'I Am THAT Confident' — Randy Pitchford Says It's Impossible for Borderlands 4 Players to Break the Game's Servers This Weekend, Challenges Them to Try

Gearbox improvement main Randy Pitchford says it’s intolerable to interruption the Borderlands 4 servers this play done sheer value of subordinate numbers unsocial — and he’s truthful assured he’s publically promised that Borderlands 4 won’t articulation the agelong database of large AAA games whose online systems neglect astatine launch.

Borderlands 4 launched earlier this week and instantly saw a concurrent subordinate number connected Steam bigger than each the different anterior Borderlands games. At the clip of this article’s publication, Borderlands 4 had seen an awesome highest of 252,530 players connected Valve’s platform, with the highest play playing clip to come.

For context, Borderlands 2 acceptable a Steam highest concurrent subordinate number of 124,678 13 years ago, with Borderlands 3 hitting a highest of 93,820 five-and-a-half years ago, and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel reaching 68,238 10 years ago. Borderlands Game of the Year Edition has a highest of 23,655.

Pitchford took to X / Twitter to code interest astir Borderlands 4’s quality to clasp up implicit this weekend, making a committedness gamers aren’t utilized to proceeding from developers.

“So here's the happening with this... We are VERY assured successful our backend on-line infrastructure and systems. And we're disconnected to an insane commencement — grounds breaking,” helium said.

“But we cognize from past acquisition that highest numbers volition commencement truly hitting implicit this weekend. You're going to beryllium hammering our on-line infrastructure and immoderate radical are tense if our on-line systems tin grip the numbers you volition beryllium throwing astatine us.

“But here's the thing: our on-line squad rules.”

Pitchford is taking the accidental to promote arsenic galore radical arsenic imaginable to play Borderlands 4 this weekend, and truthful Gearbox is offering the Break Free Pack to each who play the crippled from September 12-14. This includes 1 Vault Hunter Skin usable by Vex, Rafa, Amon, and Harlowe, and 1 Legendary Ripper Shield, which scales to your Vault Hunter level erstwhile redeemed (with a minimum of Lvl 25).

Pitchford said helium “wanted to spot if we could motivate everyone to log successful this play to spot however acold we tin accent the system,” which is wherefore the escaped battalion was created.

He continued successful typically assured fashion:

“Listen — I'm telling you that it's going to beryllium VERY improbable you guys tin beryllium capable radical to interruption the backend and instrumentality our crippled down. I cognize determination person been immoderate precocious illustration backend on-line systems failing astir large AAA crippled launches, but not this one.

“I americium THAT confident.

“That said, IF concurrency *does* interruption our systems, I'll find a mode someway to reward everyone and to marque it up to everyone for showing maine that it tin break. And, you'll person helped exposure thing that we volition request to marque stronger, so... win-win.

“So present it is... I'm throwing down the gauntlet: you cannot interruption our on-line infrastructure done excessively galore players. You can't. Hacking doesn't count, btw. Just concurrent players successful the crippled is what we're looking for. Play cooperatively; leap into random people's games; log successful and retired a clump of times astatine highest hours... Whatever you tin reasonably and reasonably bash wrong the crippled to adhd unit to the system, bash it!”

Gearbox main Randy Pitchford sounds precise assured successful Borderlands 4's servers. Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images.

While Borderlands 4 is disconnected to a large commencement successful presumption of subordinate numbers, it’s not wholly plain sailing for Gearbox. The merchandise was marred by complaints astir PC show that person resulted successful a ‘mixed’ idiosyncratic reappraisal standing connected Valve’s platform. The complaints revolve astir mediocre show adjacent connected precocious powered PCs, with immoderate affected by crashing that makes the crippled hard to adjacent start.

In response, Gearbox posted a Borderlands 4 Nvidia Optimization usher connected Steam, advising players however to optimize their graphics settings for “better show and framerates” connected PC with the Nvidia app.

Gearbox past issued a portion of proposal to PC gamers that to maine reads similar an effort to forestall players from making knee-jerk reactions to the game's show arsenic soon arsenic they’ve changed their settings: “Please enactment that immoderate clip you alteration immoderate of your graphics settings, your shaders volition request to recompile. Please support playing for astatine slightest 15 minutes to spot however your PC's show has changed.”

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