widescreen resolution removed from the game.

I come back after a year or so and find this? What the heck!

Day 320

Fix it

Yes, well explained. No, it did not work 'perfectly' before.

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Community_Team wrote:

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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No, it did not work 'perfectly' before.

Yeah, me and every other 32:9 user in this thread is just lying for no reason. Sounds about right.

lolllll

They may have had back end technical problems, but there were no user facing problems with UW support. If there were problems on the backend, they should fix them, not brick the experience for users.

If they want to adjust game balance to remove any advantages from UW screens, there are several acceptable ways they could do that. Black bars is not one of them.

Fix it.

they could always add a pretty border:



Maybe GGG will add one with poe 2

Edit: border from the epic devourer thread (https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/898193/page/5)

Day 321

Fix it

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tackle70 wrote:

If they want to adjust game balance to remove any advantages from UW screens, there are several acceptable ways they could do that. Black bars is not one of them.

Fix it.

Can you please list them and add them to the OP?

This thread is borderline spam at this point.

1) Fog of war instead of black bars for areas outside 21:9
2) Fix mob aggro range / AI so enemies engage you if they are onscreen regardless of aspect ratio
3) Remove ultrawide support support only for competitive events (PVP, races, etc), restore it for the rest of the game
4) Allow greater range of zoom so 16:9 and 21:9 players are not disadvantaged vs wider aspect ratios

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tackle70 wrote:

1) Fog of war instead of black bars for areas outside 21:9
2) Fix mob aggro range / AI so enemies engage you if they are onscreen regardless of aspect ratio
3) Remove ultrawide support support only for competitive events (PVP, races, etc), restore it for the rest of the game
4) Allow greater range of zoom so 16:9 and 21:9 players are not disadvantaged vs wider aspect ratios

not that I agree with any of these, but i just realized you are bumping not your thread so you cant even add it to the OP..... what a fkn mess

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AintCare wrote:

what a mess

Yup, when GGG breaks a decade-old feature that worked perfectly for no good reason, a mess is all that remains.