Searching for Downloadable Content... FOREVER!!!1

[Deuce Loosely]

Does anyone know how to bypass this?

[Wayward]

Get an SSD drive to reduce the time searching, and don't have your disk stuffed :-)

[Deuce Loosely]

I was really thinking of say an .ini tweak to prevent the search to begin with, not so much dropping a hundred bones on a new hard drive.

[z00t]

It is checking to see if there are any game updates/patches, as well as any new DLC content. If the Steam servers are being a bit slow and/or flaky, it might take a while. This is where bug fixes come from, so not really sure it would be a good idea to disable this, even if it is possible to do so. It is only a few extra seconds. Chill. :)

[abandoned]

if your at windows 10 type in at the bottem left windows 8 and it will be a setings thingy go back down to 8 coz steam and borderlands 2 re not on 10. if your on 8 see if you can get a static IP

[Deuce Loosely]

Originally posted by z00t:

It is checking to see if there are any game updates/patches, as well as any new DLC content. If the Steam servers are being a bit slow and/or flaky, it might take a while. This is where bug fixes come from, so not really sure it would be a good idea to disable this, even if it is possible to do so. It is only a few extra seconds. Chill. :)

I play on a toaster that takes a full 3 minutes to actually get you into the game. Staring at the splash screen for 45 seconds does eventually get old. Im pretty sure at this point, they a probably done updating this game. Other than a huge chunk O' life disappearing from Krieg every time he exits a vehicle, I have no real gameplay complaints either.

[No.]

Originally posted by OscarWildeURNot:

I play on a toaster that takes a full 3 minutes to actually get you into the game. Staring at the splash screen for 45 seconds does eventually get old. Im pretty sure at this point, they a probably done updating this game. Other than a huge chunk O' life disappearing from Krieg every time he exits a vehicle, I have no real gameplay complaints either.

The released a patch just a couple months ago.
That said, it's true that it gets really annoying; the updates should be handled via Steam, like with any other game, instead of having that forced into us everytime the game is launched.

[MR2_Pilot]

Originally posted by No:

Originally posted by OscarWildeURNot:

I play on a toaster that takes a full 3 minutes to actually get you into the game. Staring at the splash screen for 45 seconds does eventually get old. Im pretty sure at this point, they a probably done updating this game. Other than a huge chunk O' life disappearing from Krieg every time he exits a vehicle, I have no real gameplay complaints either.

The released a patch just a couple months ago.
That said, it's true that it gets really annoying; the updates should be handled via Steam, like with any other game, instead of having that forced into us everytime the game is launched.

Agree. One would think they'd set it like most other games. My connection is fast and it only takes like 5 seconds, but I feel for others who take a long time. I've heard from players joining co-op that said up to 2 minutes, that's just crazy *#@?^%

[CampyMcLurkstein]

Curious to know how many DLCs you have Oscar?

Considering how many individual DLCs there are, no wonder the "checking for DLCs" takes an excessive amount of time for some people.

I've never seen this strange mechanic/feature in any other games. Is it present in The Pre-Sequel as well?

[Deuce Loosely]

I have all of them except the headhunter ones and most of the Domination/Give Me a Dollar addons. I think it's a passive aggressive way of getting you to buy the rest.

[Waste_of_skin]

Originally posted by OscarWildeURNot:

Other than a huge chunk O' life disappearing from Krieg every time he exits a vehicle, I have no real gameplay complaints either.

FWIW, that's normal, or at least nothing new. The same kind of thing happened in BL1. Which doesn't mean that it's not a glitch. But it's "normal", in its own way.

Being in a vehicle seems to disable some skills (Just skills?) that increase your max health. Any character with points in skills like that will have less than max health when they get out of a vehicle. Now that I think about it, it may be because when you're in a vehicle, the vehicle's health essentially replaces your character health. Maybe they didn't want skills to boost vehicle health, so they're disabled, but then the character's max health is decreased too temporarily, so you have to heal to refill it. Just a thought.