Widescreen & Ultrawide Update (personal opinion)

[[Falcon] Redblaster100]

My 2 cents on Ultrawide & Widescreen FOV adjustment removal:



Without a doubt, I'll be getting hissing for this post. But I wish to speak my mind none the less.

This is the same nonsense arguement the dev's behind Overwatch threw at their playerbase.

The PC gaming industry will always be governed by how much money one is willing to put into his or her hardware.

Example 1:

Someone with 2 gtx1080's in SLI will have a higher FPS than someone who isn't able or willing to invest that sort of money into graphics cards. Having a solid 60 FPS (especially in shooters) can be considered an advantage over someone with 30 FPS or lower, I think we can agree.

Example 2:

Someone using broadband internet vs fiber internet. Faster, more stable internet = an advantage in online gaming.

So are we in the future, also going to start punishing people who are willing to put more money into this type of hardware, purely under the ruse that 'they have an unfair advantage' ? It makes no sense.

I don't understand why certain developers feel the need to punish consumers who are willing to invest into specific hardware.

It's the same with ultrawide and widescreen. I run a pg348 Asus 3440x1440. By executing the latest patch you have made the game completely unplayable for me (and people running monitors like me) as even the third person view is so zoomed in, I can only see my character from the shoulders up, and I have an extremely narrow vision. It is literally unplayable.

If your reasoning is really to prevent players with superior hardware from having 'an advantage' then how is punishing them so severely that they are at a severe DISadvantage a solution to your problem? Just because you flip the card upside down doesn't mean it's off the table.


I dearly hope this patch you speak off which will allow widescreen and ultrawide users to play with a proper FOV again, isn't too far off. Because currently ultrawide and widescreen users like myself, are unable to play, although we've invested our hard earned money into the game, and provided you with our (financial and otherwise) support.

Cheers

[Profilname]

+1

[WitzFam]

I don't understand.

Is there no option to change your scaling to 16:9? Sure, doing so means that you won't get to take advantage of your wide-screen. And I understand that this is half the point of your post.

However, at least you wouldn't be able to say that you're "unable" to play since you'd be on the same level as everyone else. I know, running 16:9 on a 21:9 screen is a let down, but it's no different than everyone else's 16:9.

[rudeboy]

I agree, absolutely absurd that this seems to be an accepted standard.

[ARCTiC]

We are forced to scale the monitor or play in a window, so yes you can actually playing the game but you're wasting your hardware this way.
It's like having a 1080ti but be forced to play the game like you have a 10 years old crap card... that's is OK for a EA title.. but if this consequence is due to a bad decision (without thinking at the collateral effects) then you can't blame people to criticize it, and ask for a fix asap.
It was so easy to bind the FOV to a GUI control.. maybe 30 minutes coding time? There's more important things to fix I agree.. but they would have avoided all this negative posts!

[The Supreme Gentleman]

Even tho I don't have an ultrawide, +1

[[Falcon] Redblaster100]

Kindred původně napsal:

I have talked about 21:9 support since closed beta...

Currently with the latest patch, everything looks perfect now. No more being zoomed in and cropped on top and bottom.

For me running 2560x1080, this totally fixed the problem and makes the game way more playable.

I did notice however that the character is still covered by menus in the UI. But the scaling looks correct now once in game.

Thanks devs....

I'm glad that you are able to run the game perfectly. Unfortunately a lot of us are still held firmly by the balls by the devs, at least for the time being.

Thanks so far for the comments gentlemen. Insight and opinions, even if they differ, are always welcome.

[ARCTiC]

Kindred původně napsal:

I have talked about 21:9 support since closed beta...

They didn't.. you have a middle class monitor, that is only 1080p in height, the game looks messed up on a proper 21:9 monitor (3440x1440).
It also looks bad on a 30" 16:10 monitor: everything is zoomed in and it's like seeing the world using a binocular, it gives motion sickness.
To accomodate everyone, the solution should have been to add the FOV slider, before enforcing the .ini lock.

[[Falcon] Redblaster100]

Kindred původně napsal:

I 100% agree with your original post, and sorry to hear you are still having problems...

I wonder why your resolution is not showing correctly but 2560x1080 now seems correct? I would assume they are both 21:9

Before the update my game was almost unplayable it was so zoomed in, but now in 3rd person view I can see 3/4 of the character, which looks just like what I have seen in streams on twitch.

I did delete the ini file they suggested on the official forums, just a thought, did you try that and see if it helped?

Best of luck...

So far there is no solution to the problem for us. Thanks anyways though matey.

[Adriac]

post this on reddit for higher luck of devs reading it

[[Falcon] Redblaster100]

Butmen Teh Derp Night Rizes původně napsal:

post this on reddit for higher luck of devs reading it

I'll do so :)

[Darth Fader]

"I did delete the ini file they suggested on the official forums, just a thought, did you try that and see if it helped?" Which file was this? I play on 3 screens and since the new patch without the fix my camera is so zoomed in all I can see is the head of my charecter.

[smoke63b]

(+CG+) BigWitz původně napsal:

I don't understand.

Is there no option to change your scaling to 16:9? Sure, doing so means that you won't get to take advantage of your wide-screen. And I understand that this is half the point of your post.

However, at least you wouldn't be able to say that you're "unable" to play since you'd be on the same level as everyone else. I know, running 16:9 on a 21:9 screen is a let down, but it's no different than everyone else's 16:9.

It's actually quite different. The game looks like absolute poop on a much higher resolution monitor when you lower it that much. Also, these are aspect ratios and they are not equal.

[Paddy]

I'm in same boat. I've been playing game on X34 ( 3440 x 1440). I swapped to an old 24inch 1080p monitor and we are definitely zoomed in whilst playing on widescreen monitors. The game is so more suited to 16:9. I hope they patch it soon.