Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing the game so far up to level 54 on my thief but every time I play I get terrible motion sickness about 20 minutes in. As much as I enjoy the game I don’t know how much longer I can tolerate this… I was able to put the game in windowed mode and shrink the window to increase the FOV, which really helps with the motion sickness, but my screen is already fairly small so I can’t really see anything now :C

Was anyone able to find any solutions for this issue? I really hope we’ll get a FOV slider sometime so I can actually play this game without having to lie down after a few minutes

While I don’t get motion sickness, my eyes seem to get sore easily from all the bright flashes of particle effects..

You can turn off or turn down the particle effects, and possibly change some of the settings to see if that helps in your video settings…

Have you tried increasing/decreasing the resolution? You might also look at a better monitor with a better refresh rate. It makes motion smoother and that helps.

How do you turn off the particle effects Prophet? You mean skill effects?

To Syynx: there really isn’t much of a solution ATM, I thought playing asura would help but it makes me feel even worse. People keep harping on saying “just buy 2 extra monitors”, but that’s hardly a solution, and kinda silly if you only need to do it for GW2 since other games let you change the FOV.

IIRC there is a FOV mod, but i beleve its also against the TOS/EULA.

So i recommend you do… …not… use it :P

If you look at the tool tips for some of the graphic changes, one of them specifically mentions particle effects I believe, and a few other items. I would hover over each one of the items in the combo boxes (drop down boxes) as well as the check boxes…

You might also try changing the aliasing to off, or turning it on to 4xaa or whatever the option is…I would just play with all those, as some make a big difference, and some make things refresh horribly…

SolarNova.1052:

IIRC there is a FOV mod, but i beleve its also against the TOS/EULA.

So i recommend you do… …not… use it :P

Oh cool, so hackers can play with a decent FOV, but legitimate players can’t… that’s awesome.

Prophet.6954:

If you look at the tool tips for some of the graphic changes, one of them specifically mentions particle effects I believe, and a few other items. I would hover over each one of the items in the combo boxes (drop down boxes) as well as the check boxes…

Yeah I’ve been doing that since beta trying to find the option to make skill effects not so obnoxious, but I can’t see the option to do it. Even when I go to “Best performance” the game looks ugly but the animations are still ridiculously obnoxious and I can’t see what to dodge in PvE.

I checked the fov tool out and it seems to be an all in one hacking device allowing for high jumps, speedhacking, and teleporting… I was tempted to download and use it for the FOV tweaks, but I don’t want to get banned. It’s really a shame that people who are hacking and exploiting the game are able to play with 90 FOV

Go check out this thread. The more people complaining about FOV in a single thread, the more likely it is that ANET will notice and do something about it.

I agree with Snoring. Although I don’t have any trouble. I have heard people complaining bout it. Anet always have been very compassionate with the disabled.(don’t get me wrong, you can’t help it and I’m not judging, it is me who needs real life therapy on a permanent basis and I’m the one who is ’wrong’and ’ twisted’ in the eyes of society, but the majority doesn’t have this problem, so the minority who has got it, are described her by the term of disabled).

This however is a place where players are helping players, and in this case the people who can help you are not players but the devs. So follow his link and support the suggestion.

mercury ranique.2170:

I agree with Snoring. Although I don’t have any trouble. I have heard people complaining bout it. Anet always have been very compassionate with the disabled.(don’t get me wrong, you can’t help it and I’m not judging, it is me who needs real life therapy on a permanent basis and I’m the one who is ’wrong’and ’ twisted’ in the eyes of society, but the majority doesn’t have this problem, so the minority who has got it, are described her by the term of disabled).

This however is a place where players are helping players, and in this case the people who can help you are not players but the devs. So follow his link and support the suggestion.

A forum mod moved this thread here

I empathize with you Syynx – there are many games I can’t play for more than 20 minutes because of motion sickness (Borderlands, sigh.) I’ve found that the camera speed affects me more than the FOV though. The only time in GW2 I had a problem was trying to navigate my giant Norn through one of the hidden jumping puzzles in LA and the camera kept flipping around out of my control.

