Anyone using the first person camera mod?

[peppergomez]

If anyone's using it I'd be curious to hear how well it works

I'm interested in restarting this game after trying it briefly years ago but I really prefer 1st person camera to 3rd person.

[f5f9]

Playing Days gone in first person makes no sense, the acting of the protagonist is one of the main strengths of the game

[peppergomez]

To each their own, the gameplay footage I've seen with the mod looks excellent.
https://www.nexusmods.com/daysgone/mods/146?tab=files

[Sharkor]

I'm actually using it an it's really amazing, taking immersion to a new level.
You have a better feel of the landscape and environment scale as you're not always looking at things for a bit far due to original TPV.
You still have the original cinematics so acting isn't impacted, and it switches to 3rd person when riding, taking cover, opening trunks...
You really have to try to feel the woods envelopping you, when you walk into buildings and camps you seem to really walk in in person, truly amazing and atmospheric...
With the highest FoV it blew my retina off (I play ultrawide so find which value suits you).
Everything maxed out in 150% base resolution scaling and the mod that enhances UE4 without performance drop (not a reshade), it blew me away at least equally to RDR2, maybe even more...
Give it a go, you might rediscover the game!
I was almost in your situation, it didn't hang on me a while ago when trying for the first time, but now with some mods and FPV the game is haunting me, I can't wait to keep playing it whenever I have time for it!

[peppergomez]

Thanks for that description. Can you explain what you mean by "150% base resolution scaling" and if that's something i can do in the game options menu?

Can you link to the UE4 enhanced mod? Thanks!

Re 3rd person while riding, the mod creator has a video ob his page that shows riding the bike in 1st person. Is that no longer possible?

[Sharkor]

https://www.nexusmods.com/daysgone/mods/84

For the resolution scaling, of course you can do it in the video or graphics settings, but it's more resources taxing, so you'll have to check if it's ok with your configuration and not inducing lag or stutter.

It scales your resolution to match a higher or lower one. Below 100 means it lowers the visuals to a lower resolution than your actual screen one, and above means it'll appear finer an crisper, just as playing on a higher screen resolution.
For example, I play originally on a 3440x1440 screen resolution (around 2,5K), if you multiplie it by the chosen scaling (in my case 150, which means 150% of my screen base resolution), it simulates visuals up to around a 4K screen resolution.
It's a way to simulate higher or lower resolutions, similar to nvidia's DSR factor in the nvidia's control panel.
Regarding anyone's gear and in general, the lower the smoother, the higher the laggier.
It allows somebody with maybe too low system requirements to still manage to play (until a point where a too low resolution/resolution scale with lowest graphics options end up blurry mashed pixels) or if you have a strong computer, to reach even higher quality visuals.

For the first person riding, I think it's still possible with the "first person ONLY" files, but these are not the latest up to date files, that's all.
This year updated files don't have it, bit I guess your can request your needs to the modder and ask for the updated mod for first person only, I think he mentionned asking him for personnal requests.