Diablo 2: Resurrected Won't Include True Ultrawide Support Because It Breaks The Game

I have an ultrawide and I get their point. Ultra wide probably would have required a complete remake, and that's not what people want because the point of this was to provide the classic D2 gameplay w/ an updated HD format. Too much effort for a smaller part of the market.

They could just add in a fog of war beyond a certain view distance of resolutions that weren't expected or would give an unfair adavntage/break the game. So that way even though you can see that section of the world, you can't see any monsters there

I'm sure that the 2 days it would have taken them to fix it would have financially crippled this small indie company.

Lazy... Simple

That's what happens when you make a Remaster instead of a Remake for such an old game, simply to make a quick buck. With a proper Remake they could have added from the get go a ton of cool stuff, while keeping the essential parts of the original intact.

And don't get me started on Blizz ignoring/refusing to add important QOL changes to the game, things that were only available in the original on private servers or by using maphacks... Nothing game breaking, but stuff that makes your time with the game much more enjoyable, like:

- Item sorting, hiding and coloring by properties

- full map reveal (makes farming a LOT easier), show enemies on map. They can tie those up to finishing an area completely first, or finishing the game on Hell (be Patriach/Matriarch) but they're well worth adding in the game as an option at least.

- increased personal inventory from the measly 40 boxes to 60 or 80

- 10x increased experience until level 70, 5x 70-90, and normal experience after level 90, so you can level up faster even if you're playing solo, and start farming for good items which is much more important for a new character

- adding all potions at the respective vendors instead of forcing you to rely on Minor potions throughout act 1 on Normal, or occupy precious inventory space with Regeneration potions because they were not available to buy from vendors even on Hell.

- increased stack sizes for Tomes (still 20 pages in D2R, really??), Keys, Arrows, Bolts, Throwables (Javelins, Axes, Daggers) to prevent running out of them in the middle of an act and going to town needlessly

- runes downgrade formula for the cube

- socketing Superior items in the cube, so you at least have a chance of obtaining less than the max number of sockets on them.

And lots of other small but very useful goodies (i.e. opening a portal and automatically passing through it by only using the Space key... maybe not as important as the above but damn if you don't miss it when you got used to it)

I play on an ultra wide monitor during the beta and the last beta and It played okay as I just want to play and I do not get too mixed up with the small stuff. The only small annoyance I am not happy about is Lan to Lan play which is not part of it as that is how me and my son played together. However no sweat I will play SP anyway because one thing that still exists from the original. Players sit in the lobby begging and not playing the game which was an turn off.

Keep going, keep going.... little details here and there that are crap... and not that much little.

Cool with vignette, as at least its not black bar. Hope for some cool artwork and maybe lore description for those having the settings.

No ultra wide support, but allegations are bundled in for free.

"We’re aware that removing this feature adds a large hurdle for talented multiplayer modders in our community,"

Bet you TCP/IP support is going to be one of the first mods released.

The black bars are just a lazy method of doing this. Why not allow us to have menus like inventory and character stats go over the bars instead of being lazy? Oh wait, they're so lazy that when you're in fullscreen, it's actually just a borderless window and you're forced to run the game at your desktop resolution, and the only option is to do a percentage scale based on that. Why not let someone with a 4k screen run `1440p or 1080p to get a better framerate? Laziness all around.

Of course Blizzard won't support Ultrawide, still. They're the kings of refusing support because "it's cheating!!" when all other companies provide it, even in their competitive games.

Diablo 3 didn't officially support it (worked in borderless), Starcraft 2 had it disabled early on, Overwatch had it disabled for launch, SC remastered doesn't support it despite supporting widescreen like D2 remastered, Hearthstone doesn't matter.

World of Warcraft, Warcraft 3 updated (before reforged), and Heroes of the Storm (same engine as SC2) all support Ultrawide just fine. WoW even supports 32:9 and multi-mon.

I don't know what's wrong with their different game leads, but the ones that refuse to support arbitrary resolutions continue to show how ignorant they are. Maybe in this case they have a legitimate technical reason for it and they're at least supporting wider-than-16:9 to a point, but they could y'know, improve how the game functions since they have access to the source code.

But oh well, I have no plans to buy it anyway.

Overwatch 2 will probably go the same route as Overwatch 1 with Kaplan's "21:9 is cheating!!" wall. Not that they'll have anywhere near the same audience with how awful the company's become. I still regret buying it.

Suppose I'm glad I didn't jump to a 32:9 monitor by now.. god forbid being in that speck of a %.

Yet another winner for BLizzard lol. Looking forward to the OW2 flop train

It shouldn't matter, because realistically people shouldn't be buying their products anymore.

They sure keep going back on a lot of promises. I mean, not big surprise but it's still disheartening how far they went to sell this as the ultimate true-to-the-original remaster that even let you load your OG saves and log in with your b.net account to find your characters there and now it's just slowly being chiseled away the closer to release it gets.

I wonder how many presales the game made on those features that are now gone. I do know at least one person who was excited for it due to 21:9 support being that he's apparently a hammerhead shark or something, who won't be happy to hear this. The reasoning for WHY isn't as bad as their removal of other features being that I have played modded Diablo 2 a fair bit and if they're keeping the underlaying AI and systems intact, it IS true that enemies off the normal screen area don't recognize they're being attacked but THAT begs the question as to how little they understood their own game when that's been a known issue with it for decades.