Borderlands 4 Is The Most Successful PC Launch Of The Series, But User Reviews Point To Poor Performance – WGB

Borderlands 4 has solely been out for a number of hours, however it has already develop into essentially the most profitable recreation within the sequence primarily based on its Steam participant numbers.

According to SteamDB, Borderlands 4 has already achieved over 200,000 peak concurrent gamers, surpassing the franchise’s earlier Steam file by a substantial margin.

Earlier than it clinched the highest spot, the rankings had been:

1. Borderlands 2 – 124,678 (22 September 2012)
2. Borderlands 3 – 93,820 (15 March 2020)
3. Borderlands (unique GOTY) – 23,655 (28 July 2012)

200,000 is a fairly stable opening quantity, and that can most likely climb as we hit the weekend and extra gamers have free time. Thoughts you, it’s inferior to the not too long ago launched Hollow Knight: Silksong, which managed well over double what Borderlands 4 did.

However whereas the numbers are good, the person critiques are portray a distinct story as a result of Borderlands 4 is one more triple-A title that has launched with severe points. On the time of writing, it holds a “combined” score on Steam.

In line with the person critiques, efficiency woes are the largest drawback proper now. Even customers on high-end {hardware} are reporting stuttering and low framerates. Different individuals are reporting being unable to progress previous the beginning display, crashes and different errors.

In different phrases, it’s one more large launch that’s in dire want of updates. You may need to maintain off shopping for it till Gearbox have put out a number of patches. I’m not taking my very own recommendation, although, as a result of I’m an fool who desires to evaluation it, so I’m leaping in and hoping for the very best.