remember, the tooltip can only show 5 things max. It's hardcoded in due to the console version (however the weapons can have way more stats)
so no matter how much you decrease the font size, it'll only show 5 of the *insert number here*

Can someone post the default to borderlands>willowgame>localization>INT>GFxUI? I lost my backup and I don't like the font

Wow... I have to put this up there as one of the dumbest decisions they've made for this game.

Let's make a game with a ton of various random drops and lots of stat modifiers, but let's not tell people the differences between all the items.

That's why you gotta test and get feeling of new guns, of so much there are.
And sell them after knowing it won't even hurt a adult skag with an entire clip.

In an ideal game, I wouldn't have to.

There's no way it's intentional you idiots.

It's still something really hard not to notice unless the playtesters didn't know what they were doing.

I don't know. They probably didn't know. I don't think this would be intentional, especially since the information is still there, and you can squeeze one more line out of it.

Wait so why are rarer weapons better? What are those extra stats?

No, it definitely is. It may or may not have been intentional to make the font too big to display more than 4 attributes, but when the game is set to hide any attributes beyond the fifth one, somebody had to purposely make that happen.

This thread just went from:

It's a horrible bug, omg i can't believe they didn't see it before releasing the game!!!

To:

It's intentional, gearbox ur the bset!!!!

I wonder if it's possible to change that with some console command, but I heard the console is extremely buggy.

Have you read the thread at all?

First we saw that they made the shitty mistake of making the font too big.
Then we found out that they consciously made it so that the game displays no more than 5 attributes, even when an item has more.

First we thought they were dumb for letting an error like an over-large font size slip out in the release.
Then we found out that they're dumber for purposely hiding extra stats.

Oh wow. Finding out worse and worse stuff about this game. Yeah the game's a lot of fun, but tbh they have fucked up a lot now.

Oh baw. They will probably have a patch out sooner rather than later, though.

I'll have to agree with Venn here. I'm still having fun, and that's the important part, right?

Still, it's a silly mistake that should have been noticed during playtesting.

Yeah, lets hope they patch the pirated versions working online too, I kinda feel ripped off knowing I paid for a game when a pirated copy can do everything the legit one does.

so that's why my gun was much more expensive than all my gear

Nothing wrong with trying it before you buy it. I thought it looked stupid until I tried it, now I own it.

Edited:

Aslong as you buy it..

Mother FUCKERS. All the class mods and rares I've sold, God fucking DAMN IT.

Oh yeah.

I hope to hell they do something in the next patch. I was wondering why my lvl. 43 rifle was so much better than a unique 48. Freaking ridiculous.

proficiency also has something to do with it.

Only a little though. Level 12 will give you 12% damage increase with some other little extras but nothing wholly significant.

Which config file do you edit, and what do you put in it? Thanks.

Don't bother, it won't fix it.

He could just use the font size edit to see 5 instead of 4

No fucking wonder that epic pistol with shit stats is so damn good.

This is really bumming me out, there have been times where I get a high level item and just chuck it because the stats didn't look good. Plus I don't want to haul it around with me testing it out on every other enemy reading the tiny numbers flying out of their body while trying to compare it to all of my other fucking guns.

Oh well, hope they patch it.

I'm going to start comparing the hex code in my save file for weapons, at the very least we can figure out if guns with more than 5 descriptors exist.

People think there are more than 5 stats, but because of the way the game is hard coded no more than 5 are visible. This is purely based on the fact that someone had a sniper rifle with 5 stats but no stats describing its zoom value, which everyone thinks every sniper rifle must have.

...No word from gearbox yet.

Apparently there was a picture of a sniper rifle with 3 descriptors and a scope but no zoom stat, so we have no idea at this point. Our best bet is to find a 2 line descriptor(there are some red ones with 2 lines I think) and see if it's cut off.

snip

Might be related:

View YouTUBE video http://youtube.com/watch?v=BmUJrKGN3C0

0:30
"Uhm, so, it looks like every gun has, like, 20 or so stats, so, I'm not really sure what - MAINSTREAM'D"


It's fun to take shit out of context.

Updated OP with new info.

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Gearbox has finally acknowledged the issue.

http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com...4&postcount=14

I fucking called it.

Wait, so do mods apply before or after the stats that you see on top of the weapon display?

Before

Oh fuck, all those weapons i threw out.

Welp