BF2S Forums [Battlefield: Bad Company 2] Official Thread

FOVs gif (not mine)

Damn this game is sexy.

Rod Foxx wrote:

I thought most people set the FOV based on the monitor size and whether or not it's widescreen.

A widesreen monitor requires a higher FOV than a 4:3 one. Hence why many PC gamers were complaining about it.

More FoV = more viewing space = less chance of getting killed. You shoulda seen it when I played CoD4 competitively, I had 5:4 with 90FOV at 16:10 aspect ratio looked very crushed to say the least.

Last edited by Finray (2010-03-03 05:43:07)

JohnG@lt wrote:

Man, this game is fun but a lot harder than bf2 was. I think it's just the fact that I don't know the maps yet.

Have yet to hear a single person talk over ptt though

You really need to take advantage of the cover in this game to survive. You get about 1 or 2 seconds in the open before someone starts taking pot shots or just straight mows you down.

I think voip is broken too.

H3RB4L ABU53 wrote:

I don't understand why they let you change FOV, if they left it at a static number then no one could gain any advantage and it would always look normal

It's because they were lazy and left it at 55(!) FOV. That is at least 10 below normal console standards. Standard PC FOV is 80-90 and I agree, it wouldn't have been as big a deal if they locked it at a decent size.

There really isn't that much advantage to be gained. The larger your FOV, the smaller targets are on your screen. I don't care if someone can see me on the edge of their screen, i'm still going to dump a mag into their face after their first shot.

Last edited by iNeedUrFace4Soup (2010-03-03 09:42:11)

Ilocano wrote:

360 perspective for now.  PC maybe this weekend.

- Has spotting been nerfed?  You could spot a few, then like I spent a good few seconds trying to spot a runner, but he just wouldn't light up.  Same with vehicles.  On the demo, I could spot till my fingers bled.

- What's the deal with the game continuing even if no one is left on the other team?

- What 'swith the other team bailing out because they don't want to be the defender/attacker for certain maps?...

- I seriously miss BF2's prone.

I asked in game what the prone key was and I got laughed at. I miss it too. Just doesn't feel right running around with a LMG and spray/praying.

Well obviously there's drawbacks to something like 360 degrees FOV, but up to 110 works well. Just look at Quake Live.

FloppY_ wrote:

Finray wrote:

Well obviously there's drawbacks to something like 360 degrees FOV, but up to 110 works well. Just look at Quake Live.

55 & 65 looks best imo.. anything else looks like you are looking at it through a wide-angle lens tbh

Are your eyes aligned vertically or something?

Doctor Strangelove wrote:

FloppY_ wrote:

Finray wrote:

Well obviously there's drawbacks to something like 360 degrees FOV, but up to 110 works well. Just look at Quake Live.

55 & 65 looks best imo.. anything else looks like you are looking at it through a wide-angle lens tbh

Are your eyes aligned vertically or something?

Nope...

As soon as the gif goes beyond 75 it starts getting warped



20" 1680x1050 btw

Ilocano wrote:

Those larger FOV's look interesting.  Curious if they translate well to three screens.

no need to...
Tri-monitor support is available even for BF2 and I think DICE will support ATi's Eyefinity...

Last edited by FloppY_ (2010-03-03 12:14:58)

Okay, well here is an explanation for the "fish-eye" effect.

When you type that number in the settings.ini file, that's the vertical FOV, not the horizontal one. The H-FOV will from that scale with your resolution. So if you have a 16x9 monitor and want a 90 degree H-FOV, you need to set that number (the V-FOV) to 60.

Hope this was enlightening.

So the fish-eye comes from when silly people like yourselves think it's the H-FOV and set it to 90 without realizing it, so the H-FOV ends up being like 135 or some shit.

Last edited by Doctor Strangelove (2010-03-03 13:54:00)

Doctor Strangelove wrote:

Okay, well here is an explanation for the "fish-eye" effect.

When you type that number in the settings.ini file, that's the vertical FOV, not the horizontal one. The H-FOV will from that scale with your resolution. So if you have a 16x9 monitor and want a 90 degree H-FOV, you need to set that number (the V-FOV) to 60.

Hope this was enlightening.

So the fish-eye comes from when silly people like yourselves think it's the H-FOV and set it to 90 without realizing it, so the H-FOV ends up being like 135 or some shit.

who the fuck decided to make the FOV vertical? people know it by the horizontal value

I'm starting to think canceling my pre-order was a good idea judging by all the bugs I'm hearing about. I think I'll wait for a few patches to come out before I buy it.

Damn I want this game.

Blade4509 wrote:

This game is good, when I can connect, or even being able to log in consistently would be nice.

Played at friend's comp I presume?