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BG2:EE New Default High Resolution View - Yay or Nay?

ghostowlghostowl Member Posts: 171
edited September 2013 in Archive (General Discussion)
Looking at the screenshots of BG2:EE they've given us, it looks like high resolution 1080p. Honestly I really dislike it and I've already heard of a lot of people who also said they disliked it. I'm assuming it might be the new default view because it was like that for all the screenshots.

With that being said, would you want that high resolution view as default OR would you like an option to choose in the menu / new game start with the regular widescreen view as the default?
  1. BG2:EE New Default Zoomed-Out View - Yay or Nay?40 votes
    1. I want the new default (zoomed out) view
      45.00%
    2. I want the option to choose between a default zoomed out and a default normal widescreen view
      55.00%
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  • O_BruceO_Bruce Member Posts: 2,790
    I don't care about default zoom. Zoom in/out feature is still present, so I'll adjust it to my liking anyway.

    @Kaeloree
    I wonder why is that. I don't think it was good idea to present an RPG game in a way it looked like an RTS.
  • ghostowlghostowl Member Posts: 171
    Kaeloree said:

    @ghostowl They're not zoomed out any further than usual, the screenshots are just taken at high-resolution. :)

    Thanks, I edited my post.

  • Awong124Awong124 Member Posts: 2,642
    ZelgadisGW said:

    I don't care about default zoom. Zoom in/out feature is still present, so I'll adjust it to my liking anyway.

    Every time you move to a new area, you'd have to readjust it. The game doesn't keep your zoom setting, it reverts back to a default every time you go to a new map (at least in BGEE).

    But if those screenshots are just really hi-res, then it's not really an issue.
  • O_BruceO_Bruce Member Posts: 2,790
    Awong124 said:


    Every time you move to a new area, you'd have to readjust it. The game doesn't keep your zoom setting, it reverts back to a default every time you go to a new map (at least in BGEE).

    We must have played different versions of BG:EE then. The game actually keeps my zoom setting.
  • LiamEslerLiamEsler Member Posts: 1,859
    @Awong124 That issue was fixed a couple of patches ago, I believe.
  • Awong124Awong124 Member Posts: 2,642
    Oh is it? Ok, I'll have to try it when I get the chance. I generally find the normal zoom setting to be ok, but I would prefer it just a little closer. But when I found that I had to readjust it in every new map I just didn't bother.
  • FinneousPJFinneousPJ Member Posts: 6,455
    This thread is pointless without pics :/
  • DeeDee Member Posts: 10,447
    @Kaeloree said what I was going to say (on both counts). We wanted to show off some of the new areas, and some of the remastering of old areas as well. In the game itself the default zoom level will be the same as it is in BGEE.
  • elminsterelminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,317
    edited September 2013
    FinneousPJ said:

    This thread is pointless without pics :/

    Screenshots are available in the spoiler tag. If you want to see the screenshots at a larger size then you'll have to go to the website at www.baldursgateii.com


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  • ghostowlghostowl Member Posts: 171
    Dee said:

    @Kaeloree said what I was going to say (on both counts). We wanted to show off some of the new areas, and some of the remastering of old areas as well. In the game itself the default zoom level will be the same as it is in BGEE.

    omg I love you..that made it much more clear. Great news !

  • karnor00karnor00 Member Posts: 680
    So who can recognise where all those screenshots come from?

    I have:


    1: Temple of Lathander in Amn
    2: Temple of Talos in Amn
    3: Top of Watchers Keep
    4: Machine of Lum the Mad in Watchers Keep
    5: Demogorgon room in Watchers Keep
    6: Underdark (approaching the Svirfneblin town)
    7: Underdark (mind flayer area)
    8: Planar Sphere (the hot room)
    9: Umar Hills (the dryad area)
    10: ???
    11: ???
    12: ToB area where you meet the witch (who brought up the Yaga-Shura)
    13: Balthazar's room
    14: ???
    15: Dark Elf City in the Underdark
    16: Planar Prison (where you rescue Haer'Dalis
    17: Spellhold
    18: ??? Reminds me of an area in BG1 where there are a bunch of trolls (or is it spiders)
    19: Sahaugin City
    20: Saradush
  • elminsterelminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,317
    edited September 2013
    @Karnor00 You are right about 18. Its the troll mound in the "druid grove" map. Only its in BG2. Ohh and 14 is Abazigal's lair from ToB.
  • GaveGave Member Posts: 66
    I think they just wanted neat looking screenshots, and whole area shots look mostly better. At least more contentful.

