I play on an ultrawide monitor and I have better fov for that reason. If you are using external software could be a problem.
You could create a support ticket and ask but I'm nearly 100% sure it's not bannable. Desktop resolution is not an injection or altering game files in order to get higher FOV, it's just a resolution. If this was bannable then all of the players with wide monitors would be banned long time ago.
Also, as far as I know, the stretch resolution / wide monitors only increase X (horizontal) FOV, not the Y (vertical). So it's not as big advantage like cheaters have.
@capt-pilotes said in Is sterach resolution bannable?:
I play on an ultrawide monitor and I have better fov for that reason. If you are using external software could be a problem.
Ultrawide resolution doesnt give you an actual higher FOV cone, it only renders the extra screen space on the sides.
@tesiccl said
@mini-winn1 mod rule of thumb: if you have to ask, it’s likely not allowed.
It's not bannable in this example though.
@Mini Winn1
Editing your actual resolution is not bannable, nor do I see why it would be and on top of all that, how it would be enforced if it were.
Plenty of people play on stretch resolution, well ''plenty'' is an over-exaggeration, most don't some do.
If it was a bannable offence a few people would of gotten redbearded over it, yet I know some players that stream or have footage with stretch res that have been playing this way for months/years and nada...
Stretch res gives that extra FOV on the side but at the cost of the top down view, which is negligible considering Sea of Thieves lacks vertical gameplay elements with few exceptions.
In this aspect, I think Rare should take notes from Dead by Daylight.
DBD had the same issue. Players with certain window/monitor resolutions have an FOV advantage. In DBD's case, width fov was fixed, but height fov is variable by window/monitor resolution (i.e. opposite of SoT). Those who used extra "tall" window/monitor resolution had "stretched" resolution. They could look over walls - an obvious FoV advantage. But this hardware advantage was not bannable.
To level the playing field, DBD added black bars to block additional fov from non-standard window/monitor resolutions. This way, players with "stretch" resolutions would see black horizontal bars and no longer have any fov advantage.
To apply this in SoT: Players with "wide" resolution now have extra wide fov. Everyone has the same height fov. To level the playing field, Rare should add black vertical bars to the sides to block additional fov from non-standard window/monitor resolutions.
@veronik5682 forcing the game beyond its 90 fov limit is a violation of ToS and enforceable, but Rare will decide what action is taken on a case by case basis. My reply above was a light warning not to mess with settings that skirt the rules, hence why I suggested op not to do it.
@tesiccl said in Is sterach resolution bannable?:
@veronik5682 forcing the game beyond its 90 fov limit is a violation of ToS and enforceable, but Rare will decide what action is taken on a case by case basis. My reply above was a light warning not to mess with settings that skirt the rules, hence why I suggested op not to do it.
it's not touching nor manipulating game files. It's literally Nvidia control pannel settings and/or playing your game in windowed mode and literally stretching it sideways.
You know a basic function that is needed for multiple devices/screens to accommodate different resolution, this has nothing to do with FoV settings, its merely a by product of it affecting FoV indirectly.
You can't ban someone that wants to play SoT on a 400x400 pixel vs someone on 1080x1920. or someone that stretches a resolution to be 1440x1920.
That being said I think it's safe to assume they won't do anything about it. I have NEVER heard of a game banning players for playing on stretch res, ever.
Fornite didn't want it in their game when everyone was doing it, they didn't ban players for it because it's impossible to detect and it's also petty behavior to do so, just like how monitor crosshairs are, they merely found a work around.
And just as @RamboBrad mentioned, if people are playing on stretch because they have a wide monitor, are you going to tell those players not to? No, and how would you prove someone is playing stretch on a normal vs wide monitor if you do make that execption?
@veronik5682 that's also 1 of my concerns, bc there are a lot of players that like to play on old-school monitors that are 1080x1080 or playing on like 3 monitors or even playing on cinema projectors, That's why I'm asking if we have the freedom to create our own environment and a way to play how we want, or is it prohibited
@mini-winn1 you’ve said you want to enable a setting that gives you a better fov, by definition that’s editing something that gives you an advantage and therefore against ToS. As I said in my original reply, if you have to ask if it’s bannable, avoid doing it and risking your account. Just a friendly warning but if you ignore it, I don’t care.
@tesiccl
"Hi, I've been curious if resizing your monitor in n-vidia control panel to 1980 x 800 is bannable is SOT"
"(it's Not a Fov cheat or file editing cheat either)"
"It's not a file change, so is it against Tos?"
"n-vidia control panel" is not a "setting" XD
And wdm "I don’t care." u literally care enough to respond in 2 minutes
i saw on youtube that it gives u a better fov.
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