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.
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.