Do owners of the game through EGS need to purchase a Steam copy in order to play with those on Steam?

[Edit] Oh now I see. Yes they can!

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Pepe wrote on Mar 13, 2020, 20:37:
I'm liking it so far, done the first couple missions, more of a good thing can't be bad

Gameplay's improved. The shooting's got a good feel, though I gotta get used to blasting someone over a railing with a shotgun doesn't necessarily mean they're dead.

I'm liking it so far, done the first couple missions, more of a good thing can't be bad

I bought and played it at release with MrGrosser. He finished it, I did not. It is BL, so if you like the formula, etc., then it is a must have. I just lost interest after a while as something else came along. Probably fire it back up here sometime soon. I think I played through all of the others no less than 3-5 times each.

Grokk wrote on Mar 13, 2020, 17:24:

Today also marks the launch of PC Cross-Play, which allows you to play the Steam version of Borderlands 3 with players on other PC platforms. Thanks to some exciting new SHiFT matchmaking functionality, Borderlands 3 PC players can add friends to their Friends Lists, join co-op parties, and play together online regardless of which PC platform each player is using.

How is this even a selling point? "PC Cross-Play" isn't a thing.

XBox-PS or PS-PC is Cross-Play, PC-PC is just play, there's no cross in there at all, unless you count how I'm feeling that they would try to use it as a selling point.

I take it you've never bought a game on GOG and were unable to play multiplayer with people who bought it on Steam? Many games are like that, or were like that until the developers made special considerations. They either have to provide an alternative matchmaking service themselves or enable directly connecting via IP. Here, for Borderlands 3, it seems Gearbox is doing the former.

Prez wrote on Mar 13, 2020, 17:27:
For $30 it was a no-brainer for me. I still like the Borderlands formula. It's got the right gameplay loop that keeps me interested.

Yeah, that's why I bought it too. I liked the first one the best, but overall, the gameplay is fun with a few friends. I just wish it wasn't the exact same thing. I mean, even the convoluted weapon system was pretty much the same. You'd think they'd fix that up a bit, but it was still just as confusing as the other games. There were many times where I had a gun that was lower level, and lower tier, but outperformed some of the higher levels of the same type. And there was just way too many of them that didn't make much of a difference. So that part of the game just seems like a waste of development time TBH

For $30 it was a no-brainer for me. I still like the Borderlands formula. It's got the right gameplay loop that keeps me interested.

Today also marks the launch of PC Cross-Play, which allows you to play the Steam version of Borderlands 3 with players on other PC platforms. Thanks to some exciting new SHiFT matchmaking functionality, Borderlands 3 PC players can add friends to their Friends Lists, join co-op parties, and play together online regardless of which PC platform each player is using.

How is this even a selling point? "PC Cross-Play" isn't a thing.

XBox-PS or PS-PC is Cross-Play, PC-PC is just play, there's no cross in there at all, unless you count how I'm feeling that they would try to use it as a selling point.

HoSpanky wrote on Mar 13, 2020, 16:01:

Steele Johnson wrote on Mar 13, 2020, 15:16:
I finished this playing co-op and while it was fun, it was disappointingly generic and too much like the previous games. I know people like rehashes, but if I were a game dev working on a sequel for a success series like this, I'd probably try to add some cool new features for the returning customer. But that's just me

Glad I didn't pick it up. Sounds like the game idea has run its course unless Gearbox makes some big changes to the series.

Oddly, people have been going crazy over Half-Life 3's non-existence, and Valve felt THAT series had run its course, until it could do something new. Aaaand now there's a metric fuckton of people who are angry that it ISN'T just another FPS.

I don't mind if they have it VR capable but I prefer if they made HL3 like straight up basic FPS non-vr and add a mode to enable it for VR for that that want that.

Not everyone wants to play in VR no matter how hard they shove it down our throats. For whatever reason that may be. Mine as of right now, I just don't have the damn space for it.

Steele Johnson wrote on Mar 13, 2020, 15:16:
I finished this playing co-op and while it was fun, it was disappointingly generic and too much like the previous games. I know people like rehashes, but if I were a game dev working on a sequel for a success series like this, I'd probably try to add some cool new features for the returning customer. But that's just me

Glad I didn't pick it up. Sounds like the game idea has run its course unless Gearbox makes some big changes to the series.

Oddly, people have been going crazy over Half-Life 3's non-existence, and Valve felt THAT series had run its course, until it could do something new. Aaaand now there's a metric fuckton of people who are angry that it ISN'T just another FPS.

BL2 was great, but I couldn't get into the Pre Sequel. I'll get this on sale.

RaZ0r! wrote on Mar 13, 2020, 15:27:
The original Borderlands was pretty fun, but I never could get though Borderlands 2. I just couldn't get into the comedy of 2 at all. Sounds like 3 is more of 2.

Yeah, I'd say 3 is more like 2 than 1

The original Borderlands was pretty fun, but I never could get though Borderlands 2. I just couldn't get into the comedy of 2 at all. Sounds like 3 is more of 2.

I finished this playing co-op and while it was fun, it was disappointingly generic and too much like the previous games. I know people like rehashes, but if I were a game dev working on a sequel for a successful series like this, I'd probably try to add some cool new features for the returning customer. But that's just me

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