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Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced

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This page is for the 2019 GOTY Enhanced version. For the original 2009 version, see Borderlands.

Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced
Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced cover
Developers
Original game Gearbox Software
Remastered Blind Squirrel Games
Publishers
2K Games
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows April 3, 2019
Reception
OpenCritic 77
IGDB 81
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, RPG, Shooter
Vehicles Automobile, Off-roading
Art styles Cel-shaded, Comic book
Themes Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi
Series Borderlands
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Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced on Wikipedia
Borderlands
Borderlands 2009
Borderlands 2 2012
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel 2014
Tales from the Borderlands (series)
Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced 2019
Borderlands 3 2019
Borderlands 2 VR 2019
Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep:
A Wonderlands One-Shot Adventure
2021
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 2022

Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced is a remastered version of the 2009 game Borderlands featuring improved lighting, textures, character models, gameplay tweaks and all DLC from the original release. It was distributed for free to Steam owners of the original version, even if they did not own any of the original version's DLC.

This version lacks of some shadows and self shadowing on weapons presented in original version.[1][2][3]

General information

Allows importing saves/characters from the original version.
Official Discord server for game series
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.
All versions come bundled with the original version of Borderlands.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos and launcher

Use the in-game options[4]
  1. Launch the game.
  2. In the main menu, navigate to Options followed by Game Options.
  3. Go down to the bottom and set Disable Launcher and Disable Startup Movies to ON.

Skip splash screen

Instructions[5]
  1. See Command line arguments.
  2. Use -nosplash.

HQ Sound For Video

Instructions[6]
  1. Download mod from the Nexus page.
  2. Go to <path-to-game>\WillowGame and backup your original 'Movies' and 'DLC' folders if you want.
  3. Unpack the mod files into <path-to-game> folder.
Replaces lossy compressed "remastered" audio streams for video with better sounding ones from the original 2009 game.

Removes that giant .Jpg in the top corner of the screen

Instructions[7]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\WillowGame\CookedPC\Packages\Interface folder.
  2. Delete or rename ui_frontend_upsell_PC.upk

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Borderlands Game of the Year\WillowGame\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/729040/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Borderlands Game of the Year\Binaries\SaveData\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/729040/pfx/[Note 1]
Fails to save progress if Documents folder is moved from the default location.
To fix this, add -nohomedir as a command line argument.[8]

See Command line arguments.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
Approx. 10 MB available.
Does not synchronize configuration files.

Video

New launcher.
New launcher.
Settings menu.
Settings menu.

Ultra-widescreen

Vert- behavior can be fixed simply by increasing the FOV in-game. Alternatively, a modded .exe is available.
Use jackfuste's fixed .exe[11]
  1. Download BorderlandsGOTYEnhanced.7z.
  2. Replace BorderlandsGOTY.exe in the game folder.

Notes

All supported resolutions unlocked in the game menu.
Hor+ (set FOV to 70 to get the same FOV as in the non-enhanced version).
If graphical issues occur with multi-monitors, disable in-game FXAA and use FXAA via driver or ReShade.[12]

Disable camera shake when sprinting

Use jackfuste's fixed .exe[12]
  1. Download BorderlandsGOTY_no_shake.7z.
  2. Replace BorderlandsGOTY.exe in the game folder.

Disable Cell Shading (Black Outlines)

Modify config files[13]
  1. Launch the game once after installing in order to generate config files.
  2. Navigate to your games config folder %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Borderlands Game of the Year\WillowGame\Config\
  3. Open the file "WillowEngine.ini"
  4. Change DefaultPostProcessName=WillowEngineMaterials.WillowScenePostProcess to DefaultPostProcessName=WillowEngineMaterials.RyanScenePostProcess
  5. Save the file and start the game.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
No mouse acceleration, although mouse smoothing is present but can be disabled through config files.
Mouse sensitivity
Separate sensitivity sliders for non-scoped and scoped aim, as well as horizontal and vertical movements.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Labeled Invert Look.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Game launcher requires a mouse to navigate, although the launcher can be turned off as an in-game option.
Controller remapping
The D-Pad, View and Menu buttons cannot be remapped.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Labeled Invert Look.
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
Keyboard and mouse is prioritized over gamepad input.
Steam Input
Steam Input API support
Hook input (legacy mode)
Official controller preset(s)
Steam Controller button prompts
Cursor detection

Fix mouse smoothing and aiming

Modify config files[14]
  1. Launch the game once after installing in order to generate config files.
  2. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Borderlands Game of the Year\WillowGame\Config\
  3. Open WillowInput.ini.
  4. Change bEnableMouseSmoothing=true to bEnableMouseSmoothing=false
  5. Change LookUpScale=-250 to LookUpScale=-300
  6. Open WillowEngine.ini.
  7. Change OneFrameThreadLag=True to OneFrameThreadLag=False

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound Effects, Music, Voice Over
Surround sound
7.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Fan translation.The host cannot be patched in Chinese. password: u7hn
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Fan translation. Download
Russian
Fan translation, available here.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
It is possible to use the Goldberg Emulator to play LAN. It is a "Steam emulator that emulates steam online features. Lets you play games that use the steam multiplayer apis on a LAN without steam or an internet connection". This can also be used with VPN tunneling software to This, however, only works if the DRM has been removed from the game.
Online play
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

Modify tickrate

Modify config files
Will affect CPU usage
  1. Launch the game once after installing in order to generate config files.
  2. Navigate to your games config folder %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Borderlands Game of the Year\WillowGame\Config\
  3. Open the file "WillowEngine.ini"
  4. Change in [IpDrv.TcpNetDriver] NetServerMaxTickRate=30,LanServerMaxTickRate=30 to NetServerMaxTickRate=60,LanServerMaxTickRate=60

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced Edition.
vorpX
G3D, Z3D, DirectVR
Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

Issues fixed

Lag experienced in co-op

The below two fixes should help alleviate some lag experienced while playing with other people.
Lock the frame rate to the same as those you are playing with[15]
  1. Launch the game.
  2. In the main menu, navigate to Options followed by Video.
  3. Set Framerate Locking to the same as the other users you are playing with
Voice-over-IP sends a lot of packets even when turned off in game unless disabled through the config files.
Turn off VOIP[16]
  1. Launch the game once after installing in order to generate config files.
  2. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Borderlands Game of the Year\WillowGame\Config\WillowEngine.ini
  3. Change bHasVoiceEnabled=True to bHasVoiceEnabled=False

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-530 2.93 GHz
AMD Phenom X4 9950 2.6 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 25 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
AMD Radeon HD 6970
DirectX 11 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/729040/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (729040) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  2. The config file %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Borderlands Game of the Year\WillowGame\Config\WillowEngine.ini includes HDR related parameters in the [HDR] section, but the game falls back to SDR shortly after launch.[9][10]

References