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-MD- · Jun 23, 2015

According to The Assignment's director. Casual mode is supposed to be easier than before as well.

AgentOtaku said:
It's now a toggle in the options!

Everyone that cried about letterboxing can play 2014's best game in full screen!

Wario64 · Jun 23, 2015

Would that affect framerate

Crimsonclaw111 · Jun 23, 2015

A little late for that... How does it affect the framerate?

Hasney · Jun 23, 2015

Crimsonclaw111 said:
A little late for that... How does it affect the framerate?

If it's an improvement, it's never too late.

WrenchNinja · Jun 23, 2015

Now you're able to see the guys at the bottom of the ladder

Enter the Dragon Punch · Jun 23, 2015

Well, I was incorrect.

-MD- · Jun 23, 2015

Enter the Dragon Punch said:
Game still renders behind the black bars. It was purely aesthetic

Performance takes a hit by disabling letterboxing on PC.

Wheresmycoffee · Jun 23, 2015

Is it out now? Because if it is, I can finally continue where I left off. That game is balls hard in all the wrong ways.

Hahs · Jun 23, 2015

Frame rate - they removed the bars, so now we're going to bring up frame rate!? Yeezus!

Enter the Dragon Punch · Jun 23, 2015

-MD- said:
Performance takes a hit by disabling letterboxing on PC.

Magic of shitty optimization

W.S. · Jun 23, 2015

Doesn't it basically just zoom in?

Hugstable · Jun 23, 2015

I hope it doesn't hurt the performance more than it already was. It stablizes as you get further into the game, but the framerate in Ch2 and 3 especially for PS4 version is embarrassing

RedAssedApe · Jun 23, 2015

cool but lame.

-MD- · Jun 23, 2015

henhowc said:
cool but lame.

Lame how? I imagine they'll give you the option to keep it enabled.

W.S. said:
Doesn't it basically just zoom in?

I don't know what you're asking.

takoyaki · Jun 23, 2015

Better late than never. Will give the game another shot now, really hated those black bars.

Bishop89 · Jun 23, 2015

This is good. It was totally unplayable for me due to not being able to see shit. I only got like a couple chapters in at launch then put it back in my backlog.

Crimsonclaw111 · Jun 23, 2015

Hahs said:
Frame rate - they removed the bars, so now we're going to bring up frame rate!? Yeezus!

Well the game runs like shit on consoles and ran worse with bars disabled on PC so... Yea.

Flame Lord · Jun 23, 2015

Is it an option? I just got done playing it for like two hours after DL'ing the update and didn't notice a difference....

Yep, it's there. Funny, I always kinda didn't mind them, and it wasn't until today I was like "This shit is annoying." Maybe it'll make the rest of my Akumu run a little easier.... Maybe.

Hubble · Jun 23, 2015

DX12 came through

Bodom78 · Jun 23, 2015

Nice, I plan to play though it again eventually for some achievements so this is good to me. Loved the game despite its issues.

Drencrom · Jun 23, 2015

Enter the Dragon Punch said:
Game still renders behind the black bars. It was purely aesthetic

That can't be true. That would be insane and incredibly dumb... taking away pixels without minimizing workload and improving performance.

HomerSimpson-Man · Jun 23, 2015

Awesome!

Game is still in my backlog, I only put in a couple of chapters since I got it for Black Friday.

RedAssedApe · Jun 23, 2015

-MD- said:
Lame how? I imagine they'll give you the option to keep it enabled.

I don't know what you're asking.

lame that it took so long when most of us have long beat this game.

shmoglish · Jun 23, 2015

That's one of the smaller Problems of the game, nut still a Good decision.

W.S. · Jun 23, 2015

-MD- said:
Lame how? I imagine they'll give you the option to keep it enabled.

I don't know what you're asking.

The letterboxing, I read that for the PC version the "removal" was handled by just zooming into the main area until the letterbox disappeared or something along those lines.

Air Zombie Meat · Jun 23, 2015

Maybe it was to soften the blow of yet another 4.5 gig patch.

Touch fuzZy. get BizZay · Jun 23, 2015

Still on the backlog, good news

EDIT: keep 'em coming, I guess?

AgentOtaku · Jun 23, 2015

um, I JUST played this to see what was different about the patch and did NOT see this....

double checking now tho, so hold on

EDIT:

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, IT'S TRUE!

