A large number of players are enjoying the release if Borderlands 3, but a surprising number are experiencing lag, glitches, and the predicted problems associated with the Epic Game Store’s exclusivity agreement.

For starters, players are experiencing a stutter in the PlayStation 4 Pro’s performance mode. While this is supposed to be offering a steady 60fps, players are getting nothing of the sort across platforms and modes. Players have not yet been able to track the source of this issue, and it remains ongoing.

Via: gamesradar.com

Lag appears to be a significant problem as well, especially when playing split-screen couch co-op and a player uses their ECHOdevice during combat. Other players have reported strange visual glitches in the menu screen, which is displaying placeholder text that continually refreshes itself.

To most of the issues, Gearbox has simply stated that they are looking into the matter, but offer no ETA on a fix:

When players face issues like this, the common strategy is to hop online and speak with others on forums to find a solution. Here is where the times exclusivity of the Epic Games Store becomes problematic, as many assumed it would.

While the Epic Games Store does many things well, it still lacks a forum where players can engage in long-term discussion of a game. This is something that Steam does very well, and there are often solutions to a broad range of issues for all games on the platform. Since Epic does not have this, users who search for Borderlands 3 help are often being directed towards Steam because of the years of forum discussion for all of the other games in the Borderlands series. There, they are not finding much in terms of help, but there is a good deal of trolling.

Via: eurogamer.net

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Gearbox does have a forum for Borderlands 3 and is currently filled with threads created by players who are seeking assistance. However, few answers are available. The reality is that individual forums on individual developer websites often are not high-traffic areas for users, whereas something like Steam would be perfect. It seems that Epic should have considered the warnings described long before the launch of the game.

The game has already had a bit of a rocky launch, both because of these issues, and the general reception of the game is currently rather bland. Borderlands 3 does everything right so far, but not in any significantly different way than Borderlands 2, leading many to wonder if all the problems are worth the trouble.

For now, players who have issues are best off attempting to use the official forums and waiting for Gearbox to get their game in working order.

Source: eurogamer.net

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