Higher FOV Options Needed

@xultanis-dragon said in Higher FOV Options Needed:

@DonkeyKroc

The FoV is in place so that players don't have an unnatural view on their screen.

Having an FoV of 100 or even greater warps the view so that you can see more around your peripheral.

I don't think changing your FoV will change your motion sickness anyways though.

How is above 90 unnatural? Very few FPS games have 90 as a max. CS:GO 16:9 FOV is 106, PUBG is 103.

90 is incredibly zoomed in for a game set on boats, so of course a higher FOV would help, as the motions are less violent. I'm not the only person who's complained about this - check the subreddit or this forum.

I would also rather play on 103 FoV if I could. It's not a big advantage it just looks and feels better. Why does everything has to be about Xbox?

@pomalotacusmk3 said in Higher FOV Options Needed:

"I want a higher FOV. If the Xbox cant handle it, they can just opt-out"

What about the Xbox players that dont opt-out? I guess you just get another advantage, right?

If you're trying to play the game fairly seriously, you'll look at options, and thus will opt out or use KB/M so it's more even. If you're not trying to do that, who cares if you get rolled sometimes?

@donkeykroc said in Higher FOV Options Needed:

@pomalotacusmk3 said in Higher FOV Options Needed:

"I want a higher FOV. If the Xbox cant handle it, they can just opt-out"

What about the Xbox players that dont opt-out? I guess you just get another advantage, right?

If you're trying to play the game fairly seriously, you'll look at options, and thus will opt out or use KB/M so it's more even. If you're not trying to do that, who cares if you get rolled sometimes?

Just want to point out that there is no Opt-out option yet.

@captain-coel said in Higher FOV Options Needed:

@donkeykroc said in Higher FOV Options Needed:

@pomalotacusmk3 said in Higher FOV Options Needed:

"I want a higher FOV. If the Xbox cant handle it, they can just opt-out"

What about the Xbox players that dont opt-out? I guess you just get another advantage, right?

If you're trying to play the game fairly seriously, you'll look at options, and thus will opt out or use KB/M so it's more even. If you're not trying to do that, who cares if you get rolled sometimes?

Just want to point out that there is no Opt-out option yet.

I know, the options should be added together. Opt out is confirmed for a future update, so that'd be a logical time to add more FOV options, as well. And, heck, add them to Xbox, too.

As a player that usually uses ~110-120 fov on most games, especially FPS': I'm perfectly fine with the fov on Sea of Thieves. Yes, it's incredibly low, but anyone who claims that fov doesn't have an effect on player performance is joking themselves. Higher fov allows one to be aware of more of their surroundings, which directly allows players to more easily make informed decisions about those surroundings. This can have a very significant effect on personal player performance.

It also effects the level of teamwork necessary in team games, since a player who is less able to view their surrounds relies more on having teammates convey information to them about those surroundings. This translates into things like an increased need for someone watching your back, increased importance of regular communication, making it more difficult to constantly keep an eye on your enemy, so on and so forth.

Personally, this is why I'm fine with the low fov on SoT. It's an intimately team-based game and the low fov works in it's favor in this regard. I don't see an important enough need to let people increase it. If anything, it can only take away from part of what makes this game great: the teamwork.

@ambiguousmonk If your game's teamwork element is so tenuous that having normal FOV settings affects it, then it's such a small part of the game it's not even worth mentioning. Or, if teamwork really is an intimate part of the game, as you describe, higher FOV won't impact it at all.

@galactic-geek If you care about competitive advantage, you should push for higher FOV and then use a 4:3 resolution. Player models will be bigger and thus potentially easier to shoot. Lots of Counter-Strike pros use 4:3, and thus have a lower FOV. It doesn't hold them back any versus 16:9 players.

@galactic-geek If you care so much about competitive advantage, you should be open to 4:3 and its wider models. If guys who make hundreds of thousands of dollars playing video games use 4:3, it's apparently not that bad.

Also, if technology is supposed to be moving forward, we shouldn't be stuck with archaic FOV options.

Use an Ultra-wide monitor. Problem solved.
Really, I use one and SOT handles the resolution pretty well. Never had any issue with FOV :)

@fractal-pitch Having to buy a monitor you don't want or need otherwise just to overcome an easily fixed QOL issue is hardly a solution.

@donkeykroc a dit dans Higher FOV Options Needed :

@fractal-pitch Having to buy a monitor you don't want or need otherwise just to overcome an easily fixed QOL issue is hardly a solution.

I know, It was mostly a joke, even though it works ;)

@fractal-pitch That's good to hear. :P

90 degrees is a nice medium number that works for most people. A lot of people don't want a higher field of view because then it starts to look unnatural (fish-eyed effect). If you provide the option of increasing FoV beyond 90 deg., you're forcing people to choose between combat competency and immersion. Furthermore, you'd likely be pushing the technological limits of many systems. I doubt this is something Rare is interested in tweaking. But who knows?

@donkeykroc said in Higher FOV Options Needed:

@ambiguousmonk If your game's teamwork element is so tenuous that having normal FOV settings affects it, then it's such a small part of the game it's not even worth mentioning. Or, if teamwork really is an intimate part of the game, as you describe, higher FOV won't impact it at all.

I have no idea how you're coming to this conclusion. Higher fov literally allows you to see a larger area around you than lower fov does. More information = greater visual awareness = less reliance on others for that awareness.

@vulgrim-pvp said in Higher FOV Options Needed:

@galactic-geek FOV will NEVER give an advantage over anyone.

This is patently false from what I described above. Professional fps players have thrown rounds/games because of their fov/aspect ratio choices. If you don't believe me, go check allu's blunder in the ESWC 2015 (CS:GO).

@donkeykroc said in Higher FOV Options Needed:

@galactic-geek If you care so much about competitive advantage, you should be open to 4:3 and its wider models. If guys who make hundreds of thousands of dollars playing video games use 4:3, it's apparently not that bad.

Most competitive players don't use 4:3 outside of counter strike, and even then, people mostly use it because it's a hold over from CS 1.6 and other older games because they were anchored in 4:3 (a.k.a using 16:9 cropped your vertical vision, while 4:3 didn't. Now it's the opposite in modern games: using 4:3 crops your horizontal vision while 16:9 doesn't). The larger models thing comes from stretching 4:3 to fit a 16:9 native screen. This is totally something people do, but it comes with a big trade off in horizontal fov. Like I said before, this has caused issues for even professional players because fov impacts player performance

This. Please Rare, increase FOV on Xbox.
I would gladely play with bad graphics to stop bumping into everything.