Now have a look at the Turian homeworld of Palaven, burning from the Reaper invasion, as seen from its moon:Ībove: FOV = 120 degrees (a bit too high, but now you can see a Reaper too) However, you probably wouldn't want to use an FOV this high most of the time, because it would hide the small details that are also fun to look at, and in motion it doesn't look quite right unless you are sitting close to a very large screen (like our 112' stereoscopic 3D projector screen*.)

When you add all this peripheral vision, some of the environments in ME3 look truly epic. Now you can see not only the Reaper but also the buildings beside the harbour.

That's why it's fun sometimes to temporarily increase your FOV beyond the default. Some of the game's environments look gorgeous if you simply increase the field-of-view to let you see more. If you use a wide-angle lens or make a panorama, you can get much better results. Have you ever taken a picture of a natural vista that you thought was breathtaking-the grand canyon or a snow-capped mountain? But you take out your camera, snap a photo and look at it on the camera, and it's boring the picture just looks like a bunch of rocks! Typically, the problem is that your camera only takes a little piece of that glorious vista, because it has a very narrow field-of-view. You'll only want to use 100 if you're sitting in front of a fairly large screen, more than 23 inches. Now check out my preferred FOV of 100 degrees: You're basically looking just at the Reaper's legs, and only if you look upward-if you're looking at the ground to see where you're going, you won't see much of the Reaper at all.

The default field-of-view in Mass Effect 3 is so narrow that you can get motion sickness, you won't see weapon upgrades that are right in front of you on the ground, and perhaps most importantly, you'll miss a lot of eye candy! Have a look at this screenshot that uses the default FOV, which is 70:

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