Borderlands 4

[Rand]

Let's all remember, this whole UE5 gaming disaster is ultimately Tim Sweeney's fault.
He was a decent coder at one time, but he's a TERRIBLE tech honcho.
Fortnite gave them too much money and the company was distorted out of reality by it.
Over 50% of your potential players are gaming on 5+ year old GPUs, and you deliberately target only the top of the hardware market with your engine Tim?
You KNOW modding is core to gaming, yet you won't bake modding into the engine and instead tell people to "use the source code and documentation" when they petition for modding for UE5.
You're ******* ******** Tim.
**** off.

When I checked Steam Hardware Survey the other month the most popular GPU was the RTX 3060

Even EA has come to recognize this.

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And if you go through the hardware survey, you find it's about 50/50 over/under at the divide of the 30xx series.

[DecadeRiptide]

Let's all remember, this whole UE5 gaming disaster is ultimately Tim Sweeney's fault.
He was a decent coder at one time, but he's a TERRIBLE tech honcho.
Fortnite gave them too much money and the company was distorted out of reality by it.
Over 50% of your potential players are gaming on 5+ year old GPUs, and you deliberately target only the top of the hardware market with your engine Tim?
You KNOW modding is core to gaming, yet you won't bake modding into the engine and instead tell people to "use the source code and documentation" when they petition for modding for UE5.
You're ******* ******** Tim.
**** off.

When I checked Steam Hardware Survey the other month the most popular GPU was the RTX 3060

Even EA has come to recognize this.

► Show Spoiler

And if you go through the hardware survey, you find it's about 50/50 over/under at the divide of the 30xx series.

What do you mean over/under? You mean there are the same amount of people that have a GPU below the 30xx series as there are above it?

Also, is the RX 580 actually decent? I heard good things about it for a budget card but I don't know if people are just exaggerating

[Rand]

What do you mean over/under? You mean there are the same amount of people that have a GPU below the 30xx series as there are above it?

Seems like it.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

is the RX 580 actually decent?

I had frustrating experiences with the AMD Radeon RX 580. The biggest issue being that the fan kept breaking or going out and causing an audible noise, an electric smell, and my GPU temperature increasing above safe limits. The fan casing makes it so that it was near impossible to just open up the card and replace the fan. I would be playing FF14 Endwalker or Mass Effect 1 or retroarch and my display would just suddenly go black and I would have to restart the computer. Eventually while playing ME1, my GPU just died forever, so I had to replace it. Also, I had screentearing with several games with the AMD card that I could never fix. Ie screentearing on World of Final Fantasy and on The Last Remnant. My guess is that devs make and test games for Nvidia with AMD as an afterthought. I also had scaling issues with old games like Sept-Terra Core and Aselia the Spirit of Eternity Sword. I spent many hours doing tedious research and fiddling with settings and trying all sorts of applications trying to address these screentearing and scaling issues, to no avail.

I switched to a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, and I am very happy with it. Over the 4≈ years I have had it, I have only once had an issue with the fans where I heard something grinding and smelt something electric. I was able to open up the GPU case and replace the fan with fans I bought online, put it back in and it continued to work. I have not had screentearing issues on games since, and for old games like Sept-Terra Core or Aselia I was able to just make some quick settings adjustments or use a program like Magpie to fix it with no visual issues. It runs all of the games I want to play at 4k max settings 60 FPS, though I am not playing photorealistic shooters or anything Western AAA like that. It can also emulate at 4k and beyond with CRT shaders applied and 4x or 8x turbo mode turned on, etc. I have only had a couple visual issues such as stuttering during the S-crafts on Kuro 1, but that appears to have been a port issue that was fixed with Kuro 2. And then sometimes random stuttering with GBF Relink, which again seems like an issue with the programming on their end rather than incapability of the card. Or some stuttering in GW2 and WoW, again has to do with their coding and can't be fixed by paying for a better GPU.

[DecadeRiptide]

is the RX 580 actually decent?

I had frustrating experiences with the AMD Radeon RX 580. The biggest issue being that the fan kept breaking or going out and causing an audible noise, an electric smell, and my GPU temperature increasing above safe limits. The fan casing makes it so that it was near impossible to just open up the card and replace the fan. I would be playing FF14 Endwalker or Mass Effect 1 or retroarch and my display would just suddenly go black and I would have to restart the computer. Eventually while playing ME1, my GPU just died forever, so I had to replace it. Also, I had screentearing with several games with the AMD card that I could never fix. Ie screentearing on World of Final Fantasy and on The Last Remnant. My guess is that devs make and test games for Nvidia with AMD as an afterthought. I also had scaling issues with old games like Sept-Terra Core and Aselia the Spirit of Eternity Sword. I spent many hours doing tedious research and fiddling with settings and trying all sorts of applications trying to address these screentearing and scaling issues, to no avail.

