If You Need An Excuse To Dive Back Into The Lord Of The Rings Online, It Finally Looks Good On Modern Monitors

If You Need An Excuse To Dive Back Into The Lord Of The Rings Online, It Finally Looks Good On Modern Monitors

From TheGamer (Written by James Lucas) on | OpenCritic

The Lord of the Rings Online celebrates its 19th anniversary this year, but if you've tried to dip your toes back into it recently, you might've noticed that it doesn't look great.

It's an old MMO, so, of course, it's visually dated, but the UI would also warp and stretch, or look fuzzy on modern monitors, which some players went as far as to say made it "impossible to play".

Text so tiny that you have to squint to read it is hardly ideal, but the only solution up until now was to lower the game's resolution and thus make everything else look blurry. Thankfully, Standing Stone Games is finally addressing this issue.

"Update 46.1 includes the addition of a new User Interface Scaling feature to the game," the patch notes read. "Access these new settings in the 'UI Settings' tab of the Options menu. Scaling is currently supported for the cursor, more than fifty individual UI elements, and a Global UI setting. Additionally many full screen UI elements have been updated to support wide screen displays without stretching, including the Login Screen, Character Creation and Selection, Loading Screens, and the Map Window. The MAP UI can also now...

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