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Title: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: zx2slow on October 21, 2009, 09:44:35 PM
  Anyone else looking into getting Borderlands, it looks pretty interesting.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: VinACE85 on October 21, 2009, 09:57:51 PM
Definitely on my top 3 list for this year!
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on October 21, 2009, 10:33:00 PM
I pre-ordered it on steam the day it became available. Been looking forward to this game for a long time. Friend of mine got it on the xbox and he is loving it. Can't wait to play it co-op. They enabled pre-loading on steam, but it says the servers are too busy atm.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: zx2slow on October 21, 2009, 11:30:44 PM
I guess ill get it then, it looks pretty cool.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Dwg115 on October 22, 2009, 07:58:11 AM
it does look good but i'll wait to hear from you guys how good or bad it is.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on October 22, 2009, 08:03:10 AM
In case anyone is curious about reviews, here is the full list:

http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=76111 (http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=76111)
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Five Aces on October 22, 2009, 08:41:29 AM
I would love too ... not sure if my machine can do it. And i'm gonna be a little short on cash to after the Holidays  :bigcry:
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on October 22, 2009, 09:12:58 AM
Just FYI, The requirements listed on Steam are just approximations (not official).

Though someone did find in a magazine called Atomic MPC that "They said the game was running maxed on a laptop with a 2.16ghz dual core processor and a 9800GTX. and at 1920 x 1080 HD!!" So who knows. No official word on reqs.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: The Shoctor on October 22, 2009, 10:08:42 AM
Well, if that's the case I should do fine out my 8800GT!
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Petch on October 22, 2009, 05:54:04 PM
I have Borderlands pre-ordered and preloaded already.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: zx2slow on October 22, 2009, 11:03:48 PM
Preloadin' it now, w00t!
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on October 23, 2009, 11:39:24 AM
Someone posted the System Requirements taken from the box.

Minimum spec:

2.4 Ghz or equivalent
1 GB Ram (2GB with Vista)
8x DVD Drive
8 GB free HDD space
256 RAM GPU

Recommended:

2.4 Ghz or equivalent
2GB RAM
8x DVD Drive
8 GB free HDD space
256 MB Ram Geforce 9 or Radeon R700 or better.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on October 23, 2009, 11:48:12 AM
I might have to get this game.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: VinACE85 on October 23, 2009, 09:51:56 PM
I have it pre-ordered and pre-loaded. Ready for some badass matchups at the lan, hopin to have some good gear by then (fingers crossed). Would like to do some PvPing.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on October 23, 2009, 10:05:29 PM
Also, in case people aren't aware, when you beat this game, it unlocks Game+ where you are able to play through it again to reach max lvl of 50. But the enemies get tougher, more of them, and better loot. Of course, when you play co-op there's a Crapload of enemies, tougher, and even better loot still. So the difficulty can definitely ramp up a lot.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: zx2slow on October 25, 2009, 04:03:57 PM
Anyone up for a game on the 26th?
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on October 25, 2009, 04:52:59 PM
I probably will be
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Petch on October 25, 2009, 05:39:22 PM
I have off all day tomorrow!! lol
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: zx2slow on October 25, 2009, 05:43:22 PM
Ditto
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Fr4g0u7 on October 25, 2009, 11:00:05 PM
Pre-Ordered and Pre-Loaded I'm game!
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: zx2slow on October 26, 2009, 12:15:24 AM
should be available 3PM EST, Be there!
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Fr4g0u7 on October 26, 2009, 08:15:05 AM
I won't be able to join up till around 8pm after the kiddies go to bed.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: zx2slow on October 26, 2009, 02:11:02 PM
w00t its on like donkey kong!

