widescreen resolution removed from the game.
" Take notes everyone - this is how you actually make good arguments. I don't agree, as I've argued throughout this thread, that these points validate the decision to "solve" the problem by implementing black bars in the main game. I agree that 32:9 (and, I would argue, even 21:9) should be banned from races and PvP modes, but black bars are the laziest and most clumsy possible "fix" for the main game. For one thing, it's an overstatement to say 32:9 broke the game. Every instance you mention of 32:9 "breaking" something in the regular noncompetitive modes could have been solved by bug fixes or fog of war, either of which would be a far better solution. I also would argue that GGG's "my servers are melting" reasoning is complete nonsense and just them grasping at straws to justify a lazy design choice. This issue affects something on the order of 0.5% of their players. That's just not significant enough to meaningfully affect their overall server load. Also, it is not right for a company to pass problems on their backend off to their paying customers. Players pay GGG so they can support their staff and all their technical backend. Slapping black bars on player screens to save 1% server load is not acceptable, particularly for a company their size. GGG did the lazy thing here, not the right thing. Bug fixes and/or possibly a fog of war or FoV system would be GGG doing the right thing. The 352nd character to hit Level 100 in Standard The 82nd character to hit Delve 1000 in Standard Last edited by tackle70 on May 31, 2024, 10:51:16 AM
| |
" Point was, in PoE, seeing more enemies is irrelevant when you can also wipe them offscreen regardless of whether you see or not :) Not even talking about 5-way KB builds, basic ice shot is decent offscreen shooter with GMP and proj speed. So a subset of builds still has effective range advantage with all the black bars, while couple of people here cheer as GGG had "fixed competitive play", lol. Yes, dying to offscreen attacks should not be a thing. In addition, delivering offscreen attacks also should not be a thing, and can be fixed trivially by limiting skill cast ranges and projectiles flight distance, regardless of FOV. |
|
" You do something merely wrong if you die to "off screen attacks" cause there's not a single case of a single big random off screen attack in the game without obvious indicators. Enemies in maps rarely to never hit you unless you are within proximity range. Others don't even one shot you or shouldn't one shot you at all unless your build is on the weaker side and can't take any hits at all which is a problem on your side and not the games side. The Sirus die beam for example is also not a random off screen attack as it has two obvious indicators, a sound cue along with also a visual cue which makes it very easy to tell his positioning. Another case of the players fault if they die to that lol Flames and madness. I'm so glad I didn't miss the fun. Last edited by Pashid on May 31, 2024, 12:49:11 PM
| |
" The effort of replies against ultrawide was proportional to the amount of effort you put in that it should be allowed. "I bought a niche resolution monitor so they should support it". Was given the statement from GGG that took as much effort as it took you to come up with your argument. "I disagree" That person just actually put in more effort to give examples that the statement referred to. In the future if you want better arguments against you, have better arguments for it. | |
" I have consistently replied when people make actual arguments. I have presented my own, which have largely not been rebutted in almost 2 years. It does not follow that because I bump the thread each day, fallacious non-sequitors and bad faith non-arguments are appropriate. What's particularly amusing to me is that there's a very simple argument in favor of black bars that I don't think anyone has yet made - "It's not worth the dev time to solve these problems affecting 0.5% of players, so this lazy/bad fix of black bars is fine". I can only speculate why nobody is making that argument, but it makes me suspect people arguing for black bars just want to defend GGG, rather than engage with the substance of the issue. The 352nd character to hit Level 100 in Standard The 82nd character to hit Delve 1000 in Standard Last edited by tackle70 on May 31, 2024, 6:33:39 PM
| |
" You do forget that it's not just GGG cause in fact lots of games don't support 32:9 and not even 21:9. If it was that easy to implement 32:9 without big bugs into games every game would have the support by now. Thinking that it only takes a little bit of time and that devs are lazy is quite a bold assumption. But honestly I can't really blame any dev for the choice to put time and money into more important matters instead of something that only affects not even 0.1% of the player base. People with a 32:9 took the gamble knowing that they may do encounter games that won't support it so it's not really any devs job to fix anyone's bad choices. 32:9 are nice as a work space if you don't want to deal with cable management of multiple screens, but as is for gaming it's just not advanced enough yet. Hell funny enough even the older tech 21:9 isn't even fully supported these days. Flames and madness. I'm so glad I didn't miss the fun.
| |
" Then it should be copy and pasted under you "its been xxx days" spam. I haven't seen a single rational argument for them spending any time on it. | |
" 1 year, 288 days Fix it The 352nd character to hit Level 100 in Standard
The 82nd character to hit Delve 1000 in Standard | |
|
No to unfair advantage, thanks.
Biggest compliments for my crafted items - "bs, they must have been RMT'ed"
I'm disabled, I have rare case of semperduravera, so I can write things that may look rude, but it is because of disability - I'm forced to tell truth using words you may not like. | |
" Fully agreed, and in case of PoE black bars do absolutely nothing to combat unfair advantage even if they were immutable :) If we are going to copypaste same thing without actually addressing contradicting arguments above, I can do it too, you still haven't explained why am I wrong in your opinion :) |
|
