A love letter from Claptrap to PC users

Binh Nguyen 18 Mar, 2012 at 5:53pm ET Article published in Gaming

Your favorite Claptrap will be back in Borderlands 2, but not before he goes and sends out a love letter to the PC users, talking about what changes will be PC specific in the game. Gearbox heard our complaints and they have listened.

Here is the list of features that will available only to PC gamers:

FOV Slider
100% mouse-usable menus/mouse wheel scrolling
Remappable keybindings for keyboard/mouse
PC specific UI
Native multiplayer matchmaking
Push to talk
Logitech keyboard support
Control pad support
Integrated V-sync option
Support for higher resolutions
Mouse smoothing options (can be disabled completely)
Cloud save support
Achievement support
Friend list support

Borderlands 2 comes out September 18, 2012, which cannot come soon enough.

Comments

18 Mar 2012 ~ 6:12pm Thrax Thank you, Gearbox. Thank you.
18 Mar 2012 ~ 6:57pm Tushon That looks about like all the big problems that needed fixing. Will pre-order plox
18 Mar 2012 ~ 7:13pm midga This is what good game design looks like.

At least with respect to porting.
18 Mar 2012 ~ 8:05pm storrm will see if thay really do it or if thay brake something ells.
18 Mar 2012 ~ 9:58pm RyanFodder No port forwarding required. So win.
18 Mar 2012 ~ 10:00pm CB
Native multiplayer matchmaking
Actually, I prefer Steamworks. Thanks anyway.
18 Mar 2012 ~ 10:06pm Tushon
Native multiplayer matchmaking
Actually, I prefer Steamworks. Thanks anyway.
Nothing to say that won't be integrated/coordinated.
19 Mar 2012 ~ 12:36am Canti
No dicking around for 4 hours trying to get in a game with friends so you can finally play for an hour. So win.
GOOD
19 Mar 2012 ~ 12:54am TheAlertHusky God am I happy right now C:
19 Mar 2012 ~ 3:03am pigflipper Oh Gearbox, how far you have come since your Half-Life days.
19 Mar 2012 ~ 8:43am AlexDeGruven This is awesome.
19 Mar 2012 ~ 1:15pm ardichoke oontz oontz oontz.... this just moved BL2 from a "when it goes on Steam sale" to an "as soon as it's released and I have the money" purchase.
20 Mar 2012 ~ 11:52am Bandrik You don't have to try and woo me anymore. Just take my money already. Jeez.