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Ryan Bailey

Ryan Bailey

Game/character designer at Gearbox Entertainment who designed Borderlands 4's Vault Hunter Loveless the Hacker and appeared on the Gearbox DevCast.

Sep 3, 2026

7:14
Who is Loveless?
7:16
Yeah, Loveless is a former ancient cyber assassin, tech wizard, inventor, all of the above.
7:25
She was part of the ancient corporation for a very long time and rose through their ranks, ultimately becoming one of their elite hacker assassins tasked with taking out troublesome competition from other corporations and things that hacker assassins do.
7:43
Ultimately, one of her biggest... successes and or failures, uh, was when she was tasked with creating a virus that was more biological, uh, control in nature, trying to really, uh, make sure that everyone was going to be listening to what Anshan wanted.
8:01
Um, and who could have possibly foreseen something like that going horrifically wrong.
8:07
Um, and as this virus that Loveless created threatened to, uh, And everyone she knew, everyone potentially in the area, on the planet, whatever it may be, she was forced to kind of assimilate this virus into herself in order to contain it.
8:24
And then it became less of a I think this situation and more of a we think this type of situation.

12 MINS LATER

20:30
Someone asked—this is from Vaden— if she's going to have a companion that's a passive like trouble, how does the worm act for loveless?

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