Horizon Forbidden West Update Brings Good News for Ultrawide Gamers

If you’re enjoying Horizon Forbidden West, and I suspect you might be, it’s a pretty fantastic game that spectacularly builds upon the original, then you’ll be glad to see there’s a very tasty update for the game today, especially tasty if you play on an ultrawide format monitor.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition

While the new update for Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition contains various optimizations, bug fixes and stability improvements, as you might expect, it also comes with the ability to remap the TAB key, as well as the ability to move the HUD position. That last one is the most welcome, as ultrawide gamers like myself have noticed that the UI remained fixed in a 16:9 orientation, meaning it broke the immersion a little bit. Now you can move it out to the more extremes of the monitor, freeing up the viewable space in the middle.

Various other fixes see things like the custom difficulty settings now functioning correctly, and the visual corruption on waterfalls that was caused by the use of DLSS Frame Generation. The developer also added a note that “the teams at Nixxes and Guerrilla continue to closely monitor reports and are actively working on future patches with more bug fixes and optimizations.”

You can check out the full changelog below!

Release Notes

• Remapping TAB now works correctly.
• Added HUD Widescreen Scale options to the settings menu.
• Various optimizations and stability improvements.
• Custom difficulty settings now work correctly.
• Improved Shieldwing responsiveness when using mouse and keyboard controls.
• Fixed graphic corruption on waterfalls when using DLSS Frame Generation.
• Fixed lighting issues that could occur in Tenakth settlements.
• Master Vibration Intensity for DualSense controllers no longer resets with each game session.
• HDR settings have been moved to the display menu to allow live viewing of changes.
• The option to disable letterboxing in cinematics when using ultra-wide aspect ratios is now also available from the launcher.
• Fixed visual issues with save previews when HDR is enabled.
• Various minor UI fixes.

Where to Play

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition is available on Steam for £49.99.

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