EDIT: "This game is currently unavailable, try again later"  what the s**t?
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on October 26, 2009, 02:13:50 PM
I prolly won't be on till around 9. I neeeeed to finish this section of video today.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Petch on October 26, 2009, 02:33:09 PM
I got called into EFFIN WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!  The people I have a meeting with are requesting to stay late also... so Ill be on as soon as I get home.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: VinACE85 on October 26, 2009, 08:43:55 PM
I've been playing it today, I like it a lot! Can't wait to see peoples chars. and gear at the LAN.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: The Nstuff on October 26, 2009, 09:28:17 PM
so, cypher and i just spent the last hour trying to get a coop game going

nothing we did could get it to work.  We are always getting a timeout error after a ~15 second countdown.

From reading up on the steam forums (Borderland forums are offline right now), a ton of people are complaining about multi-player issues too.  Apparently you have to open up your firewalls wide, enable port forwarding to the following ports:
7777 (TCP/UDP)
28900 (TCP)
27900 (UDP)
28910 (TCP)

and then pray.  Well, nothing worked for us and we both gave up.  A bunch of people on the forums said there was nothing they could do to get theirs to work... while others said they were able to get it to work.

Anyone else have problems?
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: VinACE85 on October 26, 2009, 10:03:17 PM
I had problems for about 15 min, until i found that those aren't the only ports you need to open.

Here ya go. I played for 5hrs after.

To host an online game, the following ports need to be opened / pushed to the host's internal IP address:
6500 (TCP/UDP)
9989 (TCP/UDP)
7777 (TCP/UDP)
28900 (TCP)
27900 (UDP)
28910 (TCP)
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on October 26, 2009, 11:19:40 PM
I had zero problems. Worked fine, no port forwarding needed. I was playing with 3 other people for a few hours. *shrug*
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on October 27, 2009, 08:39:18 AM
I noticed once that I did get a connection timeout from trying to join a game, but then my friend just remade the lobby again and it worked after that. But that was the only time we had an issue.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on October 27, 2009, 10:19:10 AM
Also, if you want to disable in game voice chat, since there is no push to talk (yet) and it seems to be always on, you can disable it by going to "Steam\steamapps\common\borderlands\Engine\Config\BaseEngine.ini" then scrolling to the last line in that file and change "bHasVoiceEnabled=" from True to False.

Although, I'm having the unfortunate problem where my TS push to talk key isn't working in game. It works fine when my TS window is in focus. Dunno why it just now started doing that.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Petch on October 27, 2009, 11:15:57 AM
Agent/Vice/Nstuff does your router support UPnP? 

Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on October 27, 2009, 11:44:34 AM
I believe mine does. And I found the reason I was able to play flawlessly last night is due to the person who was hosting doesn't use a firewall at all (he set his router to DMZ). I haven't tried hosting a game yet.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: The Nstuff on October 27, 2009, 12:20:00 PM
it does... but it has been known to be flaky.  It's an older netgear 802.11g router.  I purposefully disabled the port triggering feature as i like to control port forwards manually, but upnp is enabled.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: zx2slow on October 27, 2009, 12:52:03 PM
I gotta put my system in the DMZ or open a pile of ports I guess.

  Anyone have any sweet corrosive SMG's yet?  I just discovered how awesome they could be.  I got my char up to lvl 20 and I gotta step away for a few.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on October 27, 2009, 12:55:39 PM
In SP, I got a lvl 7 orange SMG (the rarest kind, I assume) that has a base dmg of 16 with an x3 electric modifier. Not too bad for lvl 7 lol. One-shotting skags was fun. I'm only lvl 13. What does the corrosive effect do?
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: zx2slow on October 27, 2009, 01:00:29 PM
  Combine the anti-flesh of fire with the anti-shield of electric and you get corrosive.  My siren has a class advantage with the corrosive weapons (Electric and fire too).

  I need a few more xp unlocks and I will be able to kill with melee and jump back into invisibility almost immediately (Health and armor rebuild quickly while invisible too),  A corrosive spewing SMG would be bananas for the times I couldn't jump away.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: decepticon on October 27, 2009, 04:02:54 PM
So ummmm...I 'have' this game and I think I can join online games.  I see you have to add friends (through gamespy I believe).  My 'friend' name is seanryan52.  Also....any details I would need to know about joining one of your games?
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on October 27, 2009, 04:14:55 PM
Things to note, in case you weren't aware, or just for future reference:

To join a private friend hosted game, you can't join it from the friends list in-game. The people inside the server need to invite you. Also, when you join the host's game, you are joining their version of the world, in other words, their current quests.

