Borderlands Players Unite!

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Released on PC today, a large handful of NBR members have participated in getting a 4 pack for this game and saving some money only to pay $35 for this new game.

I had a chance to play it some today on the consoles and I can say it plays and looks exactly like I imagined it would. It actually has more quest type rpg stuff than i thought it did at least early in the game, and just like in World of Warcraft I had my behind handed to me a few times by accidentally running into an Elite

So I just wanted to take the time to try and pull us together so we can play online together as a team. In order to do this I created a very useful tool that is linked in my signature. The game tracking log.

If you log your steam name and game time on there other users can check for when your playing and add there own times letting us get on together in the same game. Im not sure how the PC version will handle getting in the same game as one another, we will find out later today but this tracking log will at least let us know who here on the forums is playin in or near the same time, or you can see somebody you want to play with log a future time and you can make the time to be on when they are and PM them ahead of time to tell them you want to meet at there time.

Feel free to use this as a central borderlands hub, post thoughts, videos, and screen shots of your gameplay here.


Edit: Here is a list of important tweaks to make the game more enjoyable:


To disable the startup movies:
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Within WillowEngine.ini:

Find:
[FullScreenMovie]
StartupMovies=2K_logo
StartupMovies=Gearbox_logo
StartupMovies=NVidia
StartupMovies=Loading
SkippableMovies=2K_logo
SkippableMovies=Gearbox_logo
SkippableMovies=Attract
SkippableMovies=NVidia

and comment out lines like so:

[FullScreenMovie]
//StartupMovies=2K_logo
//StartupMovies=Gearbox_logo
//StartupMovies=NVidia
//StartupMovies=Loading
//SkippableMovies=2K_logo
//SkippableMovies=Gearbox_logo
//SkippableMovies=Attract
//SkippableMovies=NVidia

If that doesn't work, replace the // with ;


To disable ALL movies:
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This can be done in order to skip the prologue when starting a new game. However, this is a drastic measure since it apparently kills all movies! Cutscenes, loading screens, etc. Don't say I didn't warn you!

Within your shortcut for Borderlands, right-click -> properties. Within the shortcut line, add this parameter AFTER the link to your Borderlands exe file:

-nomoviestartup

E.G:

C:\Program Files\Borderlands\binaries\Borderlands.exe -nomoviestartup


To adjust FOV (Field of View):
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Within WillowInput.ini:
Search for "WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput". Below the chunk of bindings, add the following:

Bindings=(Name="F10",Command="FOV 90",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)
Bindings=(Name="F11",Command="FOV 110",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)

You can change the keys (F10 and F11) to whatever you'd like, as well as the FOV values.

**TIP: It's being reported that the FOV gets reset whenever you sprint in an online game. As a workaround, you can add the FOV command to one of your movement keys, like I have. Example - my MoveForward binding looks like this (my forward key is E):

Bindings=(Name="E",Command="MoveForward | Axis aGas Speed=+1.0 | FOV 96",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigge r=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgno reShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)


To disable mouse smoothing:
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Within WillowInput.ini:
Search for "bEnableMouseSmoothing" and you should come across the following line:

bEnableMouseSmoothing=True

Change to FALSE. This tremendously improves the feel of the mouse when looking around in-game and navigating the UI.


To disable/adjust weapon view bob:
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Within WillowGame.ini:
Search for "bWeaponBob" and you should come across the following lines:

bWeaponBob=TRUE
Bob=0.005

They should be pretty self explanatory. I can confirm the Bob numerical adjustment does work.


To enable VSync:
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Within WillowEngine.ini:
Search for "UseVsync" and you should come across the following line:

UseVsync=False

Change to TRUE.


To disable voice chat:
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Within WillowEngine.ini:
Search for "bHasVoiceEnabled" and you should come across the following line:

bHasVoiceEnabled=True

Change to FALSE.


