Playing with high FOV

[Whatever100500]

Low FOV(field of view) is like wearing horse blinders. Can't stand it at all.
High FOV with standard rectilinear projection brings distortion, doubly so on ultrawide monitors. Still better than low FOV, but extra screenspace is used extremely inefficiently due to heavy distortion.

But this problem actually has a solution - use different projection! Yet no major game ever implements this.

ES2 is based on UE4, which actually offers Panini projection to solve exactly this issue. This is not exposed in in-game settings, but can be enabled from configs. BUT then the issue is that target markers are still drawn based on standard projection, so they don't align outside of viewport's center (so crosshair is still usable).

Link to my suggestions, including instructions on how to enable Panini projection https://steamcommunity.com/app/1128920/discussions/5/3823034639975891116/

[Knocks (I BUY MICS)]

I'll try this out soon, thanks for the tip!

[Uro]

Neat, I'll certainly give that a try. Does that override the configured settings, or do I need to reset the FOV to default so it's not trying to overcompensate?

[Whatever100500]

It's a separate setting. Is more worthwhile when you set highest available fov of 110. Trying to set fov > 110 from config file does nothing :(, although it should in theory be not too distorted with Panini projection.

[Chico Rodriguez]

Nifty. I can't wait to try this on my G9 next time I'm home.

[Corazon-Ray <3]

That was an absolute treat to experience. Too bad about the markers but almost worth just playing with the HUD off and aim assist turned up.

[pazakka]

Don't suppose you could post some comparison screenshots? What do you mean about the misaligned markers?

[dewey]

this seems to cut off a large portion of the cockpit view which makes it unusable. You cant see your ammo count for instance.