Article: Claptrap's Love Letter to the PC Community; Confirms PC Specific Features in Boderlands 2

[Shawn Zipay]

In a heartfelt letter to the entirety of the PC gaming community, Borderland 2's Claptrap lays it all on the line. His heart, his soul, his FOV.

The letter, in its entirety is an absolute MUST read for how funny it is. If it's not really your sort of thing, then the list of PC specific features can be read about below, a number of them thanks to the Steamworks integration.

• FOV slider
• 100 percent mouse usable menus/mouse wheel scrolling
• Remappable keybindings for keyboard and mouse
• PC-specific UI
• Native multiplayer matchmaking
• Push to talk
• Logitech keyboard support
• LAN support (including offline mode)
• Control pad support
• Integrated v-sync option
• Support for higher resolutions
• Mouse smoothing options (can be disabled completely)
• Cloud save support
• Achievement support
• Friends list support
• No port forwarding required

Thank you Gearbox for listening to your fans.

[The_Eliminator]

I love Gearbox, one of the more loyal developers still around. Great job.

[Linux]

This is why I have loved and will cont. to love Gearbox for their amazing work and dedication to the PC community they don't bent us over and say take it and love it they really give us what we want from our games. I can't wait to play Borderlands 2, so excited .

[Thortok2000]

I remember this thing called Battlefield 3 that was supposed to be "designed for PC". I also remember how Modern Warfare 3's 'elite' service was going to be on PC too. PC's been left out in the cold with too many false promises to believe the words of a lyin' claptrap now. We'll see what happens when BL2 is actually released. 'Til then PC is gonna just cry in a corner. =P That said, I'm really excited about the BASIC FEATURES that are actually going to be in this PC 'port.' Borderlands 1 was more of a let down in these categories then BL2 is an 'improvement.' It's more of a return to the way things ought to be. That said, a complete pc-specific UI is pretty nice, and LAN support is sweetening the deal. The rest of those 'features' should be pretty much standard in a PC port.

[K-16]

Re: Article: Claptrap's Love Letter to the PC Community; Confirms PC Specific Features in Boderlands 2

So in other words, you're cautiously optimistic with the slow return of PC features that were supposed to be the standard before next generation consoles (well, current generation now) became the new standard, and piracy reached an all-time high? As for me, I'm wondering how DRM will interfere with the offline aspect of the game. Is this going to be one of those "offline after you connect online once?"