Borderlands 4 Patch Due Out Today, PC Performance 'Our Top Priority,' Gearbox Says (www.ign.com)
from inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 12:52
https://lemmy.world/post/36101100

Huh. I thought this was already perfectly optimized?

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newthrowaway20@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 13:04 next collapse

But I already started making my own game engine!

teft@piefed.social on 18 Sep 13:13 next collapse

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

kindenough@kbin.earth on 18 Sep 13:35 next collapse

I just spent 5000€ on a new rig to join the premium gearbox gamer society and now this?

Drewmeister@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 13:45 next collapse

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

EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 13:55 collapse

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”.

atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works on 18 Sep 18:09 collapse

I think they do think that though. Companies seem to have realized they can make more money with less sales by pricing the lowest bidding consumer group out of the market.

zurohki@aussie.zone on 18 Sep 18:37 collapse

Okay, but the people playing on 5090s aren’t interested in barely getting 60 fps.

There’s no amount of hardware that shitty software can’t piss down the drain.

atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works on 18 Sep 18:41 collapse

That’s not my point though. I was just saying that the rich people of the world really do seem totally okay with the idea of a class of people who cannot afford anything.

unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social on 18 Sep 13:23 next collapse

…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?

Technotica@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 13:32 next collapse

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

MoreZombies@piefed.au on 18 Sep 13:55 next collapse

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.

chiliedogg@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 16:31 collapse

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.

TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 18:33 collapse

Gearbox would be a much more beloved company if Randy Pitchford fucked off. He makes everything they do worse, like bragging about how terrible Duke Nukem Forever was like the company is proud of killing the franchise.

Flickerby@lemmy.zip on 18 Sep 13:35 next collapse

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

ratten@lemmings.world on 18 Sep 13:40 collapse

Eh, I don’t think the series would be as bad if it didn’t have his coke-addled ass dictating which direction it should go.

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz on 18 Sep 14:42 collapse

what decisions has he been responsible for?

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 15:03 collapse

The movie.

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz on 18 Sep 15:08 collapse

Oh I forgot there was a movie

Flickerby@lemmy.zip on 18 Sep 15:17 collapse

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se

ampersandrew@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 13:45 next collapse

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.

mintiefresh@piefed.ca on 18 Sep 13:45 next collapse

Will the update send us 5090s?

itkovian@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 14:00 collapse

Yes. /s

alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Sep 14:08 next collapse

That means they’re removing Denuvo & Symbiote right? Right???

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 14:17 collapse

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

doingthestuff@lemy.lol on 18 Sep 15:38 next collapse

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.

Gerudo@lemmy.zip on 18 Sep 15:43 next collapse

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.

Jhex@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 18:42 collapse

Performance ‘Our Top Priority,’ Gearbox Says

Really? I thought we were to either suck it up or move on… I moved on