Borderlands 2 VR – FAQ & Tips

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Borderlands 2 VR: FAQ & Tips

Can I jump?

• Under the Options menu, go to Controls, then Movement Controls and toggle the option that says "Walk + Jump". This will allow you to play the game as you normally would in a non-VR game.

Does the game come with the DLC?

• The DLC is a free add-on for anyone who has purchased Borderlands 2 VR. After starting the game you can go to the "Downloadable Content" option in the Main Menu, then follow the prompts from there. Or just download the BAMF DLC PACK straight from the page on Steam.
• The BAMF (BadAss Mega Fun) DLC PACK includes:
  • Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty
  • Torgue's Campaign of Carnage
  • Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt
  • Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep
  • K. Baha's Bloody Harvest
  • The Horrible Hunger of the Ravenous Wattle Gobbler
  • How Marcus Saved Mercenary Day
  • Mad Moxxi and the Wedding Day Massacre
  • Sir Hammerlock vs. the Son of Crawmerax
  • Mechromancer Pack - Gaige - NEW PLAYABLE CHARACTER with adapted BAMF skills
  • Psycho Pack - Krieg - NEW PLAYABLE CHARACTER with adapted BAMF skills
  • Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack
  • Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack 2: Digistruct Peak Challenge
  • Many new skins, heads, new vehicles, DLC trophies, and more!

Can I play the game without the HUD?

• Within the Options Menu, you can find three options for hiding the HUD. These are the options:
  • Default HUD
  • No Minimap - Using this option will completely turn off the minimap but still show you your current mission.
  • No Missions - This option gets rid of the entire top half of the HUD (Minimap and missions).
  • No HUD: This option completely hides the entire HUD.

When I shoot my gun, it shoots everywhere and the reticle seems useless. What can I do?

• By holding the left trigger, you can focus your aim and guns should shoot closer to the reticle’s center.

I don’t like using the motion controllers. Can I use a regular controller?

• You can play Borderlands 2 VR by using a traditional gamepad like you would if you were playing Borderlands 2.

Borderlands 2 VR - Options

In Borderlands 2 VR we’ve provided a wide range of Comfort and Control Options that can be toggled to best fit the needs of as many VR players as possible. Below is a breakdown of what is available in-game.

COMFORT
For Oculus Players:Oculus Rift S: Off/On

• Change Oculus Touch Controller visuals for menus.

For everyone:Tunnel Vision: Off/Low/Medium/High

• Tunnel Vision or Blinders can be used to black out the corners of the screen to alleviate motion sickness.

Tunnel Fadeout: Slow/Medium/Fast

• Adjust how quickly tunnel vision fades away after triggering.

Tunnel Sensitivity (Moving): Off/Low/Medium/High

• Adjust how sensitive tunnel vision is to vertical and horizontal translation.

Tunnel Sensitivity (Rotating): Off/Low/Medium/High

• Adjust how sensitive tunnel vision is to rotation.

Vehicle Tunnel Vision: None/Force Low/ Force Medium/ Force High

• Forces a minimum level of tunnel vision while in vehicles.

Scoping Tunnel Vision: None/Force Low/ Force Medium/Force High

• Forces a minimum level of tunnel vision while scoping.

Melee Sensitivity: Low/Medium/High

• Controls how hard you must swing a motion controller to activate a melee attack.

Player Height Offset: -50 to 50

• Lowers or raises the player eye height.

Player Gun Pitch Offset: 0/15/30/45/60/75/90 Degrees

• Change gun angle in degrees relative to your motion controller.

CONTROLS
Movement Controls: Teleport / Walk + Teleport / Walk + Jump

• Move around using Teleportation (High Comfort), Walking + Teleportation (Medium Comfort), or Walking + Jumping (Low Comfort).

Teleport Movement: Instant/Slow/Medium/Fast

• When teleporting, the player camera may move instantly or over time.

Walk Speed: Slow/Normal/Fast

• Speed up or slow down your movement.

Turn Mode: Smooth Snap/Instant Snap/Gradual

• Change turning method. Snap turning is recommended.

Snap Turn Angle: 30/45/60/90/180 Degrees

• Angle to rotate when snap turning.

Snap Turn Speed: Slow/Normal/Fast

• Non-Instant Snap Turning: Speed up or slow down your snap turn.

Gradual Turn Sensitivity: 1 to 10

• Adjust left-and-right controller sensitivity.

Lefty Swap: Off/On

• Use the left motion controller as the gun hand.

Show Scope Window: Yes/No

• Show scope window for scoped guns, or only use iron sights for all guns.

Show Crosshairs: Yes/No

• Show the indicator at the end of where you're aiming.

HUD Adjustment: Default/No Minimap/No Missions/No HUD

• Options to change what parts of the HUD appear.

[Veritan]

Can I play this game on Valve's Steam platform on Valve's high-end VR system?

- No

Wait wut, really?

- Yes, because even after months of development time after the initial launch of Borderlands VR on PSVR, we were too incompetent to test on anything but Oculus hardware and software and launched on PC with massive issues for Valve Index, HTC Vive, WMR and all non-Oculus hardware. It was so bad we had to quickly put out a statement after launch that the Index isn't supported. And now months after release we still haven't patched in a fix.

