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Bugs and Suggestions
I already tweeted these to @UbisoftSupport but I'm posting here as well (along with a few extras) to increase the likelihood that you'll see them...
- The new "right-click camera" feature does not play nice with the screen edges. Holding right-click to pan the camera and moving the mouse to the edge of the screen results in some very janky scrolling.
- Naming a save game incurs significant input lag.
- Rare visual artefacts at island edges.
- Some UI elements are positioned strangely. For example, the population count was always snapped to the top-right corner in the old game, but now it floats randomly in the middle of the screen. Similarly, the notification icons used to appear in the bottom-left, but now they are randomly in the middle of the notification bar.
I would also strongly agree with some of the other suggestions that have been mentioned on this forum, listed here along with a few of my own:
- Allow more than 3 levels of zoom. I understand that there are 3 image sizes and the current functionality maintains a pixel-perfect display of each of these images, but personally I think it would be a lot more beneficial to have a smooth zoom rather than fixed intervals, and allow some pixel-stretching. On a high resolution, even the maximum zoom level renders things quite small; it would be nice to be able to zoom in even closer.
- It would be nice if zooming with the mouse wheel zoomed towards / away from the cursor instead of zooming towards the centre of the screen.
- Smooth edge scrolling rather than the clunky interval-based scrolling used currently.
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Hey,
Thanks for your feedback and suggestions. I can forward these on the game team. Regarding any in-game issues you are having, please can you provide any video footage or screenshots that show them so we can forward those along with your descriptions to show the issues?
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Hi Froggard, thanks for your response.
I have included all of these bugs and suggestions in a video, which you can find here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mFk59M7iuo
Please note that one of the bugs mentioned - the visual garbage on the coastline - is also present in the original game, so it is not a bug with the History Edition.
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I found another bug today: in borderless fullscreen mode, screen scrolling using the screen edges is completely broken. It only works in fullscreen mode.
I got in touch with Ubisoft support on Twitter, apparently the developers are aware of this thread but since I posted this almost a year ago it doesn't look like anything is going to be done.
It seems to me like this was just a token re-release with minimal effort put into it. Almost all of the new functionality is buggy or downright unusable. It's such a shame as Anno 1602 is such a fantastic game. A remastered version is literally a dream come true for me but this just doesn't cut it.
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Another bug: when you click on the new music track ("History Suite") in the list to play it, it actually plays the main theme ("ANNO1602 Theme") instead.
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Another bug: when the new music track ("History Suite") is disabled, it still plays. This happened for me after I restarted the game.