Like if you had higher lvl quests that you were currently on in your game, but you join your friends game who is lower level and doesn't have that quest, yours won't be carried over.

Other than that, I think just adding people to each others friends list should be the gist to get it working, and that whole deal with opening ports if you wish to be the host.

My gamespy ID is 'Agent4054'
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: decepticon on October 27, 2009, 05:14:24 PM
Potrts schmorts...I fear no ports.....yes I will open them.  And this is NOT a cracked game FYI.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Petch on October 27, 2009, 05:52:24 PM
My gamespy ID is MPetch.  I didn't have time to play much last night (maybe an hour), but I got to lvl 5 as a Hunter. 

The sniper rifle is the suck so far, but Im sure it gets better with upgrades.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: zx2slow on October 27, 2009, 06:40:21 PM
If anyone wants to play I got a lvl 22 siren that kicks a**.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: decepticon on October 27, 2009, 09:02:50 PM
I take it Zx2Slow....that is your gamespy name?
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: zx2slow on October 27, 2009, 11:06:22 PM
yup
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on October 28, 2009, 12:47:19 AM
I guess I will be getting this game this week. I just got a $5 gift card from Bestbuy today.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Curse_desreveR on October 28, 2009, 05:55:19 PM
Curse_desreveR on gamespy
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on October 29, 2009, 12:52:28 AM
I want to know if the DLC is going to be free for PC users? It is $10 for PS3 and Xbox360.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Fr4g0u7 on October 30, 2009, 09:31:12 AM
I had problems for about 15 min, until i found that those aren't the only ports you need to open.

Here ya go. I played for 5hrs after.

To host an online game, the following ports need to be opened / pushed to the host's internal IP address:
6500 (TCP/UDP)
9989 (TCP/UDP)
7777 (TCP/UDP)
28900 (TCP)
27900 (UDP)
28910 (TCP)

I don't think you need the extra ports but may work for some.  I got it working with the ports listed in the readme.  There is a but where your first CO-OP game people can't connect but if you stop then start a new one it works.

7777 (TCP/UDP)
28900 (TCP)
27900 (UDP)
28910 (TCP)

btw my gamespy name is Fr4g0u7.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: fndragon on October 31, 2009, 05:38:50 PM
I have a level 37 Brick.  Attached is my weapon of choice for the first playthrough:

(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/fndragon/ItemCard00000.jpg)

My gamespy id is fndragon, and I use Tunngle to do virtual LAN gaming connection.  It's pretty simple, check this walkthrough out:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3218517&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=55#post367614611 (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3218517&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=55#post367614611)
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: zx2slow on November 02, 2009, 12:51:38 PM
I need a Harmonious Panacea Shield that is orange, level dosent matter, and a orange SMG with a x4 corrosive (any orange weapon with a x4 corrosive for that matter).

  My current pupple Harmonious Panacea Shield has like 1600 with a 220 recharge and quick health regen.  I wonder if a orange one will be like 2000 or something insane.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Broken on November 03, 2009, 09:57:56 AM
Yall are gonna make me start playing this... so is it worth the monies?
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Agent4054 on November 03, 2009, 10:07:11 AM
The story sucks balls, but its a fun time waster. I already beat the second playthrough and getting sortof bored of the game already. Seems like a game that I might play through again though if I get bored of other games. It's just fun to shoot things.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: zx2slow on November 03, 2009, 10:28:14 AM
Its worth it, I'm waiting on the DLC because right now its just a loot/achevement chase because theres nothing else to do after the second playthrough.
Title: Re: Anyone getting Borderlands?
Post by: Petch on November 03, 2009, 04:34:59 PM
I only got to lvl 15 (I think) and I am semi bored with it already.  Don't take my word on it though, I didn't even play through once yet.