Borderlands 4 is formally out – virtually a day early for some individuals, and gamers on Steam have proven up in droves to leap into the newest loot shooter from Gearbox. The sport has not solely finished very nicely for itself when it comes to participant exercise, it additionally simply beat all different Borderlands video games.
Steam consumer opinions, nevertheless, aren’t as glowing as you may anticipate.
It appears Gearbox’s choice to make a extra grounded recreation with Borderlands 4, and step away from referential humour and web slang has labored in its favour. Over on Steam, the sport peaked at 207,479 concurrent gamers (through SteamDB) simply hours after it went reside.
Contemplating among the launch instances, and the actual fact it wasn’t out on consoles at the moment, there’s each probability the weekend will give these numbers a lift. Certainly, even when that’s the best the height concurrent goes to get, it’s nonetheless higher than each different Borderlands recreation that got here earlier than, with its closest contender being Borderlands 2, having peaked at 124,678 concurrent gamers.
Borderlands 4’s numbers had been definitely adequate to get into Steam’s prime 5 most performed video games, and it’s at the moment Steam’s primary best-seller worldwide, having jumped up seven spots this week.
It doesn’t look like everyone seems to be pleased with the sport, nevertheless. Judging by its present Steam consumer evaluate score of Combined (primarily based on 5,435 opinions), solely 62% had optimistic issues to say in regards to the co-op loot shooter.
Whereas among the unfavorable opinions contact on narrative and gameplay content material, the overwhelming majority lament the sport’s technical state. Borderlands 4’s lengthy (and frequent) shader compilation pauses come up a number of instances, as do your typical Unreal Engine navigational stutter. The truth is, stutter points are so frequent that some have taken to calling it Stutterlands 4.
That is one other case of an Unreal Engine 5 recreation getting lambasted for its technical points, and it’s truly turn into one thing of a nonestarter for gamers, lots of whom get into the sport anticipating to run into issues simply due to its use of Epic’s recreation engine.
It’s price holding in thoughts that Borderlands 3 had its fair proportion of technical points, too, which took Gearbox some time to utterly iron out. It’s fairly attainable it will ultimately be the case for Borderlands 4, particularly as soon as Denuvo will get eliminated. Solely time will inform.
