What an extremely long wait. Am I wasting my time waiting for a patch that allows propper widescreen support and windowed mode? I heard it was on it's way but delayed so the asian patch can be released at the same time.
As it stands, the 1680x1050 resolution is simply stretched lengthways to fill the pixels, others of the widescreen format that I tried do the same thing, that isn't true widescreen support.
I'd already read from someone who said with a fair amount of certainty (tho I forget if it was this forum or AOH) that both options would be in 3.1 I'm just losing faith that there will ever be a 3.1.
You are probably right to state that it is artificial stretching, not true widescreen support.
In my case, my 19-inch monitor's native resolution is 1440 X 900, and the game looks great at that rez. The stretching is not that obvious, for me. But if I play at a lower rez, the game doesn't look as good.
You are possibly right concerning patch 3.1 : I haven't heard a lot about it.
I don't know why Ubisoft has delayed its release. It is perhaps because of a lack of financial resources. Nival Interactive's beta-patch 3.1 has to be tested and has to be produced for different editions of the game : that costs money.
I believe Ubisoft has moved on to other HM&M projects (Kingdoms & Heroes 6). Version 3.0 is quite playable as it is : they possibly don't see the financial interest in pouring more money into it. And there's a risk to avoid : if they release a premature, buggy patch 3.1, they risk hurting version 3.0's decent state (in single-player or hot-seat mode).
Those are my personal suppositions. I do not have any contact within Ubisoft.
