Viewmodel FOV not being saved

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Discussed in #444 but no solution was given.

Viewmodel FOV will reset upon game restart.

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I'm having the same issue, other settings and progress saves fine but viewmodel FOV always resets to 85 on restart.

There are some older Discord messages on the SWAT4 CO-OP server where someone has the same issue and someone else replied that the setting is being saved for them.

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Workaround Discovered:

Open {mod folder}\System\Swat4X.ini and add the following

[Engine.FOVSettings]
FPFOV=85.0000

Replace 85.0000 with your desired viewmodel FOV, for example 95.0000.

Caveat: You still can't change it via the settings menu, but you can at least configure what it defaults back to.

For completeness: The normal FOV is saved in {mod folder}\System\User.ini under [Engine.PlayerController] as BaseFOV=97.330002, 97.330002 being the value to change, for example to 120.000000. For me this value is correctly saved when using the settings menu.

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I am not an Unreal Engine expert so this came from trial and error based on information from the source code. I find it weird that BaseFOV is in User.ini, while the FOVSettings section has to be in Swat4X.ini (it doesn't work in User.ini), maybe there is still a way to make it properly save changes from the settings menu?