Gearbox Speedily Patches Borderlands

The PC version of Borderlands released with several flaws, one serious enough to make one of the classes all but unplayable if you attempt to play the way the developers intended. However, keeping true to their promises, Gearbox has released a patch fo the PC version, which is very important for those wanting to get the most out of their Borderlands experience.

However, for those of you who are looking for an easier time to connect online, you’ll not find it in this patch, as you’ll still need to do the port forwarding mumbo jumbo before you’ll get any of this to work. Here are the patch details as listed in the original Gearbox forum post:

# Characters that have lost skill points will have the lost points refunded
# Clients will no longer lose proficiency progress upon leaving a co-op game
# Item cards now display the intended five lines of detail text
# Lilith’s Phase strike and melee attacks from Phase Walk now function as intended
# Voicechat: users can now control volume and individually mute players
# Fixed a bug that sometimes caused CL4P-TP to stop progressing during the introduction
# Server browser population times have been improved
# Server information should now always display the correct plot mission
# Benchmarking feature now works as intended
# Nvidia 3D Vision visuals now render shadows correctly (requires minimum 195.28 drivers, available from nVidia)

Those who own a retail copy of the game will need to download the patch from the Gearbox website. If you purchased your copy of the game through a digital distribution site, you’ll need to obtain your update that way.