#102

+1 to this thread… For the love of all that’s holy… Or the twins… Which ever you prefer, FIX THIS PLEASE!!!

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#103

The horizontal splitscreen as currently implemented is borderline unplayable. PLEASE BRING BACK VERTICAL, but if you won’t/can’t, we need some way to navigate menus, item descriptions, etc., so that they are actually readable.

My sweetie and I are having to sit on lawn chairs with our faces scrunched against our 55" television in order to read anything, and it’s really offputting. :frowning:

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#104

I made an account just to add another post. This is insane. It IS borderline unplayable. My wife won’t play it because she can’t read the menus and the horizontal split gives her a headache. I spent $270 on the collectors edition so the game can sit unplayed. They need to fix this and add vertical split screen in a hurry. Maybe make the text a bit easier to read while they are at it.

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#105

Adding vertical split and fixing the menu lag would make things 100x better right out of the gate.

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#106

Please , patch the game with vertical split screen. Its a must on our big tvs in 2019, bought the game exclusively for the split screen feature

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#107

Damn…just called my local Gamestop where I was at the pre-release last night and they said about half the people who showed up have already returned their game today because it’s so bad :confused:

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#108

The husband and I have been playing borderlands together since the beginning, it’s so rare that we find a game we both enjoy and can play together, so we bought the super deluxe edition. Husband took off work so we could spend Friday playing it together. I’m now stuck watching him play because this horizontal split screen gives me a migraine. It’s awful and I’m beyond disappointed. It needs to be fixed ASAP.

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#109

Just trying to give this as much traction as possible… vertical split-screen co-op borderlands was that best gaming experience I’ve ever had. My friends and girlfriend are incredibly bummed out that co-op is basically not an option it’s in current state. I otherwise would have been very happy with the game.

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#110

I wish I’d read this before I took the wrapper off the game as I want to send it back now. The main reason I bought it was for vertical split screen. Massive disappointment. I know I can play it on my own but this is, sorry was a something I could play with family. I struggle with horizontal split screen and really need vertical to be able to play. May have to find a way to get a refund if I don’t hear anything positive from gearbox in the next 24hrs or so!

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#111

What really sucks is that they haven’t even really acknowledged it. Posting a statement along the lines of “we know you all are experiencing split screen performance problems. We hear you that you want vertical split screen back and we are working on delivering that as quickly as possible as well as fixing performance issues.” Just a big nothing. :slightly_frowning_face:

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#112

I would have expected something by now! I’ve only had the game here since about 3pm GMT but it must be 24hrs by now considering other time zones. I’m really quite upset as this was my birthday present plus I’ve been anticipating this for a long time :cry: :angry:

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#113

Agreed. This horizontal orientation is messing with both my and my fiancée’s heads, and making reading almost anything (save for the subtitles, which they oddly added an option for size adjustment for) impossible. We can’t play on a very large TV right now, so this game is currently unplayable for us, and that’s a real bummer, as we spent $250 on the Diamond Loot Chest edition. We’ve been waiting YEARS for this!

I sincerely hope they fix this soon. I’m sure they will, given BL3 currently has only a 5/10 rating, 90% due to this specific issue.

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#114

This game is utterly unplayable as released. If Gearbox doesn’t do something soon about adding vertical splitscreen and increasing text sizes, I’ll be returning the game. I will not be playing this in single-player; Borderlands is only good as a couch co-op. Take that away and it’s another mediocre looter-shooter.

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#115

impossible to play on horizontal split screen. include the vertical split screen again … it is impossible to play and the texts are not read, the text is very small.

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#116

Here to echo everyone’s reaction, and to add another voice of displeasure to the list.

My wife and I have poured hours into playing BL1, BL2, PreSequel, DLCs and have loved every minute of it. Exclusively playing it with vertical splitscreen (me on the left, her on the right) we’ve beaten every badass, boss, and level together as a team.

If there is anything this thread has shown me is that there is a significant share of players who play this game in CO-OP, sharing in all the joy/fun/loot/mayhem with friends and family, as it is one of the few remaining games that allow for couch splitscreen. I find it extremely disappointing that the Gearbox team just failed to fully develop or test the game for this feature.

When I initially heard there was only one setting for splitscreen I wasn’t concerned, because I figured it would only allow vertical splitscreen. On modern, HD TVs no one in their right mind would want to play the game in a SUPER-WIDE widescreen aspect ratio on a horizontal split. With today’s technology, vertical split is the best way to go, as horizontal split was designed for old 4:3 screens.

Personally, I’m glad we didn’t take off work to play today as we originally intended to do, and I’m sorry for those who did. I hope that Gearbox addresses these concerns at least officially stating they are aware of the issues ASAP, but ideally with a future patch within the next few weeks.

After all the excitement and having the Super Deluxe BL3 ready to play, my wife and I will instead be stuck playing more BL2 until this gets fixed. Please give us co-op gamers hope, Gearbox!

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#117

Wow, you’re right.

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#118

You can not play this game on my big 65”, vertical split screen needs to be done before I even start the game

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#119

Yeah, it’s rough, especially considering the game is actually incredibly well-done. It just isn’t polished quite enough for the hype/legacy this sort of title holds.

Besides the splitscreen, lag is another common issue, especially while in-menu on splitscreen.

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#120

I’ve been excited for months to get my wife into this. But it’s just that little bit too hard without horizontal split screen. Weapons are unreadable, and enemies are unseeable. It’s hard enough for her having to learn how to FPS.

:frowning:

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#121

Plenty of time to use the complete and functioning Borderlands games (1 / 2 / TPS) to introduce her to the series and FPS in general!

That might take you a while, so you can come back and play BL3 when it inevitably goes on sale and bundled together after wading through all this skag spit!

Half joking, half not. I’m continuing to play BL2 DLC, then TPS and TFTB with my girlfriend while we wait for BL3 to be a real game.

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