    Lots of people use laptops with sub 1080p resolutions, so scaling back will have to be an option to reach a larger audience.
  • MathmickMathmick Member Posts: 326
    In all honesty, if they gave us the option to zoom out even further I probably would.
  • Aasimar069Aasimar069 Member Posts: 803
    edited September 2013
    @Dee
    @Kaeloree

    By the way, can you please add all the toggle options (widescreen / normal dezoomed view, ...) to the option menu in the game ?

    Also, can you please add all the important options from Baldur.ini to the option menu ?

    Yes I mean the pathnodes, IA updates / sec, Console toggle, ..., and all those infamous options that should be directly available in an option menu in 2013.

    It's a shame, on an enhanced edition, that we still have to open Baldur.ini to make our own changes.

    Thanks very much.
  • FinneousPJFinneousPJ Member Posts: 6,455
    elminster said:

    FinneousPJ said:

    This thread is pointless without pics :/

    Screenshots are available in the spoiler tag. If you want to see the screenshots at a larger size then you'll have to go to the website at www.baldursgateii.com


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    Thanks. Wow, looks beautiful!
  • karl_maulderkarl_maulder Member Posts: 133
    Is it even possible to play BG:EE using a higher res. then 1024x768 or is it exclusive to BG2:EE?(My windows res is 1920x1080, but BG:EE doesn't adjust ingame)
  • FinneousPJFinneousPJ Member Posts: 6,455
    My BG:EE automatically runs at 1920 x 1200 as it should. Are you sure yours doesn't scale properly?
  • karl_maulderkarl_maulder Member Posts: 133
    @FinneousPJ i'm pretty confident i doesn't as playing in windowmode(1024x768) is definitely way more zoomed out compared to playing in fullscreenmode. The sprites should be tiny(or small) when playing in high res?
  • FinneousPJFinneousPJ Member Posts: 6,455
    @karl_maulder here's what my game looks like.
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  • karl_maulderkarl_maulder Member Posts: 133
    @FinneousPJ same as mine. Still, i though HD res. would be more zoomed out, a little more akin to vanilla BG using the unsupported res.
  • FinneousPJFinneousPJ Member Posts: 6,455
    @karl_maulder Yeah, not necessarily.
  • SouthpawSouthpaw Member Posts: 2,026
    Mathmick said:

    In all honesty, if they gave us the option to zoom out even further I probably would.

    I actually play BGEE in windowed mode, because when it gets maximized on my 22" monitor to resolution about 1920x1050, zoomed out - it just looks awful. Still better than BG1/BGTutu though. So I am looking forward to HD BG2EE.

  • TorinTorin Member Posts: 229
    Those screenshots look very nice. Is this coming for BGEE in some patch or is it BG2EE exclusive?
    Because those might make BG2EE worth getting if they are exclusive :)
  • DeeDee Member Posts: 10,447
    Torin said:

    Those screenshots look very nice. Is this coming for BGEE in some patch or is it BG2EE exclusive?
    Because those might make BG2EE worth getting if they are exclusive :)

    The brown GUI skin is exclusive to BG2EE, yes.

    We're backporting a lot of the enhancements to BGEE (the more efficient bottom bar of the UI, for example), but as for the skin itself, that's a BG2EE feature.
  • ghostowlghostowl Member Posts: 171
    FinneousPJ said:

    My BG:EE automatically runs at 1920 x 1200 as it should. Are you sure yours doesn't scale properly?

    I was just confused about based on speculating on the pictures
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