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Please tell me that's not real? Hey we fixed the FOV, so now you can see more of your helmet!
I've ran into several instances where the keys I have bound still show up on screen as the originals...and several that I have bound flat out don't work. I'm just getting tired as hell with developers putting zero polish or QA on their PC products.
And I'm not buying this last minute patch BS either.
I've seen the tutorial tips give the keys I rebound instead, it just seems like some of them are broken. I've also had my reload button remap itself mid-game..friggin odd. I went to save a little girl, and killed her instead because the on-screen button was wrong.
I went into the game a few minutes ago and it asked me if I wanted to download an update to the game...what's in this update?...the version number is still listed as 1.0 so I don't think it's the Widescreen patch
You need to define your terms. I have no idea whether by "FOV" you're referring globally to the effective field of view or to the FOV setting. Yes, the switch from vert- to hor+ would not require that the FOV setting be changed. However, the effective field of view does change. Hor+ increases the horizontal field of view. Vert- decreases the vertical field of view.
16:9 is a wider aspect ratio than 4:3, is it not? How can 'wider than 4:3' be 'wrong' yet 16:9 be 'right'?
Then I suggest you read through the entire thread.
They are intrinsically linked. Vert- indicates a change in the effective FOV (the vertical FOV or VFOV). Hor+ indicates a change in the effective horizontal FOV (HFOV). Achieving vert- at wide aspect ratios requires that the VFOV be reduced. Achieving hor+ at wide aspect ratios requires that the HFOV be increased.
Correct. One cannot manipulate the FOV for the so-called "baseline" without manipulating the FOV.
It already has. The effective field of view changes as demonstrated in the (rather bad) post-patch image Elizabeth posted, and also in the image Derangel posted. Let's walk through it.
The only way you could make me "understand" is to completely alter reality. Sorry.
Elizabeth Tobey.
That is simply a matter of opinion.
When did I say that? I perhaps was referring to the FOV setting (the value for which the HFOV is defined) and did not properly clarify, but I don't recall having done that.
You're correct. I had a difficult time trying to understand what was going on on the dim monitor at the office (and, as I said, they're bad example images). That being said, what Elizabeth said would be happening for users of widescreen monitors doesn't jive with the images she's posted. Why? Because in those images, there is no HFOV increase. She stated quite bluntly:
In the images, there is no such expansion from pre-patch to post-patch. This suggests that either A) Elizabeth is miss-communicating the changes taking place or B) the example images aren't representative of what is actually going to be happening with the patch. Both cannot be true.
Derangel seems to have found one.
The images suggest this, yes. Elizabeth's comments suggest otherwise.
If the 'baseline' is 16:9, then what Elizabeth suggests of the patch is inaccurate, or at the very least, totally misleading.
She did not say that verbatim. You can derive such, however, based on this quote:
This suggests quite plainly that the patch will expand the HFOV for widescreen users and that the current behavior for widescreen monitors is not as intended. If the HFOV pre-patch is 70, then post-patch, we would expect that the HFOV will then become greater than 70. In the example images posted, this behavior is not demonstrated.
There is something more problematic with a low FOV than simply 'getting less than 4:3 users'. An excessively narrow field of view can result in disorientation and nausea in a fairly short period of time, as many people experienced playing HL2 (which has an HFOV of 75 degrees at 4:3). If BS2 were to expand the 4:3 view such that the VFOV remains the same, but the HFOV increases, this becomes much less of a potential issue (as opposed to the VFOV decreasing as HFOV increases) given that the VFOV at 4:3 in BS2 currently seems fairly adequate.
Agreed.
You don't get into the PR game to play it straight. I'd have much more respect for her and 2K if she had just come out in the beginning and said "Yeah, we fucked you guys. We're sorry. We'll fix it and keep on fixing it until you're happy". Instead, we get the "Oh, it was fixed, but it became unfixed due to a silly bug fix!" nonsense.
The frames themselves will be identical apart from the extra horizontal space for those frames rendered at 16:10.
...what?
Obviously.
Nor does this.