You might try turning down your camera rotation speed (I have mine all the way down), and mapping the “about face” action to your keyboard for when you need to quickly change the camera. Experimenting with the camera position may help a bit too. It might not though – I think there are different physiological reasons behind the motion sickness. I have the “can’t read a book while riding in a moving car” type.

This may sound strange, but stop playing this game.

I’ve got the same problem with half life and than I broke down infront of my computer. If you are reacting physical to a game and you can recreate this, don’t play.

Seriously it doesn’t matter how good the game is. Not worth it.

Games can be really weired when it comesot motion sickness .. Now i never get it. My old man on the other hand used to get motion sickness with the old FPS games. Doom, Quake, DukeNukem 3d, due ot the very enclosed nature of the game and their unatural speed of movement. I loved them, but my father in the end stoped playing them.

I do feel for anyone who has this issue, specialy with a mmo, since if it was a certain FPS, their are plenty of others to chose from, a MMO on the other hand ..well.. there are a limited number of ‘good ’mmo’s out there.

I had heared there was FOV mod out, hence why i mentioned it.. i did not know it was enclosed with an all you can eat cheat & hack pack >.< . So i guess the only thing you can do is wait or put up with it

Do you have camera shake on? I don’t get motion sickness myself, but hitting a champion in melee with loads of effects and spells going off, my screen constantly shook and hurt my eyes badly.

Snuffy.4061:

Do you have camera shake on? I don’t get motion sickness myself, but hitting a champion in melee with loads of effects and spells going off, my screen constantly shook and hurt my eyes badly.

Oh yes, definitely turn that off if you haven’t. It was the first setting I disabled.

Motion sickness is no bueno. I don’t find myself getting it with GW2 but most certainly with games like BioShock and Portal. In a 3rd person view, for me it isn’t so much the FOV but the camera angles. A clunky camera can ruin a game.

As I’ve mentioned in the main FOV thread, I would like a max camera distance setting to be able to zoom out more and remove that “hunched shoulders” feel in some areas.

yandere.9176:

This may sound strange, but stop playing this game.

I’ve got the same problem with half life and than I broke down infront of my computer. If you are reacting physical to a game and you can recreate this, don’t play.

Seriously it doesn’t matter how good the game is. Not worth it.

We like to play games too, you know? I’m sick and tired of being jealous of my friends play games for almost TWO DECADES when I couldn’t because they made me feel like I’m going to vomit all the time.

Adding a FOV slider fixes this, I’ve tried it in other games.

It’s cruel of ANet not to add a FOV slider when they know it would help a lot of us. All we need is to type:
/fov 90
(or whatever number you want)

That’s it.

Prophet.6954:

If you look at the tool tips for some of the graphic changes, one of them specifically mentions particle effects I believe, and a few other items. I would hover over each one of the items in the combo boxes (drop down boxes) as well as the check boxes…

Could you answer this, I don’t find such an option. I’ve been looking since beta. I’ve been reading the tooltips since ANet added them to the game.

This thread from Jon Peters regarding FOV might help explain why there isn’t an option to adjust it.

JonPeters:

I’ve seen a lot of topics on this both here and externally so let me try and address it. The current FOV is going to stay because increasing it, while having some benefits for some players, has too many drawbacks.
1) performance suffers greatly because of how things are built and view distances
2) art suffers because of texture tiling, LOD problems and just general stretching from the fisheye effect.
3) gameplay suffers because positional awareness becomes less necessary in a game where combat is greatly designed around positioning.
There is a a serious camera problem, however, which is making some players nauseous. We believe a large number of these cases are not FOV related but rather due to bugs in camera smoothing. Because of this we are expediting a quick fix to this issue that is currently in testing and should see the light of day in the next build we do.
Jon

The thread degenerated pretty fast… not surprising given Anet’s…. stance.

One poster in there suggested something I tried and it worked out ok for me. I use an Nvidia card and created a custom resolution through the Nvidia Control Panel at 2194×1080... then logged in game and selected the new resolution from the options in game.

Much more comfortable… I was able to play much longer. Only downside is I got black bars on the top and bottom of my screen. Small price to pay for a non hack solution to a problem Anet wont fix IMO.