{"id":4001,"date":"2022-07-25T03:27:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T03:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/25\/a-newsfeed-update-is-responsible-for-new-bugs-in-old-borderlands-games\/"},"modified":"2022-07-25T03:27:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T03:27:48","slug":"a-newsfeed-update-is-responsible-for-new-bugs-in-old-borderlands-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/25\/a-newsfeed-update-is-responsible-for-new-bugs-in-old-borderlands-games\/","title":{"rendered":"A newsfeed update is responsible for new bugs in old Borderlands games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: 2K)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A recent update for three of the older games in the Borderlands series (Borderlands, Borderlands 2, and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel) has been responsible for several new bugs, both big and small. &#8220;We are currently investigating issues that have appeared since the updates went out,&#8221; reads a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Borderlands\/status\/1550288571709505537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet from the official Borderlands account<\/a>, &#8220;including how some text is displaying and console players being stuck loading the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The update was intended to change the in-game newsfeed in each game, presumably to remove the now out-of-date messages advertising the release of Tiny Tina&#8217;s Wonderlands, but has instead resulted in a variety of issues. Some players report getting stuck on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Borderlands\/comments\/w64apn\/my_game_is_stuck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infinite loading screen<\/a>, experiencing crashes and seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bigkernoken\/status\/1550564856855756801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">textures fail to load<\/a>, and after installing the update on my copy of Borderlands 2 the mission log displays gibberish between where the numbers should be. (Though it&#8217;s fine in the HUD and missions seem to be progressing OK.)<\/p>\n<p>Gearbox has asked players to create a ticket on the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.2k.com\/hc\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2K support site<\/a> to let them know if you&#8217;re having issues with any of the Borderlands games. &#8220;We&#8217;re aware some users are still experiencing this issue&#8221;, says the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Borderlands\/status\/1550643492237430789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest tweet<\/a>. &#8220;We are hard at work to rectify the problem ASAP.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re experiencing the infinite loading bug, one suggestion from Reddit has been to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Borderlands\/comments\/w6x1i9\/comment\/ihiap0c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launch the game while offline<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]A newsfeed update is responsible for new bugs in old Borderlands games<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: 2K)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A recent update for three of the older games in the Borderlands series (Borderlands, Borderlands 2, and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel) has been responsible for several new bugs, both big and small. &#8220;We are currently investigating issues that have appeared since the updates went out,&#8221; reads a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Borderlands\/status\/1550288571709505537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet from the official Borderlands account<\/a>, &#8220;including how some text is displaying and console players being stuck loading the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The update was intended to change the in-game newsfeed in each game, presumably to remove the now out-of-date messages advertising the release of Tiny Tina&#8217;s Wonderlands, but has instead resulted in a variety of issues. Some players report getting stuck on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Borderlands\/comments\/w64apn\/my_game_is_stuck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infinite loading screen<\/a>, experiencing crashes and seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bigkernoken\/status\/1550564856855756801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">textures fail to load<\/a>, and after installing the update on my copy of Borderlands 2 the mission log displays gibberish between where the numbers should be. (Though it&#8217;s fine in the HUD and missions seem to be progressing OK.)<\/p>\n<p>Gearbox has asked players to create a ticket on the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.2k.com\/hc\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2K support site<\/a> to let them know if you&#8217;re having issues with any of the Borderlands games. &#8220;We&#8217;re aware some users are still experiencing this issue&#8221;, says the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Borderlands\/status\/1550643492237430789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest tweet<\/a>. &#8220;We are hard at work to rectify the problem ASAP.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re experiencing the infinite loading bug, one suggestion from Reddit has been to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Borderlands\/comments\/w6x1i9\/comment\/ihiap0c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launch the game while offline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}