I’ve been meaning to put up some Borderlands tweaking instructions all week, but I don’t think I could have done it better than this thread on the Gearbox forums. Thanks to Mr Berry for pointing that out to us. Crucially, one of the commands in there allows you disable the voice-comms for the game, so you can use something more sensible. We’ve had no word back from 2K/Gearbox on whether there will be a patch for that stuff, but I guess we’ll find out soon enough. If you are tweaking, don’t forget to back up the relevant files before you start editing, as there might be some problems with loss of keybinds and such. The other issue is port forwarding, the instructions for which are in this thread. If you’re having trouble hosting/connecting to co-op games then you probably need to get busy with that stuff. Sigh.
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Vinraith says:
October 30, 2009 at 6:01 pm
I’d mainly be buying it to play with a friend, so the multiplayer connectivity stuff is a real concern.
Hopefully they’ll just get it all hammered out and it won’t be a thing.
Why let that stop you though? It’s a good game you can play with a friend… is forwarding ports that much of an issue that it’s going to stop you doing something that could be incredibly fun? COME ONNNNN, live a litte.
I’m hearing about significant problems beyond port forwarding.
I’m also embroiled in a positively epic game of Sword of the Stars with said friend, so there’s no rush anyway.
Aight.
there are plenty of 3rd party programs that allow you to create your own lan game and share it with your friends that work just fine with borderlands.
the issues with connectivity are port forwarding. To many people dont realize that even if you open your ports, and you try to join a game of someone who didnt open thier ports, you cannot connect. He can join yours, but you cant join his.
Borderlands attracted a large population of younger gamers who have never actually experienced a p2p game, and you can see it in the forums.
Because I can't seem to find a definitive answer out there – the tank melee damage upgrades – does it affect you when in berserk? It might seem like a silly question but I've yet to see a bit of text that says tank in berserk uses melee damage modifiers. I can make the connection to it helping when swinging a rifle butt (because the game calls that melee) but just unsure whether to go down that upgrade path…
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I’m just waiting for a mod to allow container support of some sort. What am I going to do with a level 25 rocket launcher when I’m only level 16?
If anyone is having problems with hosting private games online (friends unable to follow invites, even if host has all ports opened) try this:
Host a public game, then close it. Now host your private game and invite away! Works for me and my mates.
Why does it work? I dunno, but I'm happy I found a simple workaround.
I hate to say this, but you're probabyl best off selling it… Unless you can hand it off to a friendly mule character in multiplayer.
both me and my friend enabled DMZ and both of us dont have any anti virus running or firewalls up. still couldnt connect to each other… how sad gamespy is
Lan Works perfectly on this though, but you cant use hamatchi
I have to say I had no significant problems using Hamachi for a 2 player game, though the additional latency it adds prevented us from adding more people without cripling lag.