Overwatch OFFICIAL RELEASE: Pillar-boxed - NO 21:9

[Razed]

Ultrawide support is coming mid to late July, confirmed by Jeff Kaplan earlier today.

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatc ... 6#post-309

[Haldi]

You beat me to it
Hope this also works for Eyefinity.

[kanuuna]

I just downloaded the latest PTR build which includes some of the features of the upcoming patch. Here are the results for ultrawide support.

21:9 resolution with 16:9 picked as aspect ratio. FOV 103.


21:9 resolution with 21:9 picked as aspect ratio. FOV 103.


Vert - (?)

Additional screenshots:





EDIT: Here's a comparison between a beta build with the hex edit vs the 21:9 option currently in PTR.

BETA with 21:9 Hex edit:



July patch PTR build with aspect ratio set to 21:9:



And here's a screenshot from Tracer's perspective from the Beta w/ Hex Edit (note the first person model):

[kanuuna]

Jeff Kaplan (Game Director on Overwatch) made a comment on the subject:

We do not plan to increase the max FOV beyond 103, in any resolution. As a result, this doesn't leave us with a lot of options for 21:9 support. I know this is not the answer our 21:9 players want to hear. But we feel like it would be unfair to 16:10 and 16:9 players if 21:9 gave a substantial FOV advantage.

An incredibly poor showing from Blizzard.

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20746784507?page=3#post-54

[Razed]

What a load of bullshit. They may as well cap the FPS at 60 while they're at it so no one with a 144hz monitor will have an advantage with smoother gameplay.

I'm willing to try an FoV hack if someone can make it. This is progress nonetheless but I think we can get to where we want.

[cbot]

Buy a 16:9 monitor, cover the top 1 inch of it with tape, bam you're playing 21:9.

Thanks Blizzard! Bunch of morons.

[ggouki]

That's a joke - we gotta at least see the same amount. Now we see less.

[tet5uo]

Blizzard really fails hard at supporting ultrawide. We fought with them for years to properly support it in WoW and they never cared.

This "support" they've added with vert- scaling is a friggin insult.

[ggouki]

Guess we need a FOV hack now.

[drfish]

Had someone login to their account on my system to see if 21:9 was any good and if I could finally buy Overwatch myself. It didn't look right so I came here to check/confirm. Ugh, I can't believe how sucky they are being about this. Of all the things to be sticklers about, a little FOV boost, really???

[DAOWAce]

Guess we need a FOV hack now.

So.. free weekend is here, now everyone can try it. I did, and I got nauseated halfway into the training mission and had hot flashes by the end of it. Attempted to play a bot game and I had to exit it by the end and felt absolutely terrible afterward to the point where I had to go lay down due to feeling like I was thrown in a tumbler.

Been any development on the 21:9 front (ie; fov fix) since this 'support' was implemented?

Spent the last few hours trying to search the internet for a way to modify the game to get into Hor+ either via a hex or memory edit, have come up dry and I'm not a coder or reverse engineer so it's a futile effort to try and guess myself.

Threads are still going on the official forum about this, and Blizzard are still silent.