The latest Borderlands 4 patch has brought back the crit knife, which once again offers guaranteed critical hits, albeit with a higher skill requirement for triggering the effect. This marks the second consecutive Borderlands 4 update that targets the polarizing mechanic.
A "crit knife" is any Borderlands 4 throwing knife with the Penetrator Augment perk. Originally, this effect guaranteed that all damage to the affected target would be a critical hit for five seconds. When combined with modifiers like Damage Amp Payload—which increases incoming damage to the target—the original crit knife would allow players to straight-up delete almost any enemy. The October 23 patch attempted to rebalance the mechanic by replacing guaranteed crits with a 30% increase in critical hit chance during the same timeframe. However, players soon reported that the change was bugged: instead of upping their crit chance by 30%, a knife hit would set it to 30% for five seconds. Since many endgame builds can already exceed that threshold even without throwing ordnance perks, the change didn't merely nerf the crit knife but resulted in an outright DPS loss for some players.
A week later, the Borderlands 4 October 30 update has once again changed the...