It's now a toggle in the options!

brickarts295 · Jun 23, 2015

Mights give it a 2nd playthrough now.

HomerSimpson-Man · Jun 23, 2015

W.S. said:
The letterboxing, I read that for the PC version the "removal" was handled by just zooming into the main area until the letterbox disappeared or something along those lines

Really? Lame.

Teeth · Jun 23, 2015

Enter the Dragon Punch said:
Game still renders behind the black bars. It was purely aesthetic

You got a source for that boss?

Because all signs point to that not being true.

The Praiseworthy · Jun 23, 2015

Yesss!!

Now I can finally replay the game again.... Shouldn't be there in the first place.

malfcn · Jun 23, 2015

Let it be toggled? I got used to it, but I am sure it plays a lot different without the black bars.

Erevador · Jun 23, 2015

Started the game, was really enjoying it, but not a huge fan of the black bars. Didn't finish it because I got busy with other things, but want to get back to it.

Look forward to playing the rest of the game sans bars.

Mechazawa · Jun 23, 2015

W.S. said:
The letterboxing, I read that for the PC version the "removal" was handled by just zooming into the main area until the letterbox disappeared or something along those lines

This is false. On PC, you even get a little animation showing the black bars go away, revealing more of the screen.

-MD- · Jun 23, 2015

W.S. said:
The letterboxing, I read that for the PC version the "removal" was handled by just zooming into the main area until the letterbox disappeared or something along those lines.

HomerSimpson-Man said:
Really? Lame.

This isn't true.

AcceptableGhost · Jun 23, 2015

W.S. said:
The letterboxing, I read that for the PC version the "removal" was handled by just zooming into the main area until the letterbox disappeared or something along those lines

No, that was if you removed the letterboxing via the command line at launch. They eventually added a real deal solution option later. It will letterbox during cutscenes but other then that it is full resolution.

ResidentDante · Jun 23, 2015

Enter the Dragon Punch said:
Game still renders behind the black bars. It was purely aesthetic

Got a source for that? Because that sounds really stupid and pointless.

Enter the Dragon Punch · Jun 23, 2015

Teeth said:
You got a source for that boss?

Because all signs point to that not being true.

Drencrom said:
That can't be true. That would be insane and incredibly dumb... taking away pixels without minimizing workload and improving performance.

Never mind me, I'm an idiot.

C.Dark.DN · Jun 23, 2015

Meh, you get used to the black bars, it's fine. Options are always good tho.

W.S. · Jun 23, 2015

Mechazawa said:
This is false. On PC, you even get a little animation showing the black bars go away, revealing more of the screen.

-MD- said:
This isn't true.

That's good to hear then.

ss_lemonade · Jun 23, 2015

W.S. said:
The letterboxing, I read that for the PC version the "removal" was handled by just zooming into the main area until the letterbox disappeared or something along those lines.

Wouldn't that severely crop the sides? I believe the pc hack was an actual remove-the-black-bars fix that hurt framerates

lovely ladies · Jun 23, 2015

It's live now, 4.646 GBs.

the_batman · Jun 23, 2015

Excelsior!

HomerSimpson-Man · Jun 23, 2015

-MD- said:
This isn't true.

IcedLizardGames said:
No, that was if you removed the letterbox via the command line at launch. They eventually added a real deal solution option later. It will letterbox during cutscenes but other then that it is full resolution.

Ok, that's good to hear.

The letterboxing wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so wide and actually was properly framed to take advantage of the wider viewing angle, but it didn't, they added black borders after the fact.

jond76 · Jun 23, 2015

The patch doesn't force this, does it? I'm fond of the letterboxing.

komorebi · Jun 23, 2015

This game is phenomenal, I finished it the other night on PC. Nice to see the consoles still getting attention after all this time. Lots of devs could learn from this (i.e. actually supporting their product).

Flame Lord · Jun 23, 2015

jond76 said:
The patch doesn't force this, does it? I'm fond of the letterboxing.

No.

Drencrom · Jun 23, 2015

AgentOtaku said:
um, I JUST played this to see what was different about the patch and did NOT see this....

double checking now tho, so hold on

EDIT:

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, IT'S TRUE!

It's now a toggle in the options!

Huh, how does this affect performance? Did they improve it with the update too?

-MD- · Jun 23, 2015

AgentOtaku said:
HOLY FUCKING SHIT, IT'S TRUE!

How's performance?

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