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Randy Pitchford Snaps Back at Borderlands 4 Criticism: 'Code Your Own Engine'
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Don't you guys have ~~phones~~ 90-series graphics cards?
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I don't need to personally be an engineer to call out a train wreck when I see one...
I'm not a pilot, but if I see a helicopter upside down in a tree I'm pretty sure someone fucked up.
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Randy, you molest your employees with that mouth?!
My friend with a RX 7900 XT can barely run it.
At 1080p.
On Medium.
Shove it up your ass, Gearbox.
Is he running with antialiasing on?
Looking at their system settings page:
https://borderlands.2k.com/borderlands-4/news/amd-optimization/
Their settings for every single GPU listed there seem to have antialiasing off.
It may be that current hardware can't do that at a reasonable clip
They have AA off because they recommend upscaling on literally everything. Upscaling sorta acts like AA and they are not used together.
Randy pitchfork is a piece of shit that needs to stfu
Takes me back to 2008 and Rockstar claiming that GTA 4... was designed for hardware that didn't exist yet after that shit show of a shitty port to PC... It would be a further 6yrs before I could play that game at a reliable 19080p, 60fps... then GTA5 came out a year later.
No wonder you couldn't play it. 19080p, mother of God!
19080p in 16:9 is 33,920X19,080 =647,193,600 pixels, 647 megapixels. 8K is 33.2 megapixels. So this dude is playing GTA 4 on a screen that has almost 20 times more pixels than an 8K screen
A game designed for hardware that doesn't exist yet on a monitor that doesn't exist yet.
My bro's gaming on a freakin Jumbotron
Yo, Randy, eat your own shit! Don't forget to swallow!
I feel like they'd make more money if they targeted lower end machines. My friend has a potato laptop and would enjoy borderlands, so they're out of luck. They're not going to spend any money on a new gaming toy because it's not that big a hobby for them. I imagine there are many such people.
No
@inclementimmigrant borderlands 4 running like dogshit on a 5090 is going to make me crash out in the most legendary way
Obligatory dril tweet about how you never "Gotta hand it to them"
But yeah. It is infuriating how often people just spew nonsense about "it is Unreal so it runs like shit" just like it was when "It is Unity so it runs like shit" and so forth. I very much do not think people need to "code (their) own engine" to understand things but... it would be a good idea to to do some basic research on the topic.
I can't speak for blands 4 specifiaclly. But with a lot of these games? People don't realize that the game is very much being optimized with upscaling and even framegen in mind. You can say you hate that if you want to. But these studios aren't targeting 120 FPS at 4k. They are targeting 120 FPS at 2k or even 60 FPS at 2k. In large part because... there still isn't a lot of value in actually targeting 4k on any console or even most PCs. So it gives them more or less a "single" target. And some techniques don't scale anywhere near as well (also 2k to 4k is not linear).
It is just that people grew up in the golden age where everything was targeting a PS4 and kind of has been for almost a decade at this point. So the idea of futzing with your graphics settings and checking the different AA (now upscaling) models is kind of anathema to a lot of users. And consoles STILL try to hide all of that.
If I buy a 1000 dollar graphics card I'm expecting it to run any game at max settings with NO upscaling. Because that was the norm for over 35 years.
Upscaling is supposed to be used to EXTEND the life of lower end graphics cards, not be the new fucking normal.