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Free GOTY Upgrade for Existing Borderlands Players on Steam (April 3rd)

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Aethyna

2009's Borderlands is returning in a new Game of the Year Edition, releasing on April 3rd. It'll be free to all existing owners of Borderlands on Steam, 2K has confirmed, and it'll make a bunch of small but significant tweaks to the game. As well as a minimap in the style of Borderlands 2 which you can switch on or off, the inventory system will be simplified, and you'll automatically pick up items found on the ground like ammo and health.

There are more fundamental tweaks to the game, too. The game's final boss has been altered for a tougher, more rewarding challenge, and to make it a more "engaging" encounter

The SHiFT player rewards are also coming to the game—anyone who's played Borderlands 2 or The Pre-Sequel on PC will get 75 free Golden Keys, as well as two random new weapons when they create a new Vault Hunter. Six new legendary weapons have been added to the game, too, which you can unlock by hoovering up Golden Keys or by defeating bosses. More customisation options are being added for player characters, too, with five swappable sets of head gear for your Vault Hunter available at the start.

Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/borderlands-game-of-the-year-edition-is-coming-to-pc/

Wow, I guess that means grabbing a copy of the base game, if you haven't already, is super worth it right now!

Edit: Just checked, unless you bought the Humble Endless RPG bundle, the lowest price for Borderlands right now is around $5.81. Not exactly what I'd call a "low price" I guess.

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Asperyules

Just played it for half an hour, i get below 60 fps in some fight i.e. nine toes. I have a RTX 2080.

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Ekaros

Doesn't feel too bad...

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Axelflox

Can't say no to free.

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TreadLife

Just gave a Humble Borderlands key to a friend, and it still instantly redeems the enhanced version, too.

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ZenchiZennou

Would redeeming the old version now still add the enhanced version to the Steam library? Can someone confirm the above?

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ZenchiZennou

Thank you very much!

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LordRoyale

So anyone played this yet? Is it even worth the time and effort to download and replay this?

I've finished this twice using 2 characters years ago.

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CBlade

Apparently you can import your characters from the original game, so hey if you want to play again and not lose your characters level and maybe their gear? Then go for it

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PicoMan

It looks like this was developed by Blind Squirrel instead of Gearbox. Blind Squirrel was also behind the (buggy) remasters of Bioshock 1 & 2 so that explains why this Borderlands remaster is also pretty buggy at the moment.

I played BL2 before playing Bl1 so it was harder for me to get into because it wasn't as good or as polished as BL2 and had some really annoying issues, like the low FOV which couldn't be changed in-game. There was a tweak you could do to the files to change the FOV except it would reset everytime you got in/out of a vehicle so you had to assign a keybind just for the FOV and manually press everytime it reset, which got old fast. I think I was like half or 3/4 of the way through before I stopped playing.

I just started playing again and it feels better since they added an FOV slider, automatic cash/ammo pickups when walking by, and apparently a mini-map which I thought it already had but I guess not. Also I installed Reshade to transform the dull graphics into something that really pops so that improves the game a lot. I think I might finish the game this time around. But it's still not better than BL2.

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madsession

he SHiFT player rewards are also coming to the game—anyone who's played Borderlands 2 or The Pre-Sequel on PC will get 75 free Golden Keys, as well as two random new weapons when they create a new Vault Hunter.

I already had Borderlands GOTY and I received Borderlands GOTY Enhanced. I created a new characted and didnt receive any keys. I also tried installing both Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and logged into shift. I then created a new character in GOTY Enhanced and still nothing. Anyone else is having this problem?

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Closed 5 years ago by Aethyna.