WW2:Time of Wrath

Skybird · 08-24-10, 05:59 PM

Finally, after fighting with a French shop for 6 weeks in vein, finally successfully disengaging from them and ordering in the US directly and seeing them delivering in just 8 days, I have gotten my copy of Danube 85 and had a first check. I like what I see, and the huge map which is very detailed, I recognised several details of places and city locations that I know.

If only these strategy game developer would not always consider it to be a virtue that there interfaces must be operated with a microscope. the menu and buttons are okay. But the font size and the counter symbols are a torture to the eyes. Nano-interfaces have spoiled quite a number of strategy games for me, and with Danube I again have the problem of a very microscopic display of written data and symbols of on-map-counters. Sitting with my nosetip 20 cm away from my 19" WS monitor at 1680x1050 gives me burning eyes and teardrops after short time, plus a pain in my backbone from sitting badly. Changing the screenresolution in the nVidia panel does not help - the game becomes more blurry, but fonts and symbols on counters, and hexfield size remain all as small as before in relative screen size - just that now it all is blurred, making it even more difficult to read. An ingame option does not exist, only three alternative map displays for different purposes, that do not help at all.

Always the same mess with these strategy developers. Always makíng fonts as small and unreadable and other stuff as much miniaturised as possible. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Else a good game. But its days already are counted, due to the pain and stress to the eyes. I don't bear it for long. Money lost.

It's really a plague in the strategy and cosim genre, I think.

08-24-10, 05:59 PM	#10
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,696 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Finally, after fighting with a French shop for 6 weeks in vein, finally successfully disengaging from them and ordering in the US directly and seeing them delivering in just 8 days, I have gotten my copy of Danube 85 and had a first check. I like what I see, and the huge map which is very detailed, I recognised several details of places and city locations that I know. If only these strategy game developer would not always consider it to be a virtue that there interfaces must be operated with a microscope. the menu and buttons are okay. But the font size and the counter symbols are a torture to the eyes. Nano-interfaces have spoiled quite a number of strategy games for me, and with Danube I again have the problem of a very microscopic display of written data and symbols of on-map-counters. Sitting with my nosetip 20 cm away from my 19" WS monitor at 1680x1050 gives me burning eyes and teardrops after short time, plus a pain in my backbone from sitting badly. Changing the screenresolution in the nVidia panel does not help - the game becomes more blurry, but fonts and symbols on counters, and hexfield size remain all as small as before in relative screen size - just that now it all is blurred, making it even more difficult to read. An ingame option does not exist, only three alternative map displays for different purposes, that do not help at all. Always the same mess with these strategy developers. Always makíng fonts as small and unreadable and other stuff as much miniaturised as possible. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Else a good game. But its days already are counted, due to the pain and stress to the eyes. I don't bear it for long. Money lost. It's really a plague in the strategy and cosim genre, I think. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.