Overview
This guide will explain how to alter the FOV in each Arkham game without needing to use keyboard bindings, or losing the ability to zoom in. This is for gamers who play with a controller and want to be able to alter the fov without disrupting game play to use a keyboard.
How the Mod Works
I’ve always wanted to be able to modify the Arkham games FOV, but every guide I could find used keyboard bindings, and they all also mention that altering the FOV disables your ability to zoom (the zoom hud will appear, but the game wont actually zoom in at all). After some tinkering and testing I found a way to alter the FOV while using a controller without needing a keyboard and disrupting game play, and without losing your ability to zoom in.
Here’s a quick preview of what you can expect (screenshots are from another guide, but I use the same FOV settings). I think this is much better as the default setting can feel way too close to Batman’s back, and also gives you a much better view of the environment.
Where it says “fov 100” change that to what ever value you’d like. I prefer 100 as it yields the best view of the environment without warping the background or stretching out Batman’s cape. The settings I use all yield the same result for each game, although Arkham Origins value is different. Not sure why. These will allow you to change the FOV by pressing down on the Left Thumb stick. Usually altering the FOV disables the zooming feature, but my config also resets the FOV to the default when you press the Right Thumb stick, so when you zoom it’ll work properly. This will require you to press the Left stick again however after zooming. I find this setting useful as sometimes a closer FOV is better. Also, sometimes closeups on characters during dialogue scenes don’t work, or stay zoomed out, so you should press the Right Thumb stick to reset the FOV before speaking to another character. It wont effect anything if you forget though, and you can always reset it while people are talking (this wont effect anything during in game videos). I’ve played through each game quite a bit (or completely) this way and the mod hasn’t caused any crashes or issues.
Arkham Asylum
Arkham Asylum: Go to DocumentsSquare EnixBatman Arkham Asylum GOTYBmGameConfig and open the “UserInput.ini” file. At the very bottom paste this in:
.Bindings=(Name=”XboxTypeS_LeftThumbstick”,Command=”fov 105 | DebugMenuSelectA | CentreCamera”)
.Bindings=(Name=”XboxTypeS_RightThumbstick”,Command=”fov 0 | DebugMenuSelectA | ToggleCameraZoom”)
Save the file, right click the file and open Proprieties, and set it to Read Only.
Arkham City
Arkham City: Go to DocumentsWB GamesBatman Arkham City GOTYBmGameConfig and open the “BmInput.ini” file. At the bottom of the [Engine.PlayerInput] bindings list paste this in:
Bindings=(Name=”XboxTypeS_RightThumbstick”,Command=”fov 0 | DebugMenuSelectA | ToggleCameraZoom”)
Bindings=(Name=”XboxTypeS_LeftThumbstick”,Command=”fov 100 | DebugMenuSelectA | CentreCamera | DoubleTapToMute”)
Save the file, right click the file and open Proprieties, and set it to Read Only.
Arkham Origins
Arkham Origins: Go to Steam GamesSteamAppscommonBatman Arkham OriginsSinglePlayerBMGameConfig and open the “BmInput.ini” file.
Select all lines that start with “Bindings” in the [Engine.PlayerInput] section. Copy and paste it into the [BmGame.RPlayerInput] section.
Now use ctrl+F and find the line for the XboxTypeS_RightThumbstick (make sure it’s the binding you just pasted into the [BmGame.RPlayerInput]). Add the fov setting to the front of the binding so the whole thing looks like this:
Bindings=(Name=”XboxTypeS_RightThumbstick”,Command=”fov 0 | DebugMenuJumpToTOC | ToggleCameraZoom | GadgetThumbRight | DebugMenuQualifyOn | OnRelease DebugMenuQualifyOff”)
Now do the same thing for the XboxTypeS_LeftThumbstick line so it looks like this:
Bindings=(Name=”XboxTypeS_LeftThumbstick”,Command=”fov 75 | DebugMenuSelectA | CentreCamera | DoubleTapToMute | GadgetThumbLeft”)
Save the file, right click the file and open Proprieties, and set it to Read Only.
Arkham Knight
Arkham Knight: Go to Steam GamesSteamAppscommonBatman Arkham KnightBMGameConfig and open the “BmInput.ini” file. Select all lines that start with “Bindings” in the [Engine.PlayerInput] section. Copy and paste it into the [BmGame.RPlayerInput] section.
Now use ctrl+F and find the line for the XboxTypeS_RightThumbstick (make sure it’s the binding you just pasted into the [BmGame.RPlayerInput]). Add the fov setting to the front of the binding so the whole thing looks like this:
Bindings=(Name=”XboxTypeS_RightThumbstick”,Command=”fov 0 | DebugMenuSelectA | ToggleCameraZoom”)
Now do the same thing for the XboxTypeS_LeftThumbstick line so it looks like this:
Bindings=(Name=”XboxTypeS_LeftThumbstick”,Command=”fov 100 | DebugMenuSelectA | CentreCamera | DoubleTapToMute”)
Save the file, right click the file and open Proprieties, and set it to Read Only.