Thank You developers. It’s great to see that You did take the work to read and separate logical valid arguments from uninformed nonsense that was flooding the thread(s) concerning this issue.
I really hope this solution (either black bars, or fog of war + locked cursor beyond16:9 ratio) is definitive and will stay there for the release.
This game does not work correctly with ultra wide aspect ratios, and never will, in multiplayer. And for single player, it would require a lot of work to make the monster aggro and skill ranges work correctly.
And no, ultra-wide is not the future, these are imo more suited for work, or very specialised games/software. More and more people are actually playing on 4k TVs, that are 16:9. And what about laptops ? They are always 16:9. Consoles ? Always 16:9…
Not to mention that a big 16:9 screen is actually more expensive than those ultra-wides, which often comes with VA panels that have horrible motion blur (hello, Samsung). So the ‘poor kiddies who cannot afford ultra wide’ argument is even bigger nonsense.