Borderlands 4 Dev 'Exploring' FOV Sliders on PS5 Following Player Feedback

The first thing they should do is take Randy's phone away.

I really dont "see" the problem with FOV. plays fine for me and im a long sighted, lazy left eyed glasses wearer.

Sometimes I don't get all this hubbub... maybe im old and remember rise of the robots and other games with major problems from back in the day 🤣

@Splat …and the second is fix the memory leak and patch the bugs. I have my doubts that they’ll get the FOV slider working; I think performance will buckle.

@Slideaway1983 I’m old too, and think the FOV is fine. I’d probably experiment with it if they manage to get the slider working without tanking performance but…I have my doubts.

This just feels like something people want to complain about. I think there are legitimate issues with performance and such, but the FOV thing seems silly to me.

Wait what?!... There's no FOV option at launch 🤣🤣

Hmm, pretty much don't care if they do or don't lol.

@SodaPop6548 Eh, one of my friends is putting off playing it because the low FOV sets off her motion sickness. It may seem like a silly focal point from your perspective (and, honestly, I wouldn't have thought about that either) but it can be a legitimate make or break issue for some.

The menus are truly good awful and the frame rate isn't great. There also seems to be some weird input lag and hitches when the wife and I play split screen. Pretty busted experience so far

I'm waiting Randy next tweet "you must buy a PS7 to enjoy BL 4" 😁

@MasterChiefWiggum I personally wouldn't even mess with it as no problems... and also the sliders will probably come in well after ive finished it, and will play dlc in exactly the same way.

Hopefully they can fix it for more sensitive people, but id sat the memory leak issue is far more egregious, even though again, no problems from my side.

I'm just going to come out and say it at this point it's Thursday a full week after release and they're still zero mainstream site console reviews other than one or two obscure ones.
what is going on this is incredibly suspect....
Stinks of corporate influencing a delay even beyond the obvious subversion they pulled by not releasing early console review codes.

It's Borderlands, a week later this game should be finished and reviewed.

Other than the memory leak issue, my biggest gripe is the UI.. other gripes consist of the whole money system being pointless cuz the vending machines are worthless, mountains I can’t scale, and the pathfinder is complete garbage (among other things)

I just came off of getting the platinum for Death Stranding 2 last weekend and this game is such a letdown comparatively speaking.. not to mention this cocky Randy dude running his mouth like this is the best game in the world..

Think I’m done with this game until they fix this crap

@WolfyTn what level are you? I have got some good stuff out of the vending machine. Like all loot in the game it gets better the more you level up & that includes the stuff in the vending machines.

There is a quest involving vending machines you can do early for a guaranteed legendary, a vending machine on a weekly rotation with guaranteed legendaries and as you level you see more legendary / well rolled purples generally in them.

The pathfinder was better for me once I found the setting that made it stay on screen longer other than that no complaints.

The mountain thing with invisible walls is annoying in all games that do it. I never understood why it's a thing anywhere that isn't a map boundary.

Hope you find some fun with Borderlands 4 when (if) you return.

Shouldn't a premium product for premium gamers have a FOV slider, Randy?

FOV slider is in like every FPS game known to man. So not only is this game a broken mess, we really have to wait for a patch to bring a freakin' FOV slider??? lmao whether you would use it or not is irrelevant, its more about the fact that us gaming consumers are really getting the shaft these days, in a very expensive hobby when you break it all down.

@RiverGenie The mountain thing with invisible walls is annoying in all games

lol I just came out of Death Stranding 2 where every mountain is scalable.. I think my expectations were too high cuz of that if I’m being honest..

But I’m level 17 so far with 19hrs in.. it’s been so long since I’ve played BL 2 & 3 that I’m getting frustrated with all the different types of weapons and which ones I should be choosing.. that mixed with all the QoL upgrades needed is getting frustrating.. I’m 100% gonna pick it back up maybe even this weekend but it’s all kind of dampening my experience, unfortunately

This is not the no-brainer "why didn't they put something so obvious in from the start" issue people think it is.

The game is already struggling to run and hit its frame rate targets. Even without the memory leak that leads to slide show frame rates, benchmarks on fresh loads show the game is quite commonly dropping below 60fps, albeit staying within the PS5's narrow VRR window (dropping to mid-50's etc).

The problem is that narrow FOV's are often used as a cheeky way of reducing the load on the system. Less of the world is rendered at a time, thereby reducing how intensive the game is on the console.

So if you increase the FOV, the frame rate drops, and in this case it could start dropping it down below the PS5's VRR window leading to judder.

@WolfyTn it can get a little over whelming as the game does throw a lot of trash at you.

As for what to pick up that is very dependent on who you are playing and what you are trying to do with them.

Some general advice though is to have a gun that is strong against each elemental type. So basically a fire gun for flesh (red bars), corrosive for armour (yellow bars) & shock for shields (blue bars).

There are other elements and you can have more than one element on a gun. Lots of info online if you want to deep dive.

Once you get to level 25 you will start to see more guns with more & varied licensed parts. It's worth keeping an eye out on those as you can often get some nutty combos.

Other than that just see what works for you. You can respec at the main hubs if you are struggling or find a gun that looks fun but isn't right for your current set up

Just for reference it took me about 50 hours to do the campaign on my first character and I was level 36 on completion. I did do a lot of the side content though so it's possible to be quicker if you want.

Hope you have fun 🙂

An fov slider was added to the first 3 Borderlands games when ported to PS4. Borderlands 3 was released with an fov slider. Wondelands added an fov slider after release. BL4 releasing without an fov slider is puzzling.

As for performance, I have played all previous Borderlands games on my PS4 and have not noticed any change in performance when using a wider than default fov. I like an fov of 90 as 70 or 75 feels narrow and removes the feeling of peripheral vision.

Lol yeah no I'm never supporting this studio again.

@RiverGenie thanks for the encouragement.. I guess I’m going to grind through tomorrow and hopefully get to level 25.. will 100% be looking for a YT video to help better explain this stuff.. you’re a cool dude.. thanks 🤘🏻