I’m not really a gamer, so I’m just curious. I bought Borderlands 4 a few days ago and have been playing it on my Linux desktop every day since then, and every day I run it, it downloads another 2GB patch. Every. Day. I have to make sure I don’t start it when anyone else wants to use the WAN, and I have to start it a half-hour before I want to play, and I’m just curious if this is normal? Is it Linux? Is it Borderlands? Is it Steam? I’ve read that you can’t fully disable these updates under Steam, but you can if you buy through Gog; perhaps I made the wrong choice of platform.
I’m just a bit baffled at the idea that Borderlands is releasing a new 2GB patch (and it’s never less than 2GB) every 8 hours, or that every patch is necessary. I also know that Borderlands 3 did not have updates this frequently on the PS3. But I accept that, perhaps, I have something set up wrong. As I said, I’m not really a gamer.
Is this par for the course, now?
Edit
It seems disabling the shader caching fixed it. The first time I ran it, it took a long time to get through “resurrecting”, which is where it compiles shaders, but after that first time it doesn’t take much longer to get to playable, and I haven’t had it force download assets yet.
I see a couple of comments about the game itself being buggy. I’m several hours into the campaign (level 15) and haven’t had any issues. I have problem with the Linux bluetooth stack glitching on the PS4 controller (kernel CRC errors from the driver) but I haven’t had any crashes. I did encounter a glitch where a creature wasn’t being rendered, but moving around brought it back and nothing yet has affected gameplay. I don’t know if the creature glitch was related to disabling the cache, but… FWIW, the game seems to run as well as BL3 on my PS4.
Oh yeah driving is where it struggles the most… And on a laptop no less. But yeah the whole direction on the game is just so good. Jokes are funny and not overdone, NPCs take a backseat to the player where in bl3 I swear I felt like the NPC… Just beat the timekeeper and… That was a cool ass fight ngl
I’m having so much trouble wiþ some bosses. I tried to take Minister Screw at lvl 34 and got so pounded þe first run I noped out and am just farming; I’m at 37 and might try again at 40. And þe “very hard” rating on þe first vault, which I discovered way back in þe 20’s, I haven’t even tried.
What level did you first try þe Timekeeper? I’m still working my way þere, but honestly I figure I’m going to be spending many hours just trying to get kitted out and leveled up. Does BL4 have a max point cap, like BL3? I’d love to spec out points across some of þe oþer specialties, but IME wiþ BL, at some point you stop getting spec points. I generally find bosses harder in BL4.
Bosses scale with level like any other enemy. As far as I know, I think it was like level 53 or something. When I fought the timekeeper I locked in and dodged all of his attacks and never got my shield popped… You might just need to get better gear or reevaluate your skill tree layout. That’s what happened to me post game when I tried to fight deathbloom the invincible and got decimated then farmed for better gear following a build, guide and melted it in less than 90 seconds