Borderlands 2 to feature PC-specific UI, FOV slider, more
Gearbox Software wants you to know that the PC version of Borderlands 2 won't be a mere "console port." In a "love letter" to fans, the developer talks about all the features being added specifically to the PC version of the game.
Gearbox Software wants you to know that the PC version of Borderlands 2 won't be a mere "console port." In a "love letter" to fans, the developer talks about all the features being added specifically to the PC version of the game.
While you'll want to read the original post for the delicious flavor text presented by Claptrap, here are all the relevant features you'd be interested in:
- FOV slider
- 100% mouse usable menus/mouse wheel scrolling
- Remappable key bindings for keyboard/mouse
- PC specific UI
- Native multiplayer matchmaking
- LAN support (including offline mode)
- Control pad support
- Integrated v-sync option
- Support for higher resolutions
- Mouse smoothing options (can be disabled completely)
- Cloud save support
- Achievement support
- Friends list support
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replyAndrew Yoon posted a new article, Borderlands 2 to feature PC-specific UI, FOV slider, more.
Gearbox Software wants you to know that the PC version of Borderlands 2 won't be a mere "console port." In a "love letter" to fans, the developer talks about all the features being added specifically to the PC version of the game.-
Yay!
-Please test the remappable keys for left handed people (no DICE "q" issue)
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Very nice, will purchase
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I know, and I'm happy to see the list. But after hearing how much they "loved the PC" while they were developing the first game this is not a game I'll buy without seeing reviews.
I enjoyed the first one. It's a good game. But honestly it was the most fucked up PC gaming experience I've had in a long time. I kept it dicking with it to get it to work right because I enjoyed it, but I don't plan to do that again.-
I'm mostly concerned about the online. Borderlands had plenty of issues on the PC but there were also ways to fix or at least improve some of them. The multiplayer however, was not of these things. Getting everyone connected was hard enough, but most people put the blame on Gamespy for that. When you were connected the netcode was really piss-poor. The other players would stutter and warp all over, nothing was smooth. Is that a peer to peer issue? I know L4D on a good server never has those problems, but a laggy one can make versus or coop nearly unplayable.
Even if Gearbox went with Steamworks for the matchmaking, will the netcode and multiplayer still be crummy in Borderlands 2?-
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Really? It was so bad it was like the other players were animating at 10 FPS when they weren't actually warping around. Always out of sync, no matter who hosted or how many players were in the game. Constrast it to the AI enemies which still animated smoothly but also lagged when it got bad, and it was a pretty drastic difference. It reminded me of those GTA MP mods, felt like the MP was hacked in.
Saw a lot of complaints at the time about this, figured it was the same for everyone but I guess not! I wonder what the desired setup is beyond close to LAN latencies from all connected players? -
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Only thing I see missing is in game AA.
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* U N R E A L E N G I N E 3 ' D *
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Unreal Engine 3 has supported AA for a while now.
"Unreal Engine 3 supports Full-Scene Anti-aliasing through hardware MSAA (Direct3D 11 only)."
http://www.unrealengine.com/features/real_time_shaders/
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Good to hear, but I'll believe it when I see it.
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That's how I feel about it.
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Did they explain why none of this was added/fixed on the first game?
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Saying all the right things, but I won't believe it until I playtest it. Notably missing: no dev console (I'll even deal with locked-down), and no button-and-scrollwheel quick way to adjust mouse sensitivity (for example, hold down F4, and adjust the mouse sensitivity with MWHEELUP and MWHEELDOWN while moving the mouse around to test how good the sensitivity feels).
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Maybe "notably missing" is very harsh for that; it's a dream feature I'd like to see in PC FPS games. I know that mouse drivers can have it, but I'm still baffled why games haven't allowed an easy way to manipulate mouse sensitivity while testing it out. It could even be used for analog stick sensitivity adjustments.
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I'm also baffled that people are baffled about this. Do game designers really think there's no more room for innovation in game menus? Do they really think that lazily dumping sliders and radio buttons everywhere like the XBox / PS3 design requirements suggest is all they have to do?
