Guild Wars 2

In short, turning your head while running straight is possible when not in FPV but is impossible in FPV. The inability to look from side to side in FPV disrupts the imersive experience.

To replicate and see the difference:

1) Scroll to FPV
2) Hold W to run
3) Hold LEFT click and look side to side while running. Your character will turn so that your character is no longer running in the same direction (in other words, you turn with your mouse movement).
4) Now stop and scroll your mouse wheel out only one, single click so that you see the back of your character’s head.
5) Repeat the run and left click test. You will note that you are now able to look from side to side while still running in a straight line.

In FPV, it is really important to be able to scan from side to side as you’re running along. You’re going to be looking around for paths, mobs or even landmarks, if you HUD is off while in FPV.

Please fix this so that the camera in FPV will act the same way it does just one click out of FPV… allowing us to turn our heads while running on a straight line.

Thanks, and great work so far!! Love most of what you’ve done!

But won’t you run into a tree? :O

isn’t mouse look right button not left?

There’s nothing to “fix”. If you’d be able to turn your camera you’d only see your character. Unlike normal FPVs your character is still rendered (It’s not an FPS where the models are different depending on 1st-/3rd-personview).. But who knows It’s still in beta and they might do something about it in a few months

tfcgeneralkmk.9508:

isn’t mouse look right button not left?

No, LMB is look and RMB will turn the character.

It seems that in FPV if you turn your camera, your character turns. I was with some guildies in DR looking at the changes and we discovered that panning in FPV lets others see you spinning back and forth. We tested and it affects you whichever mouse button you use to pan.