I was just reading a graphics card review when I stumbled over this:
It seems like it extends your field of view by an enormous amount. How much do you think it would affect gameplay to be able to play like this? Would anyone allow this in offline tourneys ever? Anyhow if its an advantage I could see people using it in online tourneys.
One issue I can imagine this brings up tho is the way you probably have to flail your mousearm to be able to mouseover the whole screen area. You would probably need to ajust the vertical mouse speed down to be able to move the mouse accurately across the screens.
You can already expand your view on a normal screen using hacks (at least according to threads on TL). Adding extra screens seems an expensive way to do it...
As for allowing it on tournaments. It will get a no, it will be expensive for the organisers and the majority don't play that way.
i wouldn't be able to play vs good players with that resolution.. lol the mouse takes forever to get from one screen to another, highly doubt it's viable and it's really costly
On September 02 2010 00:23 YunhOLee wrote: i wouldn't be able to play vs good players with that resolution.. lol the mouse takes forever to get from one screen to another, highly doubt it's viable and it's really costly
I can't see this actually helping in any multiplayer. Will take too long to check the minimap and your mouse will take forever to get anywhere.
Would be badass for ez stuff like single player or w/e but in multiplayer I think it would hurt more than help. Pretty cool either way however!
On September 02 2010 00:23 YunhOLee wrote: i wouldn't be able to play vs good players with that resolution.. lol the mouse takes forever to get from one screen to another, highly doubt it's viable and it's really costly
You know at first I was thinking that this might be an advantage, but I think you are right. Scrolling left or right or even moving the cursor over to the minimap to click would be such a hassle. One would need to have the mouse sensitivity set to the absolute highest. Plus I would think it would make watching resource counts and the minimap more difficult too.
Would be sweet to play single player like this though...
On September 02 2010 00:28 TheToast wrote: Would be sweet to play single player like this though...
I did it... I have an eyefinity setup.
Despite the fact taht it cost a TON of money... (money isn't a problem in my case)... it's really not worth it for the MP part of SC... as well as it's SUPER laggy when playing MP with eyefinity (aka you get about 30-40 frames TOP)
Was fun for the singleplayer tho... had like 60-70 frames
My eyes would get so tired from using 3 screens... Also you would need a mouse where you can increase the horizontal dpi (I have one, but many people don't)
On September 02 2010 00:24 village_idiot wrote: I'm just saying that even widescreen is imbalanced
imbalanced is a poor choice of words, it implies that the ones to blame for the 'imbalance' is the ones with widescreen and not the player themselves who hasn't upgraded. i suppose it's 'imbalanced' to have a computer that can run this game without lagg too as opposed to those who can't.
On September 02 2010 00:44 Snippa- wrote: My eyes would get so tired from using 3 screens... Also you would need a mouse where you can increase the horizontal dpi (I have one, but many people don't)
i'm sure the people who would use eyefinity would have pretty decent mice.
On September 02 2010 00:24 village_idiot wrote: I'm just saying that even widescreen is imbalanced
imbalanced is a poor choice of words, it implies that the ones to blame for the 'imbalance' is the ones with widescreen and not the player themselves who hasn't upgraded. i suppose it's 'imbalanced' to have a computer that can run this game without lagg too as opposed to those who can't.
Chaining aspect ratio isn't an upgrade. 16: 9 are pretty much ridiculous for PC use. I have 4:3, and I still have space left on sides when I browse WWW, read anything (>90% of PC use easily). 4:3 would be better for RTS as well, why not have more balanced view?
On September 02 2010 00:44 Snippa- wrote: My eyes would get so tired from using 3 screens... Also you would need a mouse where you can increase the horizontal dpi (I have one, but many people don't)
i'm sure the people who would use eyefinity would have pretty decent mice.
from what i've heard of blizzard you can't use more than one screen in multiplayer cause of the edge you get. if i'm not wrong they said something about the game being optimized for 1680x1050 on the old beta forums or am i completely off here?
It would make starcraft too easy imo, using minimap would be pointless because you could position the camer so that you can see incoming forces and your mineral line at the same time. Pretty lame.
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