From the incrysis website i found a program which make you able to set AA, Vsync, motion blur...and fov.
So in the solo i'm playing with a wider field of vision. But..on multiplayer it's cheating isn't it?
I don't think i could get banned for doing this, regarding what cheaters can usually do.
I'm some kind of fair play player who don't want to get abusive advantage from a better setting.

its not cheating, its more of taking advantage of display options. i think it is wrong also.

I think the FOV is already so high that enhancing it any further wouldn't help you significantly in multiplayer. It's not like you are going to snipe a person from one end of the map to the other right.

I guess turning anti aliasing to max is a hack right?

I guess turning anti aliasing to max is a hack right?
Not to mention having a bigger screen

If setting your FOV is cheating, wouldn't having a bigger monitor be cheating.
Or having a LCD TV vs an old CRT TV.

In fact, the fov in Crysis 2 was known has quite small. I'm playing with a 80 fov on solo, someone know what is the original fov value?
I don't think it's cheating, but i saw some "fov hack reports" in other games, that's why i'm wondering.

if you look at it PC multiplayer games are VERY unbalanced. the people who can play this at 1080p+ with max settings will always have the advantage over those who dont.

I think the FOV is already so high
It's 55 by default. Is this high for you?

I never got the "changing FoV is cheating" argument -.- it's like saying people that wear glasses cheat, cause they don't go with their default setting. Changing the visuals in terms of angles, (texture)resolutions and effects in a pc game to your liking was standard procedure.
I personally really like FoV's of 100 on a 16:9 display, even though I would have less if my monitor was a plain old window. I do like it, because it gives you a little more overview, allowing me to be a little more relaxed. And I feel crammed into a small place otherwise.
Seriously, which sane mind would go into a gunfight with a pair of "special googles" that limits your horizontal field of vision to 55°? And now don't say sam fisher.

Actually to take full advantage of any widescreen you need a wider FOV(about 75-90), nobody uses box screen CRT's anymore (where 55 would be justified).

then again, i play with triple monitor at 6080x1080 @60fps on very high setting on 3 42inch screens. Does it improve my score? not in the slightest. probably makes me play worse are there is more monitor to view then i can take in.

changed fov is no cheating...

It's almost as saying "changing mouse sensitivity is cheating"

It's true we can set AA, resolution, playing with different screens.
But changing the fov is not an option the developers usually let us set.
In fact you have to modify by yourself someking of config.cfg file, that's why people think it's a cheat.
By extension, changing AA on Crysis 2 is a cheat? (absurd...)

Here's the way I view it, doing anything against developers' original intent of the game is considered cheating/exploiting. If the developers wanted people to be able to tweak their settings to give them a graphical advantage in MP, then they would have put those options in the menu for people to change. Crytek has done this in past games, but they intentionally decided not to do it for Crysis 2 meaning they don't want people to do it. If you allow people to manipulate their FOV, then why not allow them to manipulate particle density display, transparency of solid objects, add glowing effects to enemy players, insert scripts for an aimbot, etc. Instead of trying to draw a line in the sand between what should be changed and what shouldn't be changed, it's easier to just play the game the way the developers meant for you to play it. They give you options to adjust and change and they designed an interface for that, everything else they hid in a config file for a reason.

BTW, crying that this is a console port is not a counter argument and does not justify that you should be able to hack/cheat/exploit anything you want.

so you are saying that changing the fov so the game aspect actually looks correct for the monitor you are using is the same as an aimbot

No, it's not cheating.

if you look at it PC multiplayer games are VERY unbalanced. the people who can play this at 1080p+ with max settings will always have the advantage over those who dont.

No they dont. People on lower settings have shorter draw distances and fewer non-collision items like foliage. A higher resolution sure, thats better but higher settings are not.

I see it as levelling the playing field, I actually get motion sickness and can't play for very long with a low FOV and so increasing the FOV just means I can play normally again.

FOV in Crysis is not the same as FOV in other games. Other titles use horizontal which on a 16:9 screen works well at 90. Crysis uses vertical instead of horizontal.

For instance:
1920 x 1080
Horizontal of 90 = 59 Vertical

Crysis 2 by default is set to 85 horizontal = 55 vertical


http://www.rjdown.co.uk/projects/bfbc2/fovcalculator.php
- check it out

if you look at it PC multiplayer games are VERY unbalanced. the people who can play this at 1080p+ with max settings will always have the advantage over those who dont.

Ok so before, lowering graphic settings was ok for performance and help people who doesn't have the cash for a good rig to play a game. Then, it was considered for some of the settings to be cheating under the premise of some game industries instead of the competitive scenes. Now, it is unbalanced to have all of the frigging settings at high quality?

What's next, force every game to be played on a gamepad? Aight this paragraph is the real trollroll now :/
"Now I gotta use a gamepad to play a fps on my computer!
_Well I didn't have a mouse. It was unfair.
_But if you want to play with an unproper tool on this type of game that should be your problem
_No you gotta be on par :/
_And what if I had to use a gamepad to browse on my desktop and the net?
_You're still at an advantage. On console, I don't have a desktop."

In either case, this out of maaaany of the locked settings through the console commands, the FOV is one of them being availabe for change.

My god I know I'm overreacting but jeesh guys come on!!

If setting your FOV is cheating, wouldn't having a bigger monitor be cheating.
Or having a LCD TV vs an old CRT TV.

Some devs, "Hi-Rez" for example , actually do think that wider screens are cheating and not fair so they limit the horizontal FOV for any user, no matter which screen they use.

It's retarded.

let someone idiotically use 160 deg FOV on his 4:3 screen if he wants, it's not like he's going to be able to see anyone when his view is zoomed out so far.

It's not cheating, it's adjusting your settings for a more confortable gameplay.

Why should tweaking FOV be cheating?
1. it's a feature
2. default FOV is way to small, so it has to be tweaked