Widescreen 2: The Electric Boogaloo

[567Turtle]

About the pull request

All the features of Widescreen 1, but functional!

Explain why it's good for the game

Widescreen (and diagonal movement but that's another can of beans) are necessary features that most other codebases have already implemented. I'm a subscriber to the ideology that modernization of SS13 is a good thing, instead of staying stuck in the past.

I believe a change such as this will have very little effect to the balance of the game, as scopes and bug range has been changed accordingly. It WILL however make the game easier to get into for new players, as well as making the game just easier to look at overall as the screen will no longer be 50% text box.

Screenshots & Videos

this is my minecraft skin btw what do you guys think

datumised view refactor courtesy of tgstation/TerraGov-Marine-Corps#6748

Changelog

🆑 TiviPlus, HarryOB, 567Turtle
add: Widescreen preference :)
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[Vicacrov]

The "Hive Strengthening..." message is no longer centralised, not sure I should be reporting it here or as an issue report to be fixed later.

[Reisyns]

Jarring as fuck to play with and the reasoning of it being so that 50% of your screen isn't taken up by a text box is invalid as you can just change the size of the right window at the same time as centring your screen more. Just because you want to modernize something doesn't mean it'll be a better change, some things don't need to be changed. But some people don't get that.

[sl0w3st]

Isn't text box very vital part of the game that you need to take your attention to?

Also, what about users with different monitor sizes?

[Tsurupeta]

If you have square monitor, the already small textbox will become even smaller.

[sl0w3st]

It looks like NVG users got free x2 scope and globber boiler has bigger risks when bombarding to east or west directions

[sl0w3st]

You can't point at things nor zoom your screen as observer

[sl0w3st]

GL spec and anyone wielding M79 got straight buffed with this thing

[GrrrKitten]

Im crashing a lot from this when I use it with fullscreen mode. I have fullscreen mode enabled by default but I still have to unfullscreen and re-fullscreen pretty much everytime I get in. clearing cache and the usual crash fixers has not been helpful

[Mister-moon1]

Issue regarding the viewport automatically resetting regardless of if you have it set to manual

[567Turtle]

[GrrrKitten]

it took me two rounds for it to feel pretty natural, I think the balance impacts of it would have even'd out over time. even though I am still not stold on widescreen for CM, I think this is giving up kinda early on the instant negative reaction that all PR's that change anything get.

Especially when things like dropoff can be adjusted.

(also if youre truly giving up on this pls let us get psuedo-widescreen via moving the hud to the right side/bottom of the viewport here xooxooxoxo
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[koltoast]

If you make it available only to observers it should be fine.

[Steelpoint]

A shame, I liked it.