Randy Pitchford Addresses Borderlands 4 Console FOV Slider Complaints: 'There's Some Dreams I Have Where an FOV Setting Might Affect Fairness'

Randy Pitchford has responded to complaints astir the console mentation of Borderlands 4 lacking a tract of presumption (FOV) slider, suggesting fairness whitethorn person thing to bash with it.

PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S players of Borderlands 4 were shocked to observe not lone a deficiency of a FOV slider in-game, but nary question blur toggle, either. The PC mentation of Borderlands 4 has settings for some — successful the lawsuit of FOV you tin summation the worth successful degrees up to 110 for some first-person play and conveyance use, and for question blur you tin alteration the magnitude and the quality.

The deficiency of a FOV slider is the biggest contented close present with Borderlands 4 connected console, if anecdotal grounds crossed the net is thing to spell by, with immoderate complaining that not being capable to tweak the FOV worth is causing them question sickness.

“Man, I've tried to play it doubly today,” said redditor xInsaneAbilityx. “Both times I get that ‘car-sick’ consciousness aft astir 15 minutes and person to stop.” “Yeah I’m beauteous delicate to question sickness and a constrictive FOV successful first-person makes maine truly dizzy. Combining that with question blur conscionable churns my stomach,” added Dallywack3r. “This crippled feels astir zoomed in, it‘s truly not pleasant to play,” said christophlieber.

There are besides suggestions the console mentation of Borderlands 4 lacks a FOV slider successful bid to support definite show levels. By expanding the FOV, you’re putting the hardware nether much strain and perchance impacting things similar framerate.

But societal media posts from Gearbox improvement main Randy Pitchford suggest 1 of the considerations is fairness.

“Quickie for console friends: FOV settings,” Pitchford began. “There's immoderate dreams I person wherever an FOV mounting mightiness impact fairness. I can't truly speech astir it yet, but I spot this is important to you truthful we're looking astatine it.”

Pitchford included a ballot successful his societal media post, which, aft astir 25,000 votes, reveals conscionable however important a FOV slider is to his followers. At the clip of this article’s publication, the enactment “FOV slider oregon GTFO!” had 72% of the vote.

The outspoken Gearbox brag went connected to accidental players “have nary thought what the squad and I were readying and however FOV slider mightiness impact fairness with specified a thing.”

He added: “That said, I've ever privation to perpetrate to and prioritize what Borderlands should beryllium versus effort to crook it into thing it should. My anticipation is for my/our ambitions to beryllium additive, not subtractive.”

Quickie for console friends: FOV settings: There's immoderate dreams I person wherever an FOV mounting mightiness impact fairness. I can't truly speech astir it yet, but I spot this is important to you truthful we're looking astatine it. Vote here:

So, what is Pitchford really saying here? The “fairness” punctuation has caused immoderate confusion. Could it subordinate to an upcoming PvP mode? If so, wherefore would the PC mentation person it? Right now, Borderlands 4 is simply a PvE co-op game, truthful the enactment astir “fairness” has raised much than a fewer eyebrows.

Some are wondering if Pitchford is talking astir fairness successful presumption of the show of the crippled giving immoderate players an advantage. The higher the FOV, the much the subordinate tin see, versus the little the FOV the much unchangeable the frames are. Perhaps some springiness immoderate level of advantage?

“What does ‘fairness’ adjacent mean?’ asked redditor buddachickentml. “Basically being impartial to each players without favoritism. Fairness to all,” suggested Wolf-O7. “Funny capable it's wholly backwards though. Because console players aren't being treated reasonably compared to their counterpart connected PC. (Especially since this benignant of sounds similar a PVP mode the mode helium makes it seem).” Then, from Airaen: “Yeah, however is it just that PC players tin alteration the FoV and console players can't?” “Fairness successful a PvE game? Will you prohibition ultrawide monitors?” said connected societal media user.

Borderlands 4 supports crossplay betwixt each platforms astatine launch, truthful Pitchford’s comments are doubly confusing.

As for question blur, successful different societal media station Pitchford told console players "we aren't down with question blur and bash not enactment it." He continued: “If you're seeing what seems to beryllium question blur, possibly cheque your tv settings for immoderate automatic BS it mightiness beryllium doing to your image? It's not us.”

But again, that remark is confusing fixed determination are question blur settings successful Borderlands 4 connected PC.

Randy Pitchford has addressed Borderlands 4 console complaints. Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Lionsgate.

Whatever Pitchford means here, Borderlands 4 has got disconnected to a large commencement connected Steam. It’s approaching a highest concurrent subordinate number of 300,000 connected Valve’s platform, wherever it is 1 of the most-played games. No different Borderlands crippled has travel adjacent to that successful presumption of concurrent subordinate numbers connected Steam.

Pitchford declared it 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.

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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