[edit] It took 3 months but to their credit they didn't abandon the game and did release a patch fix for Index.

[Dustyearlobe]

Lets not forget all we can do right now is PLAY IT LIKE YOUR DRUNK ,,,HMD direction based controls ,,yep VR game based on Pancack control syatem !! what a let down

[HiddenBlade]

The BAMF shows up as not installed even though checking the files it's there whats the best thing to do here?

[Dustyearlobe]

Pancack control syatem

[Dustyearlobe]

Pancake still cant beleave this ???? what research did they do ...

Well most of them have been playing this way on there tv's ....it has to be right ..RIGHT !!

Pancake new urban dictionary word ..

Games played in vr using Gearbox controll system,,,,, Pancack ,,

Hey just joining in on the stupid

[MeowCats]

It would be really nice if we also get The Pre-Sequel and Borderlands 3 as VR ports. And perhaps commander lilith's dlc for BL2VR?

[Hoshi82]

Why is this not on sale?

[½-ŠmºkëÐ]

Is there any way to unmap weapon switching (oculus quest/touch) from the right stick up+down? When you play seated or use stick turning, it's almost impossible to prevent weapon switching... in combat it's not playable. Since B button is mapped to radial weapon menu, this seems redundant at best, and game breaking at worst. Where is this, in which .ini file?

[gemeaux333]

the Creature Slaughter Dome isn't available even with the BAMF dlc, because of 2 values :
https://steamcommunity.com/app/991260/discussions/search/?q=creature+slaughter&gidforum=1629663905416940733&include_deleted=1

is it going to be fixed in the future ?

Besides, if the final DLC "Commander Lilith and fight for sanctuary"could be released too, it would be great

[Hoshi82]

So this VR port is abandon by Gearbox? Red the reviews and like it sounds this plays not good and this issues are present for some time. But now wonder. Randy saw a quick cashgrab and that's it.

[gemeaux333]

Originally posted by Hoshi82:

So this VR port is abandon by Gearbox? Red the reviews and like it sounds this plays not good and this issues are present for some time. But now wonder. Randy saw a quick cashgrab and that's it.

Nope, the last update was late january, but its most likely not the last, and we can expect more Borderlands VR games in the future

And the game plays great, even better than the non VR ones

[MeowCats]

Would be great if they fixed this annoying pixel-shaking/jitter. This is the only VR Game where this happens. The performance is abysmal aswell, nonstop reprojection. Newer VR titles run better than this.

[gemeaux333]

Originally posted by Cats:

Would be great if they fixed this annoying pixel-shaking/jitter. This is the only VR Game where this happens. The performance is abysmal aswell, nonstop reprojection. Newer VR titles run better than this.

The pixel shaking is only happening in the first minutes of a game but yes need to be fixed, the performances shows a fps drop when you are in wide open areas, are climbing higher and higher while looking at the panorama... I guess its an optimisation matter... and a bug that cause particle effects to goes terribly wrong and overlaping themselves, leading to a disastrous drop in fps, but fortunately can be solved by switching into the main menu ingame...

But don't forget its a port of a regular pc game focusing on immersion and singleplayer, to have a game properly taking advantage of the possibilities provided by VR you would have to rebuild the whole game from scratch or simply do an entire new game VR exclusive

The worst VR games are definitly Bethesda's ones, they are lazy as hell and cumulate all the weaknesses without any of the strenghs ! Doom VFR, Cyberpilot, etc...

[MadMinstrel]

So how's the actual shooting?
- Terrible. The bullets don't usually go where you point your gun. Most guns are missing iron sights (you need both rear and front sights for iron sights to work, devs!), and the optional reticle is completely useless because it has a huge offset. You can't hold two-handed weapons in two hands, and scopes are a joke.

What about just walking?
- Also terrible. Your choices are insta-barf mode, or a 'comfort' mode that doesn't allow you to go where you want to go because the raycasting fails half the time due to things like pebbles in your path, which gets you killed more often than any enemy.

That sounds really bad for a game based around walking and shooting!
- That's not a question, but I feel your pain.

[gemeaux333]

Originally posted by MadMinstrel:

So how's the actual shooting?

- Terrible. The bullets don't usually go where you point your gun. Most guns are missing iron sights, and the optional reticle is completely useless because it has a huge offset. You can't hold two-handed weapons in two hands, and scopes are a joke.

Weapons have an accuracy value and to aim precisely you have to press the left trigger, only Salvador can use a weapon in each hand when he use his class ability (its not a Serious Sam VR game), and when aiming precisely with a weapon equiped of a scope a picture-in-picture appear and replace the usual reticle, it show precisely what you would get by looking into it (its disturbing at first but very usefull when you get used to it)

Originally posted by MadMinstrel:

What about just walking?
- Also terrible. Your choices are insta-barf mode, or a 'comfort' mode that doesn't allow you to go where you want to go because the raycasting fails half the time due to things like pebbles in your path, which gets you killed more often than any enemy.

You can either chose walk+jump or walk+teleport in the option menu accordingly to the context (press right A for jump/teleport), and BAMF is usefull in combat situations to slow down the time and take advantage of this