How can you disable head bobbing? motion sickness

[huffadopolis]

I'm getting motion sickness almost immediately. I don't see any toggles in the options.

I played a year or two ago and I do not remember it being this bad, I remember first person view was smooth. Was I remembering wrong?

Anyway, how can I disable this head bobbing headache-inducing feature?

[Green1]

Play in 3rd person view.

[xPEDx]

back then there was only first person view. this 3rd person view is new to the last update. not sure about head bob options though.

[huffadopolis]

the view moves around even worse in 3rd person :(

edit: thank you for the responses, this is a much needed toggle option; head bob affects a lot of people in video games negatively (others don't notice or understand)

[xPEDx]

Originally posted by huffadopolis:

the view moves around even worse in 3rd person :(

edit: thank you for the responses, this is a much needed toggle option; head bob affects a lot of people in video games negatively (others don't notice or understand)

agrreed, maybe best if you open a ticket and pput in a request. I think they need to know these things, and as there arent too many people out there with the same problem, then no one would have told them yet. so yea i would let them know if i was you, i think its an important health issue.

[Arcturus Asriv]

Originally posted by huffadopolis:

the view moves around even worse in 3rd person :(

edit: thank you for the responses, this is a much needed toggle option; head bob affects a lot of people in video games negatively (others don't notice or understand)

Understandable.
The head bobbing doesn't bother me (probably would if it was side to side, though).
But I have a similar problem with games that use a lot of motion blur. Makes me feel dizzy.

[huffadopolis]

yeah it's strange how it affects different people differently, sometimes for me in other games it happens when the background is animated, and the foreground is what I am paying attention to

my brain has too hard of a time trying to filter out that background movement so the result is a headache/nausea

I posted in the feature request forum, I'll look into how to submit a support ticket to also let them know that way

[Tipperty]

Try increasing or decreasing the FOV. I know certain FOV can make me feel a little sick.

[luZk]

I find that 3rd person makes me less motion sick in general in pretty much every game where it's an option.

[LoboFH]

You can edit your FoV (up to 150, I believe) editing the graphic config file, search it here or google.

In the graphic menu is up to 100, not enough, imo. I run at 130 FoV both for ship and character.

[huffadopolis]

thanks for the FOV increase suggestion; bumping it up to 130 has helped some but the head bobbing camera movement is still an issue unfortunately

[ZombieHunter]

Increase the FOV on foot to 170 and in ship to 130. Motion sickness gone. I have no idea how people play this on console. All the videos on YouTube are vomit inducing. However when you widen the FOV glitches abound. Animals scoot when they get out of the hardcoded view cone or frustum, you will clip into various objects and terrain and you might get near clipping issues inside your ship cockpit. 130 seems to be about the widest you can go in the ship without near plane issues.

But forcing us to play this with the teeny tiny 55 to 60 FOV (it looks even less than this by default) on widescreen is ridiculous.

[huffadopolis]

I also found a mod that removes:
a) Vignette shading in the top right/left corners
b) fake scanlines in the sky
c) chromatic abberation

I still really wish head bob was toggleable, but between increasing FOV and removing the 3 things above with mods my visual experience has improved greatly and I can go 30-45 min before having to take a break now.

[Zoint]

Old thread, but I get motion sickness pretty bad so hope to help others out that find this. I found these few things helped:

1. Options > Control Options > Camera Shake Strength - set it to 0 this seems to help with the head bob problem.
   
2. Set the FOV to max - can check this out for help.
   
3. Options > Video Options > Motion Blur Amount - set it to 0
   
4. Options > Video Options > Vignette & Scanlines - set it to Disabled, this may or may not bother some people so test it out.

These helped me out.

[Wile E Coyote, Super Genius]

1st person and higher fov like 100.

[ZombieHunter]

You are going to need more than 100. The FOV in the file is not in degrees.