These games were not developed by Activision, they were only published by them. I honestly wouldn't expect widescreen in either Armada game from GOG, since it is extremely unlikely that there is any kind of 'team up' between GOG and Activision. Even though the game code itself could probably handle it, the source assets in higher resolutions simply don't exist. Additionally, a large portion of the game is hard coded in 4:3 really low resolutions the main menu, load screens, all the cutscenes, etc cannot be changed to a widescreen format. So yeah this new official re-release is now the best hope for finally fixing this problem!!!Īfter the Armada community moved en masse into FleetOps or quit playing the game altogether, the necessity of a standalone patch for the vanilla game kind of evaporated, since almost no one was actually playing it.

After playing Armada 1 campaign in HD I really want to play Armada 2's campaign in HD and would rather do it in the original game if I can! I have Armada Fleet Ops which is great for multiplayer and I've even tried the Armada 2 Classic project and Upgrade project mods for Fleet Ops that puts the A2 campaign in there however I've seen people posting about various bugs/glitches and I couldn't get the intro video working either. I saw advice over on armada fleet command about editing the prf file to be 1920 1080 instead of 1280 960 but as soon as I started the game it reverts it back to default 800圆00 so that doesn't work. Seems so strange that the fan patch for Armada 1 upgrades the graphics options yet the Armada 2 one doesn't! I saw an old thread on the Fleet Ops forums about them making a separate patch that allowed modern resolutions in original armada 2 but the thread went dead years ago. I've been hunting through many forums for help on this issue and I can see a few posts here and there but no working solutions. When I used the 1.3.0 fan patch on Armada 1 I got all the lovely newer resolution options yet the popular Armada 2 1.2.5 fan patch doesn't seem to do that and I've been stuck with old smaller resolutions up to 1280x960.

I've tried for years to find a way to get Armada 2 to run just in simple HD 1920x1080 resolution. The big question is will you guys be modifying them to support modern resolutions? So excited to hear GoG and Activision are teaming up to finally re-release the Armada games!

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