Borderlands 4: Bounty Pack 3 - A Zane to Kill For

Of the 10 reviews that give a playing time, 8 put the single side mission at an hour or less, from "like 10 minutes" to "max an hour." In all, 25 reviews call it short, 9 of them recommenders. "This dlc is less than an hour worth of content," one negative review says, and a player who wishes they could return it wrote "i didnt even put an hour into the dlc...and its fully complete." A third looks back to older series DLC: "DLCs like Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep were 5/6+ hours to beat the main quest." One player suspects the tough enemies are there "to pad out the runtime of what is otherwise an extremely short experience, even for being a bounty pack."

Recommenders who call it short mostly treat the length as a drawback they can live with. "Pretty good. Wish it was longer tho." is the whole of one review, and another warns it is "still pretty short so keep that in mind but I had a good time in this one." Three other recommenders found it longer or long enough: one says it "took around 2 hours going through it the first time finding everything," another estimates "3 hours or so (maybe more?)," and a third calls the length decent.

The fights draw 11 complaints, all from negative reviews, and 7 of them say the pack reuses the base game's Order enemies. One review reads, in full, "one new enemy." Another asks "Why would Zane have ORDER synth in is memory realm," and a third wrote "Atleast previous DLC story had proper new enemies instead of more synths." One of them concedes "If you like base game combat you will like this."

Two reviews blame the new glitched enemies by name. One describes them as "both being bullet sponges AND teleporting around constantly," so that a shielded swarm turns into an annoying hide and seek, and adds "Enjoy stopping to fight them for 12 minutes every five steps you take." The other wrote "The new glitch effect enemies sound cool on paper, but execution made regular encounters more difficult/tedious that some boss fights." Two more call the encounters bullet-spongy or unbalanced without naming the glitched enemies. One player had the opposite problem, with neither the final boss nor most enemies putting up a fight. Two recommenders enjoyed the combat, one of them mentioning "some intense firefights."

"It's all platforming and empty spaces with a few small battle areas," one negative review says of the level between fights. Four other negative reviews also find it bare, calling it "a lifeless, linear area with nothing to do" or "frustratingly linear." One player found many rooftops blocked by invisible walls, more often than in the base game, and bypassed a new climbing mechanic the dialogue never mentions by doing parkour. Two recommenders disagree: "Platforming around the map is a blast," says one, and the other praises the "fun level design."

Four negative reviews, all written in the first ten days after launch, report bugs in the pack itself. Coins picked up after the case is solved leave the Pay to Win chest locked, one explains, so the achievement means replaying the whole mission. Another found "2 bugged achievements in under 1 hours," and the others hit missing guide lines on two tasks and an arcade entrance that never appeared: "the load zone for the arcade isnt spawning." Two more negative reviews are about Borderlands 4's performance in general, one describing around 10 minutes of shader compiling every time the game starts. One recommender found the framerate smooth in the DLC.

The coin hunt and its chests bother four negative reviews. One lists what is missing: "No way of tracking the collectables outside of dialogue. No map icons, no progress count in map or at the arcade." Another says "The Zane-coin chests don't provide loot that makes it feel worth while" and that "the mini-DLC does not give you a reason to come back to the map other than to run through it once and never again." Two recommenders do see a reason to return, pointing to the new weapons and a boss worth farming.