Pandora's largest moon certainly has a rugged beauty all its own (and lava) and you might be tempted to take a few screenshots to show off the scenery to the folks back home. The following guide will help you get the most out of your Borderlands screenshots.

You'll need to edit your config file for this. If you have run the game at least once, it can be found in your "My Documents" folder:

...\Documents\My Games\Borderlands The Pre-Sequel\WillowGame\Config\WillowInput.ini

It's a good idea to make a copy of this file before you do anything, so if you mess this up you can go back to the original version.

Anyway, open this file in Notepad or whatever and find (ctrl+f) the word console. You're looking for this:

[Engine.Console]
ConsoleKey=unassigned
TypeKey=unassigned

You want to change that to:

[Engine.Console]
ConsoleKey=Tilde
TypeKey=Backslash

Now, when you run the game, and press the ~ (or `) key, a console menu will slide down on top of your screen allowing you to type commands.

TypeKey will just let you do console commands one line at a time without having to press the key again to make the console go back up after. You can add it if you want, or not. Also you don't have to use tilde and backslash but it's convenient for default key settings.

There are really only a couple of console commands useful for taking screenshots using the Steam interface.

The first one is removing the HUD, or all that crap cluttering your screen that's dead useful in gameplay but sort of in the way of the scenery you're trying to capture:



togglehud - this does exactly what you think it does. It turns the HUD information off or on, and takes everything off your screen (except your huge ass gun, but we'll get there in a minute). Type it once to make everything disappear. Type it again (or just press up-arrow and hit enter) to bring it all back.

fov ## - Default FOV (or field of view) is 90 degrees, but you can change this. Messing with the settings here can give you a slightly wide angle effect (say at fov 100) or a crazy fish-eye effect (at numbers well over 120. Here are a couple of examples using fov 120:



Using the TypeKey (\) instead of bringing the console down will let you manually type the console commands to take a screenshot (you can use the console instead of the typekey if you really want to, but you'll take a great shot of the console blocking most of your view):

shot - basically does the exact same thing as F12.

tiledshot - this will take a tiled screenshot with no HUD and no weapons in the frame, and the shot size will be 4 tiles, or twice the number of pixels wide and high as your usual screen resolution. I know that some people had issues with this in Borderlands 2, apparently using certain videocards will leave artifacts that makes the tiling visible in your screenshot. Also, be aware that tiledshot also takes several seconds to actually complete, so don't think you've locked up or something.

Both of these screenshots are stored in the same folder as shots you take by pressing F12.
...Steam\userdata\...\remote\261640\screenshots

That's a mighty huge gun you've got there!

Even the smallest weapons in Borderlands can take up a large portion of your screen. If you'd prefer not to post a screenshot where half the frame is taken up by Tediore or Dahl's finest, then you can either unequip/drop all your weapons so that you are not carrying anything in your active weapon slots (which will actually leave you with your character's hands or...robot arms...or whatever) or....

Just rotate to your next weapon using your mousewheel. You'll have just enough time in between the first model rolling off-screen and the second rolling in to snap a quick shot.

Note: this will look really silly if one of your active weapons being rotated is a pistol because of the twirling animation used when equipping and unequipping pistols. So have a couple of rifles or something in there. (This gets easier later in the game when you can add more secondary weapon slots so you don't have to unequip your pistols just make sure you're rotating between two larger guns.)

Have a nice relaxing visit to Elpis, and watch out for the Kragons!

By the way, these tips and tricks will totally work in your other Borderlands games as well. Enjoy!