I switched to a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, and I am very happy with it. Over the 4≈ years I have had it, I have only once had an issue with the fans where I heard something grinding and smelt something electric. I was able to open up the GPU case and replace the fan with fans I bought online, put it back in and it continued to work. I have not had screentearing issues on games since, and for old games like Sept-Terra Core or Aselia I was able to just make some quick settings adjustments or use a program like Magpie to fix it with no visual issues. It runs all of the games I want to play at 4k max settings 60 FPS, though I am not playing photorealistic shooters or anything Western AAA like that. It can also emulate at 4k and beyond with CRT shaders applied and 4x or 8x turbo mode turned on, etc. I have only had a couple visual issues such as stuttering during the S-crafts on Kuro 1, but that appears to have been a port issue that was fixed with Kuro 2. And then sometimes random stuttering with GBF Relink, which again seems like an issue with the programming on their end rather than incapability of the card. Or some stuttering in GW2 and WoW, again has to do with their coding and can't be fixed by paying for a better GPU.

Weird that you had an electric smell. Sounds like plastic melting or something? I currently have an RX 7700 XT and have not had any of the issues you have mentioned. I used to own a GTX 960 2GB and a 1050Ti, and both those card stuttered a lot though.

[J1M]

I still blame Borderlands and the ******* among us that love chasing small green upgrade arrows for damaging Darksiders 2.

[mercerxiv]

I didn't even read any posts in this thread or watch any materials pertaining to borderlands 4, literally just learned it came out a bit ago. Let me guess - it's pozzed.

This is one of the ugly characters you can play as:

Sheboon with grotesquely fat *** and thighs...

Man, my intuition is on point as usual.

[mercerxiv]

Let's all remember, this whole UE5 gaming disaster is ultimately Tim Sweeney's fault.
He was a decent coder at one time, but he's a TERRIBLE tech honcho.
Fortnite gave them too much money and the company was distorted out of reality by it.
Over 50% of your potential players are gaming on 5+ year old GPUs, and you deliberately target only the top of the hardware market with your engine Tim?
You KNOW modding is core to gaming, yet you won't bake modding into the engine and instead tell people to "use the source code and documentation" when they petition for modding for UE5.
You're ******* ******** Tim.
**** off.

When I checked Steam Hardware Survey the other month the most popular GPU was the RTX 3060

Even EA has come to recognize this.

► Show Spoiler

And if you go through the hardware survey, you find it's about 50/50 over/under at the divide of the 30xx series.

Yeah, well, the harsh reality is that we are all poorer than a decade or 2 ago, and many people can't afford the modern hardware upgrades at the MSRP and frequency of it coming out. Modern video game audience buying power is reduced compared to what it was.
The real "meeting players where they are" is not about race and who they like to ****, but about the hardware everyone can afford and game prices everyone can stomach. But eh well.

[rusty_shackleford]

complainkino

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

complainkino

The noticeable slow decline in Synthetic man’s videos is very saddening but not surprising.

[sheet]

I chalk it up to him being more and more afraid of censorship. I don't really blame him and he's still one of a kind actually doing reviews instead of normie style shilling.

[WhiteShark]

Didn't watch the video, but I loved Borderlands 1. Yeah, it's basically FPS D2, so if you don't like the rng loot gameplay loop, you'll hate it, but the first game didn't have the obnoxious Reddit humor. Very fun in co-op. Only real complaint I have about it was the extremely disappointing final boss.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

I chalk it up to him being more and more afraid of censorship. I don't really blame him and he's still one of a kind actually doing reviews instead of normie style shilling.

It’s more than just censorship. He getting lazier in his reviews and showing stream highlights instead doing the usual point by point breakdown. It doesn’t help with his constant bitching on the lower viewer count which many times are self inflicted issue when he does a review after the hype is over or skips hype releases entirely.

I get not wanting to slave in chasing trends but that’s the nature of the beast when you become a YouTuber full time.

[rusty_shackleford]

He keeps saying "I already did X so I'm not going to do it again" in every new video, and that's stupid
no, I want you to break this game down too you idiot

[Finarfin]

Hope his viewer count goes to zero and he vanishes completely.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

[WrenchWring]

How did Gearbox manage to spend so much money on a Borderlands game that 2.5 million sales at $70 isn't enough? All you need to do is make a new map, new vault hunters, and add some new whacky gun parts to the procedural generator. Did it all go to diversity consultants and cocaine for Randy?

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

How did Gearbox manage to spend so much money on a Borderlands game that 2.5 million sales at $70 isn't enough? All you need to do is make a new map, new vault hunters, and add some new whacky gun parts to the procedural generator. Did it all go to diversity consultants and cocaine for Randy?

Borderlands 4 has a 300 million dollar budget ,double the amount for Borderlands 3 which was estimated at 150 million dollars. I have no idea where the money is going other then studio bloat or celebrity VA cameos.

[Mikeal]

How did Gearbox manage to spend so much money on a Borderlands game that 2.5 million sales at $70 isn't enough? All you need to do is make a new map, new vault hunters, and add some new whacky gun parts to the procedural generator. Did it all go to diversity consultants and cocaine for Randy?

Bonuses for the management board for hard work and good performance.