Widescreen Gaming Forum

I did some searching around the site and found mentions of comparison screenshots in BFH, however they were all removed because of NDA concerns.

The game is now open beta and available to the public, so has any progress been made for possibly adding BFH to the list of games for Widescreen Fixer?

I just recently discovered this program and was amazed at the results in BF2. Keep up the good work and I hope you guys can eventually throw BFH into the mix!

There is a thread there now of people who are just realizing they are getting screwed cuz they have widescreen lol. So the demand is definetly there.

http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=67839

Wouldn't the game detect the program? It is an online only game after all.

I haven't touched Battlefield Heroes in many months. It was entertaining while it was in "closed" beta when we would have actual funds to test things out with (and to look different for a change). But now that they stripped everyone of funds and reset everyone back to level 1, I never had the chance to really play around with it.

Since I have Win7 RC here, I can install the game and check it out for ya. I dunno how well I can do comparison screens. But I'll figure something out somehow.

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Okay, I got around to installing the game and giving a few runs. Screenshots were taken in 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1680x1050 resolutions. The smaller images were then overlaid with 80% opacity and scaled up to 1050 size height while maintaining the image's aspect ratio. I have done similar to BF2 and the 1.50 patch to test their widescreen implementation. So here's the resulting image:



Even prior to opening these images up for editing, I was able to confirm that BF Heroes is VERT- in handling widescreen, which is not too surprising given how DICE, as a developer, is lacking in sense. It should be noted that development for the game started quite a while before they even bother to consider widescreen. The game itself is based off of the same engine used in BF2/2142 and, as a result, widescreen was never implemented until much later in the game's life.

I would not count on DICE to consider implementing proper widescreen until after a year after its public availability (which was June 25, 2009). And given how they handle development resources, I don't expect people will get the update until Winter 2010. And by then I expect that they have some lame excuse in saying that they ran into issues which won't be out until April 2010.

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sixshot, I don't know how long ago you were in the beta, when I joined the closed beta nobodys level was reset and we didn't have any funds to use for free other than the Valor Points that are accumulated by playing/leveling...

And looking different isn't a reason to not play a game, mosts games have even fewer options to look different ;p

Whoever said it's an online game only and wouldn't it be detected...well Widescreen fixer works fine online with BF2 and it uses the same cheat protection (however I'm a hardware guy so I'm talking out my ass, I'm just assuming they are pretty much the same engine so it'll probably work)

I was able to confirm that BF Heroes is VERT- in handling widescreen, which is not too surprising given how DICE, as a developer, is lacking in sense. It should be noted that development for the game started quite a while before they even bother to consider widescreen. The game itself is based off of the same engine used in BF2/2142 and, as a result, widescreen was never implemented until much later in the game's life.

Battlefield Heroes is based on an older build of the BF2142 engine. The BF2142 engine is a modification of the BF2 engine. BF2 was available when widescreen was not popular at all, so widescreen wasn't a consideration. Over time they just updated an old engine and it didn't get widescreen support until recently. Since Heroes is on an older build, it doesn't have the changes merged over. I wouldn't say DICE is lacking in sense at all. It's just an old game engine.

I would not count on DICE to consider implementing proper widescreen until after a year after its public availability (which was June 25, 2009). And given how they handle development resources, I don't expect people will get the update until Winter 2010. And by then I expect that they have some lame excuse in saying that they ran into issues which won't be out until April 2010.

I imagine it's a different set of developers within DICE that are working on Heroes. They'd have to look over the changes between the engines and merge whatever it is between the two. Then they will have the QA period, which is the longest period of any patch, update, or whatever. QA is controlled by the publisher, and EA is known to have ridiculously long QA times. Chances are it won't get merged over for awhile. They are making a lot of money off of the micro-transactions, though, so they could probably dedicated more resources to it, but honestly there's more important things that need fixed at the moment.

sixshot, I don't know how long ago you were in the beta, when I joined the closed beta nobodys level was reset and we didn't have any funds to use for free other than the Valor Points that are accumulated by playing/leveling...

You agreed to and signed an NDA to participate in the beta. You are violating that NDA by mentioning this information. Keep that in mind for future beta tests that have NDAs.




I could probably update Widescreen Fixer to work with Heroes fairly easily, but at the moment there's just not much of a demand for it.

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I could probably update Widescreen Fixer to work with Heroes fairly easily, but at the moment there's just not much of a demand for it.

I suggest to never add support for BF Heroes. Let DICE/EA handle the widescreen support since it took 'em eons for them to actually implement support. The people will demand for it. But we'll see on how well they respond to such demand.

Even if Heroes is coded by a different coding team, how they are managing development resources is pretty terrible in my eyes. 14 months from start to finish for a mere patch.

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