To enable console:
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*NOTE: This currently doesn't work correctly, it outputs all commands as 'SAY' commands*

Within WillowInput.ini:
Search for "ConsoleKey" and you should come across the following line:

ConsoleKey=

Add 'Tilde' after the equal sign to enable the console (should look like ConsoleKey=Tilde)


Enable Drop Weapon Key:
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Within WillowInput.ini:
Search for "WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput". Within that section, search for "ThrowWeapon". By default, it's bound to "Underscore" - I changed mine to V, so it looks like:

Bindings=(Name="V",Command="ThrowWeapon",Control=F alse,Shift=False,Alt=False)


To make zoom a toggle (courtesy of Miker):
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*NOTE: This has been reported to break turret fire while in a vehicle, as well as Brick's right click punch

Within WillowInput.ini:

Add the text below under [WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput]

Bindings=(Name="ZoomIn",Command="StartAltFire | setbind RightMouseButton ZoomOut",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftT rigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False, bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)
Bindings=(Name="ZoomOut",Command="StopAltFire | setbind RightMouseButton ZoomIn",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTr igger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,b IgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)

Then, edit the preexisting RightMouseButton binding to reflect the change:

Bindings=(Name="RightMouseButton",Command="advance dbutton bAdvancedButtonAux5",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt =False,LeftTrigger= False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnore Shift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)

to

Bindings=(Name="RightMouseButton",Command="ZoomIn" ,Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger= False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnore Shift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)


To make crouch momentary (instead of toggle, courtesy of siberx):
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Within WillowInput.ini

Search for the following line under [WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput]:

advancedbutton bAdvancedButtonAux1 | SwitchSeats

and change to

Duck | SwitchSeats


To enable scroll wheel in text boxes:
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Within WillowInput.ini

Search for all instances of the following (there should only be two instances):

InputKeyName="MouseScrollUp",ModifierKeyFlags=42
InputKeyName="MouseScrollDown",ModifierKeyFlags=42

remove the ",ModifierKeyFlags=42" so they look like:

InputKeyName="MouseScrollUp"
InputKeyName="MouseScrollDown"

To host an online game, the following ports need to be opened / pushed to the host's internal IP address:

7777 UDP/TCP
28900 TCP
27900 UDP
28910 TCP

 

steam name: manwithmustache

I'll try out your site when I get off work, but I'll be playing this asap that's for sure!

 

Im done decrypting and its installing now. I'll be on for a few hours atleast.

 

Good playing with you today...but why not just use the existing NDR steam group?

 

Currently looking for a copy of the game via 4-pack. Once I do get a copy I'd gladly join your guy's group. Is it NBR on steaM?

 

I just plopped the disc in and installed. I have an ancient Gamespy account, but I'm playing. This is a fun game.

I bought it at Wal-Mart.

 

Getting my copy Friday when I have an excuse to be out. The wait is killing me!

 

this game is freakin' awesome and addicting. Everyone here needs to get it. I Highly reccomend. I just got my Logitech G35s and the surround sound is amazing. Everyone get it.

gamespy: IceySnipez[809]

 

Damn, this just made me twice as confused about which version to get.

Does this game require you to have a Gamespy account?

 

Both versions should be the same. You have to have a gamespy account to play online, took all of 3 seconds to make one inside the game when you choose online mode.

Im super happy I found 2 really good SMG's a weapon I did not like before because it was very weak esp compared to my shotgun, but I got one or two ammo expansions for the SMG so I hold like 800 rounds now instead of 300ish so running out of ammo is not as bad, BUT... I got a purple class mod for my siren one of the Mercenary mods and it gives me super fast SMG ammo regen!

I regen ammo about half as fast as I can shoot, so I end up at full ammo between fights for the most part and should never have ammo issues again till maybe end game in the vault.

 

I am going to edit the first post in this thread to be information we need. The fixes/tweaks are already there.

