Well, it's old news that the Borderlands presequel will be released for Linux... but another great piece of news is that last night Borderlands 2 appeared on my Steam games list for Linux... yes, the same Borderlands that the Gearbox CEO told us not to hold our breath waiting for it to be released on Linux...

Granted, for now it's only listed, and has 0 bytes available to download, but this is normal for games about to be released on Linux on Steam, so... I'm taking it it's gonna happen soon people.

My life will be over, again. I've already completed every quest, sidequest, challenge, DLC, collected all skins, leveled up to 72 (overlevel 8) with. Every. Character. (though the Gunzerker is obviously my favorite) on my XBOX360, so it's safe to safe that I kinda like this game. And I'm ready to go through it at least once more on my Linux box, with awesomer graphics!

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/09/borderlands-2-game-is-coming-to-linux.html

I did have a Season Pass for it but that did not give me all the DLCs (wasn't the point of a Season Pass to do just that?). Anyway, I'll be sure to buy some DLCs once it's out. Civ 5 for Linux turned out great, I'm confident this one will be just as good.

The season pass only stated that it would include the first four campaign DLCs, they didn't really rip us off or anything, but they did take advantage of the game's success and released a whole bunch of other paid DLCs after that. Well, I can't really complain because I bought and enjoyed all of them, but this game bled me... :) Anyway, it was on a -75% off sale during the Steam summer sales, including all DLCs, so I just rebought it then (didn't even know if it was coming to Linux, but was hoping). You just have to be careful not to re-buy stuff, because if you have the season pass it will let you buy the DLCs it includes seperately etc.

IMO, this game is totally worth the money I spent on it, I got my entertainment. :D I'm so glad I'm going to be able to play it again with better graphics this time.

And yeah, Civ5 turned out great, and Aspyr is also doing the BL2 port, so I'm having high hopes for it!

You don't need to sell me on how good this games is :) I've already clocked roughly 230 hrs just by playing it with the help of CrossOver... I sure am giddy about the port.

Hahaha! Not trying to sell you, just am way too excitable about Borderlands in general. :)

BL2 runs almost perfectly on Linux. My humble AMD APU (processor integrated graphics) can actually run the game on max everything as long as I keep the resolution to 1280x720 and not 1920x1080 which is OK since I prefer to play games windowed and not fullscreen so I can multitask easier.

Since I'd already unlocked every damn unlockable and had an extremely high badass rank in Xbox on BL2, I was extremely disappointed that the Steam version didn't let me transfer either, let alone the characters themselves, from my Xbox profile to my Steam profile (since both are linked via SHiFT anyway, I'd thought they'd have figured a way to do that... but no) but I found an... unofficial way to transfer my characters! Took some fiddling with a few programs and I had to run an XP VM but I finally managed to bring my level 72/OP 8 gunzerker to Steam. I might take the time to transfer the rest too, might not.

But the game itself runs great. Borderlands natively on Linux. In your face, naysayers. :D

Thats cool, since the save formats are not too different.

Can a linux player play with a pc player (like myself)? if yes, would you want to start over on lvl 1 and blow through all the way to 2.5?

Steam version is platform blind when it comes to multiplayer so Linux can play along with Windows and Mac. But the multiplayer itself seems a bit deserted, I couldn't find a match easily (high level shouldn't be a problem since a lot of months have passed since the last level cap upgrade).

I was planning to start from scratch again, since I prefer the graphics on my PC than those on Xbox and also mouse look is a lot smoother than using a controller (it's so easy to pick up targets with a Razer Deathadder...) but I don't have time to invest in it these days.

What character are you going to play?