Gearbox Software has some major plans for an even better experience in Borderlands 2. They create their games on the PC and said, when speaking at Rezzed, that even their dev kits for the consoles are plugged into the PC.
“We develop on the PC, it’s how we make games. Even our development kits for console are plugged into PCs. However, we are developers and we take a lot of things for granted as most of us aren’t worried about dealing with our network configurations and things like that. So, we’ll do it and not worry about the consoles. But what we learned after shipping Borderlands 1, was customers who play on the PC expect better treatment within the game itself.
If you look up that Claptrap love letter you’ll see some of the things we’re doing. It shows a renewed commitment to not just ourselves, but the customer side of the PC game.
With both BL1 and BL2, the PC version is the best looking, highest fidelity version of the game, but what we’ve learned, is that the details are important to you on the PC and we made a strong effort to improve those details in the product.”
If you look up that Claptrap love letter you’ll see some of the things we’re doing. It shows a renewed commitment to not just ourselves, but the customer side of the PC game.
With both BL1 and BL2, the PC version is the best looking, highest fidelity version of the game, but what we’ve learned, is that the details are important to you on the PC and we made a strong effort to improve those details in the product.”
- 100% mouse usable menus/mouse wheel scrolling.
- Achievement support
- Cloud save support
- Control pad support
- FOV slider
- Friends list support
- Integrated V-sync option
- LAN support (including offline mode)
- Logitech keyboard support
- Mouse smoothing options (can be disabled completely)
- Native multiplayer matchmaking
- No port forwarding required
- PC-specific UI
- Push to talk
- Remappable keybindings for keyboard/mouse
- Support for higher resolutions
In addition to creating and even better experience on the PC. Consoles will also see love from Gearbox as they have announced that game saves from the original Borderlands on the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 will allow the player to unlock new content for Borderlands 2. The special content will include some skins and whatnot.
Vault Veterans will receive "exclusive character customization elements," stated Pitchford, as the items are unlocked when the original game save data is detected. Here is an image of some items:
Borderlands 2 releases on September 18, 2012.
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