Borderlands console patches go live, Lilith gets some loving

by Griffin McElroy on Oct 30th 2009 11:45AM

We felt so bad for Borderlands' stealthy female protagonist, Lilith. While other characters' abilities were in perfect working order, her top-tier "Phase Strike" power was, well, broken. Enemies who experienced the attack began to make fun of Lilith, referring to the maligned ability as "Phase Wrist-Slap" or "Phase Hug," for which her cohorts constantly teased her.

Fret no more, dearest Lilith! Gearbox released a patch earlier today for the PS3 and 360 versions of Borderlands which, in addition to improving load times and fixing a number of small technical snafus (the full list of which are after the jump), also fixes your Phase Strike ability. Just make sure you savor the experience when you first use the renovated power -- the surprise on your combatant's face is going to be delectable.
Patch fixes for PS3

Load times have been improved
Lilith's Phase Strike ability now works as intended
The introductory quests with CL4P-TP should now always progress properly
fixed a bug that caused the digger elevator to be unusable after completing the Find Tannis mission
Weapon mapping to the D-pad should no longer reverse left and right
fixed a crash when ejecting the disc during the autosave warning splash screen
Players in a lobby should no longer experience long loading when starting a game after one player leaves
A bug which caused players and other things in the world to appear incorrectly on clients in networked games has been fixed
fixed a bug in which players gibbed in arena combat disappeared
Changed how space required for saves is calculated
fixed a bug which caused the dollars counter to spin continuously
various localization and other text and tooltip correction

Patch fixes for 360

Fixed a bug which caused players and other things in the world to appear incorrectly on clients in networked games
fixed a bug in which players gibbed in arena combat disappeared
fixed a bug which caused the dollars counter to spin continuously
fixed a bug that caused the digger elevator to be unusable after completing the Find Tannis mission
Weapon mapping to the D-pad should no longer reverse left and right
various localization and other text and tooltip corrections
The introductory quests with CL4P-TP should now always progress properly all the time
Lilith's Phase Strike ability now works as intended
Load times have been improved

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Tags: 2k-games, borderlands, bug, fix, gearbox, glitch, lilith, Microsoft, patch, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (65)

Mmm... Lilith.

What about glitched achievements!?

There were glitched achievements? Source?

yeah i was wondering about that too. the corrosive kills is definitey glitched. i read some other users with that problem and i have it myself. if you look at your in-game progress it shows that i have way more than 25 kills with corrosive weapons but i never got the achievement.

they just say to play a new game with a new character

i did that and got the car one as well as the shock one

i think that you can only get 2 element kill weapon achivements per game if you play co op since thats what happened to me and my gf.

also. for the 5,000,000 achiveemnt, the first player in a co op game gets the money but the second doesnt get the achievement since they arent awarded the money

Thank god. I play as Lillith and had given up on her Phase ability. Level 33 and killed maybe... 8 enemies. Usually was a waste of time.

Hmmm, I picked Mordecai and to be honest I am really regretting it... His skill trees just don't seem to match up. D: But, if anyone wants to have a game, my PSN: firebird14

He is one of the stronger guys. Whichever way you spec his damage output is insane. Be it melee, sniper, pistols, or his bloodwing. Just his down side is lack of defense, but his health regen makes up for that.

Phasewalk works fine. Phasestrike is what was not working.

If you had Blackout and Hard to Get, you could use Phasewalk after killing 3 enemies. It just keeps refreshing, and if you have a good talent artifact equipped, it does quite a bit of damage + daze. Good stuff.

Nice. Now phasewalk will be more than just a turbo run button for me!

What was wrong with it in the first place? I haven't played Lilith yet but my brother has been and is wondering what the difference is now.

haha, great avatar! "Stupid sexy snake!"

Haha yeah, the phasewalk was pretty much a tool to get to a destination quicker or to get out of sticky situations. I am so glad I can finally put some points into phasestrike now. I actually stand a chance in duels against my buddies.

I thought I was supposed to use that for something else...

My friends all seem to be levelling up a bunch of different characters, which seems smart for multiplayer, but I'm just going through as a Hunter... I just got that Sniper-Shotgun weapon... It's like a dream come true.

PC PATCH. Make it happen.

A patch is out for the 360 and PS3 but not the PC? What the fuck.

Someone (Gearbox or 2K) has got to be doing something on purpose.

