Borderlands 3 has been flooded by complaints from users within the first week of the game's launch. As a result, Eurogamer's Digital Foundry examined the console version's framerates and declared "some puzzling technical decisions." They concluded, however, that the overall gameplay is pretty decent.
According to Digital Foundry, Xbox One X owners running Borderlands 3 should be in "resolution mode." This move focuses more on better resolution over higher framerates, which they said is the only mode "we're comfortable playing."
The reviewers noted that in resolution mode, Borderlands 3's 1800p image quality plays at an evenly paced 30 frames per second, as opposed to favoring performance mode that will dip the game below 60 fps and even lower when fighting in a vehicle.
Meanwhile, Borderlands 3 played using PlayStation 4 using the same mode is even worse than on Xbox One X, that its framerate consistently sinks down to 20 fps.
Digital Foundry will test the PC version of the game next, but if you want to see how Borderlands 3 does on consoles, you can check right here.
Most of the performance complaints come from playing Borderlands 3 on PC. Players resorted to bombarding forums, specifically the Steam page of Borderlands 2, pleading for help and assistance.
"Need help," wrote one player, "regardless of the graphics settings, frequent reductions in FPS, CPU and GPU are only loaded at 60%, RAM at 70, but the hard drive jumps from 0 to 100% and hangs at 100% when FPS reduced. I already turned off all Windows services that might be the reason, I also checked the disks, fragmented them, can there be a reason that the game is installed on the same disk as windows?"
When Borderlands 3 was announced by Gearbox back in April, it informed fans that the game would be made exclusive to the Epic Games Store. Some PC gamers didn't welcome this news pleasantly and decided the best course of action to take was to flood the review section for Borderlands 2.
The game got a lot of negative comments, that Steam decided to drop its first-ever "off-topic review activity flag," in order to stop the non-stop complaints and negative reviews.
Gearbox Software has since announced that they are looking into the matter closely, directing users to submit a ticket at 2K Game's official support site.
A lot of players are having a rather uncomfortable time playing Borderlands 23, but at the very least, they aren't alone with the complaints. Even Digital Foundry thinks the game has issues.
