Oh god. Here we go with the FOV again.

[dux]

Dead Space is 60, screw you hippy fov!

[Aghast]

Hello, new guy here... I've not created anything worth showing to anyone. But this topic is something that's been bothering me for quit a while and every time I mention it to one of my friends they just shrug and act like I'm making it up or something. So excuse me for jumping in without a proper introduction, it's just nice knowing I'm not alone with this problem

For me it's a small FoV tied to the weird mouse-acceleration console ports tend to have (just a fact, I know it's needed for playing with a controller's thumb-stick*). Games that use UE3 usually let you turn it off through editing the .INI files. But when there's no such option I simply can't play the game for more than 10 mins without getting sick. The camera reacts like it's orbiting your head and the crossair is going all over the screen. Even if I didn't get sick I wouldn't be able to hit my targets like that. In other games I'll get accused of having aim-bot occasionaly, so don't say there's nothing wrong here.

Bioshock's pacing is slow enough to not have it affect me. But Dead Space and Far Cry 2 are two games I had to step away from. Which is a shame tbh. In Borderlands I'm playing a sniper and with the sensitivity turned all the way down and my DPI up high it's doable... as long as I don't walk and keep running.

Yes, I do get it in cars too. Though only when someone else is driving and they accelerate too fast/ break too suddenly. Most people I know find this annoying and would call those types inconsiderate [drivers].

So is it really that much to ask for a FoV slider in the game's options?

If you insist on calling it a medical condition please consider that according to Wikipedia "About 33% of people are susceptible to motion sickness even in mild circumstances". Thats a pretty big number.

* Which a lot of devs seem to be doing too nowadays.

[JeanPaul]

Dead Space is 60, screw you hippy fov!

Seriously? That fucking sucks.

I used to play unreal tournament at 120

[Skjalg]

Dead Space is 60, screw you hippy fov!

Seriously? That fucking sucks.

I used to play unreal tournament at 120

Lol yeah I used to play quake 2 at 165, and some of my friends at 180...

[-HP-]

What? Having big FOV's is cool, but bigger than 120 you start to stretch your image too much and the characters starting to be really small in the screen, making them obviously harder to hit. I guess values between 100 and 120 are the perfect ones for more hardcore shooting.

[Skjalg]

":1dguzv4z]What? Having big FOV's is cool, but bigger than 120 you start to stretch your image too much and the characters starting to be really small in the screen, making them obviously harder to hit. I guess values between 100 and 120 are the perfect ones for more hardcore shooting.

In fast paced action games like quake where you traverse the map in less than 3 seconds, then beeing able to see behind you is incredibly useful. Sure it might not be best in a call of duty game, but for quake I play a lot worse on just 120 fov.

[-HP-]

yeah well, It all comes down to personal taste I guess.

Speaking of which, why am I the only Mapcorean who plays QuakeLive?!

[dux]

I played it, then got bored lol

[Skjalg]

I played it, then got bored lol

I played it, then got owned lol

[Jetsetlemming]

I couldn't play QuakeLive for long cause I'm OCD about turning off the browser and other extra stuff when Serious Gaming, and I can't do that with QL

[Pampers]

instagib fuck yeeah, add pampers to your friendslist

[Psy]

I played it, then got bored lol

I played it, then got owned lol

This. Too fast for poor noobish me.

[-HP-]

noobs!

Added you pampers.

[Defrag]

What we need is Fisheye!.

It's hella cool. Unfortunately you need to render the scene five times per frame to make this work, so it's only viable for old games.

[Psy]

Bwer. Werr. Err. My...God. Imagine playing that whilst drunk.