Modders race to revive long-dead Borderlands MMO ahead of Borderlands 4's release

"Thousands of errors" to fix, assistance needed

A modder is asking for assistance resurrecting Borderlands Online, an MMO mentation of Gearbox's drama gun-runner that lone ever saw daylight successful China. It was announced successful 2014 and unopen down successful 2015 alongside improvement workplace 2K China, but footage of the abandoned task appeared online earlier this year. Now, intrepid integer archaeologist EpicNNG is trying to flooded "thousands of errors" and reconstruct the MMO to a playable state.

You tin perceive astir these mighty ventures successful the latest update video, below. The physique EpicNNG is moving with "has been publically disposable for the past 10 years", but was lone precocious discovered by different modder, Lewis, with the cautionary enactment that "a batch of the downloads were riddled with viruses". They've present confirmed that "we person got the afloat game" and "can get successful eventually, it is conscionable a substance of when".

That's providing, however, different radical transportation in, and EpicNNG is acrophobic that Take-Two Interactive, 2K Games oregon Gearbox mightiness artifact the task up of the motorboat of Borderlands 4. "God forbid that happens here, and this gets unopen down, and I person a cease and desist due to the fact that we're taking distant from the selling of Borderlands 4," the video frets.

Earlier this week, we covered a Stop Killing Games survey which held that astir 70% of games with online requirements are doomed. Here's hoping this 1 returns from the abyss. It's the archetypal I've heard of the Borderlands MMO, and portion I've fallen disconnected the series, I'm funny to spot however the developers astatine 2K China reworked the fittings.

Borderlands 4, meanwhile, launches connected 12th September. Gearbox frontman Randy Pitchford has precocious been saying daft things astir it. He does truthful emotion doing that. Thanks for the tip, Gamesradar.