It’s been a rough first day at the office for Borderlands 4, which has launched amid spyware denials and widespread user reports of dodgy PC performance. That being crashing, stuttering, the usual Unreal Engine 5 trouble at the mill. Framerate-related grumbling in particular has prompted a Steam post from Gearbox, presenting a setting-by-setting guide to optimisation on GeForce graphics cards that their pals at Nvidia put together. First off, oi, that’s my job. Second, I say "prompted", b...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Gearbox and Take-Two Interactive's Borderlands 4 has launched to cries of "pretty good" from (some) professional reviewers, and "Stutterland bugfest" from a vocal portion of the Steam playerbase. In amongst the complaints about performance, there are some fears about potential breaches of player privacy supposedly allowed for by Take-Two's terms of service. A Borderlands developer has now responded to these fears in the Steam forums, reiterating that Take-Two at large aren't in the business o...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Borderlands 4 is out now. Our Borderlands 4 review is not, because we have only just been sent a review code. I fear I was unduly forgiving of Team Cherry last week for not supplying Silksong code before release - they're a cute, tiny indie, after all, albeit a cute, tiny indie with the power to break Steam - so let's take a firmer stance this time: bad! Wrong! Don't you know you're suffocating games journalism, Gearbox and 2K Games, you swaggering chancers? Whither accountability and transpa...| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed
Two days before launch, Borderlands 4 has its PC system requirements. They’re generally on the higher side without teetering over into full-on tech demo lunacy – the RTX 2070 is a minimum-spec graphics card, for instance – though anyone with a smaller SSD will need to make room for the looty FPS sequel’s bumper-size 100GB storage requirement. Read more| Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed