PC gamers are known for their need to tinker with every option in the menus, but many are complaining that publisher Ubisoft forgot to include a field-of-view slider in Far Cry 4. Well, we have the secret code you need to unlock it.
Buy the game. No, seriously. You actually need to purchase Far Cry 4 to use the field-of-view slider, and the secret code is your credit-card number (or however you want to pay). That’s because Ubisoft purposefully removed the field-of-view option from pirated versions, and only people who illegally downloaded the shooter is having this issues.
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PC players! If you're online complaining about the lack of FOV control … You pirated the game.
— Alex Hutchinson (@BangBangClick) November 18, 2014
Of course, gamers didn’t realize that the field-of-view slider was only missing because they pirated the game, so many took to Twitter and Reddit to complain. In the process, they also outed themselves as e-thieves:
Far cry 4 settings menu http://t.co/OSQQ7FgeAa no FOV slider has been found so far
Game runs good tho.
— DANNYonPC (@DANNYonPC) November 15, 2014
Of course, this probably won’t do much to stop piracy, but it at least helps Ubisoft’s support to figure out who to ignore.