Comments on: 23.2.2014

By: ClassicFrog (EU)

ClassicFrog (EU) — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:42:29 +0000

Unless the mod motioned above came with FOV adjustment, as many different mods do these days.

By: ClassicFrog (EU)

ClassicFrog (EU) — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:39:20 +0000

How nice to see a fellow CC enthusiast. :)
And yes, Stuart was a beast if there were no AT weapons to fend it off.

By: malsmaps

malsmaps — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:54:12 +0000

correction: Patton believed he had been a Carthaginian fighting the Romans, then thought he had been a Legionary (near or at Langres where Patton served in WW1, no less) with Caesar in Gaul and had also fought in Napoleon’s armies in another life.

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 05:11:58 +0000

He believed himself to be a reincarnation of a Roman Legionnaire from Julius Gaius Caesar’s campaign in Gaul – now modern-day France (or possibly Caesar himself), which is close enough I suppose.

By: Togg

Togg — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 03:56:19 +0000

I suspect it went along the lines of this:
1. Random development changes make it use one fixed FoV (can’t imagine it being intentional design)
2. Based on the russian population they didn’t expect massive trouble (source: was referred to in an older FTR Q&A translation)
3. Complaints from the test server were ignored and it wasn’t patched prior to deployment
4. A while after maybe they did realise it mattered or they knew and just didn’t care enough to put it in the 8.11 patch.

I’m still quite confused by it, strange how a company can deliver such a thing for a non-console game these days. Drove my tanks around a bit unmodded at 8.11 it didn’t actually make me sick but did give me a borderline uncomfortable feeling typically after an hour.

By: Togg

Togg — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 03:51:01 +0000

If you use xvm or any of the other mods that incorporate that specific file “avatar_input_handler.xml” which has some FoV settings at the top that’s probably it.

I messed around a bit by changing them to high and low extremes and unmodded with a replay. The extremely low FoV (30 degrees or so was what I tried) was really uncomfortable to watch.

But as long as you stick to normal values you can mod it just fine now to your liking.

By: deathrow222

deathrow222 — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:40:18 +0000

yeah i use a mod for putting it back like it was in 8.10 if you have a mod where a file called avatar_input_handler is in then it can be that that changed your FOV back to normal one

By: Dexter5021

Dexter5021 — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:19:05 +0000

- FOV will be returned to the way it was in 8.10 sooner than in 9.0, Evilly thinks it’s gonna happen next week by a micropatch

Why WG broke what was not broken?

By: Medjed

Medjed — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:55:37 +0000

Not really. FOV isn’t only about the size of the screen you can see.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:17:00 +0000

You’re drunk again aren’t you?