Comments on: Borderlands: Multiplayer Madness

By: Dagon

Dagon — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:51:06 +0000

ps: im on ps3 pc nubs
u got the WORST bargain
GT:DrosHyrozan Always looking for a sale

ps shamus: if u could get you bigot head out of your ass youd use this opportunity to have a forum to contribute to the fanbase rather than bash a perfectly good rps(even though i play it like an MMO)

By: JoshR

JoshR — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:27:48 +0000

I bought this and have had quite a lot of fun with the single player.
Had a mate who I saw play it a lot before I even picked it up, but as soon as I saw gamespy I didn’t even bother trying to set it up. Couldn’t work it ten years ago, won’t try now.
It may be a fun game in multiplayer, likely I’ll never know.
Still, for me, the single player was varied enough to make up for the lack of story, not that I finished it, may do so when I’ve fixed my pc.

By: Bill101

Bill101 — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:30:17 +0000

I still can not get the multiplayer to work even after going through all the port forwarding. I really wish I would have just got this for xbox at this point.

By: TyReLL820

TyReLL820 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:33:33 +0000

Lupis42: Yes, same problem. NEVER had success hosting an online game or joining a friend’s online game. I’ve tried with 2 different friends and each of us logging in from 2 different places. I have a FreeBSD firewall that I have full control over. Port Forwarding does nothing. I even did a TCPdump to view the traffic while a friend was trying to connect. Nothing was even coming in (related to those ports). I don’t know where the blame is….it seems SOME people are able to use this with no problems. Maybe some ISPs block the ports Gamespy uses? I don’t know, but I really hope it gets fixed soon because multiplayer is a BLAST in this game!.I have only been able to play 2 player using a VPN connection and doing LAN game.

By: Lupis42

Lupis42 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:37:34 +0000

I still have yet to successfully play a private game…
I can connect to public games, and so can my friends. We’ve forwarded the ports. But not one of us can host a game that anyone else can connect to for some reason. Anyone else seen this?

By: Aeka

Aeka — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:45:46 +0000

This game, along with many other games suffer Consolitous and it feels like s step into the 90′s every time.

By: Davie

Davie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:34:59 +0000

For the most part, I wouldn’t mind that much. I wouldn’t mind using Gamespy, or not having a push-to-talk key, or even not having a proper lobby. It’s the goddamn port forwarding that gets to me.
I have never encountered a multiplayer game before that required anything more from the player than to allow it over Windows Firewall. This whole port forwarding nonsense–setting up a static IP address, connecting to your router’s webpage or whatever–it’s all ridiculous and should really be handled by the game. Also, the site Gearbox suggests to go to for help is barely useful–It gives some very vague instructions with a lot of “gee I don’t know sorry.” Then it tries to charge you $30 for a program that will do it for you.
Basically, it’s very unprofessional and obnoxious of the developers to make PC users go through all of this. I do very much hope that Gearbox at least automates the port forwarding in a patch. Way to alienate a third of your playerbase, guys!

By: HeroOfHyla

HeroOfHyla — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:22:22 +0000

I haven’t played Borderlands, but I assumed that most games still needed port forwarding nowadays. I figured that was why no one ever seems to be able to join the games I create on stuff.

I have been messing around with making multiplayer games using Game Maker 7 and 39dll, and I just figured that everyon knows that you generally have to port forward when using a router.

What games don’t require port forwarding for the host?

Also, in “port forward,” which is the verb? Are you porting forward or forwarding your port?