Borderlands 4 Day 1 Patch 'Does a Lot,' Randy Pitchford Says, but Don't Expect Miracles From Older PC Hardware

Gearbox improvement main Randy Pitchford has said the inbound Borderlands 4 Day 1 spot “does a lot,” amid interest astir the show of the looter shooter.

Pitchford responded to interest astir Borderlands 4’s pre-release show connected PC from immoderate users connected X / Twitter, confirming not lone that there’s a Day 1 spot connected the way, but that it sounds beauteous overmuch indispensable to play the game.

Borderlands 4 has an authoritative merchandise day of September 12 crossed PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, with the Nintendo Switch 2 motorboat pursuing soon after. Fans volition beryllium keen to leap successful arsenic soon arsenic possible, making the Day 1 spot an aboriginal hoop to leap through.

Despite the Day 1 patch, playing Borderlands 4 connected older hardware won't miraculously unlock "buttery creaseless performance," Pitchford added. It should beryllium expected that Borderlands 4 is “unplayable” if you’re trying to usage a PC beneath min-spec, helium said, and, generally, playing caller AAA games connected older hardware won't execute awesome results.

Here’s the remark successful full:

The Day 1 spot does a lot! That said, the anticipation for utilizing a beneath min-spec instrumentality should beryllium that the crippled is unplayable. That the crippled runs astatine each connected your strategy is simply a miracle. That you tin get 55 - 60 fps retired of dense combat is really unthinkable fixed however the motor and what's going connected nether the hood. Your specification doesn't bespeak if you're connected SDD oregon HDD, but that could besides explicate immoderate of the hitching. It's a big, bold, new, seamless satellite and I'm atrocious to accidental that older hardware whitethorn not supply buttery creaseless show for the latest gen AAA games, arsenic has ever been the lawsuit since the dawn of PC gaming.

A important information of the PC gaming assemblage play connected low-end hardware. Indeed, conscionable past period the developers of Battlefield 6 told Eurogamer they saw a "substantial number" of unfastened beta players connected oregon astir the minimum recommended specs, with a fig of users adjacent playing beneath the minimum spec.

While you hold for Borderlands 4 to launch, beryllium definite to cheque retired IGN’s caller interrogation with communicative manager Sam Winkler, pb writer Taylor Clark, and managing manager of communicative properties Lin Joyce to larn much astir wherefore the squad decided to make a much grounded communicative this clip around.

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