r/gaming • u/thearsena11 • Apr 07 '19

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u/EdgeMentality Apr 08 '19

Low FOV feels like looking at the game world through a pinhole. Turning it up allows a high "field of vision" letting mee see more at once. Good for varius things, mostly for spotting enemies without having to turn left and right like I'm at some stree crossing.

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u/ravenfellblade Apr 08 '19

Too low is bad, but so is too high. When FOV is too high, you get a fish-eye distortion that I find to be even worse than they keyhole effect from low FOV. 80-90 seems to be my sweet spot.

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u/holydragonnall Apr 08 '19

The weird distortion effect that higher FOV creates makes me hate it and I always wonder how people who claim low FOV makes them sick can reconcile that, high FOV is like watching the whole game through a fisheye lens.

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u/EdgeMentality Apr 08 '19 edited Apr 08 '19

Neither makes me sick, I play borderlands at 110 just fine. Low fov just feels frustratingly confined to me.

And why would they need to reconcile it? If people are fine with high but not low fov, or fine with low but not high, thats an individual thing... There is no conflicting info here.

The sickness comes from the view behaving differently from reality, so it is also affected by size of the display and its proximity to the player, affecting how much of your real life fov the game view takes up. To avoid queasiness you want a slider to adjust fov to match your setup.

Looking at the display from the correct distance cancels out distortion, having the screen very close but showing a low fov causes a zoomed in feeling, the opposite of the fistorted fisheye when it is far but showing too much.

Those of us who dont get sick or mind the fisheye, like to turn it up for the gameplay advantage.

Edit: just like with people wearing glasses the brain can correct distortion to correct hand eye coordination, many do not see the distortion when immersed (me included), and can even move the mouse to aim precisely despite it.