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Anyone who plays games like Diablo 1 and 2, among others, are familiar with items that have several lines of text that describe the effects that the item gives. In a game like that, it is of the utmost importance to be able to see all of the effects to make an accurate comparison of items so that you know what is worth keeping, and what is vendor trash.
Now take borderlands which limits the number of lines visible to only 4, and you have major issues. Several items in the game have 5 or more stats. Some of those stats, especially the elemental one's, take up 2 or 3 lines of that description pushing the other potentially important stats off the screen.
The reason this is such a large issue for most players is that you could potentially be throwing away a better item just because it doesn't show the ammo regeneration on it. When playing the game, are we expected to test every item we come across to determine if it has a special hidden effect? Ammo or Life regeneration is easy enough to test, but what about +% damage? You would have no realistic way to test the damage the item is doing to determine if there is a mod there or not. What about the items that are for sale at the vending machines? Are we expected to purchase them because they MIGHT be better than what we have? I think not.
If I was a developer at Gearbox, I would have suggested suppressing the modifiers such as +% Damage and +% accuracy and +% fire rate because they can be made visible in the damage/accuracy/fire rate stats which are shown in the UI already, leaving plenty of room for other stats... Although that still wouldn't completely solve the problem since there are class mods with 5 or more mods on them that can't be suppressed like that.
The entire point of this post is to bring to you the community fix for the PC version of Borderlands found here.
Navigate to the following folder within the borderlands install directory: "\borderlands\WillowGame\Localization\INT"
(for those of us that purchased the game through steam, that's "C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\steamapps\common\borderlands\WillowGame\Localization\INT" depending on where you installed steam I guess.)
Locate this file: "gd_globals.INT" and open with notepad.
Replace this line:
AttributePresentationTranslation="$NUMBER$ $CONSTRAINT$ $DESCRIPTION$"
With this line:
AttributePresentationTranslation=<font size="10">$NUMBER$ $CONSTRAINT$ $DESCRIPTION$</font>
You should now be able to see at least 6 lines in the description. You can change the size to 8 if you need to see even more.
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