Borderlands 4 Patch Due Out Today, PC Performance 'Our Top Priority,' Gearbox Says - IGN
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Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox has said improving the performance of the game on PC is its “top priority,” with a patch due out today, September 18.

Huh. I thought this was already perfectly optimized?

  • Gerudo@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    2 hours ago

    All he had to say was “we are working on it, in the meantime, use some frame gen, or bump your res down. Our bad”. But no, he had to be a dick about it.

  • Flickerby@lemmy.zipEnglish
    311·
    4 hours ago

    Pitchford is the biggest enemy of Borderlands, why can’t he just shut the fuck up

  • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
    43·
    4 hours ago

    I thought this was a “premium” game. Why should they optimize for the poors? /s

    • Drewmeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      4 hours ago

      I really wish Randy would shut the fuck up, because it seems like the actual devs really care about this game.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      4 hours ago

      It’s so funny that this was their mindset when it doesn’t run well on my PC which cost close to $2,000.

      Randy is so out of touch he thinks people with $2,000 available in discretionary spend are “the poors”.

  • methodicalaspect@midwest.socialEnglish
    23·
    4 hours ago

    …but I thought performance was fine, why would something fine be their top priority? Pitchford couldn’t possibly have been talking out of his ass, could he?

  • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    I’ll check it out when it’s under $5. At this rate, maybe next year’s winter sale? I have a rig that is reportedly already able to play it but I don’t pay full price, ever. Even games I really want, and this ain’t it.

    • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      Of course not. It’ll be mandatory DLSS and fake frame generation because that the future of graphics and game development.

  • Technotica@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    4 hours ago

    What now it’s a priority? What about Pitchfords snobbish comments? Did their bottom line hurt?

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Something I’ve kinda come to accept about Gearbox is that Pitchford is an ass and sometimes they farm out products when they shouldn’t (ACM bring the biggest example), but most of the devs actually working on the games really do care about the product and want it to be good.

    • MoreZombies@piefed.auEnglish
      6·
      4 hours ago

      Most people I know who are keen on the game are completely unaware of any of the the discourse surrounding it. It was probably minimal.

  • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    It’s not just stutters but also just general poor performance in the open world, such that I get about half the frame rate I would expect to see on high settings without frame gen. I wouldn’t be surprised if the optimizations here are like what happened with Assassin’s Creed: Unity where there was a bunch of detail that got sanded off of the world map in places that a player should never actually see it anyway.