As most PC gamers will have noticed right away when launching the game, there is no Starfield FOV (Field of View) slider in the game’s settings. This is unfortunate since the default setting appears to be 75, which is lower than preferable, especially for those who experience motion sickness when playing in first-person view.
Thankfully, several mods are already starting to appear on Nexus, including some that allow players to increase the Starfield FOV value. User Hellstorm102 provided a downloadable StarfieldCustom.ini file that needs to be placed in the Documents/MyGames/Starfield folder to enable the increased Field of View. The provided file sets FOV to 100 for both first-person and third-person view, though any user can modify the .ini with different values as desired.
Likely, Bethesda will eventually add an in-game Starfield FOV slider at some point, but mods will have to do in the meantime.
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This has been the Bethesda experience for many years. Which doesn’t deter from your statement. Their games are complex as all balls, but apparently investing a day to add an FOV slider is too much.
Yeah especially since you can change FOV without mods using the console (at least in previous games)
Seeing as the FOV can be adjusted from ini, that means it’s a setting in engine. Literally just needed to add au UI element to adjust it and they couldn’t be bothered.