widescreen resolution removed from the game.

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XeoTech wrote:

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Zucktheduck wrote:

To the top!

Fix it, GGG.

Pretending 32:9 is an advantage that should be prevented, but 21:9 and 240Hz displays are OK is the silliest nonsense I've ever heard in my life.

I love how people think POE is a top tier competitive eSports game with wallstreet investors.

"bUt tHe AdVaNtAgE!" "OmG lEaGuE sTaRtS aRe So CoMpEtItIvE"

These people should have bigger things to worry about than someone with a 32:9 monitor having an advantage over you. Try 6 man parties who will literally shit on you without even trying. They make exponentially more currency than you will ever make as a solo player. Even two man parties, can get the exponential jump on a solo player. Literally has nothing to do with computer hardware. You can have a six man group running 1024x768 resolution on a vintage CRT. They will always be at the top tier of the economy with the real advantage.

This has been going on for years, even with 32:9 and ultrawide. Nobody has ever complained about it until now, because it literally was not an issue. Now all the trolls come out of the woodwork like our homeboy here in this thread. These people are just trolling and white knighting because they like to aggravate people and they get their rocks off doing it.

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Zucktheduck wrote:

The reason there's no point discussing with people is because they are not making good faith arguments. They are parroting irrational nonsense in order to white knight for GGG.

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Zucktheduck wrote:

This forum has always had people like that. GGG could announce tomorrow "in the interest of fair competition, our game is now hard capped to 1080p resolution and 30fps - also, mouse and keyboard is disabled and everyone must use a controller", and this forum would have plenty of people defending that as a good idea.

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jerot wrote:

Much more competitive games don't have the same restriction.

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denhaj wrote:

Let's say you are driving a car at a German highway at about 320km/h suddenly in the bottom right corner of your windshield pops up a notification about low price of gas somwhere nearby, at the same time someone driving 180 kmph moves to the lane you're currently at. See the analogy?

Even useful information can be harmful if it draws your attention away from more important things.

Ultrawide monitors like g9 are over 1 meter wide. you can't pay attention to the sides and center at the same time (though you have more immersive playing experience).
People like me care more about immersion than not dying as much in game so we choose such panels.

Next thing - seeing loot - icons on minimap are visible independently of resolution, you can set up your filter the way that everything worth backtracking for would have its minimap icon

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Previously it was possible to manually set the aspect ratio of the Path of Exile client to be very short and wide, allowing you to see an unintended amount of the level at once. A limit needed to be set. Because of server serialisation distances, this maximum aspect ratio is currently set to 21:9. This is the widest that we can currently go before we start hitting the cutoff where entities and effects vanish. We are looking at being able to increase this in the future.

This note was accidentally missed from the patch notes. We're very sorry for that oversight.

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grimjack68 wrote:

Folks, you're way off topic. Competitive play, advantages yay or nay, etc, have nothing to do with the situation. According to GGG:

The thing is, the existing black bars cannot be solving the problem mentioned above, because the client is still rendering the game underneath.

As for why this hasn't been addressed further, well, that's not hard to figure out. Since the bug report was locked on Aug 28th, there have been 900 new bugs submitted in the forums alone. Add in the fact that the league has been very poorly received - as witnessed by the 5000+ bad reviews posted on Steam since league start, the constant release of patch after patch in an attempt to balance difficulty / risk / reward... which doesn't seem to be working, player retention this league is terrible, if not the worst ever, it's close. It's worse than the last league, which was worse than the one prior to that - really starts to look as if GGG is in a race to the bottom.

IMHO, I don't think GGG has had the time to spare to analyze how important this issue is. Admittedly, it doesn't affect the entire player base, however, the ones it does have spent a disproportionate amount of money on supporting GGG. Not a huge shock, the folks that have literally thousands of dollars of disposable income to spend on fancy monitors and high end graphics cards don't seem to mind supporting a development team that produces excellent entertainment content.

This game and it's widescreen support is the reason I put together a triple monitor 5760 x 1080 setup in 2018. I switched that out for a Samsung G9 in 2021. Why would I continue to support a game that doesn't support my hardware?

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grimjack68 wrote:

IMHO, I don't think GGG has had the time to spare to analyze how important this issue is. Admittedly, it doesn't affect the entire player base, however, the ones it does have spent a disproportionate amount of money on supporting GGG.

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robmafia wrote:

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grimjack68 wrote:

Folks, you're way off topic. Competitive play, advantages yay or nay, etc, have nothing to do with the situation. According to GGG:

The thing is, the existing black bars cannot be solving the problem mentioned above, because the client is still rendering the game underneath.

As for why this hasn't been addressed further, well, that's not hard to figure out. Since the bug report was locked on Aug 28th, there have been 900 new bugs submitted in the forums alone. Add in the fact that the league has been very poorly received - as witnessed by the 5000+ bad reviews posted on Steam since league start, the constant release of patch after patch in an attempt to balance difficulty / risk / reward... which doesn't seem to be working, player retention this league is terrible, if not the worst ever, it's close. It's worse than the last league, which was worse than the one prior to that - really starts to look as if GGG is in a race to the bottom.

IMHO, I don't think GGG has had the time to spare to analyze how important this issue is. Admittedly, it doesn't affect the entire player base, however, the ones it does have spent a disproportionate amount of money on supporting GGG. Not a huge shock, the folks that have literally thousands of dollars of disposable income to spend on fancy monitors and high end graphics cards don't seem to mind supporting a development team that produces excellent entertainment content.

This game and it's widescreen support is the reason I put together a triple monitor 5760 x 1080 setup in 2018. I switched that out for a Samsung G9 in 2021. Why would I continue to support a game that doesn't support my hardware?

the bigger problem is that they can't just increase the aggro range due to the invisible projectile bug.

the 2 most obvious solutions were to increase aggro range or reduce the resolution.

of course, (like i already mentioned) the invisible projectile bug has been known for nearly a decade. they generally just ignored the complaints about it, so now it's kind of ironic. i'm not sure they even can fix it, at this point.


but now this (again) will just be strawmanned as 'some irrelevant pvp complaint' or whatever.