widescreen resolution removed from the game.

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Echothesis wrote:

Bigger physical screen also provides battlefield view advantage for same screen resolution! Following GGG's logic from this thread, they should letterbox the render completely for those cases, that will teach the abusers:)

Not, it isn't

I have 2k 32" monitor and trust me - the view is the same as anyone could see at his 24" full HD

Only because it is 16:10 so everything scales in the same ratio

Which can't be said about some crazy wide screens.

I know what dpi is, but when you bring driver upscaling to the picture, you can physically see same image in more detail even with resolution lower than native, compared to other guy playing with his 17" laptop, which may have same resolution formally, but his eye won't pick smaller details, like purple crystals or other ground degen shit.

Point is, if we actually consider aspect ratio an unfair advantage, how about consigning all race event players here to use same screen resolution? If not, double standards are right here.

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Echothesis wrote:

I know what dpi is, but when you bring driver upscaling to the picture, you can physically see same image in more detail even with resolution lower than native, compared to other guy playing with his 17" laptop, which may have same resolution formally, but his eye won't pick smaller details, like purple crystals or other ground degen shit.

Point is, if we actually consider aspect ratio an unfair advantage, how about consigning all race event players here to use same screen resolution? If not, double standards are right here.

You couldn't be serious when comparing detail level (which is lowered anyway, because of perfect (not) engine and his stutters on heavy battles) and bigger by 2 or even 3 screens view area!

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and bigger by 2 or even 3 screens view area!

It is not bigger, thats the whole focal point of absurd. Or at least it should not be. Actor replication area (called serialization distance in GGG posts) is centered on the player and should not stretch all the way to widescreen edges. If you remove black bars, you should see empty landscape, mobs will disappear into thin air at some distance, and cannot be interacted with.

However we know that PoE has larger replication zone, with every ranger build offscreening mobs far away and navigating by the sound of lootfilter. This is the actual unfair advantage, and should've been fixed by either capping projectile distance, reducing replication area, or implementing fog of war to smoothly hide the distant monsters on widescreen.

GGG instead did nothing with projectile offscreening and slapped black bars, which imho achieve nothing aside from alienating widescreen owners.

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XeoTech wrote:

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SilverWF wrote:

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Echothesis wrote:

Bigger physical screen also provides battlefield view advantage for same screen resolution! Following GGG's logic from this thread, they should letterbox the render completely for those cases, that will teach the abusers:)

Not, it isn't

I have 2k 32" monitor and trust me - the view is the same as anyone could see at his 24" full HD

Only because it is 16:10 so everything scales in the same ratio

Which can't be said about some crazy wide screens.

Just wanna let you know, that me at my 16:10 screen would see this



Not a big deal you say?

In fact it is, because in real it would be like that:



so the 1/3 of remaining screen would be eaten by UI elements

1 year, 284 days

Fix it

1 year, 285 days

Fix it

Watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flllaEftryc

This is unfair advantage right here!

There shouldn't be that kind of advantages!

or

make 16:10 screens (and similar ratios) bigger overall zoom!

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SilverWF wrote:

Watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flllaEftryc

This is unfair advantage right here!

There shouldn't be that kind of advantages!

or

make 16:10 screens (and similar ratios) bigger overall zoom!

1) This is a noncompetitive PvE game. You do not have a competitive advantage over other players with a 32:9 screen because in this game you are by definition not competing against other players. Outside of prize races and PvP, where I agree this should be addressed, this entire argument is a non sequitor.

2) Even if the above were untrue, there are many advantages allowed to players based on hardware and the use of real money. There is no logical reason to single out 32:9 as problematic. This is just GGG picking on a minority part of its user base because it's a minority so GGG can get away with it. High refresh rate is at least as much an advantage as wide aspect ratio, but the community would freak out if GGG hard capped the game to 60fps 1080p,so they don't do it, even though that would make the game - according to the logic often seen in favor of black bars - more "fair".

3) You can still play the game at 32:9 if you spend 30 seconds reading through this game's pcgamingwiki page if you are willing to enter a grey area that might risk a possible TOS violation. So even if this gives an unfair advantage and even if bad actors can use it for exploits, GGG hasn't solved anything, because bad actors who find a way to exploit with 32:9 can still easily do so.

There is simply no world where black bars make any sense in this game.

1 year, 286 days

Fix it