New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….
Original story (published on March 26, 2022) follows:
Gearbox is one of the most well-known game development teams. They are responsible for the Borderlands saga, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands and others.
To improve the player experience, Gearbox developed SHiFT. Basically, it is a reward system for players although it is also responsible for enabling matchmaking and crossplay within Gearbox’s games.
The above means that a crash in SHiFT will always cause problems with all games that depend on the software, and that is exactly what has been happening in the past few hours (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10).
SHiFT outage affects Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Borderlands 3 and other Gearbox games
According to multiple reports, there is a SHiFT outage situation that prevents players from accessing Gearbox games (such as Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Borderlands 3 and others).
The issue not only impacts multiplayer, but also Gearbox’s games single player/solo mode.
When i start the game, i get the message that i have signed into epic and gearbox. But when i try to use matchmaking, the offline connetion page is up. Then i press go online, and it tells me there is a network error. This feature requires all active players to be connected to gearbox software shift. But it said i was in the beginning.
Anybody else have this problem? Source
So basically multiplayer either takes too long to load or it’s just a black screen. Idk if anyone else is getting this problem but i would really want some help here cuz we both got it to grind the game together Source
Gearbox and SHiFT are working on a fix
The Gearbox and SHiFT teams are currently working to restore the correct functionality of the software so that games that depend on it can be played again.
We will update this story as events related to the topic unfold.
You can follow @SHiFTstatus for updates! Source
Update 1 (March 26)
04:34 pm (IST): SHiFT on Twitter has confirmed that they have resolved the connection issue and asked players to restart the game for changes to take effect.
Update 2 (March 28)
10:14 am (IST): SHiFT support on Twitter has informed players that they did some improvements with the connection issues. Moreover, they are working to further mitigate the issue.
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