Borderlands 2 improves UI for split-screen, now with online

by Alexander Sliwinski on Aug 19th 2011 8:45AM

Borderlands 2 will allow you to take you couch co-op companion online. Gearbox's Steve Gibson told Joystiq at the Gamescom reveal of the game that those playing split-screen will be able to go online and connect with two other players.

"The only situation you can not do is split-screen plus split-screen because you need a host," Gibson said. "And a split-screen guy uses a lot of CPU, so he can not be the host."

Another improvement for the sequel concerns the user interface, which has been reworked for split-screen. Now you can easily manage the upgrades menu without all that awkward scrolling around.

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Tags: 2K-Games, borderlands-2, gamescom-2011, gearbox, gearbox-software, microsoft, pc, playstation, ps3, xbox

Reader Comments (48)

sweet!

Hell yes, Split screen online and better UI since the first you had to scroll to the side to see the entire menu which made it awkward. kinda sad split screen team can't connect to another split screen team but damn; this more than I could ever ask for.

I thought Fall 2011 was gonna hurt my wallet. 2012 is gonna give it a heart attack.

Oh wonderful, a sequel to Bordlenads, because that game was awesome...
(Sarcasm...Borderlands was one of the worst games I've played...)

@agentkuo Oh wondergul, a well rounded individual with tastes I can agre ...

WAIT A MINUTE!

@agentkuo
so why bother posting?

@agentkuo

I'll give you a 30 second head start.....then im coming after you.

@PedoJokerBear: That...that sounded so threatening. I'm afraid.

@agentkuo
Can't please them all, apparently. Troll on, trollsmith.

For the rest of us, we'll enjoy a well-crafted game and it's improved sequel.

@agentkuo

Bordlenads? Really?

@agentkuo
you are bat shit crazy.

@Ospov I'm not sure if Bordlenads was on purpose and supposed to be an insult or not. I can't help but laugh either way.

@Softserve

Nope it was not an insult or unintentional spelling.

See he did play a game called whatever he wrote. Cause if he played Borderlands he would not be saying that now would he?

@agentkuo Trolls lol. At least try harder...that was a lame attempt at trolling.

@agentkuo
To quote King Arthur: You make me sad...

@agentkuo nice pathetic attempt at trolling if you hated borderlands so much why do you waste your time talking about it

@agentkuo I couldn't get into it that much either.

To have some fun with a Dos Eqis commercial...
He is...the most interesting Wallet in the world.
"I don't always buy things, but when I do, I prefer video games. Stay empty my friends."
This split screen just sold a lot of copies of Borderlands 2, and I can't wait to see the "easier to use" UI.

Can this game come out as soon as possible? Thanks.

Anyway, Borderlands 2...

This is awesome news! My boyfriend and I played Borderlands together, and we wanted to play online with friends, but never could together. It's like this upgrade is JUST FOR US! Only, you know....not. But it's still sweet.

@neveroddoreven

My husband and I are really excited as well :D
We're currently replaying the first one + DLCs (because his HD sucks-butt) But it's still fun since it's never really the same play-through each and every time. But I'm not trying to get toooo excited about it, though, cause getting too hyped about it though. I know how that would go..Dx

but still ...excited..XD

That's a great idea. I used to play so much Mario Kart Wii with online+splitscreen. Always made the game better that way.

Im glad this is coming out next year, I waited way too long before I bought the first one and wished I had gotten it when it first came out when most people were online playing through it for their first time. If this were to come out before the end of the year I wouldnt be playing it because I will be totally devoted to Skyrim.

Yeah there was an interview a while ago and he talked about a lot of the improvements they were making with the multiplayer and the UI and a bunch of other stuff.

I'm really looking forward to Borderlands 2 since the first Borderlands was one of my favorite games in recent years. In the interview they also said they were changing up the vehicles too. The whole feel of the vehicle is going to be different. I hope it's not too different though because I loved flipping my car over all kinds of crazy stuff in the first one. I thought the vehicles were some of the most fun in the game, but it the interview he said he wanted "vehicles that don't suck" so I guess he wasn't a big fan of them. I was disappointed that the cars didn't flip like crazy in the Knoxx DLC, but oh well. I'm sure whatever they do will be fine.

Are there any gameplay videos of this yet? I found the announcement trailer, but it's really short and not gameplay.

@Softserve They were SUPPOSED to release a gameplay trailer at gamescom today...Hopefully they come through with that.

Sold.

Game looks to be farther along than expected. This game is bound to ruin my mommas girl parts.

thank you for not abandoning split screen gear box :)

My wallet will shed many tears over the next 9 months.

Took me about a dozen hours to warm up to it, but I finally came to love borderlands. Looking forward to the sequel.

@iceveiled
Yeah I know what you mean. It took me about 5 seconds into the opening sequence in the bus to warm up to the first one. Longest 5 seconds of my life.

@iceveiled

Same here. My roommate and I would play for an hour or two everyday, constantly remarking on how we didn't like different parts of the game, how it sucked, how the graphics would herp derp from time to time, and how we would've felt gypped if we bought it (I used Gamefly).

After a month of playing everyday and staying up WAY too late just to collect one new upgrade, I realized that I had fallen completely in love with it, flaws and all. Can't wait for the sequel.

A few things bother me in Borderlands, one of them being: NOT BEING ABLE TO SKIP THE START SEQUENCE!!!!

Other than that my only regret is not getting it sooner and not being able to play it online with others. Got it on Steam, next one might get on consoles, but most likely not.

@Samael
I'm all for skippable scenes as long as I can watch them again easily later in case I accidentally skip one.

I just hope they fix all the damn bugs. Map markers to things that don't exist, spotty voice chat, etc.

For the love of God, please let there be a transparent mini-map with player directional arrows that point in the correct orientation.

Borderlands (and Borderlands 2) + PC = Co-op problems solved!

OOO I really liked the first one. I will be buying this day one for sure.

I'm assuming they are talking purely of consoles. I'm fairly sure my PC could handle split screen and hosting at the same time since I used to run 4 instances of Borderlands 1 simultaneously off the same system.

What? It was great for power leveling.

YES.

I loved the first one, but the GOTY version with all of the DLC makes me want to wait for a similar package for Borderlands 2.

My interest in Borderlands has diminished greatly since playing RAGE at QuakeCon.

good to see splitscreen is still alive

Borderlands was a truly great Co-Op game. I really look forward to this.

I love Boarderlands! just the fact that when you choose brick, it doesn't matter what level you are, you can punch someone in the face with infinite HP and beat them to death!

XD looks amazing and im glad to see that they are making improvements...

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