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You mean like they've always done?
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They still do.
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It is very nice to do this with the Razer driver
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idTech games you could bind sensitivity to anything including wheelup/down
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Wow, just wow.
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This is where "entitled PC gamer" comes from.
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Why the hell do people lock down console commands in SP?
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Look at you guys cheering. Remember before "pc is what it's made for" yet we got version for pc
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"PC will be the same as it always was." -- Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling, to Nick Breckon, September 22, 2009. http://www.shacknews.com/article/60559/modern-warfare-2-interview-infinity
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Um....... Not the same company?
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Also not the same approach; they were intentionally vague there, before they unveiled IWNet in October, and pissed off lots of CoD4 PC fans.
So what happens if Gearbox puts out this list of promises, and then doesn't follow through?-
Apples and oranges.
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Fool me once. Shame on you. Fool me twice. We won't get fooled again.
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Borderlands 2 looks like a good deal to me and with Colonial Marines also coming I maintain this year is Gearbox's time to really shine. If both these releases are good they become a very hot developer that could get them on this list of Spike VGA's studio of the year. I already think they are more relevant than ID.
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FOV FTW!
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You can go all the way from 45 degrees to 60 degrees!
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ok, i understand some fans want to hear this, so kudos. on the otherhand, ughhhhhh...its like they are using their past fails towards some cheesey marketing stunt. stuff that should be included without any kind of advertisement like they are doing something special.
OH, AND BABY? WE'LL BE INCLUDING:
_,.-~`*ADJUSTABLE RESOLUTIONS AND GRAPHICS DETAIL SETTINGS TOO!!!*`-,._
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I've heard this type of spew before and was disappointed, hopefully Gearbox will make a believer out of me.
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They had a pretty shady approach with the Borderlands DLC: the steam version did not have SecuROM activation DRM, but then the first two DLC packs DID have activation DRM. They got a lot of criticism after that, and thankfully went with Steamworks for Borderlands 2.
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I'd like to get Spaecs and Hoax's opinion on this among other senior PC Justice League staff. Will you give us your insight gentlemen?
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ah, I see the other thread now, and Mr Kow's response. http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=27846481
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" Still gonna have to tweak away those black lines and cartoon graphics."
This statement has me intrigued, you can actually do that? Have you got any screen from Borderlands showing this?
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See, this shouldn't be a "privilege" or anything, the fact is this kind of stuff should be STANDARD in EVERY pc game.
There just isn't any excuses for shitty ports, all it indicates is that as a developer you didn't give shit one about PC players in the first place. -
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Yeah ... not acceptable stuff in 90'
It's sad what gaming industry and community at large has ended up these days.-
The gaming inudstry is in a trainwrech since the Xbox 360.... it was perfectly fine when PS2 sold 100 million units
Microsoft's parasitic console totally brainwashed the western society into douchebags.
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Yay!!! Thank you for showing some love to the PC gamers! I'm totally looking forward to this game. :)
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Don't get me wrong, I'll try this game now AFTER the reviews come in, but really these features SHOULD have been present in the first game.
The only thing that stopped me buying the first game was that all I heard from PC Gamers was that it was consolised shite.
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Okay, I was a HUGE detractor of the first one due to its blatantly PC-unfriendly design. However, this time it sounds like they've definitely learned their lesson from the mistakes made with the original game. I'm pretty excited if they do, in fact, make these changes.
Sounds great!
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I read that and I think .. imagine buying a car and reading the list of features:
- Working Indicators
- Ability to open windows
- Ability to pour petrol at any petrol station
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Hopefully this will lead to more sales on the PC version of this game and help change the paradigm Publishers have about not allowing developers to make these features for PC ports. Sadly these really should be default for all PC games and not bonus exclusives....but somewhere along the line publishers lost sight of sustaining sales with service.
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So people complain when PC games are consolized. Then when one developer reassures gamers in a hilarious love letter that they have taken the time to create a good PC experience they continue to complain.
If you meet the above description, then you are a jackass need a hug.
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