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State of Decay 2: How to Customize FOV

Posted on March 18, 2020
Since the first PC release of State of Decay 2 in May 2018, there have been a few ways to deal with the need to adjust FOV to preference or to compensate for the decreased vertical FOV at 21:9 and wider resolutions. Some – like the trainers based on Cheat Engine – have been more effective but are no longer up to date, while others – like the YFOV command – would not allow for any fine-tuning. There’s a better way.

Set FOV to any value

    We’ll be assuming the game has been launched at least once to create a config file.

  • Navigate to %LOCALAPPDATA%\StateOfDecay2\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
    (it can be pasted into the address bar of the file explorer)
  • Open Engine.ini in a text editor
  • Add the following lines:
    [SystemSettings]
    r.FieldOfView=95

    The provided value is arbitrary but it is also the value needed to compensate for the decreased FOV at a 21:9 resolution to match the default 80 of 16:9.
    For 32:9, go for 118.
    For 48:9, set it to 137.

    Needless to say, it can be set to any reasonable horizontal value without breaking the game!

Other methods breakdown

The FOV-related commands previously shared by others are the known go-to commands for all games built on Unreal Engine 4 but have their severe limitations.

[/script/engine.localplayer]
AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV

This one is the most common in conversations and guides on State of Decay 2.
There are also hilariously random modifications like AspectRatioAxisConstraint=90
The game will read it as AspectRatioAxisConstraint=.
Any of them including AspectRatioAxisConstraint=IdontKnowWhatImDoing will work as the result.

The only thing they do is set the hardcoded FOV of 80 to vertical rather than horizontal, meaning an FOV of 112 at 16:9 or roughly 126 at 21:9 – arguably too much and no way to adjust it.

[/script/daytongame.daytongameusersettings]
FOV=90

FOV is a native Unreal Engine 4 command but there is no documented evidence of it working in State of Decay 2.

By Rose

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2 thoughts on “State of Decay 2: How to Customize FOV”

  1. ryan tan says:
    August 9, 2021 at am11:07

    it worked!! thanks!!

    Reply
  2. AbuseNab says:
    September 1, 2021 at pm3:58

    [SystemSettings]
    r.FieldOfView=95

    This one felt the best to me and it still works in the new 1st September update.

    Reply

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