Software setup to play in LAN
- Install Radmin VPN
- Create your Network by clicking on a "Create Network". Set up Network name and Password
- Share network name and password with your friends.
- Your friends need to join your network by clicking on a "Join Network" in Radmin VPN.
- Make sure that you all are in the same Radmin VPN network and have the same Borderlands version.
Here is also a guide on how to create and manage the network.
How to host Borderlands 3 server
- Start a game as usual
- Go to privacy settings and choose "LAN"
- Wait your friends to join
How to join the server
- In the game's Main Menu choose "Social" (to get to the main menu press ECS)
- Choose the icon on the right, called "LAN browser"
- There you should see Host's server
If you can't join a visible server try this:
Go to Borderlands 3 main file directory:
Borderlands 3-Engine-Binaries-Thirdparty-Steamworks-steamv147-win64-steamemu.ini
Open Steamemu.ini and make these changes:
Offline = 1 (previously it was 0)
blockconnections = 0 (previously it was 1)
In there you can also change the player name (UserName="something"), do it!
Lastly there will be something called #AccountID = 0 Remove the HASH and you can play with 4
How to find co-players
If you want to find people with who you want to play, you can:
- Go to Radmin VPN - Join Network
- There got to Gaming network tab and type in "Borderlands 3"
- Choose a network with preferred language and click Join
- Follow the "How to join the server" part
Also Radmin VPN has a Discor server to look for co-players and here are Borderlands channels:
Borderlands 3 English Borderlands 3 Russian Borderlands 2