Reticle request due to motion sickness/headache

  • I had been so excited to finally, finally play Sea of Thieves. I bought it on sale on Steam, couldn't wait to play with my twin (who also bought it from the sale). So I finally picked my pirate and was starting the tutorial...and began to realize I was getting a headache, feeling a bit queasy, and I hadn't even left the beach. It struck me rather quickly the problem: there is no reticle! It has been years since I played another game, 'The Witness', but I remembered I had encountered the exact same issue there, and it was a lack of reticle that caused me to get sick while playing it (it was before they patched one in I think). Other first person PoV games I have no issues swinging the camera around wildly (to a point where it can make other people motion sick), but a lack of reticle is my personal achilles heel when it comes to motion sickness.

    I was trying to research this, and saw it may be an old topic around here. I sent in a support ticket and they told me to post here instead. I'm guessing this is a lost cause (since I can't rely on third party software since that would be against ToS), but I figured I might try one last ditch attempt to plea here for the option to be added for even just a dot in the middle of the screen, otherwise my twin and I will have to refund our games.

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  • It's probably the FoV rather than the lack of crosshair. You can try raising your FOV to the max, but SoT is well known for having a very claustrophobic FoV even when you raise it to its max (still significantly lower than the default in most first person PC games)

    Low FoV causing motion sickness is pretty common. If it's any consolation it does subside somewhat eventually. Rare devs don't really care about this accessibility issue and have firmly stated they won't increase the FoV.

  • @moogbeard I had raised the FoV to max as well, but I def did see what you mean about it still feeling claustrophobic. Having both a reticle and increased FoV would probably do wonders, but breaks my heart to hear that they won't budge on this feature...

  • Piece of tape with a cross or dot on your screen.

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