During E3 2011, we sat down with Gearbox Software's president and co-founder Randy Pitchford, and vice-president Steve Gibson. Their team out of Plano, Texas has been hard at work developing several simultaneous projects; including but not limited to, Duke Nukem Forever, Aliens: Colonial Marines and Brothers in Arms: Furious 4. Randy and Steve shared with us how they manage this workload, how Gearbox's culture has changed as a result, what's going into Aliens: Colonial Marines, and more. Enjoy.
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford told '4K stubborn' players to switch to 1440p resolution or at least use NVIDIA DLSS in Borderlands 4.
Dude still running his mouth again, not sure how he still has his job all these years lol
He's right on this, though. People not wanting to use DLSS because of AI is ridiculous
So I feel two ways about this. First, UE5 doesn't give a damn you spent $3000 on you rig. You better break out that image upscaler like everyone else. Sencondly, and alternatively, the artifacts that DLSS create on things like the gun reticle and other ghosting is really egregious. I would prefer to play without image upscaling if its gonna look like that... but if you run native, you are gonna have to run at like 1080p on medium to get a framerate of 60 or better. Its amazing how one game engine is crushing this whole generation.
Two things can be true here.
1. Even with a 5090 I still lean into DLSS.
2. That said, leaning on hardware as an excuse not to optimize better is lazy.
He's wrong for saying that, gearbox/2k are wrong for him having to say that. But if you're struggling with fps, for gods sakes try out either dlss with frame gen or fsr with frame gen. It helps so much. I'd rather not have to use it, but smooth gameplay is a must.
Frame Gen is horrendous in fast games and useless in slower games.
It doesn't work in weaker GPUs either. It's literally smoke and mirrors to make the FPS counter go up.
Cool. Don't use your card to it fullest. Get ready for up scaling and frame generation for rest of you're pc gaming life. The tech isn't going away. AI isn't going away. It's going to be leveraged into everything.
And what version of DLSS and Frame Gen is everyone using that makes it look like crap? DLSS has improved immensely. FSR not as much. Even then I'll use a AMD frame generation mod w/ dlss. Or lossless FG. To each their own, but my 3080 is still handling 1440p high settings with quality / balanced DLSS. Ever since DLSS went to the transformer model it looks much, much sharper.
how is the performance on PS5? has anyone tried it? I will buy with my friends once its on sale
There's a memory leak, so the game slowly starts to bog down and the only way to fix it is to crash/end the game, then boot it back up. There's no permanent way to stop this, so you will have to do this every time on a longer session.
we went from sub HD/30 fps during the PS360 gen to sub HD/30 fps with fake 4k during the PS4/Xbone gen and then from that we went onto sub HD/choppy fps all masked by AI to output a fake 4k/60 fps. PC gaming has gone to shite while on console the very thing players loathed two gens back is now widely accepted cause fake frames. Y'all folded, and this is the standard now. Ya know what it isn't U5, it's devs taking over half a decade to develop one game and purposely choosing to skip optimization.
Gearbox need to hire more or better people for optimisation.
But what they need more than that, is someone moderating Randys social posts…..
The developers behind the original Borderlands discuss their last-second Hail Mary to change the course of the franchise.
ever since XIII came out I really loved the cell shaded artstyle in games. I probably wouldn't have tried it if it didn't have such a style like that
Randy: "I am sorry there was a misunderstanding. The absolute sincere truth is that I don’t want anyone to pay any more than they should or are comfortable with and I always work with the intent and hope that a customer always feels they got the better end of the deal no matter what they pay. The actual context was that a guy replied to a post about Borderlands 4 on the Nintendo Switch 2 was warning me that if the price ends up being $80, the game will fail. What I was trying to do was explain that it wasn’t my call but that if a $10 price increase does happen (since that’s obviously where the industry is going), it will be okay and that Borderlands 4 will be okay because it’s a great game and there are a lot of fans who will see the value and want it."
It will sell well because it’s Borderlands, but I’m not getting it Day 1 now. I’ll happily wait and buy something else.
He just had to open his mouth, I don’t know why they don’t see how much of a PR disaster he is.
Makes me wonder why people like this lead games and franchises that are beloved. Dude just needs to shut up and never speak their opinions on social media lol. Just chill and enjoy your life with the 7 figure salary you get bud.
There's nothing to buy because there's no apology here except for how WE "misunderstood" what he so clearly typed out.
Yea like we’re just dumb consumers that don’t understand PR damage control. Hey Randy, if you cared about the fans you’d fight against this stupid price hike… oh wait…
Always wait for Gearbox.