What we need now is GameSpy User IDs so we can add each other to friends list in game, and/or Steam ID. For steam I just recommend joining the NBR Steam Group - HERE

Edit: Here is one of my forms hosted on my site to make this easier, no need to update a post just go to this form and enter your information and view everybody elses- http://start.viciouscomputers.com/Home/nbr-borderlands

 

Added my GameSpy User ID in it.

My GameSpy User ID is: I_L1K3_C4K3S Feel free to add me.
lvl 13 Soldier
lvl 16 Hunter
lvl 10 Brick

Just started playing as Brick today and I gotta say he's a lot more fun than I was expecting. I think I actually like Brick the most now.
The bosses are soooooo easy when using Brick... and I never seem to run out of ammo coz I only use a shotgun at the moment.

Edit: I just got to level 19 with Brick and he's getting more and more awesome! Found myself a shotgun which acts like a sniper with a high chance of doing electric damage...

 

Updated the link, goes to a page that has the form and the spreadsheet. thanks for adding your information in there.

Later today I will tweak it more, add the tweaks to a page, add screen shots, videos, and a mini review. I'll also probably add the page to my sig. But point everybody to this thread or to that link so we can get it spread.

 

finally got it working,
gamespy: manwithamustache
lvl 21 support gunner (soldier)

 

I don't understand is the game so bad that you need to adjust everything from the console?? also is the multiplayer working properly now?

 

No, the game is not bad, it just helps to do some tweaks, I've only used the tweak to get rid of the unskippable movies at the beginning, that's it, although I might use the one that maps the whole page up/page down button to scroll through new quest text to mouse wheel, but again, that's not gonna interrupt any of the fun, it's just like 2 seconds of, "urgh, why those keys" *resumes playing* every once in a while

I just joined a multiplayer yesterday and it was laggy but otherwise it's fine for now, people just had to open their ports

 

I can't get the toggle zoom to work. It makes all my keys unfunctionable.....

 

:cry: :cry: :cry:

Single player was fun and I got enough to wanna try low level online. Sad to say out of the twenty so servers i've tried only one has responded.

I have all ports open and firewall off. Any ideas?!?!

 

No vaath the person who is hosting needs to have their port open not you. They will release a patch soon so we don't have to open our ports and all that. But for now just join open port ppl.

The game is very fun and addicting. Getting new guns is very fun. EVERY1 get this game.

 

Oh man... it's 4:30am... coulda sworn it was midnight a few guns ago...

 

lol time counted in guns rather than hours. Thats so how it is, well that and levels/quests.

 

wow, I just beat the game finally...and heh, the ending plain just sucks. Not even an explanation as to why I just played 20 hours of this game. Not happy with my purchase now.

 

Seriously? Yeah I guess the ending was not that good but the game was not really about the ending it was all about the game. And a new game.

 

Thanks a ton man! I was hoping it was something they could fix

Though I find single player to be quite enjoyable also.

 

gamespy: ajreynol

level 36 Soldier
level 26 Siren

also, looking for someone to trade one of my extra alien cannons for an alien pistol, shotgun or other weapon.

 

lvl 50 Siren Mercenary

Just beat the game on 2nd play-through looks like there is no harder 3rd playthrough.

No good loot in the end game for me but my character is still OMG overpowered with a few good weps and a really nice class mod.

If anybody wants to see just how strong I am you can test me out in the arena

 

nice. I'll look you up when I get that high.

level 37 now.

Badmutha's are indeed bad.

 

Finished the game tonight!! I can finally get my life back!!!!!!!!!!

 

Ok I feel stupid for asking but where on earth do you go to setup for a microphone. In key bindings I see no key to talk, and in audio/video i see no volume for microphone either.

What am I stupidly doing wrong? I can hear people, just can't find a way to adjust so I can hear them at an acceptable level.

Oh and just FYI, found a work around for the hosting/connecting issue. Gameranger appears to work fine from my tests.

