the game's content trivial, so yeah, that got fixed - or nerfed, or however you want to call it.
The next biggest changes come to Zane, but these are true fixes instead of nerfs. Both passive abilities Death Follows Close and Nerves of Steel weren't functioning properly, with Nerves of Steel sometimes dropping after fast traveling and Death Follows Closely not working right with several of Zane's kill skills. That's fixed, so Zane players should breathe a little easier.
FL4K has mercifully avoided nerfs, although his Jabber is quieter now, and Moze is still the same old Moze.
Finally, there were a TON of map fixes this time around, with multiple areas getting closed-off to prevent players from falling through the ground or to prevent loot from becoming unreachable. Slaughterstar 3000, Skywell-27, Ambermire, Pandora, Septic Sluice, and the Green Diamond Platform all saw fixed to prevent these issues, so that nightmare is finally over.
Borderlands 3's first DLC, Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot, will arrive on December 19th and also comes with an official patch that compiles all the various hotfixes so they don't need to be applied during launch. The Takedown at the Maliwan Blacksite event also comes later this month, so remember to get geared up for that too!
Source: Gearbox