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@15Redstones @VibeWithRB @SawyerMerritt just with inefficient data transfer instead

@VibeWithRB @SawyerMerritt It's pretty much the same old space based solar power plans that have been floating around for 50 years, just without the inefficient power to earth beaming. If the power is consumed by compute, you can just put chips on the power plant and skip the transmission.

This is probably one of the wildest sentences I've ever read. In Elon's new letter: "Factories on the Moon can take advantage of lunar resources to manufacture satellites and deploy them further into space. By using an electromagnetic mass driver and lunar manufacturing, it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space, meaningfully ascend the Kardashev scale and harness a non-trivial percentage of the Sun’s power."

@ykrnmcls @digitalfoundry it's an extra 17GB?? why is this an issue in 2025? SSDs are not expensive

@digitalfoundry i need everyone shitting on the game for this to understand what "uncompressed textures" means. ur trading the performance boost for massively increasing the space the game takes, like potentially 2x as big. and the games already huge asf.

A fascinating story: uncompressed textures drastically improve Monster Hunter Wilds PC performance on 8GB graphics cards. youtu.be/AOxLV2US4Ac

@FriendlyGuyTTV L take

This is wild from me - BUT, Arc Raiders needs to be more Unfriendly to have staying power long term for PVP extraction enjoyers. Right now killing and looting others is just a bit meh and a bit pointless, you are mostly already full of gear and largely favours just extracting together. I've had probably 75 friendly extracts already, and its already losing the novelty because it just makes sense to do it with little reward for not working together or going rogue, again this is wild from me as a player who isn't killing raiders and I also fully believe in the lore that we should 100% work together and not fight, but for the longevity and replayability I see it being an issue when the honeymoon period wears off. An easy slight change could be stick a dogtag on each player worth a reasonable amount of cash and make that choice a bit more tempting/worth the hassle as right now it heavily favours not PVPing in most scenarios. Thoughts?

@F4ncyNancy @DuvalMagic

It's crazy that Arc Raiders runs at 90 FPS on a 1080 TI, while your PC will probably explode if you try to run Borderlands 4 on a 1080 TI. Both are Unreal Engine 5 titles that people love to complain about. In the end, it's the devs who ensure good performance, not the engine.

Someone made a mod to show weapons' Secondary attributes directly WE need this added as a feature :D

@Ms_Blapo @byrdman and BL2 as well. Do you think any of those players care about OP items or mods that other people are using? On top of that if those games were 'live service' they might just be gone instead.

@aviseis @byrdman People are still playing bl1

I’ve been seeing modding lobbies like this on TikTok all week. It’s so fuckin stupid. And guess what? I don’t care that it’s a PvE game and “what I do in my game doesn’t hurt you.” You give little Jimmy a Rainbow Vomit that has every element on it with all licensed parts. He then goes and copies the save and passes that onto someone else. The cycle continues all while more illegitimate gear is passed around. This is exactly why I’ve been against save editors for damn near ever.

@SilviteRamirez @TyzThePhoenix @byrdman show an example of something that can't be fixed

@TyzThePhoenix @byrdman You literally can with modded lobbies

@MoxsyOG Respec shouldn't cost anything in general and there should be an option for shared progression on alts. A lot of people don't care about farming the absolute perfect rolls in the end game and just want to play other characters without the busy work of collectibles, sdus, etc

I think Gearbox needs to take a hard look at the weekly “endgame” content offerings in BL4. Mainly the big encore and wildcard missions. I have 400+ hours in BL4 and have hardly touched these systems because if you don’t care for the guaranteed legendary from the wildcard or the boss drops of the encore those activities are basically useless to you for a whole week. You could spend 4 weeks or more waiting for the wildcard or big encore to actually have a boss or a legendary that players care about. Lastly most players are looking for legendary enhancements with no dedicated way to farm them. So some suggestions: 1. Increases the amount of eridium dropped from wildcards so they are worth running if you want to respec 2. Make the big encore have increased legendary enhancement drop rates and maybe firmware giving an eridium sink and a farm for them. 3. Throw a manufacturer modifier on the wildcards where like all the purple drops are maliwan for the week or all Jakobs, giving a more reliable source to farm purples 4. Remove dialogue from wildcards or truncate the missions so they are mostly gameplay and not waiting around for dialogue 5. Add Vaults to the big encore / wildcard mission replay.

@ProdigyXL awesome keep it coming please. Could account wide quest/map/sdu/specialisation progress also be considered?

As a note, we had too many Vault Hunter buffs to safely fit into today's big update. Instead, we broke up them into their own balance update that we're targeting to release early next week instead.