 

Geez, you guys blew through it. I'm playing the whole game through a Co-op with one of my friends every chance we get. A steady Co-op is so much more fun than solo, I've actually quit playing my solo character because I hated doing the quests before I did it in Co-op. Taking my time with it, because it sounds to be pretty short.

There are no mic settings, they are always on. Its actually alright as long as you are not playing with tards.

 

Man, i've never heard of a game with no mic setting. Guess i'll have to find some way to just turn it off through another means. I was in a couple games and voices were reasonable, though alot of echoing. But 90% of games Mics were so loud my headset nearly burst my ear drums.

 

Not sure if this just disables yours, or all of them.

Disable Voice Chat
Open:

Find:

Change To:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=998374

 

I just got my computer running (hopefully it'll stay that way). Gonna play this game after I monitor my temps.

 

That actually might not be true, check out this thread at the gearbox forums.
http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=80932

Its a long thread, but basically it proves that the stat box on weapons is broken. The UI is limited to 4 lines only, even if it has six modifiers on the weapon.

One guy changed to a smaller font, and got it to display 5 lines.


Right now, the only way to see all the stats its to use a script with the debug menu, and it doesn't work with class mods. I always wondered why you would see weaker versions more expensive than powerful ones. Hope the devs get on this or the community finds a better font fix.

 

You may think its short but its just as long as any other fps I have played, just that there has been no game this fun and addicting to me for so long that I put this much time into it.

Fear, Halo, Crysis, CoD, you name it and I could have beat them just as fast, but problem with those games is after I beat single player I had little to no reason to play it anymore.

This game keeps shining on in pursuit of better loot, raising other characters, and online co-op play.

Im still very entertained, my question now is to keep loot hunting on my lvl 50 to max her out or start a new character of a different class.

 

Sucks that it wont work with class mods, in the whole game I only found two that game me ammo regen. The most important part. A lvl 16 Mercenary mod (550) and a lvl 43 Mercenary mod. I have bought so many other ones in hopes that it had ammo regen and they did not.

Definitely need a scroll window for items with more than 4 things or a "item details" right click function to display all the traits in a larger window (and they could use that space to do stuff like show DPS of a weapon and other good things like that)

 

Damn, I was wondering too why some were worst than others but sells for like 7x the price, gonna have to change that...

 

Found a better solution to the issue instead of using script font. It's on the bottom of the post: http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showpost.php?p=1590391&postcount=1. You'll be able to view 5 lines and show up in screenshots.

 

I have been following that thread since it started, and did font fix this morning. It works on all items including Class Mods, but no matter the font size, the game is hard coded to 5 lines unfortunately. So some items still get cut off, but its much better than the previous fix.

Can only hope they patch this soon.

 

I have a 25 man ventrilo server if anyone starts doing co-op games and doesnt want to use the in game voice.

I ask you respect the others that might be in there as they are not all from NBR or playing other games.

PM me if you would like the info.

 

I'll try out the font change today maybe, 5 lines is better than 4... but some items I have I swear must have 6 or 7 lines. I worked out my FOV issues for 3 screens, so maybe I'll get a video up of triple screen borderlands later today. SD quality no HD camcorder.

 

Just signed up on the spreadsheet. I can't host at the moment because I haven't even tried to forward my ports yet. Once I do that I'll be able to host. I'll get to it eventually.

P.S. You'll notice that this is my first post on these forums, so yes, I'm new here. Found the forums while I was looking up some Borderlands information.

 

Welcome to the boards then

Im a lurker, but been here for a while.

 

lvl 21 Hunter anybody want me to invite you to a private game to play for about an hour?

I dont feel like messing with a public game right now lol

 

Thanks.

 

oooh is that why your games are always not joinable?

 

Maybe, that or they are full.

 

Just an update, I forwarded my ports and I can now host.

 

Just got into this cool game, haven't got the port forwarding to work... yet but looking for a ventrilo to join since the in game voice chat is horrible

jntar: I tried to PM for info a place for setting up multiplayer games seems like a good idea, but I don't seem to have permission..?