Maybe give it a week. Since it was postponed a week after Xbox and PS3 release, maybe it's just taking a little more time for them to push the PC patch. Good luck guys! Hope you get patched soon too!

I'm hoping the delay on the patch for PC means they're also working on fixing some of the annoying console-to-PC port issues that exist.

zero mic controls (have to disable it by editing the game files), run is toggle, crouch is toggle, "use" function forces weapon reload, screwy FOV on widescreen monitors, etc. That said, still LOVING this game.

The code for each version is not the same, even if similar. In addition, every change needs testing to make sure it 1) works and 2) didn't break anything else. Considering some fundamental scripts were probably altered, give it a bit more time.

The PC version will get its fixes probably within 2-3 business days at max. I'd be really surprised at the PC team if it took longer.

Meh all I play as is the solider most of the time anyway. His turret is ridiculously overpowered if specced right, and the boosts to combat rifles really help too.

Brick's fun to play as though, if only because his action skill is awesome.

Playthrough 2 and still dying of laughter when using berserk.

Aaaaaagh!! Ggggaa! Rrrrrrggh! Raaaaaa!!! AAaaah!! AAAAAH!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Mooooooreeeee!!!!!

PC TIEM NAO!

Did anyone else experience an issue with the audio cutting out at times on the PS3 version? Mine always does it whenever those pterodactyls show up.

I get this and it drives me batty!

Hmm. I have yet to encounter bat related latency issues, mine are strictly limited to late Triassic-era winged reptiles.

Whoa, nice to see a console get a patch so quickly, usually it takes forever to get stuff past MS certification.

I think it all depends on how the patch is implemented. Dawn of War 2 had an emergency patch early on that bypassed certification since it didn't affect the Games for Windows Live architecture or somesuch.

hmmmm no achievement fix for 360, i would think that would be near the top.

Yeah, that would be nice.

Which achievement is glitched?

Many of them. Millionaire, 12 days of pandora, elemental weapon kills, and a few more. Sometimes they glitch sometimes they don't.

the one where you drive over 25 enemies is glitched for me and a friend

Right now their top priority is disappearing skills / items.

Achievements can be done on another char just fine.

You cant boot up another character and rescue your level 50's talent points.

I think I should get these achievements if they are done on the first playthrough. Not start up another character simply to collect another million dollars. Seems like they covered pretty well most of the bugs except an also important one. I'm not achievement monger but that doesn't mean I won't accept it if I have done the work for it.

Driving over 25 enemies wasn't glitched for me. I think it's cause most people are playing this game coop and i've been playing it solo.

Mine is the sell 50 guns cheevo. According to the challenges, I have sold over 300 items, and I know 50 of them had to be guns. It's not that bad, I'm going through a second character, so I'll get it pretty quick. My friend on the other hand, he just discovered he had the Millionaire glitch, he's not happy.

as in the delay for some of the achievements to pop up on the screen?

Them not appearing at all. And some are big ones like the millionaire achievement. Takes a long time to get a million on a fresh run through.

Now to fix the game-ending bugs like skill points deleting and friends lists not working. You know, the ones that people really care about.

While people are working on those, other people fixed these.

There is little reason to hold up a bunch of little fixes (especially ones effecting class balance) for the big ones when the big ones aren't done yet.

Back your save files up in the meantime. I was the victim of a multiplayer character loss bug, but I had my SaveData folder backed up, so I replaced it and was restored to where I was before the loss happened.

Players do have some workarounds in the meantime.

So, recently I came upon an interesting glitch. In co-op offline, it appears through a series of making a game, leaving a game (which leaves a character in the spot), changing games to have the second character make the game (as the main person) then leaving the game and having the second person (which was originally the first person), select the same character allows you to log in on the same save twice. Something like that anyway, have not tried to reproduce it as I did it on accident. I did however notice, that if one of you drops gear, the other picks it up and you quit the game, the items are indeed duped.... so yeah don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but this game is buggy as hell.

I seriously love this game - its my GOTY so far, although im sure Im not the majority.

Ditto.

yeah I'm lovin it so far only at level 8 but it's already pulled me away from uncharted.

ive never played a game as addicting on the console, im already on level 31 in just a week.

"Weapon mapping to the D-pad should no longer reverse left and right"

Huh, I guess Im not going crazy.

P.S. I love this game. My wife loves this game. We love the Coop of this game.

It blows my mind how some bugs like this ever got released.

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