widescreen resolution removed from the game.

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Smooshfaced wrote:

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This isn't an answer, let me tell you why. There is a community fix that removes the black bars. Everything beyond the black bars is still being processed on the server end, sent to the client, and the client is still processing and rendering the boxes/monsters/effects behind the black bars. And yes, they are still there, they haven't "vanished".

This means that what they've done isn't going to "help" serialization at all, since the servers are still doing all of the work, and the clients are still receiving all of the information and then processing it. Clearly this isn't "the widest they can currently go", and this won't help serialization, because all they did was slap two black bars on the sides of the screen instead of actually changing the code to reduce what is being processed and transferred to the client.

They say they are looking to increase the distance, but the game already functions beyond that distance. At least lengthen it to the point where the ACTUAL vanishing occurs, which is just around the very edges of a 32:9 monitor. 21:9 is arbitrary and not an actual cutoff.
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sdfesdfe wrote:

You can all shove your 32:9 monitors to an appropriate hole that I won't specify.
Performance be damned, it very clearly provides a gameplay advantage over anyone with an 16:9 display, which is most of the world. If you don't like the black bars play it windowed.

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sdfesdfe wrote:

You can all shove your 32:9 monitors to an appropriate hole that I won't specify.
Performance be damned, it very clearly provides a gameplay advantage over anyone with an 16:9 display, which is most of the world. If you don't like the black bars play it windowed.

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TheVilifi wrote:

Not purchasing any MTX or supporter packs until this is reverted.

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Echothesis wrote:

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Smooshfaced wrote:

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This isn't an answer, let me tell you why. There is a community fix that removes the black bars. Everything beyond the black bars is still being processed on the server end, sent to the client, and the client is still processing and rendering the boxes/monsters/effects behind the black bars. And yes, they are still there, they haven't "vanished".

This means that what they've done isn't going to "help" serialization at all, since the servers are still doing all of the work, and the clients are still receiving all of the information and then processing it. Clearly this isn't "the widest they can currently go", and this won't help serialization, because all they did was slap two black bars on the sides of the screen instead of actually changing the code to reduce what is being processed and transferred to the client.

They say they are looking to increase the distance, but the game already functions beyond that distance. At least lengthen it to the point where the ACTUAL vanishing occurs, which is just around the very edges of a 32:9 monitor. 21:9 is arbitrary and not an actual cutoff.
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If the game is capable of keeping updating actors at arbitrarily large distances up to the whole map, it does not mean devs like this situation, as it allows specific players to generate much more server and bandwidth load. Maybe behind those black bars they have actually simplified mob AI or something.

I would certainly love to be able to see in game far enough to prevent bad game design like Sirus jumping offscreen and sniping from there without any directional indicators, but these things are exactly what GGG "challenges" are about. Allow players to outmaneuver bloated instakill mechanics?? Never!

Unless half of the playerbase is sporting ultrawide monitors, the real reason behind this change likely was not server load, but prevention of players circumventing the designed difficulty. And for some reason still allowing projectile attacks to kill things 2 screens away, lol.