Guild Wars 2

Watching Wildstar streams I’ve noticed the huge amount of customisation they have and one really noticeable difference is the ability to set your FoV.

It’s been a year and a half since the game has come out and there is still no FoV slider. I’ll take a FoV slider over any other feature in the next feature patch.

It’s 2014, there should be a FoV slider, Arenanet please let me see the landscape.

For those that don’t know what FoV is watch this video.

Watch this video before you bring up common arguments like “it’s unbalanced for PVP” because you don’t understand FoV.

Game really needs this. It drives me nuts that I have to go out of my way to see the gorgeous environments in this game because they’re always outside of the normal playing field.

I will say that it’s likely that an increased FOV will provide some advantage to making tricky arrow cart shots around walls in WvW. Not so much a PvP advantage in terms of vision around you (the default camera zoomed out, due to its placement, already gives you this), but trying to twist your camera view in a way that lets you see over or around a wall to land an arrow cart shot, probably.

On the other hand, I play in low resolution and I can’t make some arrow cart shots others can because of that—mostly, I believe, because of relatively larger UI elements obstructing the targeting cursor.

So, the advantage seems to be there either way. I’m all for an FOV slider, just using this post to talk about potential concerns and why they don’t really matter that much.

Edit to add one more thought: In Aion, we could access the console and change the FOV that way, and the biggest advantage that provided was in aerial combat. So maybe FOV does provide an advantage in GW2’s similar underwater combat, but there’s virtually no underwater PvP anymore.

Wildstar doesn’t have an in built FOV slider its in an add on. But yeah thw ability to use addons makes this kind of thing possible anyway.