Guild Wars 2

What the dev said doesn’t make any sense. The art and the environments in this game are beautiful, why restrict what you can see with a narrow fov? Right now the game is like watching a movie while looking through a paper towel roll. Even when using window mode to change the fov, there is minimal performance loss and the game is much easier on the eyes.

I have tried a 3rd party tool to change the fov (before Arenanet said those are illegal) and the game was so much better with a fov of 90 and I could play the game without getting a headache. All of the art looked great and there were no graphical issues.

Players aren’t asking for a new default fov, all we are asking for is a fov slider. If someone likes the default fov of 65 so be it, but many others would like 90 or more. Just keep the default fov the same and add a slider, it’s that simple.

While the fix to mouse smoothing helped somewhat with the camera jerkiness, I still can’t play this game with the default fov, it’s just too narrow and gives me a headache. I really want to play the game, but if they don’t enable a fov slider I may have to get a refund, cause I don’t feel like getting banned for using a 3rd party tool.

Some of the camera problems in this thread combined with the low FOV can make things worse I imagine-

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Camera-Related-Issues-Compilation-and-Lengthy-Anaylsis/first#post90266

The FOV definitely needs to be higher. It doesn’t affect everyone, but there are many people including myself that are experiencing headaches and nausea playing this game.

here is another thread made about this-

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/FOV-in-GW2-headaches-and-claustrophobic-sensations/

Glad someone made a thread about this. I had been getting headaches and my eyes felt much more strained when I play GW2. I have stopped playing the game because one night I felt slightly dizzy and nauseous after a few hours of playing and I had a stiff neck the next day.

I definitely think this is from the narrow FOV, since I had never experienced anything like this in any other MMO I have played, or any other game for that matter. The camera problems definitely add to this as well. I have tried playing the game in a window and stretching the screen, but it wasn’t a big enough improvement to play for a long time.

I love the game, but sadly I think I have to wait till they increase the FOV and fix the camera before I start playing again.

Here are some links I found on various forums regarding people experiencing problems with the FOV-

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1176615-Field-of-view

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/ymulp/first_game_to_make_me_yak_fov_cry/

http://angelsharks.wordpress.com/category/guild-wars-2-field-of-view/

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/41189-please-address-fov-and-scroll-out-issues-for-release-stress-test-still-left-me-feeling-nauseos/

http://www.guildwars2forum.com/threads/8453-Mouse-Smoothing-and-FOV-a-Serious-Gamer-s-Disappointment

http://www.arenajunkies.com/topic/227336-field-of-view-fov/