With Borderlands 4 being a Borderlands game, you’ll inevitably come across a piece a gear that just won’t shut up. Borderlands 2 had The Bane, a unique submachine gun that screamed incessantly; meanwhile, Borderlands 3 had The Unkempt Harold, a legendary pistol that made illogically funny statements. Borderlands 4 is no different, with the legendary shield Cindershelly treating you like a sub to its dom. But, apparently, this armament wasn’t supposed to bark smutty lines as often as Gearbox Software coded it to.
Borderlands 4’s October 23 update made an assortment of changes while also adding a Halloween event to the looter-shooter. Buried within the lengthy patch notes, and spotted by PC Gamer, was one curiously sly adjustment: Cindershelly’s voice lines won’t trigger as frequently, so that the shield will be less distracting. That doesn’t sound like anything special, but when you consider how horny the shield was and how often it catcalled, you’d think that maybe you were getting hit on the entire time you ventured around the world of Kairos.
As PC Gamer noted, some of the voice lines were especially raunchy. Cindershelly would say things like “Touch that barrel and scream for me” and “Don’t stop till I allow it.” The legendary shield would then keep going, telling you to “Show me how close you can get, worm,” and “Worship me.” Apparently, it got worse in combat, as these lines would trigger when doing or taking damage, which happens all the time in a Borderlands game.
Cindershelly was built by the Order, a weapons manufacturer for The Timekeeper’s army. The shield is a random loot drop, like most gear in Borderlands 4, but you have a greater chance of finding it from The Backhive in The Fadefields’ Auger Mine in the Dissected Plateau. It’s a solid piece of loot that grants you damage reduction and emits an AOE blast that deals damage once it breaks, based on your Resolve stacks. And now, it’s gotten that much better because you’ll likely get less turned on since it won’t sexily insult you as much–if getting turned on by pixels is a thing you’re into.
Cindershelly isn’t the only horny piece of gear in the franchise. Borderlands 2 had the effervescent sniper Hot Mama that, like Borderlands 4’s super-horny shield, spoke suggestive innuendos at you while gunning goons down. Welcome to the Goonerlands, everyone, I guess.
Borderlands 4 is out now for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. A Nintendo Switch 2 port is in the works, but has been pushed out of its October 3 release to ensure it meets the quality Gearbox Software expects of it.
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