AAA game? Performance issues and crashing on release? Why I never.
denuvo strikes again
Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing
Submitted 1 day ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
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kepix@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Sounds like PC gaming.
Jinarched@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
People bought that overpriced crap with unnacceptable TOS? I guess I need to accepy there is no hope after all.
commander@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Don’t buy gearbox games. Pitchford is a self important head in the sands salesman
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day 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.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
At this point I wonder if he still believes he’s making the full game? And if not, did he ever?
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 17 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.
devolution@lemmy.world 13 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.“
RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
It’s a fun game, and I’m enjoying my time with it, but the fact that I’m getting 40fps at 1080p with a 5080 is frankly ridiculous. Unreal Engine 5 is such a curse on this generation of games.
GuStJaR@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Hey, I’m interested. Do you have frame gen on and dlss and still getting 40fps?
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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 1 day 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.
odelik@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
UE5 performance is fine these days if the game developer actually utilizes the tooling in place to catch problematic assets, sequences, blueprints, and more. Now, those tools may not be the easiest to use, but they do exist, and, with official documentation. It’s got challenges, but the tooling exists. In 5.6 there was even an expirmental plugin released that’s supposed to help with the burden of integrating this work, so it’s obvious there’s effort being put into providing tools for developers to make performant games
The problem is that takes additional time in a production pipeline, and is uaully pushed off to the side til the end of a game’s dev cycle instead of the beginning, if it’s done at all. And due to the way that many game studios are funded and operate, it’s not uncommon for product quality to follow the model of delivering features first to meet funding milestones instead of focusing on making sure the work that’s being introduced is also performant.
Katana314@lemmy.world 12 hours 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 18 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 1 day ago
Wayfinder uses ue5 and runs just fine.
That is the only example I have.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Same. My graphics card upgrade did little to help out performance on S.T.AL.K.E.R. 2.
Moltz@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
News at 11, sky still blue. The series ended with 2.
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 20 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 15 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 16 hours ago
Half-life opposing forces was good atleast
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Must have slipped through the cracks.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours 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 12 hours ago
They noted the perforemance issues in their review
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Yet it doesn’t seem to negatively effect the score
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
The review score is for you, the review lives beneath it, for the people who can read
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I remember getting borderlands 3 for ps4 and it was literally unplayable, I mean literally it would crash every 2 minutes i couldn’t even make it through the intro. After about 6 crashes in 10 minutes I gave up and uninstalled it, never to try it again. I have a ps5 now but I am no surprised part 4 is the same crap
sausager@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I bought borderlands 1 primarily for the co-op mode. It never worked, at least on PC, even though it was heavily advertised as having it. I never bought another Boarderlands
zqps@sh.itjust.works 46 minutes ago
Yeah the whole series is geared towards co-op, though the first a bit less so than the sequels.
Gotta say I’m surprised people report so many challenges with the games. I’ve played all four mainline titles, three of them in co-op, and rarely had session troubles and never performance issues.
taiyang@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Also… why now? BL games always get 90% off eventually, lol.
kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That franchise hasn’t been good since BL2
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
It wasn’t out of left field. They telegraphed it frequently.
kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
…and then they turned it into spinoff game with Wanda Sykes’ voice constantly grating your brain into shredded cheese
ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Have you tried Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands? It’s basically an entire spinoff game from Dragon Keep DLC with its own unique systems. Personally I think it’s the most creative game in the genre.
LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 18 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 17 hours ago
Let’s be honest, the only story missions we ever cared about were those starring Handsome Jack.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Honest question: if the story doesn’t matter that much to you, what do you value in a game?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Borderlands 3 was significantly better, in my opinion.
forrgott@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The gameplay was much improved; the writing was…not good.
But I played the hell out of 3 anyway, so…
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 16 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 23 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 21 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 23 hours ago
No hate, just unmet expectations.
TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 10 hours ago
Randy you didn’t fucking disappoint. This is exactly the game and the results I was expecting
mereo@piefed.ca 1 day 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.
tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I should have bet money on that
wuffah@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
And it still has the loss of focus in the inventory screen bug that’s plagued the game since the first one.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day 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
ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’m big on the entire Borderlands franchise, played 1+2+3+TPS and even both Telltale story games. I’m still going to wait at least until it drops below $40 at the very earliest. I get the notion that we will start seeing sales on BL4 relatively soon.
loie@lemmy.world 23 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.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 7 hours ago
I liked the Pre-sequel just as much as 2. 3 is…skippable.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Put it on GoG.
towamo7603@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It literally crashed while Conan was doing a Clueless Gamer promo for it.
dil@lemmy.zip 15 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 14 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 12 hours 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 15 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.
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 23 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 22 hours ago
[deleted]BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 22 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!
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 28 minutes ago
I forgot they were even making this game. BL3 was kind of bad, the pre sequel was painful. The tiny Tina one was okay but weirdly had no ng+ and shitty dlc. Meh.