Widescreen - Player Vote

[ZeWaka]

Hi there everyone. I'm posting this for MBC who is not here at the moment but I really think this should be posted.This thread is to gauge player interest in adding a widescreen option. Widescreen has been requested by a lot of players ever since our server-wide toggle (Toggle-Widescreen-Station command) was made. It looks cool, and let's enable it for everyone!

Examples (open the image in a new tab for full size):

Game looks like this on a normal widescreen display : 


But what about players who still use 4:3 displays? Great! We can set the game/chat split horizontally, like so: 


We can also preserve the classic square view as an option, something like this:


Please vote on the poll + leave your thoughts!

[kremlin]

i voted yes. i think the benefits of having widescreen outweigh the drawbacks of "seeing too much", so to say

[NateTheSquid]

so do widescreen players see more than non-widescreen?

[Ed Venture]

Normal Display widescreen mode is my favorite. Extremely excited this has had some progress.

[Firebarrage]

We did a survey of screen sizes earlier. i believe we found that almost everyone is 1920x1080. Seeing as roughly everyone is using the same resolution - I see no reason why this would cause any major balance issues. So yes!

[Grek]

so do widescreen players see more than non-widescreen?

Same number of tiles, just bigger/wider. Which is fine by me.

[Vitatroll]

If it's already coded then it's best to just enable it and get feedback from direct experience. Don't get me wrong, a 'hey we talked about this' thread is needed, but it's hard to gauge the large scale effect on gameplay when it's theoretical.

I abstain, since the way I play leaves me in deadchat for 95% of the time.

[ZeWaka]

so do widescreen players see more than non-widescreen?

Same number of tiles, just bigger/wider. Which is fine by me.

actually, no.

Widescreen does see more tiles.

[mbc]

If it's already coded then it's best to just enable it and get feedback from direct experience. Don't get me wrong, a 'hey we talked about this' thread is needed, but it's hard to gauge the large scale effect on gameplay when it's theoretical.

Rudimentary example is coded, but we still need a better interface for selecting a display mode, possible auto-detection of screen size for new players, AND (the biggest one) is that all screen overlays (KO for example) are broken in widescreen and need to be re-centered or given a new image in wide format.
So it's not quite ready yet, but it's good to see support for this so far!

[Lady Birb]

With the ability to have the game/chat split horizontally, the main problem I saw people having (16:9 players having an advantage over 4:3 players) has been fixed. No reason not to make it an option.

[Ed Venture]

I rather have 16:9 over 4:3. 4:3 is what we have now and making that widescreen puts the chat in a odd spot that frankly looks awful and adds two distracting black bars.

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and you see less of the chat in 4:3 widescreen then we do currently in normal 4:3 which would be worse than what we currently have.

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and if you compare the screenshots showed they both show the same amount of tiles. Though in the 4:3 one he is one tile over than the 16:9 one

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I want true widescreen and really who does not have a TV or Monitor that does not support 16:9 at this point? Get with the times and stop trying to hold everyone who wants a better playing experience back.

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i voted yes. i think the benefits of having widescreen outweigh the drawbacks of "seeing too much", so to say

[Rocket]

Hooray, it's finally happening #MakeSS13Widescreen2017

[Salami Sam]

Would love for this to happen. A new era. Wide times.

[Haprenti]

so do widescreen players see more than non-widescreen?

Same number of tiles, just bigger/wider. Which is fine by me.

actually, no.

Widescreen does see more tiles.

So on my little screen I can be an antag, do antag things and have people see and report what I'm doing even though I can't see them simply for this reason, making it so I would have to be extra cautious when doing things ?

[Tom Clancy's Gay Ghost]

so do widescreen players see more than non-widescreen?

Same number of tiles, just bigger/wider. Which is fine by me.

actually, no.

Widescreen does see more tiles.

So on my little screen I can be an antag, do antag things and have people see and report what I'm doing even though I can't see them simply for this reason, making it so I would have to be extra cautious when doing things ?

Possibly, but the number of people playing on 4:3 screens is such a minority now. I'm sorry if you're stuck with one, but this would be a nice touch of modernisation.