Borderlands 2 To Use Steamworks (Have Functional Multiplayer)
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Yeah, seems strange to omit it. Probably an oversight or perhaps the features weren't finalised at the time.
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They are pretty much guaranteed to use it for trading weapons outside of the game. And you have never joined a friend in a game through the friends list? The majority of PC gamers have cultivated a friends list on Steam, not GFWL so I think most would prefer to be connecting through that.
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Why would you play co-op with randoms?
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Only in Dungeon Defenders, which had/has a great community thanks to the loot and in-game trading. Nothing really to do with Steamworks. Other than that, no, it feels like I'm alone on an island. My friends list has changed a lot through the years so it's not just the same group of friends. Not sure what the deal is.
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Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
GFWL is like that casual acquaintance your group of friends has that isn't really close with anyone in particular, but is sort of just there. Then he calls you up to have lunch with him and he is the biggest asshole imaginable to the server, I'm talking pure abuse here. So you decide you don't want to hang out with him anymore. Except no one else was there so they're all like, "Oh, what? C'mon. He's harmless. He buys a round at the bar all the time!" So he's still invited to shit and now you have to try to push down that lingering contempt.
Then one night he gets really drunk and takes some lighthearted ribbing really personally and assaults another one of your friends. And you're all like, "I fucking told you guys!"
GFWL is exactly like that.
Then one night he gets really drunk and takes some lighthearted ribbing really personally and assaults another one of your friends. And you're all like, "I fucking told you guys!"
GFWL is exactly like that.
Problem with that is you're going to have 1 guy gunning down things like crazy and the other struggling to keep up due to the control difference. That's the biggest thing stopping cross platform play from taking off. I think MS had big plans for that for the 360 this gen but they had to scrap them due to the controller people getting their asses kicked.
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Yeah, it doesn't really work that way in Borderlands. Also, the game is co-op so control method differences don't matter in the slightest.
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Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Says the co-op partner that routinely destroys everything while playing with him.
Yeah it does matter. Someone who can aim better takes things out quicker, especially since headshots are crits and assuming their gear is similar enough to not give a huge advantage to one or the other. I wouldn't have fun not being able to kill anything.
Because I now live in Japan and when I'm off work, my friends are not. When they are off work, I am not.
Borderlands was pretty forgiving when it came to co-op, though. As long as you had a single living group member and a few enemies running around, you could reliably keep going through tagteam revives and second winds.
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I use a 360 pad in Borderlands for reference and this was just said about me:
I really don't think it's an issue here. Borderlands is easy as fuck on a pad.
Fair enough but there's a reason why most devs don't bother with it, co-op or competitive. It's a moot point on my end anyway since I play on PC but I was just putting myself in the PS3 situation.
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You could just use the reload trick in that one town with 3-4 chests and get all the best stuff. Pearls weren't the best, btw. That was inaccurate info that somehow became popular.
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Devs don't implement it because it is additional work and the majority have deadlines to make. Valve did it for Portal 2 because that was co-op, but dropped it from CSGO where it will actually cause a real issue.
My thoughts exactly.
If I buy Borderlands 2 on PC (and I probably will), there's no doubt that I'll play with a gamepad. If the PC version doesn't support a gamepad, no sale.
It should be said that Valve didn't drop cross-platform play from CS:GO due to such concerns, but because they didn't want Sony's cert process needlessly delaying patches on the PC side. In fact, CS:GO PS3 will support keyboard & mouse, making it -- as far as I'm aware -- the second game to do so, after Unreal Tournament 3.
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Yep. M/KB failed me.
Some pearls are the best cause their special effects are amazing. Also those chests in the claptrap store tend to give shitty loot. Better to just glitch on Knox.
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In all likelihood, I will double dip regardless. I loved the first game, including the dlc. But Steam+PS3 support would mean I play more of both.
And I really hope their Vita talk comes to fruition.
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yay. but will there be splitscreen on PC?
If the console versions use splitscreen, but they go out of their way to remove it from the pc version, i will not buy.
If the console versions use splitscreen, but they go out of their way to remove it from the pc version, i will not buy.
As far as I'm aware, cross-platform play isn't yet a standard feature of the Steamworks suite.
This feature would make the PS3 version redundant to me. But I spent most of my time with Borderlands in splitscreen, so it's definitely necessary.
Is Steamworks really the same as what Valve did in Portal 2? I wasn't aware the PS3 Steam SDK was available to any game that wants to use it.
Anyway, the word from Valve is you're right. The new Counterstrike won't be cross-platform because it may be impossible to synchronize versions through the life of the game. But for a coop game, it should be more feasible. Cross-play in Portal2 is like magic, right down to the invite system and voice chat.
This is ridiculous. Steamworks is objectively superior in every single way. Especially for a co-op game that completely relies on the ability to instantly and flawlessly connect to friends, it's the perfect solution.
Two versions? Are you serious? You're asking Gearbox to double the work they have to do on multiplayer infrastructure, patching, DLC integration, and more just so that they can fragment their audience into completely distinct communities that can't integrate with each other, just so you can increase your quantity of utterly meaningless points?
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Obviously you have a low gamer score. How else could you drop so much truth and common sense into one post?
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