AAA game? Performance issues and crashing on release? Why I never.
Don’t buy gearbox games. Pitchford is a self important head in the sands salesman
Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing
Submitted 15 hours ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
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commander@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
devolution@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Don’t forget Todd Howard. He’s the ultimate example of a Tesla salesman who has a self driving car drive itself into a ditch and then he says “it just works.“
Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 hours ago
I can think of just 1 guy who is even more of a used car salesman… Chris Roberts. Literally has been selling digital spaceships like used cars.
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
As a diehard fan of the Wing Commander series, you take that back right now! Right now!
I bought, and still have, every single Wing Commander game released as they launched. Core experience of my early gaming days.
All kidding aside, Star Citizen is a steaming shit pile of a grift that has gone on for far too long.
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 9 hours ago
Don’t buy fucking Gearbox games. Jesus fucking shit on a bike chrisy. I have been saying that for over a decade.
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Gonna just remind everyone, or tell anyone who isn’t familiar… Gearbox’s Colonial Marines has a typo in an ini file that breaks the game’s AI. Gearbox was made aware of it after a modder found it in 2018. They acknowledged it by making a joke, then did nothing…
As far as I know, that one letter typo is still there after 13 damn years.
Highlandcow@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
Half-life opposing forces was good atleast
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 50 minutes ago
Must have slipped through the cracks.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
I briefly watched Jackfrags video on it. The graphics aren’t even anything special, the world isn’t overly populated and I can’t agine there would be any over complex calculations running in the background and it performs like shit.
Fuck these fucks.
Hubi@feddit.org 15 hours ago
It’s Unreal Engine 5, so the bad performance is included by default. I’ve played 4 UE5 titles in recent months and all of them ran terrible even though they were far from groundbreaking graphically.
Hell, I could play the gorgeous KCD2 on high settings at a buttery smooth 60FPS but apparently I need to set everything to the very lowest and down to 720p to get the same result on much worse looking Unreal games.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
When listening to the dev commentary of Valve games, they talk about how much work goes into level design planning even just for the sake of optimization, like clearly delineating barriers between major regions (doorways) so the engine can unload objects from other areas.
I get the impression the “First step easy” setup from UE5 may have made it so that more people can give us unoptimized messes, but still only a few rare devs understand proper optimization at all levels of development.
teft@piefed.social 14 hours ago
I could play the gorgeous KCD2
Now is a great time to play it again. The newest DLC just dropped. Henry gets his own forge. I'm liking it a lot so far.
Dojan@pawb.social 15 hours ago
I’ve played two games (off the top of my head) that run UE5. Remnant II and Payday 3. Both have performance problems.
Remnant II is just overall poorly optimised. Payday 3 has weird random hitches. Granted they seem like they might be server side because when I get them my friend does too, almost simultaneously, and vice-versa.
arudesalad@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
The only ue5 game I have played with good performance is satisfactory and that's because good performance is necessary for a game like that (so they put a lot of effort into it)
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 13 hours ago
Wayfinder uses ue5 and runs just fine.
That is the only example I have.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
Same. My graphics card upgrade did little to help out performance on S.T.AL.K.E.R. 2.
taiyang@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Also… why now? BL games always get 90% off eventually, lol.
kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
That franchise hasn’t been good since BL2
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
BL2 was great. Some of its DLC was even better. Assault on Dragon Keep is one of the best looter shooters ever made. The gameplay was a blast. The jokes were funny…And out of left field it broke your fucking heart by secretly being about a young, traumatized girl’s grief.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It wasn’t out of left field. They telegraphed it frequently.
kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
…and then they turned it into spinoff game with Wanda Sykes’ voice constantly grating your brain into shredded cheese
LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
3 was the best out of all of them from a gameplay perspective. People don’t like the story but I never cared for any of the borderlands stories personally.
derpgon@programming.dev 6 hours ago
Let’s be honest, the only story missions we ever cared about were those starring Handsome Jack.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Honest question: if the story doesn’t matter that much to you, what do you value in a game?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Borderlands 3 was significantly better, in my opinion.
forrgott@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
The gameplay was much improved; the writing was…not good.
But I played the hell out of 3 anyway, so…
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Well most review sites give it high scores with the negatives being primarily the performance so at least this time there might be a good game in there somewhere underneath all those shader compilation stutters
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 12 hours ago
So, BL3 wasn’t great. the pre-sequel was out of house and doesn’t really count. It was made in an entirely other culture. It’s not like there have been a lot of games since BL2.
I honestly don’t understand the hate.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
If you’re going to dismiss the criticism of BL3 or the Presequel then yeah, it makes you don’t get the hate.
kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
No hate, just unmet expectations.
mereo@piefed.ca 15 hours ago
*sigh*... This generation of games will all suck because of Unreal Engine 5. I'm a patient gamer, I have plenty of unplayed games on my Steam library. I will not upgrade my video card because of this horrendous game engine.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
And it still has the loss of focus in the inventory screen bug that’s plagued the game since the first one.
wuffah@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Can’t play your new $80 game due to performance and crashing issues? Hey, if you’re a real fan you’ll find a way to make it happen.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 15 hours ago
One of the reasons being patent with games is worth it. In a year, they may fix the bugs, they may not. But the only thing you lose is a bit of time playing other games. And cheaper too :D
loie@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I loved BL 1 and 2. Still haven’t played prequel, tina, or 3; might finally buy one of those next big sale.
dil@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Bout to finish the main story of bl3, wish it was longer, seems like content was cut so they could sell expansions, idk maybe im just comparing it to borderlands 2 + all expansions, I didnt really do side quests but typically I do these when I need to, playing solo I didn’t ever need to leave and do those before coming back to the main story.
Soup@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
As I understand it, BL3 didn’t use the same writers as BL2. The DLC for BL3 did, though, which is why it’s of a very high quality. BL1-2 are some of my favourite games and as someone who doesn’t replay/reread/rewatch I’ve replayed those games a lot, but Pitchford was a huge douche about BL4 and its pricing so I decided hey, I’ll solve that problem by just not buying it.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 46 minutes ago
I tried 3 just to see what all the interest was about, but couldn’t get into it. There were loads of guns and none of them seemed great or much different from each other. Was I supposed to collect them and sell them? I wanted to like it cos I enjoy the art style, maybe I should give it another go sometime.
dil@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Enough ppl dont complain about how they artificially extend the time by having you wait for ppl talk, thought it was a limitation in older games, especially bad in sanctuary, like let me just play the game, talk while I do stuff, don’t make me stand around pausing the game if I open my menu extending it futher.
towamo7603@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It literally crashed while Conan was doing a Clueless Gamer promo for it.
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 12 hours ago
Play 1 & 2 again or if you want to get introduced into the series those are the ones to play oh and the Tony Tina spin offs are good.
Psythik@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
[deleted]BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
wow youre so smart and sophisticated ! you only play big boring grown up games about taxes and working a job! way to go adult!
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
But but but IGN gave it an 8/10 and said it was the best game in the franchise! Did they lie, are they out of touch, or are they working with publishers to try to smooth over the transition into more expensive games?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
They noted the perforemance issues in their review