Borderlands 4: Bounty Pack 2 - Legend of the Stone Demon

42% of the reviews say the pack costs too much for what it holds. The most upvoted of them says "under no circumstances should this be $12" and that it should have cost $3, like the Headhunter packs. Players who name a fair price land between $3 and $10: "it really still feels something closer to $8-9 really," one writes, and another says "The DLC would have seemed fine to me if it were $6 instead of $12." 6% of the reviews (15) say to wait for a sale, some of them for 80% or 90% off, and 3% (8) say it should have been a free update.

Length is part of the same complaint. 33% of the reviews call the pack short, most of them alongside a price complaint, and many describe one mission with a few optional bosses: "its litterally 1 quest with reused mobs that have a different color crystal growing out of them," reads one of the most upvoted reviews. Most reported times run from "it took about 15 min to finish" to two or three hours for a player who beat every optional boss, and one reviewer says "The quest itself is shorter than many sidequests from the base game." Owners who got the pack in a bigger purchase object too: 9% of the reviews (22) mention a deluxe edition or bundle, and 12 of those still complain about the price, like the player who wrote "I got this free with the super kitchen sink edition and I feel ripped (pardon the pun) off."

"Gearbox saw the worst enemy type in Bl4 and decided to make a whole DLC around it," one review says. 23% of the reviews complain about the ordonite enemies, which fill the pack and its bosses and which players describe as the base game's Vile enemies with yellow crystals. What they object to is "the crystals that make them immune to all forms of damage until you knock them off," and two reviews note that "the large yellow crystal can only take damage once a second-ish." Players say this shuts out whole builds. One writes "Which makes all DoT damage useless," another says splash damage is close to mandatory, and a third argues "there shouldn't BE a common enemy category that just negates a build." On the final boss, one review adds, minion builds for Vex fall apart because her minions don't shoot the crystals.

Once the crystals are gone, 7% of the reviews (18) find the enemies and bosses bullet sponges. One sums the pack up as "Health bar simulator," and a player on Ultimate Vault Hunter mode 7 says "it feels like I'm shooting at a brick with arms and legs 90% of the time." Several also mention fire pillars and elemental puddles filling tight tunnels. A small group disagrees: three reviews like the new enemy type ("The new rock guys are much better than the original ones though"), and one player says "on UVH5 nothing felt like a sponge to me." Two negative reviews found the pack too easy.

"There are 4 optional bosses and the main boss, and every single one is the same fight," one review says, and another counts "3 bosses which are just beefed up normal enemies with a single extra attack." Most of the 14% of reviews (35) that dislike the bosses make that point: they are larger versions of regular enemies with the same crystal gimmick. Reviews of the final boss call it "a boring final boss that is literally just a large base game enemy" and describe constant area slams and waves of tanky adds, and one player notes that "it has an immunity phase towards the end where enemies will run up to it and heal it." Some players also complain that the bosses drop little loot for how long they take.

The fights have fans too. 12 reviews (5%) enjoyed them, 9 of them positive reviews. "Its a lot of optional bosses with fun mechanics," one says, and even a harsh review allows that "the final boss is sort of cool." Another negative review found the optional bosses harder than the final one, which "made the final boss a let down."

The pack brings back the pearlescent rarity, and 14% of the reviews (34) are unhappy with its loot, mostly the pearls. Players expected a rare chase item and found three pearls that drop easily: "Pearls use to be rare and special. They are neither of that now," and "And they're not even that rare, which was the whole point of pearls." Others say they are no stronger than legendaries ("the new Pearlescent loot is at the same power level of gold/orange"), and one long review takes apart the Handcannon pistol, saying it doesn't hit as hard as its name promises.

Not everyone found the pearls easy to get. In the first days after launch, one player wrote "Good luck with getting a pearlescent with these drop chances, unless you have 5 days to kill," and another switched to a positive vote after a pearl drop-rate update in early March. A few players report runs with no pearlescent and almost no legendaries, and one notes "They added 1 singular shield and grenade and zero class mods or launchers." The new vault card cosmetics get little attention: one calls them "uninspired and ugly," while another says "I also like the skins you can obtain." A handful of players like the pearls, such as the reviewer who wrote "I like the new pearlescent feature."

The single most upvoted review is about access: "I purchased the super deluxe version of the game and I don't have access to this DLC." It is one of the 5% of reviews (11) that report access problems or bugs. Another launch-day review says "Deluxe Edition owner, game says I don't have this dlc." A Super Deluxe owner the same day had access and concluded "so they seemingly fixed any issues others are having." Later reports describe the missions not appearing on the map until a later update, the pack's access point vanishing after a later DLC arrived, a failed download, and the DLC disappearing from a library overnight. In co-op, players mention lag, frozen cooldowns, revives that didn't work, and skills resetting when joining someone else's game.

The repeatable event is the main target of the 4% of reviews (10) that dislike the chores built into the pack: "Shoot a handful of enemies (way less than they throw at you in even drill sites), put containers they drop into extractor, boss spawns. Rinse/repeat." One player calls its four-minute timer unrealistic against tanky enemies and rare canisters, and another says the spawns have long gaps despite the timer. Inside the mission, players complain about carrying batteries to open doors and to reach fights, which one calls a mechanic used long after it stopped being fun.

Some complaints are really about the base game: 3% of the reviews (8) describe long shader compiles, poor performance and instability. "Compiling shaders took almost as long as the story mission??" one writes, and another says "Bad performance and doesnt fix any of the base games flaws."