@imKraavey @DuvalMagic why do I need to download a mod (assuming it even works as you say) to get decent performance in a new game? What are we doing?

@aviseis @DuvalMagic Frame gen doesnt hurt this game, although you can always go to Nexus mods and get the optimization mods from there, the top downloaded mod is for better optimization and works amazing, gives you an extra 30-40 fps

Fun facts: Customer Service reports for Borderlands 4 at roughly 1% or so of installs. Using that simple, rounded ratio… More than half of the tickets (~0.55% of customers) are users reporting difficulty with their SHiFT accounts (lost e-mails/access, etc). The next highest ticket is about FoV controls on console (working on it). Next, 0.055% of customers are reporting issues with Twitch drops. And, 0.04% of customers are PC performance related, with CS flagging 0.009% as “valid”. 0.037% have experienced success with education (settings coaching). That is less than one percent of one percent (0.01%) of customers using CS tickets for valid performance issues, which is less than 1/5 of the users using CS to get help with Twitch drops. This reality is dramatically different than what you would expect if your only sources of information were, say, certain internet threads. Here’s the most important truth: We exist to entertain you. We want *every* customer to have the best possible experience. We are not stopping - working day and night to not just add more and more awesome stuff to the game that critics and fans seem to be in nearly unanimous agreement have made Borderlands 4 the best game in the series, but also to continue to improve the technical aspects of the software, especially for the wide range of configurations on PC’s. As we go, know that CS is there to help. Know that for the vast majority of people reporting issues, CS has been able to help! Everyone who has real issues is someone we care about - we want to help everyone because we want everyone to enjoy the game! I thought these stats would be interesting to some of you and be useful perspective if you are getting your feelings from others on-line.

@DuvalMagic Randy you must accept the reality that BL4 looks great, but IT IS NOT a graphically impressive game. Cyberpunk 2077 looks drastically more detailed and runs better, so there is no excuse for the poor performance of BL4

Every PC gamer must accept the reality of the relationship between their hardware and what the software they are running is doing.

@bad_economic @DuvalMagic isn't it a bad sign for scaling that you're only getting an extra 20% performance with a major visual downgrade?

@DuvalMagic The rest of your pipeline is really well optimized. You can even tell this when not using renderdoc by just swapping settings. On my 9070xt, the difference between badass and lowest is around 20%. That's an impressively small difference.

@DuvalMagic Framegen is not a solution, stop suggesting it as such, it adds loads of latency and artifacting and is not available to all users equally

@Koreyzzz The evidence is if you use the tools available to you, you can get improvements to your performance. I have personally helped users go from 30FPS to 90FPS +

@Vantezzle @DuvalMagic is that a joke? Relying on crutches like frame gen and upscaling are not replacements for decent optimisation. The game itself doesn't even have any ground breaking graphics, it should not run this poorly!

@DuvalMagic People need a bit more realistic imo. DLSS balanced and frame generation on, getting 90-120FPS on maximum graphics 1440p on my laptop 4090(so about 4070ti desktop)/i9-14900hx, the game looks perfectly fine to me and feels smoother than I expected, given i'm playing on a laptop.

@Spetz83 @Pirat_Nation also, if you're running framegen your actual fps is around 45 on a good day

@Pirat_Nation My Specs: 4090 Suprim Ryzen 9 3900X 64 gigs of DDR4 Running everything as high as it will go with DLSS on at 4k and am averaging in the 90s for fps.

Why is every AAA release like this now? When did optimization become a lost art?

@Spetz83 @Pirat_Nation that's a big fat lie, unless you got the numbers mixed up and you're actually playing Borderlands 1

Come on man this is just copium, im playing on an overclocked 5090/9800x3D at 4k. i almost have the most expensive computer that you can buy commercially and i cannot crack 120 FPS without frame gen. not to mention crashing issue but id blame new drivers on that that BL4 since its been better since downgrading

@DuvalMagic Framegen and upscaling are not replacements for better optimisation! There are billions of hardware combinations out there, but devs should target the average PC for AT LEAST 1080p 60 on medium settings. Steam hardware survey provides a convenient picture of what average is.

We had come CS work prove that through settings tweaks only being able to climb up to 120fps + on PC in BL4 with three and four year old hardware. Your mileage may vary, but please consider using the tools available to you to tune your own balance between FPS, resolution and graphics features. There are as many PC hardware component and graphics settings combinations as there are guns in BL4 (billions) and with the right settings you can turn a grey drop into green, blue, or even purple gear. We’re doing a lot of work on our end to help to automate those settings better as we parse the huge amount of telemetry coming in. But you don’t have to wait for a patch to get nice frame rate with BL4. We’ll do more to share tips and guidance also.