Borderlands Three hits Steam on March 13, and it is going to be accessible for pre-order and pre-load beginning March 10.
Those who’ve pre-purchased Borderlands 3 by Steam will have the ability to pre-load the game on March 10.
Once the game releases, it is possible for you to to start playing on the 13th as quickly as 7am PT, 10am ET, 3pm UK, 4pm CET.
One of the cool issues in regards to the launch is it’s going to mean you can play with others who bought the game by the Epic Games Store.
PC cross-play workes between the variations due to the magic of SHiFT Matchmaking. When launching the game for the primary time on Steam, and on Epic after putting in a brand new patch, a “PC Cross-Play” display screen will seem. This offers you the choice to allow or disable the characteristic. Disabling this characteristic will prohibit you to taking part in with different individuals on the identical PC platform, however you possibly can at all times re-enable it at any time by the choices menu.
A pre-existing SHiFT account just isn’t required to take part in Cross-Play.
Whether you selected to allow or disable cross-play, you’ll nonetheless be prompted to set a PC Cross-Play Display Name. This is required for the brand new SHiFT Matchmaking performance.
Eventually, additionally, you will have the ability to ship in-game mail to gamers on Steam or the Epic Games Store, however when not when it first releases. This characteristic will likely be carried out ina future replace.
If you might be switching over from the Epic Games Store model of the game to Steam, it is possible for you to to switch your save recordsdata over. This should be carried out manually, although, so watch out you don’t lose your save recordsdata. Backups are your good friend.
Gearbox will put up directions on how you can manually switch save recordsdata over as soon as the Steam model is launched.
