14 DAY TRIAL // The fourth piece of downloadable content for Borderlands has been revealed in the recent 1.31 patch that has been released for the PC version of the title. On the Gearbox Software official forum, user Legendrew managed to scout the files that made up the update and discover assets related to this fourth unannounced expansion for the post-apocalyptic first person shooter.
The story of the DLC pack revolves around a Ninja Claptrap who starts a robot revolution. Legendrew wrote that, “Basically the ninja claptrap was created by Hyperion to stop the vault hunters from taking all the guns and treasure etc... but was too clever, he saw other claptraps being 'enslaved' and 'killed' - he wanted it to stop so he started a claptrap revolution. Now Hyperion have asked the vault hunters to help them stop the claptrap uprising and return things back to normal but the claptraps have gone about... re-animating dead people and adding claptrap robot parts to them to fight in their army. Some of the people re-animated include Dr Ned. Commandant Steele and General Knoxx.”
In a recent interview with IGN, Randy Pitchford, the chief executive officer of Gearbox Software declared that he was not to bothered with the discovery. “There are a few things there,” said Pitchford. “But I think it's like reading a draft of a script for a movie that hasn't even been announced yet, let alone launched - yeah you might learn something, but it's not the real thing and it could just drive you crazy thinking about it. Seeing that this happened does make me want to hide some super juicy secrets in the DLC, though. If we do, we'll be sure to hide them really good, though, so it takes more than a day to find them.”
It was already known that a fourth downloadable expansion was in the works, so Legendrew's information is probably accurate. The PC patch that caused this unexpected reveal was released this week and added support for Steam Achievements and certain Logitech gaming grade peripherals.