I am not surprised. I am thoroughly enjoying playing Silksong which I bought for less than 20 EUR, and I am looking forward to playing Borderlands for a few hours when it’ll be on sale for $5 in about a year.
yeah all the Borderlands games are CONSTANTLY either on sale or in bundles or hell just given out for free on like amazon prime gaming or where ever. NEVER pay full price for Borderlands games, just wait like 2 months.
Hell all the Borderlands games have been in SO many bundles I literally own like several copies of each game without really even knowing it.
Three was so bad that I was planning on skipping this one anyways.
“If you’re a real fan, you’ll find a way” to play it through the crashes 🤷♂️
seems like this is how most AAA game launches go nowadays
QA is just wasted money, you aren’t going to get more sales by having a functional game at launch. It’s best to release it as soon as possible then fix it if it’s successful.
Playing, on Linux (Arch, btw) with no issues. The defaults were a bit harsh (45fps@4k) but once I ran the graphics setting autodetection and it went to medium with balanced upscaling I was getting 60+ FPS.
I couldn’t connect to the matchmaking servers (my system doesn’t meet the requirements, apparently) but it otherwise ran just fine.
What proton version are you running? I tried with the latest proton he.
I didn’t find the auto detect super helpful, kept trying to run at very high with full res, was not stellar. Was able to get decent frames with dlss + frame gen, balanced on high, dropping from 3440x1440 to 2560x1080 went into the 100s, dlss looks really bad with it though, like the edge artifacts are rough looking. Settled on tsr, find fsr really blurry, and no frame gen.
Didn’t do matchmaking, but co-op with my partner worked just fine.
I tried on the steamdeck, didn’t tweak much, didn’t expect it to be great but don’t think I expected PowerPoint level frames.
Edit, specs 4070ti 11900k 32 GB ram On arch with most recent drivers
Using GE-Proton10-15, HDR works great too.
I did notice the edge flickering artifacts with upscaling. XeSS is a bit higher quality than TSR but it also has the flickering. FSR framegen causes the flickering to happen on some particle effect that they use for atmosphere effects (like pieces of dust floating in the air) so it isn’t very usable currerntly.
The game isn’t perfect, but it’s very playable for me after some settings adjustments. I didn’t have any crashes in 5.5 hours of playtime, but I did notice the shader compiling stutter and there were some spots where you could tell that it was loading a zone if you walked over a specific point and I was in combat at the time so I ran across that point a few times and that caused some framerate issues.
A HUGE amount of the stuttering was eliminated by setting the Textures Streaming Speed to Very High, it looks like this is throttling disk IO for performance reasons. If you have an NVME SSD then I can’t think of a reason not to set it to reason not to set it to very high.
That’s good to know that Steam co-op works. I’ll try it later today, my friends are all running Linux too and didn’t want to buy a copy if it wasn’t going to work. I happened to be home yesterday so I was the guinea pig.
I tried updating the DLSS version (using PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER=1), the flickering still occurs. Same with using RENDER_PRESET_K. It almost looks like they’re applying too much sharpening when you’re using DLSS, but I don’t see a way to adjust that specifically.
AFAIK: PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER=1 doesn’t update the dlss version/dll files, just some game-specific profile settings. You’d still need to replace the .dll files if you want newer/different dlss files.
https://github.com/jp7677/dxvk-nvapi/wiki/Passing-driver-settings#ngx-snippet-updates-and-preset-overrides - at least the documentation here only talks about some snippets that envvar allows updating
Ah, I didn’t RTFM completely. I just read a snippet that mentioned the NGX updater and misunderstood the context.
I’ll give it a shot, thanks.
tbh, I did the exact same thing, but came across that documentation today and realized my error… :P
hope it works!
So many envs and no central documentation makes it hard to handle for everyone.
it gets weird when there’s multiple software layers. each one has their own env’s, dxvk, proton, nvidia, and then there’s the few random 3rd party ones (eg. libmimalloc if you want to tinker with memory allocation options)
it gets messy.
Hogwash. Its because there isnt enough skibidi toilet in the game
The €130 price for the full game probably isn’t helping.
Specially when Borderlands releases have historically dropped down to less than a quarter of that after a short while.
And the hits just keep on coming for borderlands
I mean. Even putting all the borderlands expectations aside, it was a pretty low quality movie.
Like, a lot of films that are adapted from games or other media, if you set aside expectations from the original media, you at least end up with a halfway decent movie.
This one was just a train wreck all the way through.
We were spoiled with actually good video game to film adaptations in the last few years. The Borderlands movie is like a step back to the 90’s when we got shit like Super Mario Bros. and Street Fighter: The Movie. Except not even so bad it’s fun.
I agree. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the Doom movie. I’m not even sure what to say about that one… Maybe that it was so bad that I’ve forgotten most of it?
For good adaptations, Sonic comes to mind. Not perfect but Sonic games didn’t really have that much of a plot to work from, just dr.robotnik is bad, go fast to stop him from doing the bad things.
I’m certain there’s more that I’ve forgotten about than I could possibly list off the top of my head.
Though… Old school MK…
As a fan of Borderlands, f- Borderlands 4. I’ve learned my lesson with things like Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands DLC. Even if it wasn’t the same studio, they do not have a commitment to a standard of quality to their name. I’ll let the “real fans” buy it up for over 100 euros so that I can go back and buy the complete with everything edition for 20 bucks several years from now, there are plenty of alternatives and even though I see the Gearbox witchhunts for what they are it still doesn’t make Randy less of an ass (I’m not looking to be a “real fan”, Randy). Also, the low fps is unacceptable for such an ordinary Borderlands looking game.
As an aside, I bought the Silksong game, and I’m not even playing it or am a particular fan of the genre atm.
I too, am a Borderlands.
You can say fuck on the internet
I was paying my respects.
I had forgotten about this franchise after they killed it. Is it still free to play bullshit with always-online DRM?
I think you are confusing it with something else. Borderlands was never Free2Play.
