Post by Dan @ 05:06pm 26/10/09 | 33 Comments
Thanks to 2K Games Australia, AusGamers has 5 copies of the PC version of Borderlands to giveaway, as well as some neato accessories sure to make you the envy of your fellow road warriors. 5 Lucky Winners will receive a prize-pack containing the following:
- Borderlands Game (Windows PC)
- Cyber Snipa Intelliscope Mouse (10,800 frames per second, 1000/2400dpi laser engine, oh yeah!)
- Borderlands Bag
- Borderlands USB Retro Tape Player
Head over to our competitions page for the full deal.
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Posted 05:16pm 26/10/09
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Posted 06:57pm 26/10/09
As an aside, I'm guessing that the "design/describe a weapon" type comps for this game are prevalent - Kotaku just finished doing the same thing (and I didn't win, because my creativity is s***).
Posted 07:09pm 26/10/09
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Posted 07:27pm 26/10/09
Thats pretty much what it is... minus demons and hell.. plus apocolyptic landscape and madmax style badies....
Posted 08:33am 27/10/09
Posted 08:35am 27/10/09
Posted 09:35am 27/10/09
S***.. Better get to organising guys here to go for the 4 pack!
Posted 10:11am 27/10/09
>.<
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Posted 10:16am 27/10/09
Posted 10:27am 27/10/09
Posted 12:10pm 27/10/09
Edit: Better yet, http://anonymitynetwork.com/ has a free 3 hour trial that works. You may need to delete your ClientRegistry.blob file so that it doesn't show up as 'unreleased' when you connect again without the proxy.
last edited by Tremble at 12:10:40 27/Oct/09
Posted 12:19pm 27/10/09
1. Go to http://anonymitynetwork.com
2. Click "Start your free trial" under the WhoIs information
3. Enter in a valid email address
4. Login with your new credentials (which will be emailed to you in a few seconds)
5. Click "Dowload VPN tool" just inside the "PPTP settings" box.
[Note: The VPN tool is compatible with all versions of Windows including x64 Vista and Win7]
6. Open the VPN tool, click connect
7. Enter your PPTP password - NOT your regular password. The PPTP password is inside the box labeled "PPTP settings" when you're logged in
8. Restart Steam once or twice
9. Double click borderlands, unlock it
10. Click "file" in Steam, then select offline mode
11. Play the game 3 days before release
Also dont be alarmed when it unlocks and then starts downloading. It's an update to fix the version issues we got. It takes about 15 min since the VPN only really goes around 50kb/s
last edited by DM at 12:19:50 27/Oct/09
Posted 12:18pm 27/10/09
Posted 01:32pm 27/10/09
Posted 01:35pm 27/10/09
Posted 02:01pm 27/10/09
Posted 02:10pm 27/10/09
I think the ClientRegistry.blob stores all the release dates and whatnot, if it is regenerated while connected to the VPN, you should be good.
edit: not sure though, I'm at work for another 3 hours. Try it and see.
last edited by Tremble at 14:10:27 27/Oct/09
Posted 02:26pm 27/10/09
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Posted 01:29am 28/10/09
Steam and Normal versions BOTH use the same saved games/config files in your My Documents folder. I got a Hunter and Siren to 11 and 7 while the steam version was unlocked and then installed a cracked version (razor) and it loaded them fine. I'm not 100% on wether this will work in reverse so if you can't wait, start playing now i'd say. Chances are you won't lose your progress.
Lv 18 Hunter now with explosive sniper rifle, fire SMG and explosive magnum. Puts the hurting on things that's for sure. Can nearly 1 hit anything with a head shot.
Posted 01:58am 28/10/09
Anyway did the above and got it working with some mates. Been playing most of the night. Level 18 now. Seems the game is a fair bit more challenging than going through it yourself.
My initial impressions is that it's a great game but there are such amateurish problems it gets annoying. Biggest being having to go through an .ini file to disable voice in your game. Not to mention that but if u were to leave it on, you have no choice in whether you want it be voice activated or push to talk. Luckily they made it voice activated to be extra intrusive. The total lack of graphics options and keyboard options is really bad as well. WTF mouse smoothing on by default? and again having to go through an .ini file to disable it...right this isnt the year 2000 anymore.
Besides that the game is good fun with a few friends. But unless you or one of your friends has a decent upload rate (at least 40kb/sec) its going to be pretty lame. For instance tonight, we had 1 guy to host and his upload was only 30k/sec. The game was laggy but fairly playable, but when he talked on vent it would lag up and basically snipping is a total write off. Bit of a shame when one characters whole tree is based around it. You kind of felt a bit useless with what felt like 300 ping. I ended up just spamming my pistol most of the time during a fight
Oh the other problem, you have to forward your ports if you want to host, and even when you do its still a bit iffy whether you can host or not.
last edited by CSIRAC at 01:58:24 28/Oct/09
Posted 02:02am 28/10/09
19 Hunter now and got myself another Explosive Lv 3 sniper rifle with a "extremely high chance of elemental damage". Also got my first acid gun and god damn is it strong. Magnum so it already has a kick to it but add on the super awesome flesh eating acid and all it leaves behind is their armor (oddly enough). Shock aint all that useful cept to get rid of shields.
I've not fiddled with any of the options though so IDK what mouse smoothing will do. Seems to work just fine for me. I seem to remember gearbox also raving about how this was going to be a PC first game then change it to consoles. My ass. Pushing enter for menus? Next to no options? Auto aiming? yeah thanks there guys. Does NO ONE make games for the PC first anymore cept valve and blizzard?
last edited by DM at 02:02:10 28/Oct/09
Posted 02:08am 28/10/09
Posted 09:40am 28/10/09
Posted 01:56pm 28/10/09
Thought this game would have been longer? :(
Posted 12:29am 31/10/09
Edit -NM I see, 9th Nov. in the fine print, needed glasses
last edited by Mephz at 00:29:04 31/Oct/09