First Person Mode DOES exist! Here's how:

[Shy]

Alright First person peeps! So I have been searching for information to confirm one way or the other if first person was ever going to be on DnL. (I prefer First person myself) I've read where some people say it will one day, other say it wont. So I went on a search for the answer myself. And guess what I found? First person mode DOES exist and you CAN play on it, single player and multiplayer as well. The ONLY downfall to this is that you can't switch back and forth easily. You will have to exit the game to switch it back to third and vice versa. However considering it does exist in game already, I'm sure eventually they'll work on making it easily changeable down the road. However for everyone who wants to play this if first person. HERE IS HOW YOU DO IT:

1) First make sure you don't have the game opened.

2) Find your 'defaultgameusersettings.ini' file, you can find it by going to your steam folder and then following this path:

steam/steamapps/common/Dark and light/DNL/Config/
In the Config file you will find 'DefaultGameUserSettings'

3) Open this file in notepad and look down the list. You will eventually find:

bThirdPersonPlayer=True
Change True to False. So that it looks like this:
bThirdPersonPlayer=False

$) Save it then close it. Now boot up the game. Run normally and bam! You're in first person.

I tried this with single player AND on an official server and it worked in both places. Again you can't zoom back out into third person, you would have to repeat the process and put it back to 'True' for third person. I also do not know how well it works just yet as first person but hey, it's an EA game and they aren't focused on First person view so bugs are expected.

Anyways. Hope that helps people, seen a lot of people inquiring about first person and refusing to play without it, here's a work around. Enjoy!

Oh and if you don't believe me you can find a video here showing it that's dated from August of this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLvmYnCMGiQ

[Shy]

Something to note, you can't see your hands or weapon when playing. That can make things a little difficult when melee attacking things but the curser is still there (little white dot) to show where your focus is so it's still manageable thus far for me. I'll add more personal experiences with first person as I go so people know how well it works. So far though it's entirely playable as first person for me.

[Shy]

It does go third person when riding on a mount. (I don't have it set to enable first person while mounted) so that's one way you can check how your character looks in the environment with what you're wearing rather then just in the inventory.

[Scar]

thanks but not interested :L

[Flippy]

1st person would be great to have as an option.

[Shy]

Yeah, I saw that. It's why I specified on the mount because it has that option in settings to view in first person. It works for me, I prefer riding third person but the rest first person

[Shy]

Originally posted by Flippy:

1st person would be great to have as an option.

It techinally IS an option. I explained how to do it.

[Flippy]

Originally posted by Noxmortae:

Originally posted by Flippy:

1st person would be great to have as an option.

It techinally IS an option. I explained how to do it.

tyvm. Maybe it will be officially supported some time as well. Hopefully the view of the player character is proper as well.

[Shy]

Originally posted by Flippy:

Originally posted by Noxmortae:

It techinally IS an option. I explained how to do it.

tyvm. Maybe it will be officially supported some time as well. Hopefully the view of the player character is proper as well.

I've been playing it so far and everything looks fine in terms of field of view and camera placement. The only thing that I see needing worked on is making it easily interchangeable in game instead of through the defaultusergamesettings.ini and adding visual representations to the weapons you're holding and when you attack. Things I'm sure could easily be worked on down the line when they aren't so busy with other more pressing matters with the game play like content and game breaking bugs.

[Shy]

Something else to be aware of, if you play in first person, if you have nothing equipt you cannot gather items by hand oddly enough. Have to use a weapon even though there's no visual effect when using a weapon. so that's a little tricky

[Shy]

LOL Sleeping kicks you back into third person. I'm actually having fun with this I dunno why.

[D34DLY]

I'm imagining the programmers will use the information you provided to add this feature in the near future. They are like, "All we needed to do is toggle this variable that already exists? That was easy."

[Shy]

lol. I doubt that, they already know it exists because they had to add the variable in the first place to toggle it. I believe that the only real reason they don't have first person enabled is because they haven't done all of the visual effects and item coding in order to do so. Some things still doesn't work quite right. For instance when you have a weapon or tool equipt it doesn't show you the tool, so it's hard to know what your using. If you happen to be bare handed you actually don't gather from any of the shrubs. Small things like that. However sleeping in a bed or bedroll I found out that it knocks you back into third person. Dying will toss you back into first person. Occasionally I'd have it go from third person back to first person but I didn't pin point why that randomly occured. So first person is very buggy, but technically playable.

[Punk Monk]

Holy Cow... looks like I'm gonna finaly install this game lol

[Power]

Anyway of centering and zooming out the third person camera? I can't stand the close up off center view. Its annoying as ♥♥♥♥ to my brain and makes the game unplayable.

[Lowgarr]

First Person without seeing your hands is stupid. What is needed is an option to Zoom the camera out more in third person.